About This Role The Sir John Brunner Foundation seeks to appoint a Governance Officer to join the central team, to assist the Head of Governance in providing a professional, effective and consistent governance service across the Sir John Brunner Foundation and its academies and provide administrative support to the executive leadership team. This is an exciting time to be joining our Multi Academy Trust, of three High Schools and a Sixth Form College, which collectively educates over 4300 children, and employs over 450 professionals. Each academy within the Foundation operates at the heart of its local community. The Foundation’s offices are based at Sir John Deane’s Sixth Form College which is a modern purpose-built campus set in beautiful grounds. The other Academies, The County High School, Leftwich; Middlewich High School and The Macclesfield Academy are all based within Cheshire. To be successful in post you will have previous experience of working in a clerical or administrative role and be able to take meeting notes, accurately and efficiently. Experience of clerking or acting as a secretary to committees or boards would be desirable. You must be competent at using MS Office, have strong customer service skills and be highly organised and methodical. An excellent communicator, you must be able to develop and maintain effective working relationships with Academies, governors, leadership teams, colleagues and trustees. If you have the enthusiasm, experience and skills to succeed please view the job description and person specification. To apply, please complete the application form, detailing how you meet the requirements of the post. Applications should be submitted no later than 9am on Monday 10th March Interviews are scheduled for Thursday 13th March. You are encouraged to submit an early application, as the Foundation may decide to close the advert early. Prospective candidates are invited to request a tour of one or more of our academies in advance of the interviews, this may be arranged by contacting humanresourcessjbf.org.uk