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In addition, we offer flexible benefits fund of 15% which is paid on top base salary and is fully pensionable, as well as a range of competitive benefits - check them out in the Benefits section on our website.\nHS2 Ltd endeavours to ensure everyone working for us and with us feels included, thrives and achieves their full potential. In practice, this means we are positive and inclusive about making adjustments, providing flexible working, encouraging our staff networks to flourish and providing personal and professional development opportunities.\nAs a Governance Coordinator at HS2 you will co-ordinate all inputs and outputs to the Land and property governance forums and to ensure they operate effectively enabling them to facilitate proper and timely decision making and thereby supporting timely delivery of the programme\nAbout the role:\nActively promote and embed Equality Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in all your work, and support and comply with all organisational initiatives, policies and procedures on EDI.\nSetting up and creating agendas for Panel meetings \nRunning both Assurance and Approvals Panels\nEnsuring all papers are sent to DfT as required before the panel and signed papers sent after the panels\nAct as the liaison between the Acquisition Case Officers and DfT in Blight and Counter Notice Determinations.\nMust have understanding of the governance process and financial delegation levels to enable you to assure Case Managers and Leads of the steps an Approval must go through in order to be completed and ensure that the correct level of delegation signs off the papers\nEnsuring the Governance Log and Signature Tracker are kept up to date\nMonitoring and organising the L&P Governance inbox\nMaintain the Governance Coordinator Dashboard, providing a single point of reference for any future Governance Coordinators\nKeep the relevant Lead, SPAM and Supplier Rota’s up to date (approx. 3 months in advance)\nTake initiative to lead improvement projects when and where identified\nBe aware of and understand cases that are currently in governance and at what stage they are at\nHave an awareness of any upcoming urgent payments (Full and Final and Advance Payment Requests)\nQuality check papers ahead of Monday Assurance Panels\nCheck for amends made on resubmitted papers and ensure these are captured for Approval’s Panels\nEngage with Area Leads and their teams to provide support where needed - be a single point of contact, responding to queries or requests from teams within a timely manner\nTake accountability for:\nChasing signatures from reviewers after the initial “signatures required” request is sent\nChasing amends from Case Managers\nQuerying if upcoming APRs are ready to come into Governance ~4 weeks before Payment due dates. \nHave an awareness of any upcoming blight determinations and communicating with Case Managers for updates where needed\nAdhere to HS2 Ltd’s Health and Safety policies. \nAbout You:\nSkills:\nDecision making and organisational skills\nAdvance knowledge of Excel and Microsoft Teams\nAbility to multitask and manage conflicting priorities to agreed deadlines\nCommunication skills - including the ability to draft documents concisely, and clearly to support decision making\nAnalysis skills - including distilling information from multiple sources and turning it into clear communications including reports and briefings\nKnowledge:\nKnowledge of the L&P governance and assurance processes \nKnowledge of managing and delivering within the constraints under which public sector arm’s length bodies operate and a good understanding of the nature of central government relationships with HS2 Ltd. \nType of experience:\nExperience of managing stakeholder relationships\nExperience of chairing and facilitating meetings, keeping everyone to the agenda and ensuring actions are recorded and followed up. \nExperience of escalating issues and influencing Senior Leaders to get requests approved\nThe post-holder is expected to behave at all times in a manner consistent with the HS2 values of Safety, Leadership, Integrity and Respect. 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In a further development of our efforts to create a more diverse workforce, your CV will be anonymised and personal information will be removed during the first stage of the application review. This removes bias from the process and makes it even more important that you attach an updated word version of your CV for each new application ensuring you include evidence directly related to the criteria in the job advert. 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