Description The Service & Team: You will be part of the Assets, Capital and Commercial Services team within the Customer and Support Services directorate. This dynamic team is dedicated to managing the Council's assets and investments, ensuring they align with the strategic priorities of Cornwall Council. The team works collaboratively across various departments and with external stakeholders to deliver high-quality services and support the Council's governance and investment programmes. You will work closely with the Shareholder Specialist and other senior officers to ensure effective governance and performance reporting. Key Responsibilities of the Role: Implementing shareholder governance around the delivery of Council-owned entity business plans. Providing support for Shareholder/Owner Boards, Partnership Boards, and IPAG, including reporting to CDT and Cabinet. Administering formal and informal meetings, including taking robust minutes and maintaining action logs. Supporting the development of agendas and reporting packs for Board meetings. Ensuring compliance with Council policies on information security, safeguarding, equality and diversity, customer experience, and health and safety. This position will be subject to a basic criminal record disclosure check. Working Pattern: The position is 37 hours a week. Remote working in the majority with a requirement for office working as required. What you’ll need to succeed: Education: Degree level or equivalent professional qualification or experience in similar role. Skills: Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, ability to communicate complex issues to senior audiences, and high-level experience with Microsoft Word and Excel. Experience: Significant understanding of financial documents to inform commercial decisions, substantial ability to manage, negotiate, and communicate with various stakeholders, and proven ability to manage complex competing priorities in a high-pressure work environment. Attributes: Tenacity, drive, proactivity, organisational skills, and the ability to engage effectively with senior Council and Council-owned entity Officers and Executives. Please read the role profile for the full details of this role attached below in this advert What you’ll get in return: Cornwall Council’s ambition is to be an employer of choice, a high performing Council and a learning organisation. We commit to providing a reward and benefits package to attract, motivate and reward our employees. We offer a range of flexible working options to our staff. This helps provide our employees with a greater work/life balance. Whilst still ensuring that service needs are met. Our core employee rewards and benefits include: · a competitive salary. · a defined benefit pension scheme, based on your career average earnings. This includes the option for extra voluntary contributions · a generous annual leave entitlement with the potential to purchase additional leave. · A national award-winning employee health and wellbeing programme · Employee benefits scheme giving employees access to a wide range of discounts to local and national goods and services. Additional Information: Please note, we are unable to offer sponsorship for this role The full role profile is attached here. We recommend saving a copy of this to refer to if you are invited to an interview. For more information or an informal chat about the role please contact Lynsey Dennis - lynsey.dennis@cornwall.gov.uk Application Process Please attach a supporting statement to your application, you can add your Education & Qualifications details manually using the application form timeline or you can upload your CV. Remember to demonstrate why you are suitable against each of the points marked as ‘Application’ on the Role Profile using examples from your experience or transferable skills. This might be through qualifications or descriptive examples from your work / personal experience, which clearly illustrates what you did and the effect it had. Guidance on how to complete your application can be found here – The application process. Please note that applications cannot be edited after they have been submitted, please contact careers@cornwall.gov.uk if you have any queries or require assistance with your application. Existing employees must apply using their Cornwall Council email address through the Opportunity Marketplace on Oracle.