Treasurer to join The Restart Project’s Board of Trustees

Who are we looking for? Responsibilities as a treasurer

As we embark on implementing our newly formed strategy, we are looking for a treasurer who can support us by connecting our ambitious goals with financial realities.

Key responsibilities of the treasurer include:

1. Ensuring that proper processes and procedures exist for assuring all financial records, decisions and delegations are maintained
2. Oversee the preparation and scrutiny of annual accounts
3. Oversee the preparation of the annual budget
4. Ensuring the reserves policy is viable
5. Ensuring the charity complies with relevant laws and regulations (eg SORP)
6. Ensuring the trustee board is aware of financial duties and responsibilities

Responsibilities as a board member

1. As well as the treasurer specific responsibilities above, as a member of the board you will be required to:
2. Contribute actively to the board of trustees' role in giving strategic direction to the charity, setting overall strategy and policy, setting targets and evaluating performance against agreed targets
3. Ensure the charity applies its resources exclusively in pursuing its objectives
4. Ensure the effective and efficient administration of the charity
5. Safeguard the good name and values of the charity
6. Declare any conflict of interest while carrying out the duties of a trustee
7. Be collectively responsible for the actions of the charity and other trustees
8. Participate in other tasks as arise from time to time, such as interviewing new staff, helping with fundraising etc.
9. Attend meetings and read papers in preparation for the meeting
10. Keep informed about the activities of the charity and wider issues which affect its work
11. Be available to staff for advice and enquiries on an ad hoc basis

Person specification

In addition to the responsibilities of the role, we are seeking a treasurer who has the following:

1. Fully qualified chartered accountant / financial qualifications and charity finance experience
2. The skills to analyse proposals and examine their financial consequences
3. A commitment to Restarts vision, mission and values
4. Willingness to devote the time and effort needed to fulfil the role
5. A commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion, and to contributing to a positive working culture

General attributes we’ll be looking for in all trustees:

1. Well connected in the environmental, waste, tech, fixing and/ or electronics worlds
2. Experience with fundraising

Commitment

Term: Trustes terms are three years and can be renewed twice.

Meeting frequency: Quarterly (4 times a year) including a full-day in-person strategy session with the core team (usually in July). Regular meetings take place in the evening.

Location: 2 on-line meetings and 2 in-person in London (which include one full day for the strategy/team day). We welcome applications from people around the UK who have the ability to travel to London twice a year.

Additional involvement: The treasurer will have more responsibilities outside of the meetings totalling approximately 5 days per year.

Compensation: This is an unremunerated voluntary role. All trustees are entitled to claim reasonable expenses for travel to and from meetings as needed.

Application Process

Having trustees with a mix of backgrounds, approaches and perspectives leads to better decision-making.

We believe that a governance and accountability structure enriched by multiple voices and intersectional expertise leads to more thoughtful, informed, just and liberatory strategies, decisions, and practices.

Please send your CV and a covering letter highlighting your experience and why you want to join The Restart Project trustee board as our new treasurer to: laura@therestartproject.org

Please apply by: 10am on Tuesday 22 April