Head of Legal & Company Secretary

Sanctuary Personnel, a dedicated and award-winning recruitment agency with a TrustPilot score of 4.9/5 and nearly 1000 reviews, is currently looking for an experienced and dedicated Head of Legal & Company Secretary to work in York on a full-time basis.

The salary for this permanent Head of Legal & Company Secretary job is £80,000 per annum.

Benefits:

• 38 days holiday (inclusive of bank holidays)
• Group life assurance.
• Company Pension
• Perkbox (staff discount and benefits platform).
• Blue Light Card
• Eye voucher scheme
• Staff awards

Main purpose of the role:

• Responsible for ensuring a robust governance and compliance structure.
• Oversee the management of corporate risk; and oversee all legal matters within the organisation and contribute to the successful delivery of strategic objectives by offering pragmatic and sound legal perspectives on key business decisions.
• Ensure that the charity complies with statutory, regulatory and charity commission requirements.
• Lead on data protection matters for the organisation.
• Overall to lead on ensuring we are delivering fit for purpose legal advice and have strong corporate governance in place, providing compliance, data management, company secretarial, information governance, data protection services.

Your Key Responsibilities:

• Facilitate good corporate governance practices by advising the board on their roles, responsibilities, and legal obligations.
• Provide Company Secretarial services to the Board and board committees, ensuring that meetings are properly conducted, minutes accurately recorded and all statutory, legislative, and procedural obligations relating to the governance of Brainkind are fulfilled.
• Maintain, update, and ensure Trustees and Directors adhere to Brainkind’s Articles and relevant Terms of Reference, ensuring that they are compliant with company and charity law and the Charity Commission’s requirements.
• Keep the board informed about legal and regulatory changes that may impact the organisation and ensure compliance with relevant laws, regulations, and internal policies.
• Organise the Annual Accounts sign-off and lead on the preparation of notices and papers in line with the organisation’s Articles of association. File all necessary forms and documents at Companies House, with the Charity Commission or as required by legislation.
• Support the Chair with Trustee recruitment, inductions and elections to the Board and any committees, trustee professional development and the Trustee’s annual review.
• Co-ordinate, plan, and set governance meetings each year, maintain up to date and current databases of directors’ information, HMRC forms, and declarations of interest, and monitor and ensure delivery of Board governance action plans.
• Lead on the development of board-owned policies, ensure that the policies are up-to-date, and that compliance is maintained across the organisation.
• Support the Chair and CEO directly as required.

Requirements of the Head of Legal & Company Secretary:

• Qualified Solicitor or Barrister ideally with a minimum of 5 years post qualification experience.
• Solid understanding and experience of legislation, governance requirements and best practice ideally within a Health & Social Care setting and the compliance needs of a charity.
• Demonstrated career record of being accountable for regulatory, governance and legal activities and reporting associated to role.
• Experience of a high standard of business writing with proven experience of documenting complex and confidential commercial meetings and proposals.
• Strong commercial acumen with good business skills, able to review and identify opportunities.
• Proven experience in a senior level, relevant, legal role.
• Financial awareness with an understanding of the principles of managing financial assets.
• Works with gravitas and diplomacy with developed influencing skills to affect change.
• Sensitive to the needs and demands of working in a confidential environment.
• Manage complex plans and projects through to completion.
• Logical and analytical with strong attention to detail and accuracy.

Contact:

This Head of Legal & Company Secretary job is advertised by Ryan Mann; if you are interested in this position please click above to apply now.

Due to the high volume of applications we receive, regretfully we are only able to respond to candidates who meet our clients' requirements.

As a pioneer of diverse recruitment, Sanctuary Personnel is proud to encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds as our pool of candidates is very much reflective of the clients that candidates will support within their role. This very much played a significant part in previously winning ‘Best Candidate Care’ at the Recruiter Awards as well as being a two-time finalist for the same award. Sanctuary takes great pride in building candidate and client relationships that promote Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI). With recruitment consultants and all other employees undertaking annual online training on EDI and many other compliance training courses, Sanctuary is best placed to undertake a fair and thorough selection process.

Reasonable Adjustments:
If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement.