Trust Governance Professional (Strategic Lead)

Coppice Primary Partnership, Maidstone, ME15 9UW

21 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  Term1/2

• Closing date

  2 October 2025 at 10am

• Date listed

  11 September 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: £34,421.00 - £38,304.00 Annually (FTE)

Trust Governance Professional (Strategic Lead) job summary

Salary: Kent Scheme G (£34,421 - £38,304 pro rata)

Hours: c. 350 hours per annum (with additional hours by agreement)

Location: West Kent - Trust offices and schools (Coxheath, Loose and Snodland)

This role includes:

Advising the Trust Board, its committees, and Members on governance law and compliance.

Leading governance frameworks, recruitment, induction, training, and evaluation of trustees and governors.

Acting as Company Secretary, ensuring statutory compliance with Companies House, ESFA, and charity law.

Clerking the Trust Board and its committees (Finance & Audit, Education & Curriculum).

Overseeing and quality-assuring clerks to Local Governing Bodies (LGBs).

This is a high-impact, strategic role at the heart of our governance system, ensuring transparency, accountability, and compliance.

What We’re Looking For

An experienced governance professional with excellent knowledge of academy trust governance.

Someone confident in advising senior leaders and trustees.

Strong organisational, communication, and relationship-building skills.

Availability for in-person evening meetings, usually 5:00pm or 5:30pm, lasting about two hours.

Why Join Us?

A growing Trust with clear mission and values.

A supportive team, with access to high-quality CPD.

The Coppice Promise - prioritising workload, wellbeing, and staff support.

Linked Role

We are also recruiting Clerks to Local Governing Bodies (LGBs) - operational roles providing clerking and administrative support at school level. Applicants are welcome to apply for one or both roles. See our separate advert for details.

How to Apply

Apply via MyNewTerm.

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

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.

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.

About Coppice Primary Partnership

• Type: Multi-academy trust
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/coppice-primary-partnership

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