Job Description

This will be a 12 Month Fixed Term Contract to cover Maternity Leave

This role  offers a unique opportunity to being involved in the most significant regulatory decisions; today’s decisions can be tomorrow’s headline business news. 

The role is busy and demanding, often working to short deadlines. 

On the Secretariat side, the regular tasks you will get involved with throughout the committee cycle include:

• Challenge of papers to be presented to the committees
• Ensuring coordinated decision-making across committees (right committee first time)
• Liaising with the Chairs (and their offices), planning agendas and taking minutes
• Promoting high standards of governance, both within the  committees but also across the PRA
• Developing an active network, including working closely with private offices
• Line management
• Running committee meetings, developing knowledge of our corporate memory to advise the members on issues such as precedents in decision-making
• Writing minutes and using judgement to provide concise summaries of decisions to wider audiences, as required
• Influencing the strategic direction of the committees, and monitoring their effectiveness
• Briefing chairpersons (PRA Executive and senior external stakeholders)
• Agenda management

You may also have an opportunity to be involved in the complaints handling process, investigate individual complaints, and where appropriate identify remedies, such as improvements to the PRA and/or Bank’s practices, policies or procedures. You could also contribute to managing important relationships with our counterparts at the FCA and the Office of the Complaints Commissioner.

In addition to the responsibilities of the Governance Function there will be opportunities to get involved in a variety of tasks within the wider division, including supporting the PRA Risk and Supervisory Controls teams.

This is a people management role. You will be responsible for day to day management of the team and for defining roles and responsibilities. You will develop your team through sharing information effectively, coaching and communicating a clear vision to ensure that your staff are productive, engaged and motivated to deliver the area's aims. This will include setting clear goals and smart stretching objectives that are aligned to those of the team, division and directorate. You will also be responsible for managing all staff-related matters that may arise including performance, absence and sickness.

Number of direct reports: 2 

Role Requirements
Essential Criteria

• Ability to be discreet when handling large volumes of confidential, market or staff sensitive information
• Self-starting, strategic problem solver, able to work without close oversight
• Organisational and teamwork abilities to be part of an inclusive and effective team that handles competing priorities and works in a dynamic, fluid and high pressure environment
• Ability to remain calm under pressure and use judgement to make quick decisions when issues arise
• Excellent diplomatic and interpersonal skills, as well as sensitivity and strong stakeholder management skills
• Enthusiasm, resilience and high motivation
• Excellent oral and written communication skills. You will need to be able to distil complex issues and communicate them quickly and effectively
• An inquisitive nature, with an eye for the small details which others may miss
• Good understanding about how all parts of the PRA operate (or be willing to learn quickly)
• Interest in keeping fully abreast of all activities within the PRA, the wider Bank and industry, to know how they may affect the business of the committees