Summary

What you'll do

As the Director of Governance & Compliance, you will lead NHG's strategic approach to governance and compliance arrangements, ensuring NHG meets its legal and ethical obligations while fostering a culture of accountability. Your leadership will safeguard NHG's integrity, empower teams through robust frameworks, and strengthen trust with residents, regulators, and stakeholders.

How you'll do it

• Design and implement governance frameworks aligned with the Regulator of Social Housing (RSH) Standards, ensuring NHG exceeds regulatory expectations and maintains exemplary compliance.

• Serve as an NHG contact for regulators, external agencies and the Senior Leadership Team (SLT), driving transparency and collaboration across all governance activities.

• Act as Company Secretary and oversee critical functions including data protection, anti-fraud measures, and statutory reporting, ensuring adherence to UK GDPR, FCA, and other legislation.

• Lead the creation and review of policies, standing orders, and codes of governance, embedding best practices and anticipating regulatory changes through proactive horizon scanning.

• Oversee investigations into compliance breaches, fraud, or data incidents, ensuring robust mitigation strategies and ethical resolutions.

• Manage multidisciplinary teams, fostering a culture of high performance through training, competency frameworks, and talent development.

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.

We're seeking a Director of Governance and Compliance who combines strategic vision with hands-on expertise in regulated environments. You'll bring:

Essential:

• Chartered Company Secretary (or equivalent qualification)
• Strong leadership skills with experience is setting new behaviours across the organisation
• Experience within property and housing or public sector governance
• Proven success in designing and implementing governance frameworks that meet regulatory requirements
• Exceptional stakeholder management skills with a track record of influencing executive boards, regulators and cross-functional teams
• Expertise in compliance functions such as data protection, anti-fraud, and familiarity with UK legislation e.g. GDPR, FCA and Money Laundering Regulations

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 60,000 existing homes and 10,000 more in our pipeline and we employ around 1,500 staff.

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 6 June 2025

Step 2: Successful candidates will be invited to interview with a presentation task and technical assessment

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 .  

Should a redeployee apply for this role, their application will be considered before any others.

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.