Lead for Governance

Lead for Governance

Salary: PO5 £49,083 - £52,116 per annum.

Contract: 13 Months Fixed term contract

Hours: 28 hours per week

Job Reference: R0006427

About us at Hounslow

We’d love you to join us at the London Borough of Hounslow! Our people are deeply committed to providing excellent services to our residents, doing all we can to make lives as good as they can be. 

We are an outstanding council, serving an outstanding borough. With brilliant, visionary leadership, a dynamic Cabinet and a can-do culture, we’ve built strong partnerships which have transformed how we serve one of London’s most diverse boroughs. Hounslow is the world in one place and full of potential. We are stepping up for our residents like never before.

About our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

We live by five core values: Lead with Heart, Do New, Pass on the Power, Harness the Mix and Be a Rock. All our work has equality, diversity and inclusion at its very heart, best articulated in “Harness the Mix”. It's about breaking down barriers between our parts and people and unlocking the problem-solving power of our amazing mix of minds. We serve a diverse community, we have a diverse workforce and we are committed to being an inclusive employer. 

We work hard to create representation across our workforce and leadership community, we have thriving employee network groups and our learning and development programmes help us lead, model and breathe ways of working that eliminate inequality, inequity, injustice and bias.

As part of this and under our commitments as a Disability Confident Employer, we make reasonable adjustments to accommodate our candidates. There’s space for you to tell us what you need within our application form.

Our Benefits

If you join us, you’ll have access to a range of employee benefits. Read more about these here.

About The Role

The Lead for Governance will be the principal expert in relation to the composition, duties and functions of all school governing bodies, whilst ensuring that the LA adheres to it’s statutory responsibilities on school governance.

They will ensure that governors are enabled to play a fundamental role in the governance and leadership of schools, and manage the identification and appointment process for local authority governors as well as contributing to the recruitment of governors to Hounslow schools.

About The Team You’ll Be Working In

Governor Services provides advice, development and training to school governors, to allow them to fulfil their statutory function of ensuring clarity of vision, ethos and strategic direction, in addition to holding executive leaders to account for the educational performance of the organisation and its pupils, and the effective and efficient performance management of staff.

Working independently, you will liaise with governors, Headteachers, the Governor Services officer, the CPD and Governor training officer, clerks, the Senior Advisor and the wider School Improvement team.

About You

If the points below resonate with you, we’d love you to put in an application: 

1. An understanding of outcomes for pupils, leadership and management, quality of education, behaviour and welfare in schools.
2. Experience of leadership and management (preferably in a school), including performance management.
3. Relevant and up-to-date knowledge of governance legislation 
4. Excellent organisational and communication skills.
5. Strong digital and IT skills. 
6. A Basic DBS check is required.

Read more about the work you’ll be doing in the Role Profile.

When Interviews Will Be Held and Who to Contact

The key information you need about the role should be in the role profile, but if you have any further questions about the role, please contact: 

Email: Paula.Passee@hounslow.gov.uk

Telephone: 02085834845

Interviews for this job will be held during week commencing 6th May 2024.

Closing Date: 25th April 2024

Apply link:

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