Secretariat Manager

Hours: Full time
Contract: Maternity cover – 12 months
Location: London (temporarily working from home)
Salary: £59,696 - £70,229 pa

An excellent career development opportunity to advance your secretariat expertise and further expand your management experience. Join us and play a key role leading and managing the General Dental Council’s secretariat function. 

As Secretariat Manager you will lead on the design and implementation of the secretariat framework and ensure high quality governance services are delivered to the Council and all Committees. Your key responsibilities will include:

• Ensuring an annual schedule of business, allowing key decisions to take place in compliance with legislative requirements
• Identifying and working with colleagues to put improvements in place, year on year
• Ensuring the smooth running of all formal meetings 
• Providing advice and support to colleagues on governance decisions required by the General Dental Council’s standing orders
• Advising Chairs on the Terms of Reference of the Committee and ensuring that decisions are taken appropriately, overseeing the drafting of Chairs’ briefing material
• Line managing Governance Managers and playing an active role in their development
• Leading on the communication of all secretariat matters to and from the business

About you:

The ideal candidate will need experience of designing, implementing and maintaining efficient secretariat frameworks, as well as experience of line management and drafting briefing material, minutes and actions. The ability to act with integrity and discretion when handling confidential and sensitive information is equally important.

About Us:

Our primary purpose is to protect patient safety and maintain public confidence in dental services. To achieve this, we register qualified dental professionals, set standards for the dental team, investigate complaints about dental professionals' fitness to practise, and work to ensure the quality of dental education.

Our work matters and so do our people. We are committed to providing a working environment that embraces and values diversity and inclusion by recruiting and strengthening our teams with team members from different backgrounds, life experiences and viewpoints. Equality and diversity are not just words, they are what makes our teams strong and able to deliver. We want to be champions of diversity and to have a sense of belonging in the workplace, where everybody has the chance to contribute and to share what is important to them.

Benefits:

To reward you for your hard work and commitment, we offer an attractive benefits package that includes a generous pension scheme, flexible working and 25 days’ annual leave plus bank holidays.

How to apply:

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Closing date: 05 July 2021.

Interviews are expected to take place remotely via MS Teams week commencing 26 July 2021.

Please no agencies unless instructed otherwise.