Are you a qualified accountant with a strong financial background and could use your skills to help inspire young people to believe in a brighter future, living through and beyond cancer?
The Ellen MacArthur Cancer Trust is recruiting for a Trustee (Treasurer) and wants to hear what you could offer.
Applications close: Friday 27th September, 2024
This is a fantastic opportunity to help steer the Ellen MacArthur Cancer Trust towards our aim to be even more accessible and inclusive to all young people who have a cancer diagnosis in the UK and to ensure every young person experiences belonging and improved mental wellbeing with us.
The full Board meets four times a year with five committees (Finance and Investment; Governance; Fundraising; HR and Personnel; and Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging) overseeing and ensuring the ongoing impartial governance of the Ellen MacArthur Cancer Trust. Meetings are usually held in London or Southampton (travel expenses can be reimbursed) and the option to join digitally is always available.
Some support outside of meetings is required, and we ask Trustees to commit to approximately 1/2 a day per month. With this role’s Treasurer responsibilities, additional support to the CEO and Bookkeeper may be required around the annual audit (usually March-June). The role is unpaid.
You will be passionate about making a difference to the lives of young people who are living through and beyond cancer and comfortable making decisions that determine the course the charity takes. An interest in or experience of sailing is not necessary.
As Treasurer, you will have a high-level involvement in supporting the Chief Executive Officer and Bookkeeper with the preparation of the annual accounts and audit.
We value equity, diversity, and inclusion, oppose prejudice, and are committed to being an anti-racist organisation. We strive to be more representative of all young people who have had a cancer diagnosis in the UK and believe diversity amongst the Ellen MacArthur Cancer Trust team is key to delivering inclusive experiences for all.
If you share these values and think you are well suited to this role, but for whatever reason, feel under-represented by anything in this advert, on our website or in any of our marketing, we strongly encourage you to apply to help us be better.
THE ROLE: | Trustee (Treasurer) | REPORT TO: | Chair of Trustees |
CONTRACT: | Volunteer (travel expenses can be reimbursed) | DURATION: | Three-year term, with option to stand for re-election. |
LOCATION: | Quarterly meetings are held in central locations (joining digitally is always available). | CLOSING DATE: | Friday 27th September 2024 |
See recruitment pack for full details
The Ellen MacArthur Cancer Trust is a national charity that takes young people aged 8-24 sailing and on outdoor adventures to inspire them to believe in a brighter future living through and beyond cancer.
Cancer can have a big impact on a young person’s mental wellbeing. For many young people, simply picking up where they left off before their diagnosis isn’t possible. That is why when treatment ends, our work begins.
Through our sailing and outdoor adventures, young people have fun, gain a new sense of purpose and self-worth, rediscover independence, and feel optimism for the future. They realise what they are capable of again - physically, mentally, and socially – and stop feeling like ‘the only one’. They can believe in a brighter future.
Do you have a suitable accounting qualification and a strong financial background, ideally with skills and experience in, or knowledge of, accounting requirements relating to company/charitable law and associated governance. You will be committed to applying these to help the Ellen MacArthur Cancer Trust achieve its aims.
In addition, you will have…
Do you think you could make that difference?
For full details of the role, and how to apply, please download our recruitment pack!
Please email [email protected], submitting an updated CV, and a covering letter of no more than two pages.
Applications will not be considered without both these documents.
In your covering letter, please include:
Closing date: Friday 27th September 2024
If you are shortlisted, we will contact you and invite you to an interview, and where appropriate, send interview questions in advance.
Interviews will take place via Zoom on the evening of Monday 14th October 2024.
Are you a qualified accountant with a strong financial background and could use your skills to help inspire young people to believe in a brighter future, living through and beyond cancer?
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