Governance Analyst

Our Client wishes to bring on board another Governance Analyst. The key responsibilities for this post are to support delivery of the organisations Governance in accordance with Office of Government and Commercial Managing Successful Programmes' best practice. The post holder will support the business Governance lead and support the Strategy Directorate in the identification and development of the governance arrangements for the subsequent delivery of those arrangements ensuring they are being followed and remain effective and fit for purpose.

Key Duties will include:

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Providing secretariat for governing boards, including support in creating papers, agendas etc .
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Co-ordinating governance team locations and supporting administrative functions for the team
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Diary management for the team and the governance boards
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Keeping the document repository up to date
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Assisting in communicating decisions and actions from boards
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Support the on-going engagement throughout the organisation to ensure Governance arrangements, and any changes, are well communicated
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Supporting the Governance team in providing, or assuring, that governing boards/entities have appropriate management information to support effective decision-making.
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Identifying interdependencies, issues and risks that threaten successful delivery of the workstreams that constitute the programme.
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Tracking and driving actions to focus resources on key deliverables, milestones, issues and risks
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Working as necessary with workstream leads to ensure appropriate plans are in place, and that risks and actions are managed and executed effectively and to agreed timescales.
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Initiating other remedial actions and interventions where necessary, with the governance structure, to assure successful delivery of the programme.
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Supporting the creation and maintenance of process documentation within the existing quality system
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Support the definition of the core Governance templates (actions etc.)
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Ensuring governance arrangements are communicated transparently across the organisation, so staff understands how and where decisions are made.
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Create & maintain the Decision register for the programme and promulgation of decisions via agreed routes
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Establish and Maintain the Governance gate schedule (assurance gates)
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Ensure appropriate letters of appointment and role definitions explained and up to date
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Working with planners to establish dependency management regime and ensure built into forward looks
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Working with planners to establish forward look decision schedules and ensure built into forward looks
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Minutes archiving and review
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Maintain the delegations register
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Governance progress reporting to PSD and the Head of Governance
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Preparation of Chair briefing papers etc.
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Assure the review and approval of all papers to be considered by the boards
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Support and mentoring to Co-ordinators providing the secretariat to each board
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Act as secretariat to boards assigned by the Head of Governance
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Producing the Quarterly Governance performance report for review by the Head of Governance
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Coaching and mentoring of virtual Secretariats that will operate lower level boards in line with the standards set in the Governance Manual

Required Skills include:

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Experience dealing with stakeholders at all levels of a large organisation.
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Demonstrable Governance management/analysis at all levels in an organisation
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Experience of large infrastructure or delivery programmes
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Demonstrable assurance experience
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Experience of Governance methodology and practices
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Experience of business process change
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Ability to manage conflicting demands on time and to prioritise

This is an immediate need therefore if you are interested, please send your profile and call for further information.

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