Governance Officer

The Governance Officer role is pivotal to the delivery of high-level decision making forums and supporting the Executive Team in the SFO. You will be responsible for ensuring that the organisations governance structure receives exceptional support and that it operates efficiently, effectively, transparently and with integrity.

This role requires privileged access to the highest levels of decision-making in the SFO and demands well-developed organisational and written skills, discretion, and flexibility. You must be able to deal confidently with staff of all grades. Your success in the role will depend on impressive prioritisation skills, strong insight into activities across the organisation and proactive identification of developments beyond the agency that affect its effective running and reputation.

As a Governance Officer you will:

• Provide efficient and effective secretariat support to the top tier of organisational committees, including leading on Case Evaluation Boards;
• Manage and provide high-quality support to boards and committees including practical arrangements for meetings, creating and maintaining a forward look of key committee agenda items, liaising with the Chair to prepare agendas and commission briefs and ensuring alignment of activity across committees;
• Draft accurate and concise minutes within agreed timeframes;
• Ensure that actions from meetings are correctly recorded and followed up, raising issues where necessary and appropriately tracking progress as well as updating and closing action items;
• Work with and support the Head of Governance to deliver effective and efficient governance to the Department, escalating issues as necessary;
• Work with colleagues across the Department to ensure issues are brought to the correct governance forum at the right time to support effective decision making at the right level;
• Assist the Head of Governance in the delivery of key recommendations emerging from an internal audit of SFO Governance;
• Manage internal communications about the work of the Governance Team, including managing the teams intranet page; and
• Act as a point of contact for our Non-Executive Directors in relation to SFO meeting scheduling and other general queries.

Fore more information about the role and for a full list of responsibilities, please see the attached Job Pack.