Assistant Manager - Governance Office

Assistant Manager - Governance Office

Closing Date: 12/04/2026 at 23:59

Interviews will take place week commencing 27/04/2026

A bit about the role…

You will be an integral member of the Governance Office, supporting the Company Secretary to ensure governance activity is delivered consistently and reliably, enabling confident and timely executive decision‑making.

Your role will focus on co-ordinating and operationally delivering the governance support function, ensuring effective planning, preparation, and quality assurance of governance activities across the directorate. You will provide authoritative guidance on governance processes, oversee the end-to-end production and accuracy of governance outputs, and play a key part in ensuring the smooth running of key decision-making forums through proactive co-ordination and strong relationships with Board and Committee members, senior stakeholders, and wider colleagues.

You will work as part of an experienced Governance Office team, helping to maintain clear processes, share best practice, and ensure efficient and high-quality support for all governance activities.

A bit about you…

You are an organised and proactive governance professional with experience providing high-quality operational and administrative support in a complex organisation. You are confident coordinating multi-step governance processes, managing competing priorities, and delivering accurate outputs on time.

You thrive in building strong working relationships with senior stakeholders, including Board Members, Executive Directors, and wider colleagues, ensuring clear communication and reliable support. You have a sound understanding of governance operations, meeting cycles, and procedural requirements, and are able to interpret and explain these processes to others effectively.

You are skilled at identifying opportunities for continuous improvement, embracing emerging technologies, and maintaining robust administrative systems. You can work independently when required, while contributing collaboratively to a high-performing team, supporting the smooth functioning of governance forums and decision-making processes.

Ultimately, you are resilient, professional, and highly organised, ensuring that the Governance Office delivers a first-class service to the Company Secretary, the Board, and the wider organisation.

Who are we?

We are the Government’s national housing agency. Our role is to accelerate the pace of housebuilding across the country, particularly in areas where there are the most serious affordability issues – meaning people are struggling to find homes.

We have the appetite, influence, expertise and resources to drive positive market change and meet the Government’s ambition to deliver 300,000 new homes a year, helping create great places to live. 

Within the next few years, we will have invested over £27 billion across our programmes. We’re building a different kind of public service - join us to help make this happen.

We would encourage all applicants to apply as soon as possible as we may close vacancies early should we receive a high number of applications. We also encourage you to apply using the full application option as opposed to quick apply, this is especially important if you would like to indicate to us that you would like to be considered under the disability confident scheme.

If your application is shortlisted to interview, we will require you to provide proof of your right to work in the UK at that stage.

Homes England are a geographically diverse community. We are all hybrid working at the moment spending 50% of our time working from home and 50% at our offices which are spread across England. The wellbeing of our colleagues remains one of our top priorities.

What we offer...

We understand how important life is outside of work so, as well as competitive salary and pension and 33 days annual leave, we are totally committed to flexible working. We’ll support you, wherever possible, so that you don’t miss out on what truly matters to you.

If you do ever need a little bit of extra help we have a great employee assistance programme, financial well-being support and access to loads of great discounts with leading high street names.

Our range of network groups are also there to support you to truly be yourself at work and play a key role in helping shape our future.

If you are a member of a professional body, we’ll pay for your membership and once you get your top of the range digital kit, you’ll be good to go in one of our great offices.