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Job Opportunity: Associate Director - Planning and Governance:Job description:Job location: Swindon, Hybrid Hours: Full time or Part time (minimum 0.8 FTE) Context Responsible leading the development and continuous improvement of a strong governance framework across AHRC; ensuring that AHRC receives high quality and timely support, reporting, decision making, information and advice; establishing robust and efficient procedures and processes to ensure the smooth functioning of AHRC; providing assurance to the Senior leadership abilities Team and AHRC Council; leading on the maintenance of a continuous improvement culture across the organisation and supporting AHRC to transform its practices to ensure the effective and accountable management in the distribution of our funding; providing leadership abilities on equality, diversity and inclusion and the embedding of EDI all over all our processes and policy application. Responsibilities Governance: » Ensure AHRC has robust governance and decision-making arrangements in line with best practice, providing high-quality reporting, advice and guidance to colleagues on all AHRC governance matters » Champion, embed and deliver effective risk and issue management. » supervise AHRC's assurance activities, ensuring that robust assurance and internal control systems are implemented Operations and Business Change: » Lead the development and maintenance of a business continuity plan for AHRC working with UKRI BCM function » Lead on creating new/ improving current operations for optimized efficiency and productivity. » Lead on the introduction of changes driven by the UKRI Operating Model programme so they land prosperously across AHRC. Planning: » Lead the development of operational plans, the oversight of strategic and operational performance management, and reporting progress in line with the agreed Delivery Plan. » supervise the prosperous operation and improvement of the AHRC quarterly business review process. » supervise the management staff resource requirements, deploying staffing to support prosperous delivery of AHRC's mission and objectives Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: » Lead on embedding EDI in our approach to the design, assessment, and evaluation of funding opportunities. » Lead on maturing our approach to becoming a learning organisation for EDI. » Build trust with our communities, to be held accountable to the intentions of our EDI work. leadership abilities: » Input to strategic decision making as part of the AHRC Executive Chair's Directors Group and support staff across AHRC. » Lead and inspire a diverse team to deliver strategically focused planning and governance activities practice » practice of leading and improvinggovernance, decision making and risk management processes and functions on behalf of an Executive leadership abilities team » capability to deal with problems, plan and manage multiple challenges through prioritisation and delegation » practice of planning and delivering business plans, projects and business change at pace » practice of working at a senior level with diverse internal and external stakeholders » practice of developing high performing teams to deliver high-quality and resilient business-as-usual operations » practice of building effective cross functional working relationships Additional information ??? Developing talent:??? We are committed to developing employees in their functions all over their career. Learning and development plans enable employees to continue their professional development through training and development opportunities such as e-learning, classroom training and on-the-job practices. We encourage our employees to share their learning across teams and organisations.? Benefits:??? UKRI can offer the prosperous candidate: - Flexible Working????? - 30 days annual leave + Public Holidays????? - Access to Civil Service Pension Scheme?????? - Various everyday discounts through our dedicated provider For more information and to apply, please visit our Careers Pages. Skills:
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