Board Secretary

Job description / Role

The Board Secretary will be in charge of the Board and all the Board committees matters and is in one of the listed joint stock companies in KSA.

The successful candidate must be completely aware of the requirement of LJSC (Limited Joint Stock Companies) and CMA (Capital Market Authority) regulations, Corporate Governance, board director continuing Education and Saudi Arabia Law.

Reporting line: Reporting to the Chairman and working with the senior management among other things to facilitate the Board of Directors.

Key Responsibilities
- Scheduling meetings, assisting with the preparation of agendas, providing guidance on board paper content, ensuring timely delivery of papers
- Recording board decisions clearly and accurately, pursuing follow up actions and reporting on matters arising
- Ensuring that appropriate insurance cover is arranged for directors
- Ensuring board committees are constituted in compliance with the relevant charters and each committee
- Assisting the board committees to play its role in line with its charters
- Building director induction programmers which provide a full, formal and tailored introduction to the business
- Coordinate with the management to have in place continuing education programs for the Directors
- Facilitating good information flows between management and board members
- The drafting of the directors annual report and ensuring its compliance with the full range of disclosure requirements

Requirements

- Minimum 5 years as a Board Secretary
- Must Speak, Read and Write in both English and Arabic
- Completely aware of LJSC and CMA regulations
- Have an understanding of SKA Law

About the Company

At Cooper Fitch, we put the customer at the heart of everything we do. We provide recruitment, executive search and human resources advisory services to thousands of clients across the Middle East, we have been delivering services in the region since 1997. Our team is your team, we firmly believe in delivering first class committed search services. It is our mission to help build the best talent in the market. Our services are tailored to your every need, we have spent nearly twenty years developing an extensive database of top tier talent in the region. We also aim to help you protect and retain your people with our world-class assessment, testing and advisory facilities. We provide both valuable market updates and compensation and benefits analysis to complete the full spectrum of human resources services.