Governance Officer

About The Role

Are you ready for a rewarding opportunity to apply your governance expertise working for a charity which makes a real difference to people experiencing homelessness?

We are looking for someone to join the St Mungo's Governance team to play a key role in assisting the Head of Risk, Governance and Reporting to support Trustees and the Executive team in fulfilling their governance, compliance and best practice responsibilities for the charity.

In the role of Governance Officer, you will:

1. Ensure Board and Committee meetings are properly organised and managed, with particular responsibility for St Mungo's committee structure.
2. Ensure a range of regulatory activities are completed to a high standard and on time.
3. Provide advice on governance matters to enable trustees and staff to meet their governance responsibilities.
4. Be responsible for coordinating the internal audit programme.
5. Contribute to the development of a robust range of governance policies.

In this role you will be required to work flexibly for at least 2 days per week from our Central Office in Tower Hill, London. This allows for training, in person collaboration, team building, line management and other relationship building opportunities. We support a flexible approach to work with opportunities for agile working for the rest of your week; from home, or other St Mungo's London or regional locations.

About you

This role will suit someone who is a governance professional, with experience working within a charity, housing association or related sectors.

You may be looking to take the next step in your career or looking for an opportunity to utilize your skills and experience working for a leading homelessness charity. Either way, if you can demonstrate the below, we encourage you to apply.

You will have the ability to initiate and maintain positive and effective working relationships with others, have excellent attention to detail and the ability to present complex information in a concise and easy to understand way. The ability to plan and work methodically to manage projects and multiple priorities within tight deadlines is also essential.

How to apply

To view the job description and guidance on completing your application form, please click on the 'document' tab on the advert page on our website.

When you're ready to apply click the 'Apply Now' Button to start your online application form.

Closing date: 10am on 20 January 2025

Interview and assessments on: 3 February 2025

St Mungo's are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace. We strongly encourage applications from all under-represented groups.

About Us

Our purpose is to end homelessness and rebuild lives. It drives everything that we do. For the past 55 years, we have been on the ground every day and every night, supporting people to recover from homelessness and advocating for change. We support around 28,000 people each year and our work means that more than 2,700 people have somewhere safe to stay each night.

What We Offer

Commitment to Equity, Diversity and Inclusion

We are working hard to create a diverse and fully inclusive culture where all colleagues feel valued, and we welcome applications from all under-represented groups. We believe that equity, diversity and inclusion improves the health, wellbeing and development of our colleagues and helps to ensure everyone feels valued. We know that when diversity, inclusion and wellbeing are prioritised, we are happier, healthier and can ultimately achieve better outcomes for our clients.

Below are some of our key focus areas to improve both our candidate and colleague experience:

1. A growing number of diversity networks including LGBTQ+, Womens Action, Lived Experience and Anti-Racist networks.
2. Increasing visibility by ensuring that all interview panels across the organisation are diversely represented to ensure fair and balanced decision making during the recruitment process.
3. A safe and supportive working environment championing positive action via various internal schemes such as upward mentoring and a Steps into Management programme.
4. Mandatory Diversity & Inclusion training for all staff, unconscious bias training for managers, and a range of other courses such as Trans awareness and Autism Awareness.
5. In recognition of the importance of transparency, we publish our employee diversity statistics and pay gap reports on our website.

Want to find out more? Click here to visit our Equity, Diversity & Inclusion page.

Wellbeing and Benefits

We offer a comprehensive package of benefits to our colleagues to ensure wellbeing remains a key priority. Maintaining a good work life balance can be tricky, but with family friendly policies, flexible and agile working options and an incremental annual leave allowance, we are committed to making sure you have the options available as and when you need them.

These include:

1. Agile working model for suitable roles.
2. Supportive flexitime and toil arrangements.
3. 28 days annual leave rising to 31 after five years' service.
4. Family friendly leave policies including - maternity, adoption and parental leave. Carers leave, and fertility treatment leave.
5. Financial wellbeing platform offering loans, advances and saving options.
6. Auto-enrolment to pension scheme after six months service with an employer contribution of 6%.
7. Employee Assistance Programme and access to SmartHealth app - 24/7 GP appointments, health checks and nutrition advice.
8. Cycle to Work scheme and interest free season ticket loans.
9. Discount vouchers including gym, retail, food & drink, travel, electricals and more.

Want to find out more? Click here to visit our Work For Us page.

Reaching Potential

At St Mungo's we are committed to providing development opportunities for all our colleagues. We welcome people with a wide range of experiences and value transferable skills so that we can provide the best support for people experiencing homelessness. That's why we have a robust induction, training and development programme that supports colleagues throughout their career at St Mungo's.

These include:

1. Highly praised internal training courses and access to external learning to build your skills and meet your professional development goals.
2. Steps into Management programme to support colleague progression.
3. Commitment to continued professional development with access to career development forums, internal mentoring and internal secondment opportunities.

Want to find out more? Click here to visit our Learning and Development page.

Please be advised that all appointments will be made on St Mungo's current standard Terms and Conditions (T&Cs); this also applies to any internal candidates.