
Governance Professional (Clerk)
St Mary's CofE Academy Stotfold, Hitchin, Hertfordshire, SG5 4DL15 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
29 October 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
13 October 2025
Job details
Job role
- Administration, HR, data and finance
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- Salary amount subject to experience, payable per meeting.
Additional allowances
Salary amount subject to experience, payable per meeting.
Governance Professional (Clerk) job summary
We are looking to appoint a highly organised Clerk who is keen to contribute to the ongoing success of St Mary’s CE Academy. You will play a crucial role in delivering a high-quality clerking service, offering administrative support and procedural advice to our Governing Board. Your work will directly impact the strategic role of the board in ensuring St Mary’s provides the best possible education for their pupils.
Experience preferred but training can be organised for the successful applicant.
Key responsibilities:
Taking and typing detailed minutes to a consistently high standard.
Providing procedural advice to the Governing Board using legislation relating to school governance.
Planning and facilitating Governing Board meetings in collaboration with the Chair of Governors and Headteacher.
Maintaining accurate records of Governing Board business and membership.
Skills required:
Excellent administrative, IT and communication skills. Shorthand/Touch typing an advantage
Ability to work efficiently to deadlines.
Flexibility to work at times convenient to the Governing Board.
Benefits:
Part-time, hybrid-working - enjoy the flexibility of working from home, along with onsite work in school.
Salary to be negotiated, depending on experience.
Approximately 10 meetings per year, usually early evening. Mix of On-line (Zoom) and in person
If you are interested or would like more information, please feel free to contact us for a chat.
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
The Academy is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Candidates will be required to undergo a number of pre-employment checks including an enhanced DBS check.
Applying for the job
This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.
CVs will not be accepted for this application.
View advert on external website (opens in new tab)About St Mary's CofE Academy Stotfold
- School type
- Academy, Church of England, ages 5 to 9
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 292 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 5 to 9
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- St Mary's CofE Academy Stotfold website
St. Mary's is a two form entry lower school in the small town of Stotfold, situated on the Central Bedfordshire / Hertfordshire border. We are very much a 'family' school, with children, staff and families working closely together. We are a church school, with Christian values underpinning our ethos.
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