Trustee Treasurer
Greener and Cleaner
We are currently seeking a Finance Trustee to join our Board as Treasurer. It’s a voluntary role that requires a committed individual with financial expertise to take a collaborative approach, supporting our Trustees, our Head of Finance and Governance, and our management team to oversee the financial affairs of our charity and ensure that they are legal, constitutional, and within accepted accounting practice.
We are currently seeking a Finance Trustee to join our Board as Treasurer. It’s a voluntary role that requires a committed individual with financial expertise to take a collaborative approach, supporting our Trustees, our Head of Finance and Governance, and our management team to oversee the financial affairs of our charity and ensure that they are legal, constitutional, and within accepted accounting practice. Our organisation: Greener and Cleaner delivers locally but thinks, and influences, nationally. Our vision is greener, healthier, better connected communities across the UK. We seek to achieve this through normalising 360-degree sustainable living, bringing the community together to make changes that can deliver a big impact. We have a non-judgemental peer-to-peer approach, so that all elements of the community feel empowered to take action in how they live, work, and play and in how they use their voice to push for change. To read more about our organisation, please see here: https://www.greenerandcleaner.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/GC-Our-Organisation-2025.pdf The person we’re looking for: - A finance professional with a firm understanding of charity finance and some experience of fundraising and pension schemes. - Knowledge of charity fundraising, bid writing, and/or other income generation and/or securing funding through creation or leveraging of partnerships and networks (at a national or local level). - A strategic thinker with an ability to balance risk and opportunity and the skills to analyse proposals and examine their financial consequences. - Clear communicator with the ability to explain financial information to members of the Board and other stakeholders. - Willing to play an active role in areas such as forecasting, setting budgets, and liaising with auditors. In addition, the Treasurer will also have the responsibilities and qualities of all Trustees. For a full role description, please see here: https://www.greenerandcleaner.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/GC-Treasurer-Trustee-Role-2025.pdf To apply: Please send your CV and a covering letter, together with a completed skills audit statement, to jobs@greenerandcleaner.co.uk. Applicants will be contacted within 14 days of receipt of their application to let them know if they have progressed to the interview stage. Please use the skills audit template here: https://www.greenerandcleaner.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/GC-Individual-Trustee-Skills-Audit.docx We look forward to receiving your application.
Finance & Accountancy,Trusteeships & Committees
Bookkeeping & Finance, Evaluating & Reviewing, Maths, Fundraising
The person we’re looking for: • A finance professional with a firm understanding of charity finance and some experience of fundraising and pension schemes. • Knowledge of charity fundraising, bid writing, and/or other income generation and/or securing funding through creation or leveraging of partnerships and networks (at a national or local level). • A strategic thinker with an ability to balance risk and opportunity and the skills to analyse proposals and examine their financial consequences. • Clear communicator with the ability to explain financial information to members of the Board and other stakeholders. • Willing to play an active role in areas such as forecasting, setting budgets, and liaising with auditors. The Treasurer will also have the responsibilities and qualities of all Trustees: • Demonstrating a commitment to G&C’s objectives • Contributing to setting the strategic goals and monitoring performance by active participation in Board discussions and decision-making • Actively assisting the charity to build their connections and partnerships for the purposes of most effectively delivering their goals and fundraising • Ensuring that G&C complies with its governing documents, the law, and all other relevant documentation • Helping to identify risks and ensuring appropriate controls are in place • Helping the Board to make sound decisions by making available their own personal knowledge and experience • Assisting the Chair to appoint and appraise the performance of the Senior Leadership Team members • Sharing relevant skills and expertise with the Senior Leadership Team members • Making all reasonable efforts to attend Board meetings, away days, development meetings, publicity events, and other such public functions as requested by the Chair • Ensuring the charity’s focus on equality, diversity, and inclusion remains at the heart of its strategy and delivery
The primary role is to ensure alongside other Trustees that they accept ultimate responsibility for the affairs of Greener and Cleaner and ensure that it is solvent, well run, and delivering the charitable outcomes for which it has been set up. As well as fulfilling the duties of a Trustee, the Treasurer ensures that effective and appropriate financial measures, controls, and procedures are put in place and reports to the Board at regular intervals about the financial health of the organisation.
At least 3 hours each month
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Remote
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