Role Overview
A unique dual role: service leadership and system wide governance impact. This is a rare opportunity to lead and shape governance across a whole local authority system. As Governor Development and Compliance Lead, you will hold a dual role: working closely with the service manager, you will be providing visible, high-quality leadership of the governance service within the wider school improvement and governance team, while also delivering county-wide strategic impact through governance improvement, compliance and development.
You will lead a skilled governance team, ensuring schools receive consistent, authoritative advice and support, and that governance arrangements across maintained schools are robust, compliant and effective. Alongside this, you will work closely with Regional Education Partners (REPs), headteachers and governing bodies to strengthen governance practice, build capacity, and respond to emerging risks and priorities. You will act as a trusted and credible professional, building strong relationships across schools and partners, and ensuring governance is both well-assured and genuinely impactful.
Responsibilities
* Provide strategic leadership for governance compliance and assurance across the maintained sector, ensuring there are clear, consistent frameworks and systems in place that enable governing bodies to operate effectively, transparently and within statutory requirements.
* Equip and support Regional Education Partners (REPs) to work confidently with schools and governing boards, providing high-level professional advice, guidance and escalation routes.
* Develop the overarching approach to governance casework – covering areas such as governance breakdown, complaints, and structural or leadership issues – and provide expert input at key points, while ensuring day-to-day support to schools is delivered through REPs as part of the wider school improvement system.
* Ensure governance is strategically aligned, well-assured and coherently delivered, with REPs acting as the front-facing system leaders, supported by your expertise and oversight.
* Take strategic responsibility for the governor development offer across the county, designing, commissioning and quality‑assuring a coherent, high-quality training programme for governors and clerks that reflects statutory expectations, emerging priorities and best practice.
* Develop targeted training in key areas such as safeguarding, finance, accountability and leadership, ensuring the offer is accessible, impactful and responsive to need to build strong, confident and effective governing bodies.
Benefits
* Lead and shape a high-impact governance service at a system level
* Combine operational leadership with strategic influence
* Work closely with senior leaders and system partners across education
* Make a tangible difference to governance quality and school outcomes
* Help embed a coherent, high-quality model of school improvement and assurance
Disability Confident
A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer. It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people. For more details please go to .
Flexible Working
We are open to discussions about flexible working, which can include flexi-time, part time working, jobsharing, nine-day fortnights and annualised hours, depending on the requirements of the role and the service.
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