Assistant Company Secretary

Location

Chelmsford, Essex | United Kingdom

Job description

We’re a local housing association that’s passionate about tackling the housing shortage in the East of England. We provide warm, safe and affordable homes. But we don’t stop there. We offer a wide range of support and services to help our customers and their communities to thrive. We want to be an organisation that cares about our customers and communities and is determined to make a difference. We'll be bold and open-minded in our pursuit of solutions to help people transform their lives.

What you'll be doing

We are looking for an Assistant Company Secretary to ensure good governance principles / practices are embedded into ways of working at CHP and compliance with legal and regulatory obligations, working closely with the Head of Governance and Assurance to develop and maintain documents associated with the Company Secretariat.

• Assist the Head of Governance and Assurance in ensuring high standards of governance across CHP and its subsidiaries, demonstrating compliance with its adopted Code of Governance. Also ensuring the effective implementation and monitoring of the Governance Framework and Board Effectiveness Framework.
• Support the Head of Governance and Assurance in governance matters such as arranging and minuting of meetings, communicating with Board Members and the provision of advice.
• Assist the Head of Governance and Assurance in the drafting of governance related papers for submission to Board and Committee meetings.
• Assist the Head of Governance and Assurance in the preparation for periodic in-depth assessment (IDA) inspections.
• Remain up-to-date with relevant legislation, trends, local and national initiatives to assist in the promotion of awareness across CHP.

Requirements

What we're looking for

• Experience of working within affordable social housing environment and familiarity with relevant compliance and regulatory regime.
• Knowledge of corporate governance and data protection law.
• Administrative experience and information gathering.
• Excellent IT skills including Microsoft Office and the ability to operate a range of IT tools and applications.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to work at all levels across the organisation.
• Experience of note taking of formal meetings and providing accurate minutes.

Committed to equality of opportunity, we welcome applications from all sections of the community. Applications for job share and part-time working will be considered on a business needs basis.

Wellbeing is a priority for us, and we aim to help our employees achieve a successful work/life balance and have adopted an agile working style. We host a range of learning activities to develop our people, support their career aspirations and professional qualifications. We encourage employee participation on all levels and we’re always open to new ideas or ways of working.

Benefits

• The salary for this post will be £38,400 Per Annum
• Learning and development opportunities
• Healthcare cash plan
• Robust employee reward and recognition programme
• Free and confidential Employee Assistance Programme
• CHParticipate volunteering programme
• Competitive pension scheme
• 25 days annual leave per annum, plus bank holidays and 3 extra days between Christmas and New Year.
• 37 hours per week - employees may be able to work flexibly by agreement with their line manager, taking account of business need. We operate a hybrid working policy at CHP.

We value our people and listen to feedback to ensure we are a great place to work and are able to attract and develop the careers of the best talent in the market.

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Salary

£38.4k per annum