About us
Learn Sheffield is a not-for-profit company providing School Improvement and Governance Services to schools and academies in and around South Yorkshire.
We are seeking individuals to provide administrative support to governing boards. The role involves attendance at term time meetings in schools, typically early evening, to take minutes and provide guidance with the support and backing of our central team. These minutes can be finalised or written up flexibly at home.
Learn Sheffield wishes to appoint Governance Professionals to provide professional governance services to school and academy governing boards and trusts, mainly in selected Sheffield schools. The role of the Governance Professional is to support and advise governing and trust boards and to minute the meetings, working with the chair.
Experience and knowledge of education is an advantage, but not essential as training will be provided to equip you with essential knowledge of the core elements of school and academy governance.
You will need excellent listening, oral and literacy skills with a high degree of attention to detail, an ability to fulfil all spoken aspects of the role with confidence and be able to write agendas and accurate concise minutes.
You will need effective information management skills for storage and retrieval of formal documents, including excellent ICT user skills (Email, MS Office and Internet) and be able to meet conflicting demands within deadlines, managing working time independently to meet the needs of chairs and members of the governing board.
Pay: £14.80 per hour – 5 hours pay for each two-hour meeting, pro rata (to allow time for writing minutes). This means a 2 hour meeting would result in 5 hours pay (£74.00), plus payment for travel time and mileage paid at 45p per mile.
We expect the role of clerk to involve a combination of remote and face to face meetings. Applicants will need access to the Internet.
The number of hours available is variable, depending on demand from schools, so this is typically a part time position and could be carried out alongside other roles. Governor meetings normally take place in the late afternoon or early evening.
Job Type: Zero hours contract
Contract length: 12 months
Pay: £14.80 per hour
Work Location: In person