Casual Governor Clerk

We are seeking an organised, proactive, and collaborative Governing Board Clerks to join our central team. As Governing Body Clerk, you will play a key role in coordinating governance processes, maintaining accurate records, and supporting the work of our Governance Boards and their committees. You will be the first point of contact for governance enquiries, ensuring stakeholders receive clear, timely, and well-informed guidance.

Your attention to detail and ability to work independently will help ensure compliance and promote effective decision-making. The ideal candidate will have clerking experience, will be an excellent communicator with strong administrative skills, experience in a governance or compliance-focused environment, and a genuine interest in supporting effective leadership. If you are motivated, efficient, and passionate about supporting strong governance, we'd love to hear from you.,

• Offering advice on best practice in governance, including on committee structures and self-evaluation
• Ensuring that statutory policies are in place, and are revised when necessary, with the assistance of staff and central support team
• Offering advice on the annual calendar of governing body meetings and tasks
• Contributing to the induction of governors taking on new roles, in particular chair or chair of a committee
• Liaising with those preparing papers to make sure they are available on time
• Ensuring all meetings are quorate
• Recording the attendance of governors at meetings (and any apologies - whether they have been accepted or not), and take appropriate action in relation to absences,
• Providing draft minutes of governing body/board meetings within five working days of the meeting, indicating who is responsible for any agreed action with timescales, and send drafts to the chair and the Headteacher
• Advising governors and appointing boards/ bodies in advance of the expiry of a governor's term of office, so elections or appointments can be organised in a timely manner;
• Chairing that part of the meeting at which the chair is elected, giving procedural advice concerning conduct of this and other elections
• Ability to select relevant points from a wide ranging /complex discussion and to write up as a clear, concise record of the meeting.
• Experience of summarising /interpreting legislation or other detailed information and communicating it simply and clearly.
• Taking an accurate record of the meeting
  Post holder is expected to have attended, or be in the process of registering to attend the National Development Programme for Clerks to Governors;
• The post holder is expected to undertake appropriate and regular training and development to maintain their knowledge and improve practice;
• The post holder is expected to keep up-to-date with current educational developments and legislation affecting school governance;
• A background in education is desirable.
• Terms and conditions:
• Satisfactory employment references and CIFAS identity checks;
• Satisfactory declaration of interest;
• Satisfactory DBS check;
• As a public authority, we must ensure that members of staff in public-facing roles are able to speak fluent English. This means that they must have a command of spoken English, with confidence and accuracy, sufficient for the effective performance of their role. This requirement does not refer to any particular English language qualifications, regional or international accents, dialects, speech impediments or the tone of conversations.
  
  It does not require staff to speak only in English.
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