Job Description

About The Role

Are you ready to lead on governance that inspires trust, strengthens integrity, and empowers strategic futures?

As a Group Director of Governance you will be enabling our Governing Body to discharge their duties to the highest standards. The role will facilitate effective working between governors and senior leaders to support the Group to pursue our Mission and achieve our Strategic Plan in line with our values. The role will also be responsible for overseeing the smooth operation of the Local Boards of our six Colleges and EKC Training business unit, ensuring that the Group overall identifies and responds to the needs of our local communities.

As a senior post holder, you will work closely with the Chief Executive Officer and the Chair, ensuring that the Governance of the Group is highly effective, providing support and independent guidance to the Governing Body and its Committees on statutory, constitutional and procedural matters. The role will support the Governing Body to assess that it has the right mix of skills, knowledge and experience, whilst being representative of the communities we serve. This includes responsibility for the recruitment process for new governors and ensuring that there are robust and focused development programmes in place.

Whilst we are advertising the role as 30 hours per week (4 full days), we would consider the equivalent of 3 days per week for a candidate with the right knowledge, skills and experience. (Please note the salary will be pro-rated accordingly depending on hours per week worked).

The role will ideally be based in Broadstairs but would require travel across our sites when needed.

Salary (for 30 hours): 55,565 per year

Working at the Group is an extremely rewarding role with excellent benefits.

Generous Annual Leave -

38 days FTE per annum

Competitive Pension Scheme

- 18% employer contribution

Learning and Development Opportunities

- 3-4 annual paid group development days and bespoke programmes e.g. Senior Leadership Development Programme and strong internal progression (1 in 3 roles are filled by internal progression)

Culture and Recognition

- Being part of Community Days, an Annual Staff Celebration Day, and an eco-friendly organisation dedicated to reaching net-zero by 2030

Wellbeing

and Health Support

- Generous sick pay, health checks, free flu jabs, free eye tests, glasses vouchers, flexible support for medical appointments and return-to-work support

Exclusive Discounts & Perks

- Inc. restaurant, grocery, retail and holidays discounts as well as car leasing and tech purchasing schemes

Flexible Personal Leave

- Time off for your child's first day at nursery, school or college. As well as time off for moving home and for interviews

About You

You will have a good and demonstrable understanding of the legal and regulatory frameworks governing education, including the principles of Standards in Public Life You will be a highly effective communicator who is able to engage at Board level You will have experience of advising at board level on matters of corporate governance and public responsibilities You will be educated to degree level or equivalent

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About Us

Outstanding Ofsted Provider

East Kent Colleges Group is an Ofsted Outstanding rated provider. It is proud to be the first General Further Education college organisation in the country to have received the Outstanding grade against each of the strands under the new Ofsted inspection framework. An inclusive provider, our colleagues place our students and the communities we serve at the heart of everything they do across EKC Group and this is illustrated in our 'Strong' skills grading by Ofsted.

Commitment to Safeguarding

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and we ensure that all staff are aware of their responsibilities for upholding these principles.



As a designated establishment, we are exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and therefore have an obligation to carry out checks to ensure that staff are suitable to work with children and vulnerable adults. These checks include conviction/caution self-declaration, Enhanced DBS check and obtaining sufficient referencing.



It is a criminal offence to apply for a post which involves engaging in regulated activity relevant to children if you are barred from doing so.



If you are successful in being shortlisted to interview, your suitability to work with children and vulnerable adults will be explored as part of the interview process.

Commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

East Kent Colleges Group is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all members of our communities. We are particularly keen to increase the diversity of our staff body and encourage applications from candidates where there is underrepresentation in our workforce.



We are proud to hold the

Positive About Disability Award

and are a

Disability Confident Employer

. This confirms our commitment to interviewing all applicants who declare that they have a disability and who meet the essential criteria outlined in the person specification. With any successful candidate, we will explore any reasonable adjustments to a role due to a health needs or disability.



Similarly, we have a commitment to

Care Leavers (Care Covenant Pledge)

and to current or previous

Armed Forces personnel (Armed Forces Covenant Pledge)

with a commitment to interview applicants who meet the positions essential criteria and who have declared this on their application.



We welcome applications from anyone wishing to work flexibly and those considering a return to work from a career break.



We do not engage with agencies for permanent staff and have an in-house recruitment team.