Corporate Governance and Transparency Manager

The Government Internal Audit Agency (GIAA) is driven by its unparalleled access across government to build ‘better insights, better outcomes’ for our clients.

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 Agency’s unique access across the public sector exposes you to different risk and control environments, allowing you to gain insights, apply experience, contribute meaningfully, and continue developing professionally.

The role of Corporate Governance and Transparency Manager is part of the Governance team, which sits within the Corporate Services division. This small but dynamic team provides a wide array of corporate governance services, including managing governance frameworks, risk management processes, and internal controls within the GIAA.

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.

• Deliver high-quality corporate governance aligned with best practice, ensuring accountability, transparency, and integrity across the Agency by developing, maintaining, and continuously improving governance policies, procedures, and frameworks to ensure they are effective, proportionate, and accessible.
• Promote compliance with corporate governance policies and ethical standards, including conflicts of interest, gifts, and hospitality, through assurance checks and by embedding a culture of accountability and transparency.
• Oversee transparency and information governance requirements, including publication schemes and external reporting obligations.
• Lead the development and continuous improvement of correspondence management policies and procedures in line with regulatory and statutory requirements (e.g., UK GDPR, FOIA, Data (Use and Access) Act 2025) and ensuring alignment with organisational policies, Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) expectations, and lessons learned.
• Manage external correspondence processes including Freedom of Information requests, Data Subject Access Requests, complaints, and enquiries.
• Manage the Agency's whistleblowing arrangements, ensuring compliance with organisational policies while maintaining confidentiality and protecting the integrity of the process.
• Support effective organisational decision making by managing and delivering high-quality committee secretary services, preparing and presenting reports, analysis, and recommendations to senior committees. Provide governance advice and guidance to Directors, Board members, and colleagues as required.
• Manage and/or contribute to governance projects and complex work programmes as required. Examples include implementing innovative governance systems and practices, managing Non-Executive Director recruitment, co-ordinating the production of the Annual Report, and co-ordinating governance effectiveness reviews.
• Provide leadership and day-to-day oversight of the Governance Support Officer (Executive Officer), supporting their development and performance.
• Maintain an up-to-date understanding of government, regulatory, legal, political, and technological developments relevant to corporate governance.

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

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This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Strengths, Experience and Technical skills.

Recruitment Timeline

• Closing date: 27 September 2026
• Shortlisting: 02 October 2026
• Interviews: 14 October 2026

This timeline is indicative and may be subject to change. We will inform you if there is a substantial change to the recruitment timeline.

If your contact details change at any time during the selection process, please ensure you update your Civil Service Jobs profile.

Please note that only applications submitted through Civil Service Jobs will be accepted.

Eligibility Statement

A candidate is not eligible to apply for a role in the Civil Service if the application is made within a 5-year period following a dismissal for carrying out internal fraud against government. Checks will be performed as part of pre-employment checks in line with this. Please refer to the Candidate FAQ document attached to the advert for more information.

Everyone working with government assets must complete Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) checks. Additionally, individuals appointed to the Treasury group will be subject to National Security Vetting. The level of security vetting required for this role is Security Check (SC)

To allow for meaningful checks to be carried out, applicants will need to have lived in the UK for at least 3 out of the past 5 years. In exceptional circumstances, for example if you have been working abroad on a government posting, a lack of residency would not be a bar to security clearance however the Department will need to consider eligibility on a case-by-case basis once the advert closing date has passed.

Please read the Vetting Charter for information on what to expect during the vetting process and what will be expected from you. Many areas of your life may be explored during your vetting journey, and it is important that every individual, regardless of their background and experiences, should feel comfortable going through this personal process, whilst having confidence that it is fair, proportionate, and inclusive.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.