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Governance Officer Role

Leeds City Academy, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS6 2LG

This job expired on 6 June 2022 – see similar jobs

• Start date details

  As soon as possible

• Closing date

  6 June 2022 at 9am

• Date listed

  25 April 2022

Job details

• Job role:
  • Headteacher
  • Deputy headteacher
  • Assistant headteacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: SO2 (£30,984 to £32,798)

Governance Officer Role job summary

Role: To provide an effective clerking service to the Trust’s Local Accountability Boards (LABs) and Exclusion Panels, providing administrative support, advice and guidance regarding governance, constitutional and procedural matters. Some evening work required to service board/committee meetings Main duties and responsibilities Advice and Guidance: • Advise the Chair and LABs on governance regulations and procedural matters where necessary before, during and after meetings • Ensure that the LABs are fully aware of their roles and responsibilities and support them in fulfilling these • Support the LABs in adhering to best practice in governance, including in respect of their individual and collective performance • Ensure that statutory policies are in place and are adhered to • Actively support new governors, in association with the LAB Chair, ensuring that all new governors • participate in induction training and have access to all necessary documents and policies • Work with HR to set up new governors i.e. DBS checks, emails etc Effective Organisation and Administration of Meetings: • Liaise with the LAB Chairs and Academy Principals to prepare focused agendas for meetings • Distribute the agenda and papers according to the agreed timetable and distribution processes • Ensure that meetings are quorate, and that Standing Orders are adhered to • Record the attendance of governors at meetings and ensure that action is taken in respect of extensive absence • Produce draft minutes of LAB meetings, indicating who is responsible for any agreed action and the relevant timescales, to be checked for accuracy by the Principal and for approval by the Chair • Follow up agreed action points with those responsible, ensuring that timescales are adhered to • Clerk any appropriate committees/panels which require governor involvement

Commitment to safeguarding

Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.

Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.

Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children

You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.

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About Leeds City Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 16
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 984 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Leeds City Academy website
• Email address: recruitment@whiteroseacademies.org
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/leeds-city-academy

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