Senior Manager, Governance & Frameworks (1155)

Job Purpose

Institutional Governance Frameworks

• Develop, maintain, and continuously enhance SOPC’s governance frameworks, including delegation of authority, decision-making models, and institutional governance structures.
• Define and maintain clear decision rights, delegation of authority (DoA), and governance structures, ensuring alignment with organizational hierarchy, accountability principles, and risk appetite
• Ensure governance frameworks are clearly documented, communicated, and applied consistently across SOPC functions and committees.
• Provide guidance to functions on governance requirements to support accountability, transparency, and effective organizational control.

Policy Lifecycle Management

• Manage the end-to-end corporate policy lifecycle, including development standards, review cycles, approvals, publication, and version control.
• Coordinate with SOPC functions to ensure policies and procedures align with governance frameworks, regulatory requirements, and organizational objectives.
• Monitor adherence to approved policies and identify gaps, inconsistencies, or deviations requiring corrective action.

Governance Implementation & Oversight

• Monitor the application of governance frameworks across SOPC and provide structured feedback to management on areas of non-compliance or improvement.
• Establish governance assurance mechanisms to assess the effectiveness of governance frameworks, including periodic maturity assessments and the identification of structural or control gaps.
• Support the rollout of governance initiatives and framework updates, ensuring effective adoption and embedding across functions.
• Contribute to governance maturity assessments and improvement plans to strengthen SOPC’s institutional governance practices.

Committees & Decision-Making Support

• Support SOPC leadership and decision-making forums by preparing governance inputs, documentation, and recommendations.
• Evaluate the effectiveness of committees and the decision-making forums through structured assessments, ensuring clarity of mandates, quality of decisions, and alignment with governance principles.

Coordination & Continuous Improvement

• Coordinate with Risk & Continuity, Compliance & Regulatory Affairs, Internal Audit, and Legal Affairs to ensure governance frameworks support integrated assurance and control.
• Maintain governance documentation, templates, and standards to support consistent application across SOPC.

Our Commitment