Advertised from 31 October 2025

Role

The Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh (“the College”) seeks to appoint a Membership Governance Officer to co-ordinate matters in relation to the governance of Fellowship and Membership, working with the Membership Manager to ensure that changes can be managed and implemented. The post holder will implement College decisions relating to Council elections and Fellowship and Membership issues and determine how they can be applied within the College calendar and Laws.

The College is a professional membership organisation and registered charity, which supports the medical profession to deliver the gold standard in healthcare provision. We have a network of over 14,500 members worldwide and help hospital doctors throughout their careers through leading an effective and supportive physicians’ community as well as providing our world-renowned education and training programme which helps qualified doctors pursue their careers in specialist medicine.

The Role 

This role falls within the department of Global Engagement. Please refer to the Job Description for full details.

Key responsibilities include:

• Organising the election of multiple Office Bearer roles within the College including the co-ordination of all relevant processes, correspondence and advertising to the wider Fellowship.

• Designing processes, interpreting changes to policies and the Laws, navigating changes to the College calendar in order to facilitate elections in a timely manner.

• Assisting with drafting policy papers for Council on behalf of the Honorary Secretary as required. 

• Collating paperwork on Regional Advisers appointments/elections to seek Council approval and tracking appointments by Regional Advisers of their Link Fellows.

• Maintaining the ‘master’ set of the Laws of the College and Royal Charter.

• Helping to support wider team activities such as events, New Fellows Day, administration and meetings on an ad hoc basis during busy periods.

Person Specification

• Experience of supporting committees/project teams to deliver operational goals.

• Demonstrable experience of working with the governance or legal documents of an organisation, such as charters, laws, terms of reference, memoranda of understanding, articles and deeds.

• Ability to deal with highly sensitive matters and enquiries with tact.

• Experience of maintaining contact with a wide variety of stakeholders through regular communication.

• Ability to build and maintain effective working relationships.

• Strong numeric, administrative and communication skills.

• Exceptional levels of attention to detail, and an ability to respond immediately to changing demands.

• Competent computer skills including Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook, and member databases.

• Experience of organising significant governance related activities, such as elections and office bearer appointments.

• A general understanding of the structure, role and importance of Royal Colleges.

Remuneration Package

The salary for this role will be £ 27,002 per annum plus benefits. Additional benefits include:

• Pension: with employer contributions of 9%.

• Holidays: 23 days’ annual leave (with incremental increase over five years to 28 days) and 11 days’ public holiday/College close downs.

• Life assurance scheme.

• Long-term income protection scheme for those unable to work due to illness.

• Cycle to Work scheme.

• Discounted rates for use of the venue for personal events.

Application notes

To Apply:

Please go to our website for a full job description and further details. 

Please note agencies need not apply.

Closing Date: 12pm Thursday 20th November 2025 

Interviews: WC 8th December 2025