Governance Professional
The Bishop of Winchester Academy, Bournemouth, Dorset, BH8 9PW14 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible on completion of the recruitment process
Closing date
22 December 2025 at 10:59pm
Date listed
8 December 2025
Job details
Job role
- Administration, HR, data and finance
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time, full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £25.70 per hour (includes holiday pay)
Additional allowances
£25.70 per hour (includes holiday pay)
Governance Professional job summary
Are you looking for a career in a thriving, friendly and supportive environment where staff welfare is a priority? Are you passionate about making a difference to the lives of young people in a role that really matters? If so, The Bishop of Winchester Academy wants you!
The Bishop of Winchester Academy is a single academy trust in Bournemouth seeking to appoint an experienced and highly organised Governance Professional to support the work of our Trust Board. This key role provides professional advice and guidance and administrative support to the effective operation of the academy’s governance.
This is an excellent opportunity for a capable governance professional with experience of education governance. A Governance qualification would be desirable, however there is training available if you are keen to complete this and have prior education experience.
The post offers flexible working hours, aside from scheduled meetings which are usually in the day before 5pm, with most meetings held in person at the academy and a small number being virtual online meetings.
Please review the job description and person specification for this role. If you would like to discuss the role in more detail, please contact Abi Heard at abi.heard@tbowa.org who will arrange a call with David Thompson our Chair of Trustees or Paul McKeown, our Principal.
As Governance Professional, the successful candidate will:
- Undertake all aspects of a clerking service (scheduling, agendas, papers, attendance, formal minutes, correspondence) for TBOWA and related meetings within the scheme of delegation.
- Ensure statutory information about governance is collated and supplied in a timely manner for publication on the academy’s website.
- Provide procedural and legislative expertise to the Trust Board and ALT regarding academy governance.
- Undertake recruitment of new trustees and members. Undertake all aspects of trustee appointment, record-keeping, and membership monitoring.
- Manage induction and training, online and in-person to trustees and members.
- Facilitate ongoing development for trustees to strengthen capacity, effectiveness, and succession.
- Facilitate and support the monitoring and effectiveness of the trust board, identifying and prioritising areas to be resolved/improved, in agreement with the Chair and the Principal.
The Bishop of Winchester Academy is a thriving Church of England school, recently recognised by Ofsted as prioritising ‘wider opportunities alongside achievement so that pupils “live life to the full.”’ (Ofsted 2023). Operating from recently refurbished facilities, our shared mission to improve the life chances of all of our students is at the very centre of our work.
We put the welfare of our staff at the heart of everything we do and can offer you:
- Career development with a bespoke CPD programme
- Excellent newly refurbished teaching facilities with free onsite parking and good local public transport links
- Employee Assistance Programme and Cycle to Work scheme
- Close proximity to beaches and the Jurassic Coast to assist your work life balance
The Bishop of Winchester Academy is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all suitably qualified candidates. We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff to share this commitment. An enhanced DBS check is required for all successful applicants.
Please be aware that due to the ‘Keeping Children Safe in Education’ legislation we do not accept CV’s.
We reserve the right to close a vacancy earlier than the advertised date if we have received applications that meet the criteria.
Further information about the job
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.
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 The Bishop of Winchester Academy
- School type
- Academy, Church of England, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1178 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- The Bishop of Winchester Academy website
The Bishop of Winchester Academy is a thriving Church of England school, commended by Ofsted for its ‘inclusive approach, which seeks to support all pupils’. Led by a dedicated team with ‘strong moral and ethical foundation[s]’, our shared mission for ‘improving the life chances of all [our] pupils is at the very centre of [our] work’ (Ofsted, 2017).
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