Trustee - Finance, Investments & Resources Committee

Business & Human Rights Resource Centre; Tadworth; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Une organisation caritative recherche un trustee pour diriger et superviser ses activités. Le candidat idéal aura une solide expérience en leadership financier, une compréhension approfondie de la gouvernance caritative et la capacité de contribuer au développement stratégique. Ce rôle crucial nécessite un engagement envers l'inclusion et la diversité, ainsi qu'une volonté de soutenir des initiatives de collecte de fonds.

Qualifications

• Expérience en leadership financier (directeur financier ou niveau CFO).
• Expérience en gouvernance et reporting dans le secteur caritatif.
• Capacité à développer des stratégies et à gérer des changements transformationnels.

Responsibilities

• Assurer la conformité avec la loi sur les organismes de bienfaisance et les réglementations.
• Contribuer au développement stratégique et à la planification.
• Surveiller la performance opérationnelle et financière.

Skills

Financial management

Strategy development

Transformational change

Legal compliance

Digital security

Resilience & Business Continuity

Job description

As a trustee and full board member, you will be responsible for:

• Ensuring TCT is carrying out its purpose for public benefit, maximising its reach and impact;
• Ensuring compliance with TCT’s governing document, charity law and all other relevant regulations;
• Ensuring the board acts in the charity’s best interests, exercising reasonable care and skill in its decision-making, managing TCT’s resources responsibly and avoiding exposing the charity’s assets or beneficiaries or reputation to undue risk;
• Contributing to the strategic development and planning process, including providing commercial acumen, insight into the external market and wider sector, or bringing experience of strategy development at similar organisations.
• Ensuring the organisational culture and values, governance arrangements, management and operational structures are fit for purpose, helping TCT achieve its strategic aims and objectives and minimise risk;
• Reviewing and approving budgets and business plans to ensure alignment with strategic objectives;
• Supporting the board fulfil the full range of its statutory and oversight responsibilities. This includes oversight of operational and financial performance, risk management, governance (corporate, clinical and educational), quality and regulatory compliance and in providing assurance on these matters to the board;
• Coaching and mentoring senior leadership or providing subject matter expertise on specific topics/ challenges;
• Participating and contributing to the activities of any working party groups the board or its committees may set up from time to time to lead specific projects and initiatives.
• Supporting fundraising events and initiatives including through personal networks;
• Ensuring the organisation has robust safeguarding arrangements in place

Skills and experience

• A strong track record of achievement in a senior financial leadership position (finance director or CFO level), with experience of charity governance and reporting;
• Financial management, planning and reporting, ideally in the charity or statutory sector;
• Development of integrated business performance management and impact reporting
• Strategy development and execution;
• Transformational change;
• External Audit;
• Legal and regulatory compliance;
• Digital and Cyber/ Information Security;
• Resilience & Business Continuity;

Personal attributes

Lived experience or proximate exposure to brain injury and neurodisability.

• A well-developed, continuous improvement mindset.
• An effective communicator who can express ideas clearly and concisely, listen actively to other views and engage stakeholders in a positive future vision.
• Able to build relationships with key stakeholders internally and externally.
• Able to absorb sometimes complex information and rationalise appropriately.
• Able to think laterally and independently in order to arrive at a pragmatic solution.
• Ability to commit sufficient time to help drive the charity forward through a period of change.
• Demonstrate high standards of ethical behaviour and avoid personal conflicts of interest.
• A clear commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion through either lived experience or allyship towards under-represented communities.