Governance Professional

Wootton Academy Trust needs a governance professional to support its Board of Trustees, local governing bodies and executive leadership team. The work centres on procedural advice to trustees and governors, preparing papers and minutes, keeping governance records, and clerking statutory complaints, exclusions and appeals panels. It is freelance, with about 21 in-person meetings a year plus exclusion panels as required. Applications must use the Trust's form on My New Term , as CVs are not accepted, and visa sponsorship is not available.

• Give governance advice and procedural guidance to trustees and governors
• Prepare agendas, coordinate meeting papers and attend Board, committee and local governing body meetings
• Produce minutes and maintain accurate governance records
• Support recruitment, induction and training of trustees and governors
• Maintain governance compliance, registers and statutory documentation
• Monitor policy review schedules and support Trust-wide compliance arrangements
• Clerk statutory complaints, exclusions and appeals panels as required
• Support governance readiness for external reviews and inspections

• Experience in governance, compliance, education, legal, company secretarial or senior administrative work

• Organised and highly professional approach
• Fluent spoken English

• Right to live and work in the UK
• DBS check and child protection screening, including checks with past employers