Governance Officer

Salary: £35,116.00 - £45,413.00  per annum

Newcastle University is a great place to work, with excellent benefits. We have a generous holiday package; plus the opportunity to buy more, great pension schemes and a number of health and wellbeing initiatives to support you.

Closing Date:  27 April 2025

About us 

Our IT Service exists to deliver an excellent service for its users, enabling world-class teaching, learning and research at our University.  

We are committed to expanding our knowledge and expertise with a strong focus on the training and development needs of our people. You will shape the future of education and contribute to ground-breaking projects through IT innovation. To find out more about our dynamic customer-focussed teams, visit Working in our IT Service. 

The Role 

Within the Governance and Operations Team of the IT Service, the Governance Officer plays a key role in facilitating and overseeing governance activities. This role ensures robust planning and risk management to support NUIT operations effectively. 

Proven expertise in curating and managing service-wide policies, procedures, and standards, along with a proactive approach to risk management, is essential to enabling the IT service to operate efficiently and securely. 

About you 

We are seeking an IT Governance professional with a broad understanding of IT services and technical environments. To succeed in this role, you should possess: 

• Experience in the curation and management of governance materials (policies, procedures and standards). 

• Practical experience of the management and application of governance processes in an IT context, e.g. COBIT, ITIL. 

• Outstanding influencing and communication skills. 

• Experience of best practice risk management approaches and methodologies. 

If this sounds like you, we invite you to apply by submitting a 2-page CV and a 1-page covering letter. Your application should outline examples where your knowledge, skills, and experiences align with the person specification within  job description, found here. 

The University values hybrid working. This approach is flexible, informal, tailored to each team, and founded on trust. 

If you would like to have a chat about this opportunity contact Lisa Renney, Governance & Operations Manager, at lisa.renney@ncl.ac.uk 

*Strictly No Agencies

Interviews held from week commencing 12 May 2025

Newcastle University is a global University where everyone is treated with dignity and respect.  As a University of Sanctuary, we aim to provide a welcoming place of safety for all, offering opportunities to people fleeing violence and persecution.

We are committed to being a fully inclusive university which actively recruits, supports and retains colleagues from all sectors of society.  We value diversity as well as celebrate, support and thrive on the contributions of all of our employees and the communities they represent.  We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer and encourage applications from individuals who can complement our existing teams, we believe that success is built on having teams whose backgrounds and experiences reflect the diversity of our university and student population.

At Newcastle University we hold a silver Athena Swan award in recognition of our good employment practices for the advancement of gender equality.  We also hold a Race Equality Charter Bronze award in recognition of our work towards tackling race inequality in higher education REC.  We are a Disability Confident employer and will offer an interview to disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the role as part of the offer and interview scheme.

In addition, we are a member of the Euraxess initiative supporting researchers in Europe. 

Requisition ID: 28013

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