Governance and Risk Business Partner - Gateway Housing Association : Job Details

Gateway Housing has been supporting communities to thrive since 1926. We are an ambitious London based housing association with over 3,000 homes in the heart of London's East End. We provide social rented homes, shared ownership, and sheltered housing. We develop new homes too and are part way through an exciting programme to deliver another 250 homes by 2025. We also run our own in-house maintenance service, Gateway Homeworks. Our vision is that people will want to live in a Gateway home and people will want to work at Gateway.

You will be joining the organisation at an exciting time and be a key member of a dynamic team that wants to deliver great landlord services and strengthen our links to the local community.

Our values add up to P.A.C.E. Passionate, Accountable, Connected, Excellence. As a community housing association based in the East End for nearly 100 years, we're proud of the work we do to address the housing crisis through building and managing great homes.

We are looking for a Governance and Risk Business Partner to support the development and delivery of good governance and risk management practices that underpin achieving Gateway's strategy, working to continuously improve positive approaches to governance, risk and assurance.

This post holder will support Gateway to ensure compliance with relevant data protection legislation, and support escalation of risk and issues.

Your accountabilities will include but not limited to:

• To manage the set up and implementation of the new risk system so that it is accessible and has excellent user reporting functionality.
• To be the custodian of the risk system and associated risk processes, helping challenge risk owners on identification and management of risk, and ensuring risk owners keep their risks up to date in the risk system.
• The role holder helps support the maintenance of the Board Assurance Framework which becomes a valuable tool for GHA. The role holder completes high quality second line assurance activities that add value and enhance the control framework.
• To execute an agreed programme of second line assurance reviews, reporting findings to management.
• To support the organisation complete their periodic control self-assessments and annual assurance statements.
• Act as the co-ordinator of the notification of incidents across the organisation to our insurance claims handler
• Liaise with our insurance claims handler and Gateway colleagues to ensure all necessary details relating to incidents are provided and follow-up queries are addressed.
• To ensure compliance with the Social Tenants Access to Information Scheme (STAIRS), supporting development of associated process and practices.

Please refer to the attached job profile for more details.

Key Skills, Knowledge and Experience:

• Sound knowledge of Governance and Risk
• Understanding of risk management principles, assurance and governance.
• Experience of working in the housing sector
• Strong communications skill
• GDPR related qualification, such as Act Now GDPR Practitioners Certificate of equivalent
• Organisational skills
• Problem solving skills

Our benefits package includes:

• Annual Leave: starting at 28 days, plus Bank Holidays
• Subsidised Health and Wellbeing Membership
• Simply Health - help towards the costs of dentist, optician, and private medical appointments.
• Employee Assistance Programme - including free legal, financial and counselling advice
• Pension - up to 10% employer contribution

If you have the confidence and enthusiasm to work in a challenging but supportive working environment, we would like to hear from you.

Please note only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

CLOSING DATE: 28 August 2025

INTERVIEWS: TBC

Please note that on some occasions where we have received sufficient applications, we will close the vacancy earlier than the closing date advertised.

GATEWAY is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of the community