Job For Head, Board Governance Centre at KPMG, 10th May, 2019

KPMG is a global network of professional firms providing Audit, Tax and Advisory Services. Our vision is to build and sustain our reputation as the best firm to work with by ensuring our people, clients and communities achieve their full potential. We are recruiting to fill the position below:     Job Title: Head, Board Governance Centre Location: Lagos, Nigeria Overview

• In line with KPMG’s desire to ensure that key roles are filled by best in class talent with the requisite skills and experience, we seek to hire a lead for our Board Governance Centre initiative. This role will be responsible for certain key strategic initiatives for our Board advisory services

• Maintain a status for all portal projects and assist to resolve all issues for new and existing KPMG social media channels utilised for governance related content
• Periodically monitor and analyse portal metrics to determine performance levels
• Scan industries, websites of listed and medium/large companies to identify potential candidates for directorships on Boards and obtain their profiles/CVs
• Develop and continually maintain an up-to-date database of directors profiles and CVs for future board placements
• Work in conjunction with the IARCS team to organise annual training courses, inductions & certification sessions for potential directors
• Work in conjunction with the IARCS team to execute Director search engagements for KPMG clients
• Implement approved marketing initiatives to attract companies to patronise the Director database
• Occasionally, organise corporate governance events to enhance awareness of KPMG’s governance capabilities
• Develop and publish periodic governance content to the governance portal to keep existing members interested and attract visitors to the site
• Create and deploy initiatives to promote KPMG’s governance presence in the Nigerian market including conferences, workshops, etc.
• Develop monthly newsletter to be issued to Directors
• Maintain a database of Directors and Company Secretaries for future engagements and publications
• On an annual basis, develop KPMG Boardroom agenda and Board room question publications
• Work with markets / IARCS Board advisory team to improve KPMG footprints in the Boardroom
• In conjunction with markets, develop and implement a Board room masterclass or building partner confidence.
• Develop marketing initiatives to attract new visitors to KPMG’s governance site
• Supervise content for all pages on the portal and provide assistance to internal and external users of the portal
• Supervise the maintenance of portal layout and functionality of the portal
• Keep the contents of the portal up-to-date
• Integrate new technologies unto the portal and coordinate with web administrators for implementation

• Experience in supporting stakeholders at the Board and senior management
• Experience in managing an administrative function
• Previous experience in company secretariat duties is an added advantage
• Experience in Board training and facilitation is an added advantage.
• A Bachelor's degree in Arts or Social Sciences is required (minimum of second class lower)
• A certification in governance is an added advantage
• Membership of relevant governance/secretarial/legal association
• Six (6) to eight (8) or more years of experience of working in a governance/ public relations related position