Treasurer

VocalEyes is seeking a proactive and committed Treasurer to join our Board of  Trustees, bringing financial expertise and strategic guidance to help ensure the charity can respond to opportunity and challenge.

VocalEyes is an arts organisation and charity that works with and for blind and visually impaired people. With access and inclusion at its heart, its purpose is to create accessible performances, events and digital media for arts and heritage venues across the UK. Funded by Arts Council England (ACE) and a variety of Trusts and Foundations, a team of freelance audio describers, trainers and consultants work with hundreds of theatres, museums, galleries, and heritage sites each. VocalEyes is a Disability Confident Committed Employer and a registered charity.

The Treasurer’s role is to maintain an overview of VocalEyes’ financial affairs, ensure its financial viability and sustainability and see that the charity maintains proper financial records and procedures in line with accepted accounting practice.

The Treasurer, with other Trustees, must also hold the charity “in trust” for current and future generations by ensuring that VocalEyes has a clear vision, mission and strategic direction and is focused on achieving these.

We welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds and lived experience, particularly those with experience of sight loss or visual impairment. We are a Disability Confident Committed Employer. This is a voluntary role, with all associated expenses covered.

For further information please download a recruitment pack.

We are looking for someone with:

• Experience of budgeting and planning.
• The skills to analyse proposals and examine their financial consequences.
• Capacity to be available to give financial advice and answer enquiries from any staff or volunteers on an ad hoc basis.
• A broad understanding of risk management in the wider business sense.
• A background in good governance within a public or private sector organisation.