Summary

What you'll do

As the Head of Governance, you will lead the delivery of a high-quality governance, company secretarial and compliance function across the Notting Hill Genesis Group. Working closely with the Director of Governance and Compliance (DGC), you will ensure the organisation remains compliant with all regulatory and legislative requirements, while embedding a culture of robust governance and accountability across the business.

You will play a key role in delivering and embedding the Governance Framework across the organisation, ensuring compliance with the National Housing Federation Code of Governance, the Regulator of Social Housing Governance and Viability Standards, and wider statutory obligations.

You'll lead governance support for boards, committees, subsidiaries and joint venture partnerships, ensuring excellent administration, compliance oversight, and strategic governance advice at every level of the organisation. You will also oversee areas including whistleblowing, anti-money laundering, fraud prevention, policy governance and company secretarial compliance.

As part of the wider leadership team, you'll drive continuous improvement, support organisational effectiveness, and foster a culture where governance and compliance are embedded into day-to-day operations.

How you'll do it

• Lead and embed NHG's Governance Framework, ensuring compliance with all relevant regulatory and statutory requirements.
• Deputise for the Deputy Company Secretary and/or Group Company Secretary where required across the NHG Group.
• Provide governance oversight and support to Boards and Committees, ensuring high-quality governance advice, administration, minutes and reporting.
• Oversee the delivery of board and committee forward plans, annual appraisals, effectiveness reviews, inductions and training programmes.
• Manage the governance of policies, standing orders, schemes of delegation and codes of governance across the organisation.
• Lead company secretarial activity including Companies House filings, AGM administration, shareholder communications and statutory compliance.
• Maintain accurate company records, registers and governance documentation to a consistently high standard.
• Ensure compliance with anti-money laundering legislation, whistleblowing requirements, anti-fraud measures and FCA consumer credit permissions.
• Manage governance and compliance reporting, ensuring robust monitoring frameworks and performance measures are in place.
• Support investigations relating to fraud, irregularities or governance concerns where required.
• Horizon scan legislative, regulatory and governance developments, ensuring the organisation remains ahead of emerging requirements and best practice.
• Collaborate with senior stakeholders and HR to deliver governance awareness, induction and training programmes across the Group.

The ideal candidate

We believe great service starts with great people, and we are committed to recruiting and developing passionate, enthusiastic, and talented individuals who can add value to our thriving organisation.

Pending confirmation of legislative changes, this role may require a qualification to demonstrate competence. If not already qualified, there may be an expectation to study towards a professional qualification.

Essential:

• Proven experience leading a governance function within a highly regulated environment.
• Chartered Company Secretary qualification (or equivalent professional qualification).
• Strong knowledge of governance, company secretarial and regulatory compliance requirements.
• Experience managing fraud, whistleblowing, anti-money laundering or related compliance functions.
• Experience of working within complex governance and risk management environments.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence and advise at senior leadership and board level.
• Strong leadership capability with experience managing and developing high-performing teams.
• Experience designing and delivering governance training, competency frameworks and awareness programmes.
• Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage competing priorities and deadlines.
• Advanced IT and systems skills including Microsoft Office.

What's in it for you?

Once you join us, you'll find plenty of opportunities to grow within our organisation. You'll also have access to a wide range of learning opportunities to help you achieve and maximise your potential.

Benefits include:

• Excellent annual leave allowance and flexible working opportunities (qualifying period may apply)
• Generous pension scheme
• Enhanced maternity, paternity, and adoption pay in addition to statutory entitlements (qualifying period may apply)
• Employee assistance - free confidential advice and counselling services provided by independent specialist organisations.
• Health cash plan
• Staff discounts - we give our staff access to discounts at hundreds of major retailers, gyms, restaurants, entertainment, days out, insurance, and much more.
• Interest free loans - season ticket loan, tenancy deposit loan, and training loan
• Cycle to work scheme.
• Life Assurance x 4 annual salary

All about us

Notting Hill Genesis is a not-for-profit organisation providing affordable homes for Londoners and it is now one of the largest housing associations in London. We are both a landlord and a developer, with more than 65,000 existing homes and 10,000 more in our pipeline and we employ around 1,800 employees.

For more information on what we do and what makes us different please visit:https://group.nhg.org.uk/careers/

We welcome applications from everyone. We actively monitor the diversity of our workforce and strive to show equal representation throughout all levels of the organisation. We are a Stonewall Diversity Champion, a Disability Confident employer amongst other diversity commitments.

To find out more about our approach to equality, diversity and inclusion please visit: https://group.nhg.org.uk/careers/diversity-is-our-strength/

Selection Process

Step 1: If you are interested, please send your application now! Closing date is 09 June 2026.  

Step 2: Successful candidates will be asked to do an assessment  

Step 3: Successful candidates will be invited to interview  

Please apply for this role online. If you are not able to apply online or if you have any reasonable adjustment requirements arising from a disability or medical condition to fully participate in the recruitment process, please discuss this with our hiring team via .  

If you are successful and are offered this role with us, this offer will be subject to a number of pre-employment checks, including checks of your public online presence and public social media profiles. If you have any questions about what this will involve, please speak to a member of the HR Team.

NHG reserves the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role, so we advise you to submit your application at your earliest opportunity.