Company Secretary

Job Title: Company Secretary

Level: 2B

Salary: £38,500 to £43,000 based on skills and experience

Location: Chilcomb House, Winchester

Hours: 22.2 hours per week

Type of Contract: Fixed term – Maternity cover to Summer 2025

Are you a governance professional looking for a role in an exciting and dynamic charity?

You’ll provide company secretarial support to the trust’s Charity and Trading Company Boards, Committees and Leadership Team, taking concise and accurate minutes, liaising with Companies House and the Charity Commission on non-financial compliance and governance matters, maintaining the statutory records for the companies and advising on legal, statutory and public responsibilities.

A bit about you

You’ll have demonstrable experience of company secretary administration for a charitable company, with significant experience of effective stakeholder management, governance and formal committee systems. You will understand the role of charity trustees and company directors and have experience of providing support on governance and other legal matters.

With excellent attention to detail and high standards of communication, including IT skills, you will have experience of preparing reports, policies and communications, and of both drafting and maintaining key governance documents. You will also have experience of organising and running key stakeholder meetings and events.

But don’t worry if you don’t if you don’t meet all of our essential and desirable criteria, we would still love to hear from you.

We will be running a dynamic recruitment process so we would encourage candidates to submit an application as soon as possible as we will be interviewing candidates before the closing date.

To apply please fill in the application form with an up-to-date CV. Please attach a covering letter for this position around your context for applying and why you would excel in the position.

Closing date for applications:          1 April 2024

Proposed 1st Interview date:            5 April 2024

Proposed 2nd Interview date:           12 April 2024