Group Governance and Risk Manager

As our Group Governance and Risk Manager, you will play a pivotal role in enabling our mission to improve lives and places, ensuring that LHCPG operates with transparency, integrity and accountability to reflect our values across our business in support of the communities we serve.

Working closely with the Board and Senior Leadership Team (SLT), you will you will take ownership of a broad governance remit, with genuine scope to shape practice and improve the processes, systems and ways of working that underpin excellent governance across LHCPG. You will ensure that all areas of our business are supported to understand and adhere to statutory and regulatory requirements.

The Role Involves

• Providing authoritative and practical governance advice to the Board and Senior Leaders helping them fulfil their mandatory obligations and ensuring an effective governance framework in practice - from decision-making through to delivery - across the whole organisation
• Supporting Board development through induction, engagement, succession planning and performance review activity
• Maintaining accurate governance records, including conflicts of interest, tenure, appointments and decision trails
• Managing relationships with external governance and legal advisers
• Embedding a clear, practical approach to risk management and mitigation, ensuring every team across our multi-site operation is clear on their responsibilities and takes informed decisions
• Owning and overseeing the corporate governance policy suite and ensuring all necessary processes are in place to deliver strong governance, audit and assurance oversight
• As the Data Protection Officer, maintain UK GDPR compliance, ROPA and DPIA processes, IT, digital and security policies
• Serving as the main contact for any privacy enquiries

What We’re Looking For

Your proven track record in a highly commercial, agile and fast paced corporate environment playing a key role in shaping and leading governance and risk management will enable you to demonstrate strong capability in applying appropriate models of governance to a customer-focused, service provider in the highly competitive procurement sector. You will be an established governance professional who operates confidently with senior stakeholders while maintaining independence, discretion and sound judgement. The role has line management responsibility for one direct report.

Experience gained in a proactive Company Secretariat or Governance function within a highly professional and demanding environment is vital, accompanied ideally with knowledge and experience of the specific requirements of the not-for-profit and charity sector. A proven track record of providing high-quality governance support and trusted advice to Boards and Committees is essential.

You Will Also Bring

• A recognised governance qualification
• A high level of IT literacy, adept with all aspects of MS Office suite
• Strong Board and committee skills, including preparing papers, reports, minutes and decision records
• A track record of success in designing, implementing and embedding agile governance and assurance frameworks
• Experience of leading the full internal audit cycle and using assurance activity to strengthen organisational performance
• Successful track record in leading risk management frameworks and maintaining risk registers
• Capability to manage organisation-wide policies and business systems to ensure strong governance and compliance
• Experience in a Data Protection Officer role, with sound knowledge of UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018
• Strategic thinking capability and sound judgement to lead through complexity and ambiguity
• Well-developed organisation skills to handle competing priorities and operate effectively as an advisor at senior executive level and to the Board
• Please refer to the job description and person specification attached for full details of the role and its requirements

What You’ll Get

• Salary from £66.2K per annum
• Wellbeing allowance of £300 per annum via a portal (taxable)
• Discretionary annual bonus
• 34 days holiday plus bank holidays, option to buy more, plus birthday leave
• Private Medical Insurance and Health Cash Plan after probation (taxable)
• Enhanced maternity and paternity pay (after 1 year of service)
• 10 days per year ‘work from anywhere’ opportunity
• 1.5 days personal volunteering leave and team volunteering opportunities
• £1000 pa individual training budget for professional development support
• Generous pension arrangements

It is encouraged that all candidates submit a cover letter to support their application.

Please note that we reserve the right to close this job posting before the application deadline where suitable candidates are identified