Senior Governance Manager
£80,000 per annum
Bedford
Permanent
Hybrid Working

Ready to make a real difference? Join us at the Money and Pensions Service (MaPS) as our Senior Governance Manager. This is your chance to play a meaningful role in helping people across the UK build stronger financial futures and to do it as part of a supportive, energetic team.

Why This Role Matters

In this role, you’ll have the opportunity to lead and own the development, implementation and continuous improvement of MaPS’ corporate governance framework, ensuring it is robust, proportionate, strategically aligned and consistently embedded across MaPS’ Non-Executive and Executive governance structures. The role will provide senior leadership on governance design, decision-making, accountability and assurance, ensuring MaPS has effective arrangements in place to support organisational delivery, manage risk and meet public sector accountability expectations.

A key priority will be to lead the integration of the National Dashboard Connection Service into MaPS’ governance framework, ensuring that appropriate governance, assurance, compliance and accountability arrangements are established for the Executive, Board and DWP. The role will act as a senior governance adviser to Chairs, the CEO, Executive Team and senior leaders, providing authoritative advice, constructive challenge and practical solutions on complex governance, compliance, regulatory and public sector accountability matters, working closely with MaPS’ legal advisers where required.

The role will provide strategic leadership to the governance team, setting standards for high-quality governance advice, secretariat support and corporate governance practice across MaPS. It will be accountable for ensuring that Board, Committee and Executive governance processes operate effectively, support high-quality decision-making and enable the organisation to demonstrate transparency, accountability and good governance. The postholder will deputise for the Head of Governance and Data Protection as required and will play a key role in shaping the future direction, maturity and impact of the governance function. Shaping work that genuinely improves people’s financial wellbeing.

You’ll join a team that’s passionate, collaborative, and driven by the belief that financial confidence should be something everyone can access.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Lead and be accountable for the continuous improvement of MaPS’ Corporate Governance Framework, ensuring appropriate decision-making processes are in place across the business and that MaPS has a consistent and holistic approach to governance aligned with external best practice.
• Provide senior governance leadership and expert advice to Chairs, Non-Executive Directors, the CEO, Executive Team and senior leaders on governance, decision-making, accountability, compliance and public sector requirements.
• Lead the governance integration of the National Dashboard Connection Service, ensuring that appropriate decision-making, assurance, risk, compliance and accountability mechanisms are embedded and effective.
• Shape and influence governance and approvals arrangements with DWP and other government stakeholders, ensuring MaPS’ decision-making processes are clear, efficient, robust and capable of withstanding external scrutiny.
• Lead the business case governance framework, ensuring business cases are well-governed, evidence-based, appropriately assured and aligned with government approval expectations.
• Provide strategic oversight of Board, Committee, Executive and sub...