What will you be doing?
Now in our sixth year, Number Champions has established strong processes to manage volunteers in their deliver of maths support to children, has working management structures, and is fully solvent. Our 3-year plan is to continue to grow the number of children we support each year (from our current 300) while maintaining the quality of our delivery, and at the same time to execute our succession plan for our founder trustees.
You will take a key role in this by delivering financial plans and strategies aligned with our activities, and by overseeing a system of processes and controls to ensure that we use our resources efficiently and effectively to deliver the charity’s objectives.
Our staff team manages purchasing, sales invoicing, and bookkeeping, and specific trustees are responsible for fundraising. You will coordinate with these and oversee the financial management of the charity.
Specific duties of the Treasurer
• oversee our system of financial control,
• review financial reporting to board meetings,
• update each board meeting on the financial state of the charity and recommend financial decisions,
• manage the cash position of the charity to ensure that it can cover expenditure,
• provide expert support to our staff on financial management and control,
• prepare annual accounts,
• liaise with our Independent Examiner to have our accounts approved,
• oversee budgeting and planning, and
• although the role does not include responsibility for fundraising, assist the production of fundraising applications by supplying financial plans and other information.
In addition, you will have the general duties of a trustee to ensure that the charity pursues its objects and complies with all legal obligations. These duties are listed in the attached role specification.
What difference will you make?
As Treasurer you will play a key role in securing the medium-term viability and the longer-term sustainability of Number Champions. As one of our trustees, you will also contribute to the overall management and development of the charity.
Numeracy, like literacy, is a vital skill for life, and children who fall behind risk never achieving their potential. The positive impact of support from Number Champions in maths can encourage the child across his or her whole engagement with education. You will thus support improved educational opportunity for hundreds and ultimately thousands of children each year.
What are we looking for?
Skills and experience required
- a professional accountancy qualification,
- commitment to the mission of Number Champions,
- willingness to meet the time requirement,
- integrity,
- strategic vision,
- good, independent judgement,
- ability to think creatively,
- willingness to speak your mind,
- acceptance of the legal duties, responsibilities, and liabilities of being a trustee (we will supply training on this), and
- ability to collaborate successfully as a member of a team and to take decisions for the good of the charity.