Company Secretary

The primary accountability of this role is to be the Company Secretary to Lord Wandsworth College and St Neot’s School. Reporting to the Chief Operating Officer at LWC this role will assist in ensuring we deliver excellent service to the Governors and the COO by taking and monitoring progress of minutes and actions at each Committee meeting and writing up the minutes within 7 days after each Committee meeting. Your time will be split across both sites as appropriate.

The role requires excellent organisational and administrative skills with outstanding attention to detail alongside the ability to work confidentially. Ideally with relevant experience board level and governance, especially in the charitable sector.

This role is for 80 days per year centered around school term time (32 weeks per annum); however, hours will be irregular with a percentage of time being driven by committee meeting timings.

This is an exciting and wide-ranging role with a variety of responsibilities to include:

• Collate and circulate papers to School Governors in advance of Governors and subcommittee meetings

• Keeping up to date with any regulatory or statutory requirements and advising the COO as appropriate

• Maintaining statutory records

• Maintaining schedule of Governors re-elections

• Preparing and assisting in Governor Inductions

• Maintaining and filing mandatory Government reporting

• To ensure notes are clear, accurate and comprehensive

• To work in a professional, helpful, and flexible manner, always maintaining confidentiality

Both LWC and St Neots are very happy places to work and both Schools provide a supportive working environment. There is a well-developed programme of professional development. Pupils are enthusiastic, well-behaved, and eager to learn, and colleagues are supportive, dedicated and get on well together. There is a strong sense of community.

We welcome people of all faiths and those that are committed to these values. We recognise that we have under-represented groups within our workforce. As part of our commitment to diversity and equality of opportunity we are actively encouraging applications from under-represented groups such as returning parents or carers who are re-entering work after a career break, people who are LGBT+, from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic backgrounds, with a disability, impairment, learning difference or long-term condition, with caring responsibilities, from different nations and regions and those with a lived experience of poverty as well as any other under-represented group in our workforce. We are committed ensuring the safety and protection of our employees from all forms of harm.

Closing date: 21st January 2022 at 23.59

Interview date: 27th & 28th  January 2022

If you require any assistance completing your online application please contact Vacancy Filler, our recruitment support team, on 01509 236434 or use the 'Chat Now' option found at the bottom of the online application form.

Should you wish to discuss the role in strict confidence, please contact Baz Bennett on 01256 862201.

We are an equal opportunities employer. Lord Wandsworth College is a registered charity (Number: 1143359) providing outstanding caring education for boys and girls since 1912.