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  • Start date details

    September 2025

  • Closing date

    14 July 2025 at 9am

  • Date listed

    27 June 2025

Job details

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Working pattern

Full time

Contract type

Permanent

Full-time equivalent salary

£31,334.00 - £33,253.00 Annually (FTE) Pay award pending

PA to CEO and Trust Governance & Compliance Professional job summary

PA to CEO and Trust Governance & Compliance Professional

Christopher Nieper Education Trust are seeking to appoint a highly organised and self-motivated individual, with the enthusiasm and drive to work alongside and support the CEO and help deliver strong and effective governance and compliance practices. This post will be an integral part of our small and growing central team.

Our Trust and academies need highly skilled and dedicated people who are fully committed to improving the life chances of the children in their care. Every member of our staff has an important and valuable role to play in achieving this. Our Trustees and Academy Governing Boards meet mainly in the evening, and all meeting dates are scheduled at the start of the academic year.

The successful candidate will be efficient, an excellent communicator and maintain a high level of confidentiality, at all times. The role requires excellent attention to detail, high standards of communication with a strong administrative foundation and experience of supporting meetings.

Key duties include but are not limited to:

Supporting and working alongside the CEO in all aspects of Trust life

Supporting and providing a professional clerking service to our Trustees and Academy Governing Boards

Providing advice and guidance on governance and compliance matters

Act as the go-to person on all governance related queries and issues across all academies and within the central team

Administration and record keeping

Organising meetings, hearings and appeals

Maintaining relationships and communications

Maintaining oversight of all Trust and academy policies

Working closely with and supporting the Chief Finance & Operations Officer (CFOO) to ensure compliance across the Trust including GDPR & Health & Safety

Overseeing compliance in all areas including websites

Job Description

The PA to CEO and Trust Governance & Compliance Professional will have an extensive knowledge and experience of the roles required of a PA and understanding of school governance, or be willing to learn very quickly, and possess strong administrative and interpersonal skills.

The postholder will undertake clerking for the Trust Board and Committees and Academy Governing Board meetings as well as providing high quality governance administrative support and advice.

As a member of the Central Team, the post holder will ensure efficient and effective support to academies within the Trust and will work closely with the CEO and CFOO to achieve the Trust’s strategic objectives.

The post holder will be required to work with schools across the Trust. The majority of Academy Governing Board meetings are held in the late afternoon and evenings, therefore the ability to attend evening meetings is essential.

The post holder will be based at Stonebroom Primary School and working across all Trust schools and there is the opportunity for some remote working by mutual agreement.

The post holder will act as an ambassador for the Trust, liaising regularly with a number of key stakeholders both internal and external, and therefore discretion and diplomacy will be required.

This key role will require the post holder to possess effective organisational and management skills in order to provide a high level of pro-active support for any other additional projects as required.

Reporting to: CEO

Accountable to: CEO, CFOO, Trustees and Chairs of Governors of the Academy Governing Boards

Main duties and responsibilities: Working self-sufficiently, diligently, and pro-actively, the post holder will have the following key responsibilities:

General

To provide high-level support, working closely with the CEO.

To provide support to the CFOO.

Develop a comprehensive and dynamic understanding of the Trust’s aims and objectives.

Provide a high standard of service and confidential governance administrative support to the Trust including clerking for a number of Academy Governing Boards.

Keep up to date with current educational development and legislation affecting Trust governance.

Maintain up-to-date records of the names, addresses and category of Members, Trustees and Governors and their terms of office.

Inform Headteachers, Academy Governing Boards and the CEO of any changes to the membership.

Advise Trustees and Governors and appointing bodies in advance of the expiry of a term of office, so that elections or appointments can be organised in a timely manner.

Support recruitment of Trust Appointed Governors and support academies in recruitment of parent and staff governors.

Ensure that an up-to-date register of Members, Trustees and Governors business interests is maintained.

Ensure that up-to-date information is published on websites for each academy and the Trust and on Get Information About Schools.

Ensure new Trustees and Governors have access to appropriate documents and induction sessions.

Maintain a record of training undertaken by Trustee and Governors.

Ensure a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check has been carried out on any Member, Trustee and Governor before appointment and at the point of renewal.

Ensure all Members, Trustees and Governors have access to the secure, online governance area and ensure it is kept up to date.

Advise on the annual calendar of Academy Governing Board meetings and tasks.

Provide an effective clerking service, including working with the CEO, Chair of Trustees, Headteachers and Chairs on setting agendas, minute taking and maintaining records, for a number of Trust meetings and Academy Governing Boards and as required.

Provide procedural and legal advice to Academy Governing Boards during the meeting.

Clerk any statutory appeal committees/panels the Academy Governing Board is required to convene.

Compliance

Be responsible for monitoring and ensuring compliance in a number of areas, e.g. Scheme of Delegation, websites, policies, complaints.

Work with the CFOO to ensure compliance of Health & Safety across the Trust.

Work with the CFOO and our external DPO to oversee GDPR compliance across the Trust.

Other

To organise and support all Trust wide events.

To produce a termly Trust Newsletter and to oversee any other Trust marketing.

Undertake a variety of projects, involving internal and external research on good governance and Compliance practice.

Other duties as required supporting the Trust, commensurate with the nature and level of the post.

Undertake professional development as agreed with academy leaders.

Benefits

Ongoing training, support and mentoring will be provided

Membership of Trust Governance Insight & Confederation of School Trusts

Free access to Health Assured Employee Assistance Programme

Free onsite Parking

Generous discount at the David Nieper Ltd factory shop

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

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