Governance & Committee Secretary

Up to £31,536 per annum plus a generous benefits package
Permanent, Full Time (37.5 hours per week)
Based Flexible location (ad-hoc travel required)

The Civil Nuclear Constabulary (CNC) is an armed police service that’s dedicated to the nuclear industry. Our vision is to be recognised as a provider of a world-class service for the protection of nuclear material and facilities. Given the critical nature of our work, it’s vital that we recruit skilled and committed professionals to our high-performing team. As Board and Committee Secretary you’ll support the team to provide a professional Executive support service to CNC’s Senior Executive and Police Authority Board Members.

You will have experience of taking professional board level minutes with excellent attention to detail and the ability to deliver to tight timescales and deadlines. You'll have oversight and responsibility of ensuring that actions are recorded, distributed, and updated for future meetings and in a timely manner. With excellent planning abilities and an understanding and knowledge of good governance, you will support the process of corporate meeting planning, agenda setting and development of an annual schedule of forward business to support the meetings.

To be successful in the role you'll be a confident user of Microsoft Office packages including MS Teams, Word, Excel, PowerPoint etc. and have excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to communicate at all levels. You should be able to organise your own workload to meet deadlines and prioritise as required.

Your role will be to help facilitate and co-ordinate the flow of corporate business requirements and delivery of key strategic business decisions and outcomes by delivering a range of complex executive support functions at the highest level for the CNC and the Civil Nuclear Police Authority (CNPA). You will work closely with the CNPA Board and the Board and Committee Manager to initiate, coordinate, and plan meeting dates across the year and ensure that the administration of key, strategic level business and governance meetings are coordinated and professionally delivered. Organisation and interpersonal skills are key in this role. You will take ownership for ensuring that the appropriate records (Minutes, Reports, Policies, Audit Logs, Correspondence etc.) of the Police Authority and Executive are maintained as required by law and made available as requested.

This role has been assessed as suitable for remote working (UK only) but will require travel to our sites across England and Scotland.

As police staff the public expect us to display the highest standards, values and professional qualities at all times. The CNC values and Code of Ethics applies to all police staff and sets out the principles and standards of behaviour we expect to see, and you are responsible for displaying and delivering these to the highest standards.

Benefits of working for the CNC

27.5 days annual leave (rising by 1 day after 2 years’ service, and 0.5 days ever year thereafter until a total of 32.5 days is reached) plus Bank Holidays
Additional 30 minutes time worked during the week to accrue additional leave of 3 days, which can be used for period between Christmas and New Year
Generous pension scheme (20.7% employers contribution).
Flexi-time working scheme
Bonus scheme – dependent on organisational and personal performance, up to a maximum of 7% of salary
Eligible to join the national Blue Light Card scheme, which offers discounts on a variety of products and services
Enhanced family friendly and wellbeing policies
Cycle to Work scheme

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion are central to the values of our organisation. At CNC we value and embrace the unique experiences, identities and abilities that each of us bring to our roles. We strive to empower everyone to bring their authentic self openly and safely to work.

Through the dedicated commitment of our affinity networks, ED&I team and wider HR departments, we are on a journey to embed our ED&I commitments, ensuring the CNC is an employer of choice; where everyone feels included.

Please review the video links below which will give you an overview of the vetting process that you will be required to go through if you are successful in your application to join the CNC:

Vetting: An Overview - https://youtu.be/lRit8RA7Zpo
Vetting and Finances - https://youtu.be/JmZP7r-9MEE
Vetting and Life Experiences - https://youtu.be/jVPHvgpB8nc