Do you want to help improve access to postgraduate education?
The Sir Richard Stapley Educational Trust is seeking a Trustee Treasurer and two other trustees.
The Sir Richard Stapley Educational Trust helps academically gifted students overcome financial and other barriers to postgraduate education. We are a registered charity working across the UK.
We are seeking a trustee Treasurer and two other trustees to join our Board.
The roles
- Contributing actively to giving clear strategic direction to the Trust, setting overall policy, defining goals and evaluating performance
- Scrutinising board papers, leading discussions, focusing on key issues, providing advice and guidance
- Scoring grant applications each spring
- Networking, acting as an ambassador and winning support externally.
The people we’re looking for
- Committed to the Trust’s mission to improve access to postgraduate education
- Strategic vision and experience of strategic planning
- One or more of the following areas of knowledge/experience: charity trusteeship, charity lawyer, social media, and the performing arts as academic subject areas
- Applicants for the Trustee Treasurer role should have experience in a leading role in managing or overseeing the finance function of a charity or other not for profit organisation, and ideally be UK-qualified accountants.
All of the new trustees will help to steer the charity through an exciting period of development.
Our trustees are unpaid, but we pay travel and other out of pocket expenses and provide an induction into the Trust’s work.
Please download the Treasurer and Trustee Information Pack which explains how to apply.
For further details about the Trust, please see our website.
The closing date for application letters is 12 noon on Wednesday 28 June, with online interviews for shortlisted candidates being held on Monday 3 July.
Registered charity number: 313812