Governance and Assurance Manager

Audit Scotland provides the Auditor General and Accounts Commission with the services they need to carry out their duties. Together we ensure that the Scottish Government and public-sector bodies throughout Scotland are held to account for the proper, efficient and effective use of public money. We employ around 340 staff in a wide variety of roles, working from our main offices in Edinburgh and Glasgow, and through a network of regional offices across Scotland.

We're seeking someone with strong analytical skills, sound judgement and the ability to influence senior stakeholders to lead a diverse portfolio of governance, risk, compliance and organisational resilience activities. If you enjoy driving improvement and developing a collaborative and high-performing function, we'd love to hear from you.

The Governance and Assurance Manager leads Audit Scotland's governance, assurance and information governance functions, ensuring the organisation has effective frameworks, oversight and controls to support accountability, compliance, informed decision-making and organisational resilience. The role provides professional leadership across governance, risk, assurance, information governance and public accountability services, while contributing as a member of the Performance and Corporate Governance management team to the development of an integrated, flexible and resilient corporate support function.

• Lead the development, implementation and continuous improvement of Audit Scotland's governance, risk and assurance frameworks, ensuring they remain effective, proportionate and aligned to organisational priorities.
• Oversee corporate governance policies, registers and compliance arrangements, including standing orders, schemes of delegation, terms of reference and statutory reporting requirements, ensuring arrangements remain effective, up to date and support organisational accountability.
• Lead the annual assurance process and oversee internal audit arrangements, including internal audit procurement, development and delivery of the internal audit programme, relationships with the internal audit provider and monitoring of recommendations, ensuring assurance activity is integrated and supports informed decision-making.
• Provide specialist advice and support for governance, risk and assurance reporting to the Executive Team, Board and committees, attending governance forums as required.
• Lead the development and continuous improvement of Audit Scotland's corporate risk management arrangements, including the corporate risk framework, risk appetite, risk reporting and integration of risk, governance and assurance activities to support effective organisational oversight and decision-making.
• Oversee arrangements for externally provided internal audit and legal services, including procurement and contract management as required, ensuring these services effectively support organisational governance, assurance and decision-making.

• Oversee Audit Scotland's information governance, records management and data protection arrangements, including oversight of information governance and data protection incidents, ensuring compliance with statutory and regulatory requirements and supporting safe, effective and responsible use of information, technology and AI-enabled tools.
• Support the Data Protection Officer in fulfilling their statutory responsibilities, providing senior professional oversight of data protection arrangements and deputising for the DPO…