About the organisation
We match volunteers: local people to local need, with our comprehensive volunteer recruitment service, our Handybus, voluntary car and Shopmobility schemes, and our general advice and bespoke support for local voluntary and charity groups.
Set up in 1974 to support local communities and charities, primarily in West Berkshire, we became a Charitable Incorporated Organisation in 2014.
We thus are celebrating our 50th year of voluntary success, have recently recruited other new trustees and are now looking to renew our strategic direction, to include our financial vision.
About the role
We are looking for a Treasurer to take over from our longstanding one, who is retiring after 17 years’ service.
Our Board includes people with experience and skills in governing our charity and responding to the needs of local people and local organisations.
We expect our Treasurer to have empathy with our cause and our beneficiaries, some awareness of the needs in West Berkshire, as well as provide strategic overview and guidance to our Board on the charity's financial standing and future planning.
Support from our CEO and Finance Officer will always be available, as they will be dealing with the day-to-day finances.
Our ideal candidate
Although we’d welcome your financial qualification, that’s not a requirement, as our finances aren’t complex.
An understanding of how charity finance works would be beneficial of course, with the ability to communicate financial information clearly, especially to other trustees.
Being part of the collective decision-making Board of trustees, as well as your financial acumen, you'll use your other skills, knowledge and experience to help the Board of trustees reach sound decisions.
This will involve scrutinising Board papers, leading discussions, focusing on key issues, providing advice and guidance on new initiatives, and other issues in which you may have particular expertise.
What’s in it for you
You'll get opportunity to exercise your strategic financial & planning skills, probably in a different environment or context, as well as influence and collectively-lead an organisation supporting local people, communities and other charities.
You will get a chance to augment your experience of charities and boost your career and CV, if needed.
It would be great if you have prior experience of charity trusteeship, but that’s not absolutely essential; we can provide and access training focused on trustee duties and responsibilities.
Full induction to our organisation will be provided, plus specialist support for you as a new trustee. You may find membership of the Honorary Treasurer’s Forum of benefit.
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