Senior Governance Officer
The Learning Partnership Academies Trust, Crewe, CW1 2PZ7 days remaining to apply
Closing date
19 November 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
30 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
- £17,396.00 - £19,898.00 Annually (Actual) Grade 7
Senior Governance Officer job summary
We are a multi-academy trust of fifteen schools which includes nine Primary Schools, four Secondary Schools, a Studio School and a University Technical College. Our schools are all based in east Cheshire and Staffordshire centred around the towns of Crewe, Congleton and Knutsford. We provide education to over 7000 students and employ over 900 staff.
We believe in allowing each school to retain its distinctive and successful ethos whilst also being able to support the ambition of individual schools, help children to reach their potential and benefit from the greater resources that partnership within the trust brings.
Our vision is to transform education, delivering teaching and learning which fully equips all our young people, particularly those from disadvantaged backgrounds, to become positive, engaged, successful members of society.
About the role:
Grade: 7- £31,538- £34,436 (FTE)
Actual Salary: £17,396- £19,898
Hours: 22.5 per week
Weeks per year: 42 (term time- plus 3 weeks)
Interviews: Week commencing 24th November.
Closing date for application: Wednesday 19th November 2025.
The Trust is seeking to appoint to a Senior Governance Officer to support governance activities at Trust and School levels. This role is part of a small governance team working with other governance officers under the management and leadership of the Trust’s Director of Quality, who is also the lead governance professional.
Reporting directly to the Director of Quality, the post-holder will work closely with senior trust executives, Trustees, headteachers and governors, as well as with other colleagues within the governance team. The key purpose of the post is to ensure that the governance arrangements across the trust remain complaint and operate with efficacy. The postholder’s work will be focussed on the work of the Trust Board, its committees, and school-level local where Local Governing Boards (LGBs) operate. There will also be work supporting adhoc pupil disciplinary panels and parental complaints.
The postholder will provide:
- administrative and organisational support for and at meetings. guidance to ensure the relevant Board works in compliance with the expected regulatory requirements, offering advice and guidance on procedural matters.
- Support other members of the governance team and governance professional to ensure consistency and high-quality service across the Trust.
The nature of the work means that you will be required to work flexibly, which will include some later afternoon or evening meetings. There is some flexibility around work location, which can be school-based or from home. However, you will be required to travel to schools to attend the meetings, so you will need access to travel or be able to drive. Work location will be agreed with your manager and be responsive to workloads and priorities. For a more comprehensive overview of the role, please see the attached job description.
Experience within the education sector would be beneficial but it is not a pre-requisite for the role. Well-developed organisational skills and effective communication skills are a must, as is the ability to work with confidential information. The successful candidate would be subject to a satisfactory DBS check and would be expected to abide by the “principles of public life” (The Nolan principles). For an informal discussion about the role, please contact Allan Howells, Director of Quality ahowells@tlptrust.com.
The trust subscribes to the Education Staff Wellbeing Charter and places staff wellbeing at the forefront of its strategic people priorities. Our ongoing commitment in this area is reflected in our employee offer that includes:
Discounts in retail stores, entertainment, and supermarkets
Benefits schemes in affordable tech, cycle2work, gym memberships and a car scheme
Employee assistance programme providing specialist advice and guidance in a range of areas including menopause, financial management, and up to 8 counselling sessions per referral.
Flexible working offered as a day 1 right of employment.
Free parking
Access to high quality CPD and secondment opportunities
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The Learning Partnership is a disability committed employer: applicants requiring adjustments to the application or interview process should contact hr@tlptrust.com.
The Learning Partnership is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All staff appointments are subject to satisfactory references and enhanced checks with the Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS), and appropriate online searches in line with the requirements in Keeping Children Safe in Education (2023).
The Learning Partnership is committed to the promotion of equality of opportunity and the elimination of discrimination; all applicants should note that they will be considered on the basis of suitability regardless of disability, gender, race, religion, age, sexual orientation and marital status or any other discrimination which is unfair or unreasonable. We particularly welcome applications from black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates, LGBTQ+ candidates and candidates with disabilities because we would like to increase the representation of these groups at The Learning Partnership. We want to do this because we know greater diversity will lead to even greater outcomes for children. We are proud to be an employer that holds Disability Committed and Menopause Friendly status.
The Trust is ‘happy to talk flexible working’. Flexible working increases workplace diversity by making roles accessible to those with caring responsibilities (primarily women), disabled staff, and both older and younger workers..
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.
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