# Corporate Governance and Transparency Manager

**Company**: Government Internal Audit Agency
**Location**: Birmingham, West Midlands
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Salary**: GBP 50,595 - 63,075 per year
**Category**: Policy & Public Affairs
**Industry**: Consulting

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## Description

The Government Internal Audit Agency (GIAA) is seeking a Corporate Governance and Transparency Manager. This role offers a strong platform for career progression within the Agency and the wider civil service, providing opportunities to develop leadership, stakeholder engagement and strategic relationship management skills across government.

The Corporate Governance and Transparency Manager holds a pivotal position within the Governance team and across the Agency. Working closely with senior colleagues, you will ensure the seamless delivery of a high-quality internal governance function. You will serve as the Agency’s lead on propriety, ethics, correspondence handling, and transparency reporting.

Key responsibilities:

- Deliver high-quality corporate governance aligned with best practice, ensuring accountability, transparency, and integrity across the Agency

- Develop, maintain, and continuously improve governance policies, procedures, and frameworks

- Promote compliance with corporate governance policies and ethical standards

- Oversee transparency and information governance requirements

- Lead the development and continuous improvement of correspondence management policies and procedures

- Manage external correspondence processes, including Freedom of Information requests and Data Subject Access Requests

- Manage the Agency's whistleblowing arrangements

- Support effective organisational decision making by managing and delivering high-quality committee secretary services

- Provide governance advice and guidance to Directors, Board members, and colleagues

- Manage and/or contribute to governance projects and complex work programmes

Person specification:

- Strong knowledge of relevant legislation, including the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act 2000 and the General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR)

- Proven experience in managing and responding to external correspondence

- Experience servicing senior governance committees

- Ability to identify, assess, and mitigate risks

- Excellent planning and organisational skills

- Collaborative, with a proven ability to work with stakeholders and teams to achieve shared goals

- A confident decision maker, exercising good judgement

- Task management experience, including supporting and developing team members

The successful candidate will be required to undergo a basic (or equivalent) criminal record check and meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check.

Salary: GBP 50,595 - 63,075 per year

## Skills

### Required
- Freedom of Information (FOI) Act 2000
- General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR)
- Data Protection Act 2018
- Data (Use and Access) Act 2025
- Information governance
- Risk management
- Governance

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