Board Secretary

Wise May are looking for a Board Secretary to join an Energy business based in the City for a maternity contract. The role is to work within an extremely friendly and efficient team who give full support to members throughout the business including Stake Holders and their client's.

This role Reports into Head of Governance and will oversee 2 senior member's of the Governance Team.

Board Secretary Duties include:

• Supervise, lead, and manage a team of Senior Governance Administrators

• Foster a motivating and supportive environment to drive high performance within the Governance Team

• Demonstrating best practices in meeting governance, leading by example for team members to replicate for other Committees

• Building and maintaining strong client relationships with the Independent Chairs of the committees, the Data Communications Company, and industry stakeholders to ensure agendas are agreed, upon and deliverables clear

• Reviewing documents to ensure accuracy and consistency, and acting as a quality gatekeeper

• Maintaining meeting activity planners, ensuring prescribed timelines are diarised and adhered to and contributors managed closely to deliver their inputs on time

• Preparing meeting documentation and actively managing meeting actions to secure timely updates

• Drafting meeting papers and technical meeting minutes that are researched, accurate, and concise

• Manage monthly reporting on team activities carried out

Board Secretary skills and attributes required:

• Stakeholder management experience with proven ability to manage upwards and downwards

• Strive for excellence in their work by being methodical, diligent paying attention to the details, and proactively verifying assumptions

• Able to understand and communicate technical subjects and convey the point concisely

• Experience in drafting new and improving existing processes

• Digitally competent and able to present information in its clearest format for the intended audience

• Excellent planning and organisational abilities, able to manage time and a varied workload, and be flexible and adaptable to changing priorities

• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal

Benefits:

• Monday-Friday (hybrid working)
• 25 days annual leave, plus bank holidays
• Reward and recognition schemes
• Flexible working
• Private healthcare
• Life Assurance (up to 4 times annual salary)
• Matched pension contributions