Governance and Assurance Officer in Huntingdon

The Governance Officer will play an important role in ensuring that Corporate Transformation projects and programmes, as well as projects associated with the Local Government Reorganisation, delivered and supported by the Corporate Transformation, Insight and Performance team, are delivered successfully. Working with Services across the council and with partners, this role will help to ensure that the Corporate Transformation and Reporting Service adhere to internal governance and that council Services can most effectively drive delivery across a complex and multi‑faceted council.

Key Responsibilities

• Support the Corporate Transformation and Reporting Service to ensure effective governance of projects for the Corporate Transformation service.
• Ensure adherence to the governance processes and procedures for the Corporate Transformation team.
• Support project teams to ensure that objectives, agreed milestones and gateways are delivered to a high quality and against agreed budgets.
• Produce reports for management meetings in a timely and efficient manner, including programme‑wide progress reports.
• Lead the production and maintenance of project documentation such as risk and issue registers, monitoring risks and issues in accordance with the Corporate Risk Management Framework and other adopted processes.
• Assist with the development and embedding of consistent, efficient and effective processes for managing and reporting on projects across the Transformation programme and Local Government Reorganisation, working closely with workstream programme management teams, and reporting to the Project Manager on progress, slippages, forecast delivery dates and targets.
• Undertake relevant projects as requested by the line manager, including potentially developing proposals for future governance models to strengthen existing arrangements and developing information management processes for application across the programme.
• Coordinate knowledge management systems covering preparation, control and recording of project and programme documents.
• Effectively govern agenda items to maximise the use of governance groups, drive the programme and resolve problems at the appropriate level.
• Ensure that actions are captured, commissioned and logged (including monitoring delivery) from meetings and chase where actions are not completed.
• Ensure the effective communication and understanding of the IT programme governance and implementation across the IT programme, including among delivery teams, and encourage all officers across the IT and Digital Service to participate fully within governance arrangements.

Qualifications

• Degree level education, NVQ Level 4 or equivalent experience.
• Project management qualification or equivalent experience.
• Experience in risk management.
• Extensive experience of project governance processes and procedures.
• Extensive experience of supporting projects and programmes through the governance process.
• Extensive experience of implementing and supporting governance arrangements, such as Executive Boards, Project Boards and/or Councillor committees.

An offer of employment is conditional upon having the right to work in the UK. HDC does not hold a Sponsorship Licence and is unable to provide a Certificate of Sponsorship (CoS) or take over sponsorship for any role. Equality, diversity and inclusion are at the heart of our recruitment. We are committed to creating an inclusive working environment, where diversity is valued and equality of opportunity is ensured. We welcome applications from all sections of the community and offer benefits such as flexitime to encourage a healthy work‑life balance.