Nuclear Waste Services has a vacancy for an experienced Deputy Company Secretary, to lead and develop the ambitious but friendly Company Secretariat team within Nuclear Waste Services, on behalf of our General Counsel/Company Secretary.
You will work closely with a Board that generates an open and welcoming culture supporting the business to achieve it's vision and purpose of making nuclear waste permanently safe, sooner. This would suit someone with a passion for governance, an excellent collaborator who works well with people from all levels of the business.
Reporting to NWS’s General Counsel/Company Secretary, this position would be an integral part of the Legal & Co Sec function, taking a senior position with NWS. The Deputy would have line management responsibility for the Assistant Company Secretary and Board assistant and would lead on delivering improvements to NWS’s governance.
Company Secretarial – Responsible for:
- The management of NWS Board and committee meetings and Executive meetings processes (scheduling, agenda, advice on paper content, communicating meeting outputs and drafting of minutes)
- Monitoring and follow up of actions taken during Board meetings
- Effective forward planning of Board/Executive meetings
- Co-ordination and completion of statutory filings at Companies House and completion of company books and other records
- Communications with NWS Board members between meetings and oversight of logistics arrangements
- Ensuring proper processes are followed in connection with the appointment of new directors
- Board members induction and training
- Terms of reference for NWS Board and committees and keeping them under regular review
- Collaboration with other Company Secretarial teams across the NDA Group
Corporate Governance – Responsible for:
- Operating and maintaining the Corporate governance framework within NWS to help directors discharge their statutory duties in line with good industry practice (and including benchmarking with external organisations)
- Advising chairs and members on points of law and governance
- Board/Executive effectiveness review
- Monitoring and advising on the efficacy of implementation of policies and procedures to facilitate continual policy improvement
- Develop board reports and make recommendations based on specialist knowledge and best practice
- Strong technical knowledge and ability to interpret, communicate and apply corporate law
- Degree (legal preferred but not essential)
- CGI Qualified or Part-Qualified
- Excellent working knowledge of Companies Act 2006 and the UK Corporate Code
- Strong experience of working within a Company Secretariat position
- Line management experience preferred
- Strong knowledge of the principles of best practice in governance and how they apply to the public sector
- Excellent interpersonal, communication and facilitation skills required to develop and maintain constructive working relationships
- The ability to advise senior staff effectively
- Excellent oral and written communication skills, with the ability to demonstrate experience in writing accurate and concise minutes, reports and briefings;
- The ability to assemble and communicate complex information and advice, including the ability to draft company secretarial documents.
