Board Support – Salary circa £48000 

Are you a highly organised individual with an interest in progressing a career in Corporate Governance? If the answer is yes, we would love to hear from you! We have an excellent opportunity for a Board Support professional to join our Corporate Governance Function. This is an exciting and dynamic role where you will be at the heart of our board management, ensuring high standards are maintained across all board activities. 

A bit about the job: 

As the Board Support (reporting to Board Liaison Manager), you will be responsible for providing timely and accurate board support services. Your role will work collaboratively in a wider team of board support, and involves scheduling board and committee meetings, creating draft meeting agendas, managing directors' fees, travel arrangements, and expenses for non-executive directors (NEDs), and maintaining meeting attendance records, action logs and forward business schedules. 

You will also be the first point of contact for arranging meetings with NEDs and maintaining engagement and time records as applicable and will support on the induction of new NEDs. Additionally, you will support the framework for Board and Committee meetings, stakeholder engagement meetings, and governance forward planning. You will have the opportunity to obtain professional qualifications to become a qualified company secretary. 

Skills and experience we’re looking for: 

Strong and credible experience in engaging and managing senior stakeholders. Ideally experience in a corporate secretarial or governance team. Exceptional organisational skills, with the ability to balance multiple priorities and meet deadlines. Strong networking and relationship management skills. Working knowledge of Diligent Board books (or equivalent board portal) preferred. 

What you’ll get for this role: 

Our purpose - with you today, for a better tomorrow – is a promise we make to our colleagues too.  And one of the ways we live up to that promise is by investing in you.  We have so much to offer when it comes to being an Aviva colleague.  

Starting salary circa £48000 (depending on location, skills, experience, and qualifications) Bonus opportunity - 8%  of annual salary Actual amount depends on your performance and Aviva’s. Generous pension scheme - Aviva will contribute up to 14%, depending on what you put in. 29 days holidays plus bank holidays, and you can choose to buy or sell up to 5 days Make your money go further - Up to 40% discount on Aviva products, and other retailer discounts Up to £1,200 of free Aviva shares per year through our Matching Share Plan and share in the success of Aviva with our Save As You Earn scheme Brilliantly supportive policies including parental and carer’s leave  Flexible benefits to suit you, including sustainability options such as cycle to work  Make a difference, be part of our Aviva Communities and use your 3 paid volunteering days to help others We take your wellbeing seriously with lots of support and tools 

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Aviva is for everyone: 

We’re inclusive and welcome everyone – we want applications from all backgrounds and experiences. Excited but not sure you tick every box? Even if you don’t, we would still encourage you to apply. We also consider all forms of flexible working, including part time and job shares. 

We flex locations, hours and working patterns to suit our customers, business, and you. Most of our people are smart working – spending around 50% of their time in our offices every week - combining the benefits of flexibility, with time together with colleagues. 

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We interview every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the job. Once you’ve applied, please send us an email stating that you have a disclosed disability, and we’ll interview you. 

We’d love it if you could submit your application online. If you require an alternative method of applying, please send an email to vivien.gergaly@aviva.com