Corporate Governance and Transparency Manager
Government Internal Audit Agency
Apply before 11:55 pm on Monday 11th November 2024
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Birmingham, Blackpool, Bootle, Glasgow, Leeds, Newcastle and Swansea
GIAA has an expectation for all colleagues to attend their local workplace for a minimum of 60% of their working week. This enables all our people to benefit from the positivity and enhanced wellbeing of spending time with colleagues and teammates and to combine this with individual working when this is most beneficial for specific activities. Workplace attendance is usually your local GIAA office location and can also include time spent attending our customers' sites.
For people with a part-time or compressed hours working pattern our expectation for 60% workplace attendance would be applied on a pro-rata basis.
Existing GIAA employees appointed into this new role will be allowed to remain at their current workplace location.
Please note, relocation costs will not be reimbursed with this appointment.
About the job
Job summary
About the Government Internal Audit Agency
We are an executive agency of His Majesty’s Treasury (HM Treasury), established in April 2015 to improve the quality of internal audit provided to central government.
Most of the Agency’s people are professionally qualified internal auditors, accountants or investigators.
Many are also specialists in areas including counter fraud, project management, digital and commercial audit.
We lead both the Government Internal Audit Profession and the Government Internal Audit Function.
Our workforce brings with it a unique depth of experience gained in a wide range of government departments, related bodies and other sectors.
This enables us to offer a high-quality service based on cross-government insight and a strong understanding of our customers’ business.
In GIAA, we aim to be a great place to work and to ensure that we have the capability and capacity to make even more of a significant contribution to achieving A Brilliant Civil Service over the coming years.
Our initial focus was on becoming “a single audit practice”. We are now focused on taking GIAA to the next level so we can provide better insights and better outcomes for government.
Job description
This is an exciting opportunity to join small and busy governance team, based within the Corporate Services division. The team provides a wide range of corporate governance services, including overseeing the effective system of governance, risk management and internal control within the Government Internal Audit Agency, leading on planning and reporting, producing the Agency’s Corporate Plan and its Annual Report and Accounts, along with oversight of the Agency’s correspondence system.
This is a pivotal role within the team with responsibility for leading on matters relating to corporate governance and correspondence. This is a high-profile role across the Agency working side by side with senior colleagues to deliver a seamless, high-quality internal governance function.
The post holder will be the Agency’s lead on propriety and ethics, correspondence handling, and transparency reporting. The post holder will create, maintain, and provide expert advice and guidance to colleagues across the Agency on the application of policies, including close working with Directors and Non-Executive Board Members.
The successful candidate will need to be highly organised, with strong delivery and excellent communication skills. You must be able to handle information sensitively and respect confidentiality and privacy with an ability to engage effectively with a wide range of colleagues.
Responsibilities:
- Lead responsibility to promote the highest standards of integrity and impartiality within GIAA. This includes management of the declaration system and policy for managing conflicts of interest and gifts and hospitality; conducting second line assurance checks; producing reports for Executive and Board committees; continuously improving guidance, systems and processes.
- Ensure the timely handling of external of external correspondence, including Freedom of Information Act (FOI) requests, Data Subject Access Requests, complaints and general correspondence. To also lead on the development of policy regarding correspondence matters to ensure GIAA practices are aligned with the expectations of the Information Commissioners Office and learns from recent decision notices.
- Oversee the external reporting processes to ensure they comply with the government’s transparency agenda. Working closely with colleagues across the Agency to collect and publish information and to maintain the Agency’s Publication Scheme.
- Line management of the Governance Support Officer (Executive Officer).
- Ensuring that all the governance procedures and policies are fit for purpose, up to date and accessible to all colleagues.
- Contributing towards the wider team efforts to deliver effective governance advice and support to Directors, non-executive Board members and colleagues.
Person specification
You will be required to write a statement of suitability of up to 750 words setting out how your skills and experience meet the following criteria:
- Experience of professionally handling and responding to external correspondence (such as complaints and/or freedom of information requests) according to required timescales and to high standards.
- Excellent planning and organisational skills to ensure delivery to meet deadlines. This will be evidenced by prior experience of managing reactive and proactive workloads where it has been necessary to prioritising effectively, and to adapt and be resilient to evolving requirements.
- A confident decision maker, exercising good judgement and with experience of providing high quality advice to a wide range of colleagues, including senior stakeholders.
- Taking the initiative to lead on areas of responsibility with a positive approach to solving problems. This will be evidenced with a strong track record of delivering good administrative processes and/or reviewing processes to deliver improvements or efficiencies.
- The highest level of personal integrity and discretion with experience of handling sensitive information.
- Excellent communication skills and an ability to clearly articulate complex information, both verbally and in writing, to a variety of audiences.
- A strong team player, with a proven ability to successfully work with others to deliver key cross-organisational projects.
Further guidance on how to complete your statement can be found within the application form on Civil Service Jobs
Benefits
- Competitive salaries and in-year rewards
- Flexible working
- A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%
- Discount on big brands
- Volunteering days
- Season Ticket Loan and Cycle to Work Schemes
- Free eyesight tests
- Family-friendly HR policies
- 25 days’ annual leave increasing by one day per year of service to 30 days after 5 years’ service
- Geographically based Agency
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Recruitment Timeline
- Closing date: 11 November 2024
- Shortlisting: 18 November 2024
- Interviews: 27 & 28 November 2024
This timeline is indicative and may be subject to change. We will inform you if there is a substantial change to the recruitment timeline.
If your contact details change at any time during the selection process, please ensure you update your Civil Service Jobs profile.
Please note that only applications submitted through Civil Service Jobs will be accepted.
Eligibility Statement
A candidate is not eligible to apply for a role in the Civil Service if the application is made within a 5 year period following a dismissal for carrying out internal fraud against government. Checks will be performed as part of pre-employment checks in line with this.
Everyone working with government assets must complete Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) checks. Additionally, individuals appointed to the Treasury group will be subject to National Security Vetting. The level of security vetting required for this role is Security Check (SC)
To allow for meaningful checks to be carried out, applicants will need to have lived in the UK for at least 3 out of the past 5 years. In exceptional circumstances, a lack of residency would not be a bar to security clearance however the Department will need to consider eligibility on a case by case basis once the advert closing date has passed.
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
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We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).
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Contact point for applicants
Job contact :
- Name : Katie Woodhouse
- Email : GIAARecruitment@GIAA.gov.uk
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- Email : giaarecruitment@giaa.gov.uk
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