AddressOur Client:
This business provides comprehensive services tailored to making a positive difference in the lives of its customers. Your stakeholders are experienced professionals from a broad corporate and commercial background. This employer supports flexible and hybrid working arrangements.
Role Overview:
The Company Secretary is critical in providing efficient secretariat support and advice to the Board and its Committees. This part-time role ensures compliance with Board and Committee activities with policies and procedures, managing statutory obligations, and maintaining accurate company records. The position reports directly to the CEO and Board and represents an excellent opportunity to work on various matters.
Key Responsibilities:
- Prepare agendas for various Committee meetings in consultation with relevant Chairs.
- Collate information, reports and updates from multiple sources and stakeholders.
- Plan and organise meetings, including venues, circulation of agendas, reminders, and relevant documentation.
- Take minutes and action items for all Committee meetings.
- Ensure the organisation is informed of new and proposed legislation affecting governance activities.
- Engage with various stakeholders to progress action items and obtain updates.
- Ensure records are adequately maintained and reports prepared in accordance with the regulator and ensure compliance with strict reporting deadlines.
- Act as the key point of liaison for Council and Committee members.
- Ensuring compliance with all relevant statutory and regulatory compliance, including State and Federal government reporting.
- Manage obligations for critical events such as the AGM.
What you will bring to the role:
You are a highly organised, proactive person with strong attention to detail and accuracy, high-level interpersonal skills, and commitment to quality service delivery. Ideally, you hold a law, business, or finance degree or a Graduate Diploma in Applied Corporate Governance. Alternatively, experience as a senior administrator supporting a Company's Secretarial function would be beneficial. Prior demonstrated experience managing Board and Committee calendars and experience managing key events and activities would be highly regarded.
Key attributes include:
- Outstanding Board meeting management skills, including effective minute-taking.
- Excellent organisational skills, with the ability to manage complex and multi-disciplinary tasks simultaneously and meet deadlines.
- Well-developed advisory, negotiation, and report-writing skills, preferably from corporate roles.
- Ability to handle sensitive/confidential information with discretion.
- Strong communication, collaboration, and stakeholder engagement skills with stakeholders managing projects to achieve outcomes.
- Commitment to staying updated on best practices in corporate governance.
This role will require approximately 3 days per week with some flexible hours as the Board Meetings are held after hours. An annualised salary of circa $150,000 is envisaged for this position.
Lester Blades – Executive Search & Board Advisory, has been retained by our client to assist with this executive recruitment process. We encourage expressions of interest from experienced Governance professionals seeking a new challenge.
Confidential telephone enquiries may be made to Tina Jackson on +61 8 9221 0744. Applications may be made in Word format to ************@lesterblades.com.au quoting Reference LB303074. Please include a cover letter with your application outlining why you believe you have the skills, experience and achievements required for this position.
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Only candidates with valid work rights in Australia can be considered.
ABOUT LESTER BLADES
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