Governance Professional

Ludlow Junior School, Southampton, Hampshire, SO19 2DW

18 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  1 September 2025

• Closing date

  1 July 2025 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  12 June 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Administration, HR, data and finance
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time: 3 hours per week to work flexibly - these hours can be completed at home but need to be able to meet the requirements of the Trustees and statutory deadlines
• Contract type: Permanent
• Actual salary: £2,165 to £2,455 per year

What skills and experience we're looking for

You will also be able to demonstrate:

• A good standard of education
• Have a background in clerical / administration
• Be able to demonstrate accurate record keeping
• Excellent organisation skills and the ability to multi task
• A flexible approach and be proactive and apply initiative
• Excellent ICT skills
• An ability to work methodically and accurately with specific emphasis on handling confidential and sensitive information with good attention to detail
• Excellent communication skills, both orally and written

What the school offers its staff

• A friendly and welcoming staff team
• Training opportunities
• Local government pension scheme
• Ability to work flexibly and at home

Flexible working opportunities

This role would suit someone that can work flexibly but also be available for Trustee meetings which take place in the evenings.

Further details about the role

Join Us in Shaping Outstanding Governance

Ludlow Junior School, a successful and ambitious single-academy trust, is seeking a highly organised and knowledgeable Governance Professionalto support the effective operation of governance across the Trustee Board and its committees.

This is a pivotal role, ensuring our governance structures are compliant, strategic, and efficient. You’ll work closely with the Chair of trustees and committees, and the Headteacher to provide trusted advice, expert clerking, and timely administrative support.

If you are tenacious, have high expectations and high personal standards this could be the role for you. You will have an ability to own the role, keep Trustees on track with their statutory obligations and want to be part of the exciting future of Ludlow Junior School.

You will need to have a flexible approach to time as you will need to respond to workstreams to meet statutory requirements and accommodate regular meetings which typically include termly meetings of:

• 1 x finance, resources, audit and risk sub committee meeting which routinely runs for 1 hour with a 6.30pm start
• 1 x standards meeting which routinely runs for 1 hour with a 6.30pm start
• 1 x FGB which routinely runs for 2hours with a 6.30pm start
• 1 x annual AGM

You will be confident in communicating well and will have a co-ordinated approach to fulfilling the direct needs of the School Business Manager, the Senior Leadership Team and the Board of Trustees.

You will be able to demonstrate that you can work under your own initiative and complete tasks to agreed and published deadlines, developing, implementing and co-ordinating an annual calendar. You will ensure that actions are completed both by yourself and those tasked to others in a timely manner.

You will have a strong desire to work in a school environment, have robust IT skills, be able to understand and follow policies and procedures, have a background in a clerical or administrative post and be able to demonstrate a high standard of efficient and accurate record keeping.

You will have a desire to keep up to date with current legislation, and will show a natural affinity to become familiar, and accomplished with the content of the statutory documents that drive the accountability of the Senior Leadership Team and the Board of Trustees, guiding all throughout. This will involve identifying and booking training as required for the Board, inducting new Board members and supporting ongoing professional development of the Board.

This is an exciting opportunity where you will need to be skilled in supporting colleagues to ensure the very best outcomes for our school- working to secure the brightest future for our pupils and the wider community.

This post is integral to our ongoing whole school journey with an expectation that you will embrace professional development, which will be provided both in-house and externally through Hampshire Governor Services, to become a highly skilled member of the team.

Tours of the school are welcomed and encouraged. Please contact Mrs Amy Noades viarecruitment@ludlowjunior.org.ukto arrange a tour.

Commitment to safeguarding

Ludlow Junior School are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We will ensure that all our recruitment and selection practices reflect this commitment. As part of the selection process, we will consider any transferable risks as outlined in Keeping Children Safe in Education. All successful candidates will be subject to Disclosure and Barring Service checks along with other relevant employment checks

Applying for the job

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About Ludlow Junior School

• School type: Academy, ages 7 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 576 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 7 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Ludlow Junior School website
• Email address: recruitment@ludlowjunior.org.uk
• Phone number: 02380447885
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/ludlow-junior-school-so19-2dw

Ludlow Junior School is single status academy in the heart of the Itchen & Woolston Community in Southampton, Hampshire. The school can take up to 600 pupils with a five form entry.

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