Governance Professional

Watergrove Trust, Rochdale, OL11 2YW

Deadline is tomorrow

• Start date details

  May 2025

• Closing date

  21 April 2025 at 9am

• Date listed

  27 March 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Other support roles
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time: 988 hrs per annum - annualised hours Based on 26 hours per week over 38 school weeks
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £33,366 - £35,235
• Actual salary: £20,220 - £21,352
• Pay scale: APT & C Grade 7

What skills and experience we're looking for

The successful candidate will play a pivotal role in ensuring that our academies operate within a framework of excellence, integrity, and accountability.

You will be a strategic leader, who can offer expert guidance as part of a collaborative ethos. You will set a benchmark for excellence in governance and compliance and be the lead governance professional for the board of trustees and the members of the trust.

We are seeking a highly organised and self- motivated individual, with the enthusiasm and drive to help deliver strong and effective governance practices. The Governance Professional will be an integral part of the team, working under the direction of the Chair of Trustees. We are looking for a great team player and someone able to work independently and support and contribute to the wider team.

What the school offers its staff

Flexibility: some Governor meetings are held early in the evening, not during school hours, so this is a role that can work really well around family life and/or other hobbies and interests.

Training: A full package of training and support will be provided to build knowledge on compliance and governance matters.

Occupational Health support:through our provider Smartclinic

This is an exciting opportunity to join a supportive forward thinking Trust, who in return for your commitment and hard work, will support you to achieve your own career goals and aspirations.

Further details about the role

Please view our application pack here - https://www.watergrovetrust.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Watergrove-Trust-Governance-Professional-Application-Pack-2.pdf

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

Apply for the job by following the link below.

CVs are not accepted.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

Additional documents

If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.

Governance-Professional-JD-and-PS-.pdf - 382 KB (opens in new tab)

About Watergrove Trust

• Type: Multi-academy trust
• Website: Watergrove Trust website
• Email address: people@watergrovetrust.co.uk
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/watergrove-trust

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