Corporate Governance Specialist

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AgCountry Farm Credit Services (AgCountry), Farm Credit Services of America (FCSAmerica) and Frontier Farm Credit are financial cooperatives that operate under shared management across eight states. While each association is owned by its local farmers and ranchers, they collaborate by pooling resources, expertise, and talent to provide affordable credit, crop insurance, and financial services.

Our associations are united by a common mission and commitment to serving rural America and supporting each other, which drives the success of the farmers, ranchers, and agribusiness we serve. We take pride in being a great place to work, and this enthusiasm is reflected in the relationships our team members foster with one another and with our customers.

* Hybrid-Incumbent must work a percentage of time each week in the Omaha, NE office.

We are seeking a Corporate Governance Specialist who will w ork with the Corporate Governance leader to develop, recommend and implement the corporate governance processes, practices and framework for three separate and independent Farm Credit Associations (AgCountry Farm Credit Services, Farm Credit Services of America and Frontier Farm Credit).

• Ensure the corporate governance processes, practices and framework are properly designed, implemented, and maintained for each of the three Associations.
• Board and Board Committee structure, process, composition, and alignment
• Nominating Committee structure, process and composition
• Elections for Directors and Nominating Committee members
• Director Appointments
• Maintain the master governance calendar and annual team workplans, including recurring activities, milestones, deadlines and assigned responsibilities.
• Administer governance templates and standard operating procedures, including drafting, documenting and maintaining clear, repeatable processes that support consistent execution and team coverage.
• Maintain SharePoint organization and document libraries, including version-control practices, retention and authorized purging in accordance with applicable records retention requirements.
• Coordinate dependencies across disciplines and business partners, including Public Relations and Marketing and Accounts Payable; monitor milestones and deadlines, resolve coordination gaps and escalation risks to timely completion.
• Design, maintain and serve as the business-process owner for the team’s workflow solutions and related application tools, organizing projects, tasks, responsibilities and deadlines; establishing workflow standards, action tracking and portfolio reporting; and coordinating with designated team members and business and technology partners.
• Coordinate Annual Meeting production and manage the integrated Annual Meeting Information Statement (AMIS) project plan, including presentations, speakers, materials, logistics, content dependencies, assembly, production and release readiness.

• Coordinate processes and procedures related to maintenance of key corporate documents and agreements for each of the three Associations.
  • Articles and Charters
  • Bylaws
  • Governance Guidelines
  • Board Committee Charters
  • Board Policies
  • Minutes and Resolutions
  • Stockholder Lists
  • Corporate Registrations and Licensing
• Coordinate preparation of meeting agendas, minutes and resolutions, including required stockholder disclosures concerning the following for each of the three Associations.
  • Annual or Special Stockholder meetings
  • Nominating Committee meetings
  • Board meetings
  • Board Committee meetings.
• Collaborate with the Corporate Governance Team to provide governance guidance, advice and resources to the Nominating Committees, Boards of Directors and joint Executive Leadership…