Trust Governance Administrator
Special Partnership Trust, Truro, TR1 1TE4 days remaining to apply
Start date details
ASAP
Closing date
24 February 2026 at 9am
Date listed
10 February 2026
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
- £31,782.00 Annually (FTE) Actual salary £16,846 - 22.5 hours per week, term time only (39 weeks)
Trust Governance Administrator job summary
The Role:
As Trust Governance Administrator, you will work closely with our schools to ensure that governance processes run smoothly, consistently and in line with statutory requirements. Reporting to the Trust Governance Manager, you’ll support the administration of Local Governing Bodies (LGBs), coordinate governance activity across the Trust, and ensure that all governance documentation, systems and records are accurate and up to date.
You will organise and minute LGB meetings, support Governor Panels, maintain statutory policies, and coordinate governor training and compliance monitoring. You’ll also oversee governor recruitment, onboarding and manage governance information on websites and GIAS.
Alongside this, you will support the administration of Trust‑wide complaints and provide high‑quality administrative support for other meetings as required. Working closely with the Governance Manager and wider central team, you will help embed best practice, strengthen governance systems, and promote a culture of transparency, accountability and continuous improvement across the Trust.
Key Responsibilities:
The Governance Administrator will provide essential administrative support on governance, compliance, and policy matters. Key responsibilities include:
- Organising, attending and minuting meetings of Local Governing Bodies (LGBs), ensuring agendas are well‑structured and actions clearly documented.
- Minuting Governor Panel meetings, including Grievance, Disciplinary and Exclusion Panels.
- Maintaining an overview of statutory school‑level and trust‑level policies, ensuring they are reviewed and approved in a timely manner.
- Coordinating governor training and maintaining a training log to ensure statutory compliance.
- Supporting compliance monitoring across governing bodies, ensuring adherence to statutory requirements, Trust policies and the SPT Scheme of Delegation, Terms of Reference and Code of Conduct.
- Maintaining governor records, including attendance, pecuniary interests, skills audits and monitoring visit schedules.
- Ensuring governance information on Trust and school websites and GIAS remains up to date.
- Supporting governor recruitment, onboarding and issuing appointment documentation.
- Coordinating and managing the administrative process for Trust‑wide complaints in a professional and values‑based manner.
Our Total Reward Offer:
The Special Partnership Trust recognises the importance of developing a properly implemented People Strategy to underpin the overall strategic aims of the Trust.
Our People Strategy is designed to help us attract prospective high calibre candidates, as well as drive engagement, productivity and retention of our high performing and high potential employees. It reflects our belief in putting our people first. This does not mean putting our learners second. It is based on the philosophy that if we create a positive and rewarding work environment, if our staff feel motivated, well managed and well supported, they in turn will provide the best possible outcome for our learners.
We recognise that our total reward offer, has got to consist of more than just money. We seek to provide our staff with a diverse range of benefits that support their day to day needs both at work and outside of work. These include generous leave entitlements and pension scheme as well as access to health/wellbeing tools, training & development, career pathways and opportunities to ensure they feel valued.
For further information, click here to visit the Special Partnership Trust website for our People Strategy and Benefits.
Are you ready to make a lasting impact? Join us today.
Contact Us
Informal conversations are welcomed. If you would like to discuss the role in confidence please call Lianne Jory, Trust Governance Manager on 01872 613115 or email ljory@specialpartnership.org
Please visit the Special Partnership website, www.specialpartnership.org for further information about our Trust.
Safeguarding:
The Special Partnership Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All offers of employment are subject to the satisfactory completion of checks and references, including an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check. In accordance with guidance in Keeping Children Safe in Education; the Trust will undertake an online search of all shortlisted candidates.
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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