Assistant Manager - Governance Office

Job summary

As Assistant Manager in the Governance Office, you will play a central role in supporting the Company Secretary (Assistant Director – Governance) and the wider governance team to ensure the delivery of high-quality, consistent governance across the organisation. Your work will directly contribute to confident, timely executive decision-making, supporting the smooth operation of Board and Committee meetings, and maintaining excellent relationships with senior stakeholders.

You will coordinate and manage key governance activities, provide operational and administrative support, and maintain clear, efficient processes that ensure all governance outputs meet required standards. Working closely with colleagues across the organisation, you will foster collaboration, share best practice, and help implement continuous improvements to governance processes.

This role requires a professional who is organised, proactive, and capable of managing multiple priorities while maintaining accuracy and attention to detail. You will be a trusted point of contact for internal colleagues and senior stakeholders, supporting the team in delivering a first-class service and enhancing the reputation and effectiveness of the Governance Office.

This is an exciting opportunity to make a real impact within the Government’s national housing agency, helping ensure effective governance in support of Homes England’s mission to deliver high-quality homes and communities across England.

Job description

• Support the Governance leadership team in coordinating priorities and maintaining clear processes for efficient delivery of governance outputs.
• Build and maintain effective working relationships with Board Members, Independent Experts, Executive Directors, Directors, and their teams, ensuring reliable support and clear communication.
• Act as a key contact point for internal colleagues, responding to queries and supporting positive working relationships across the organisation.
• Collaborate with colleagues in administrative and corporate support roles to share best practice and ensure consistent ways of working.
• Provide comprehensive operational and administrative support to the Governance team, including activity and KPI reporting.
• Plan and coordinate logistical arrangements for meetings and events, ensuring agendas, papers, and actions meet required standards; facilitate or take minutes for informal meetings as required.
• Coordinate diaries and travel for the Company Secretary, applying judgement to balance time-critical commitments while supporting other team members.
• Support the delivery of projects or ad-hoc task-and-finish work by coordinating information, activity, and timelines.
• Identify opportunities for continuous improvement, maintaining robust administrative systems and embracing emerging technologies to improve efficiency.
• Assist in the successful delivery of team and directorate events, managing logistics, forward planners, and calendars.

Person specification

• Proven experience providing high-quality operational and administrative support in a complex organisation.
• Skilled in organising, prioritising, and managing multiple concurrent deadlines while maintaining accuracy.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, Outlook, PowerPoint) and digital collaboration tools.
• Sound understanding of governance operations, meeting cycles, and procedural requirements.
• Confident in applying judgement to resolve operational issues within established procedures.
• High standard of written accuracy and quality-assurance capability.
• Able to communicate confidently and influence senior stakeholders, building strong working relationships.
• Experience maintaining or improving administrative systems or workflows.
• Able to interpret, explain, and implement governance processes clearly for others.
• Collaborative team player who can also work independently and proactively to support the smooth functioning of governance forums and decision-making processes.
• Resilient, professional, and highly organised, capable of contributing to a high-performing Governance Office that delivers a first-class service.

Benefits

Homes England is an executive non-departmental public body with its own terms and conditions, benefits and pension scheme. We are a government agency working in partnership with the private sector and want to employ and retain great people. In return we offer a range of excellent benefits, some of the key benefits include:

Holiday - Homes England offers all staff 33 days annual leave per year in addition to 8 statutory bank holidays.

Working Flexibly - At Homes England we have a strong culture of flexible working and encourage all employees to have a healthy work/life balance. We offer a wide range of potential working patterns, including part time, job share and compressed hours.

Health and Wellbeing - We offer health screening with Nuffield Proactive Health Clinics, a free Employee Assistance Programme which offers confidential support 24 hours a day, 7 days a week as well as access to Occupational Health.

Professional Development - At Homes England we are committed to your continued professional and personal development with learning as one of our core values. We pay for one job-related professional membership subscription per year for our employees.

We also offer an excellent range of family friendly benefits, for example, maternity, paternity, shared parental leave.

Things you need to know

Artificial intelligence

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Selection process details

How to apply?

To apply please follow the links to our careers page.

Security

Successful candidates must pass a disclosure and barring security check.

Selection process details

For more information on the role, please see the attached Job Description.

Successful applicants will be advised of the outcome of their application and interviews held as soon as practical after the closing date. Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment. We would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your interest in this role and Homes England.

Please note – Homes England has a responsibility to ensure compliance with HMG Baseline Personnel Security Standard to address the potential problems of identity fraud, illegal working and deception generally. To ensure compliance we will carry out a pre-employment Personal Identity and Vetting Report through Experian to meet the standard and you will therefore be asked to provide certain information in order that the verification check can be carried out if you are successful in your application.

Homes England are an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates. We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer that values and respects the people who work for us. Our aim is to be an employer of choice, enabling everyone to reach their full potential.

Homes England is committed to protecting the privacy and security of your personal data. For further information please refer to our Privacy Notice which can be viewed here:

https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/homes-england/about/personal-information-charter

Nationality requirements

Open to UK, Commonwealth and European Economic Area (EEA) and certain non EEA nationals. Further information on whether you are able to apply is available here.

Working for the Civil Service

Please note this Post is NOT regulated by the Civil Service Commission.

The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equality of opportunity. There is a guaranteed disability confident interview scheme for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

Further information

Once this job has closed, the job advert will no longer be available. You may want to save a copy for your records.

Contact point for applicants

Name: Recruitment Team

Email: recruitmentinfo@homesengland.gov.uk

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)

Working for the Civil Service

Please note this Post is NOT regulated by the Civil Service Commission.The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

Diversity and Inclusion

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see theCivil Service People Plan (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window).

Apply and further information

The Civil Service welcomes applications from people who have recently left prison or have an unspent conviction. Read more about prison leaver recruitment (opens in new window).Once this job has closed, the job advert will no longer be available. You may want to save a copy for your records.

Contact point for applicants

Job contact :

• Name : Recruitmentinfo@homesengland.gov.uk
• Email : Recruitmentinfo@homesengland.gov.uk

Recruitment team

• Email : Recruitmentinfo@homesengland.gov.uk