Head of Corporate Affairs (Company Secretary)

Governance Professional

• Lead on all matters relating to governance across the Angling Trust, Fish Legal and the Fisheries Conservation Trust group.
• Maintain compliance with the Code for Sports Governance, the Charity Governance Code and other relevant frameworks.
• Own organisational risk management, including maintaining risk registers and leading periodic reviews.
• Build relationships that support non executive directors, senior management and colleagues across the organisations.
• Work with colleagues across the group to influence a culture of good governance.
• Act as Company Secretary.

Qualifications & Experience

• Governance professional with experience within prescribed governance frameworks.
• Personable, flexible, with excellent interpersonal skills and a 'can do' attitude.
• Self motivated, organised, able to manage a varied workload and pivot with changing priorities.
• Owner of continuous professional development, with support and mentoring available.
• Proven track record of implementing the Code for Sports Governance or the Charity Governance Code.
• Recognised governance qualification.
• Experience working across organisations and teams to facilitate continuous improvement and change.
• Experience working with boards and committees.
• Line management experience in a hybrid working environment.

Parliamentary Officer

• Parliamentary engagement and monitoring.
• Build and maintain effective working relationships with Ministers, MPs, Peers, parliamentary staff and relevant All Party Parliamentary Groups (APPGs).
• Draft high quality parliamentary briefings for MPs and Peers on freshwater and marine issues affecting recreational angling with support from the wider Campaigns team.
• Work closely with policy leads across freshwater and marine to translate technical and policy detail into accessible and persuasive parliamentary material.
• Act as a key link between the Campaigns & Policy team and parliamentary stakeholders.

Qualifications & Experience (Parliamentary Officer)

• Demonstrable understanding of the UK parliamentary system and how to influence decision making within it.
• Experience producing clear, accurate and persuasive briefings for political or public policy audiences.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, translating complex policy and technical issues into accessible language.
• Ability to monitor, analyse and summarise parliamentary activity and policy developments.
• Excellent organisational skills and ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines.
• Experience working in Parliament, for a political organisation, membership body, NGO or public affairs environment.
• Knowledge of environmental, fisheries, water, access to nature or rural policy.
• Understanding of recreational angling, fisheries management or wider environmental and conservation policy.

Salary & Contract (Parliamentary Officer)

• Salary £30,000 - £35,000 per annum pro rata, dependent on experience.
• 24 months fixed term contract, potentially extendable or convertible to permanent role with the right funding framework.
• Remote role with regular travel nationwide (occasional overnight stays, as required).
• Flexible working across the week - will consider less than FT requests (minimum 30 hours) (some evening or weekend work, as required).
• Pro rate of 25 days annual leave (plus public holidays).
• Laptop and telephone as well as any mileage, expenses, and TOIL.

Training Officer

• Lead development of the central training proposition, delivered consistently across the online learning portal.
• Use in house course authoring tool to design, build, and publish digital learning modules, courses and structured pathways.
• Act as key point of contact with the online learning platform, fostering strong partnerships that support training development.
• Convert scripts, outlines and raw content created by subject matter specialists into clear, accessible, high quality training resources.
• Ensure all courses reflect a unified organisational voice and remain fully aligned with policies, codes of conduct, safeguarding requirements and environmental standards.
• Work closely with internal experts to translate technical environmental, coaching and charity based knowledge into user friendly learning.
• Maintain consistency of tone, structure, style and quality across all training materials.
• Manage training content pipelines, production workflows and version control.
• Develop assessments, quizzes, tasks and interactive digital elements to support effective learning.
• Review learner data, feedback and analytics to enhance the training offer.
• Provide occasional guidance to colleagues, tutors, clubs and volunteers on using the online portal.

Qualifications & Experience (Training Officer)

• Experienced in training design, digital learning development, instructional design or building structured learning content.
• Enjoy converting technical or specialist knowledge into accessible training.
• Confident shaping scripts, organising content and creating structured digital learning experiences.
• Strong writer and communicator with excellent attention to detail.
• Can maintain consistent standards, ensuring training reflects organisational policies and messaging.
• Proactive, organised, self motivated and comfortable balancing multiple projects.
• Collaborates well with experts across different teams and disciplines.
• Experience designing training in environmental, conservation, charity or community focused contexts.
• Experience using course authoring tools for online learning platforms.
• Experience managing training workflows, version control or content production pipelines.
• Understanding of instructional design principles or learning theory.
• Knowledge of angling or a personal interest in the sport.
• Experience working with safeguarding, codes of conduct or compliance based training.

We believe a diversity of backgrounds, experience and opinions builds the strongest team, so we encourage people from under represented groups to apply. We are members of the Sporting Equals Charter and are actively participating in the Sport England sponsored Inclusive Employers development programme.

Please only apply if you have the right to work in the UK and meet the specific travel or vehicle requirements specified in each role.

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