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This organisation is scheduling interviews as applications come in. They're ready to hire as soon as they find the right person. Don't miss your opportunity, apply now!
About the job
We are The Brain Tumour Charity, the largest dedicated funder of research into brain tumours globally and the only charity in the UK tackling brain tumours on all three fronts: research, campaigning, and support. We’re ambitious, driven, and determined to improve the lives of those affected by this devastating disease.
Our vision is simple: to help people diagnosed with a brain tumour live longer and better lives. We’re committed to accelerating cures, driving the best lifelong care, and raising our voices for change.
About the role
As a Trustee, you’ll play a vital role in providing guidance, challenge, and oversight to ensure The Brain Tumour Charity remains true to its purpose and delivers the impact our community needs. Working alongside our CEO and senior leadership team, you will help steer our ambitious strategy for growth, advocacy, and research. You will also be a trustee member on our Finance Committee, providing essential expertise and input to help guide our income strategy and financial governance. This is a voluntary position, but the impact you will have is priceless.
Who we are looking for
We are specifically seeking a qualified accountant with strong financial expertise. If you are a qualified accountant with extensive experience in financial management, risk assessment, and governance, and are eager to contribute your expertise to support our ambitious goals, we want to hear from you. You will share our commitment to our values of being bold, collaborative, and innovative, always putting the community at the heart of what you do.
Please see the full Trustee Job Description below.
Your skills and experience
- A commitment to our vision, mission, and strategic priorities.
- Proven expertise in financial management, risk assessment, and governance.
- A qualified accountant.
- The ability to think strategically and contribute to effective decision-making.
- Exceptional communication skills with the ability to challenge constructively.
- Sound, independent judgement and creativity when faced with challenges.
- A passion for equality, diversity, and inclusion.
- A willingness to devote the necessary time and effort to this important role.
What you’ll do
- Oversee our financial strategy and ensure alignment with our vision and values.
- Monitor financial performance and governance to ensure sustainability and compliance.
- Provide constructive challenge and support to our CEO and senior leadership team.
- Help shape policies and procedures to ensure effective governance and compliance.
- Promote equity, diversity, and inclusion throughout The Charity.
What’s involved
Term: Four years, with the potential to serve an additional term.
Location: Hybrid - meetings held in person at our office in Fleet, Hampshire.
Commitment: Approximately 2-3 days per year for Board meetings, plus additional subcommittee meetings and ad hoc activities.
Why join us?
This is an exciting time to join The Brain Tumour Charity. By bringing your financial expertise and passion to our Board, you will be helping to accelerate progress towards our ambitious goals.
How to apply to our team
Please apply by clicking the red ‘join our team’ button, attaching your CV and a covering letter explaining why you are motivated to be part of our trustee team, what you would bring to the board of trustees, and how your financial skillset and experience will help us to make a real impact.
We are committed to promoting diversity and inclusion in all aspects of our organisation. We particularly welcome applications from individuals belonging to underrepresented communities.
Advert close date: Sunday 18th May 2025
Interview date and location: Friday 13th June 2025 at our Fleet office
Registered Charity
51 - 100
The Brain Tumour Charity is the world’s leading brain tumour charity and the largest dedicated funder of research into brain tumours globally.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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Background to the Role
We are currently creating a brand new three-year strategy, setting out an exciting vision to support, promote and defend the mental health, rights and social position of young people. This follows a period of organisational growth, where expanding services into the North Somerset region, and working in partnership with the local statutory mental health provider, has increased our staffing to over 100 employees.
Our new Chair will be an experienced Trustee or Board member who is skilled in effectively managing meetings for productive discussions. We are looking for someone with energy and drive and who will ensure robust governance, aligning strategy and operations. A number of our Trustees have been with us for less than a year and we also have a new CEO and a fairly new SLT, we are therefore looking for an experienced hand who is a skilled relationship manager and a decisive leader, capable of listening to all sides and finding compromise to make difficult decisions.
Main Responsibilities
- To be responsible for providing effective strategic leadership and management to the Board of Trustees, enabling them to fulfil their responsibilities for the overall governance and strategic direction of OTR.
- To chair meetings of the Board of Trustees effectively and efficiently, bringing impartiality and objectivity to the decision-making process.
- To plan the annual cycle of Board meetings.
- To set agendas for Board meetings and review minutes.
- To ensure the Scheme of Delegation to the CEO is reviewed and updated.
- To be knowledgeable about, and abide by, the Articles of Association and Charitable Purpose.
- To represent OTR at functions and meetings, and act as a spokesperson as appropriate.
Person Specification
- Strong leadership skills and a collaborative team member.
- Strategic vision.
- Able to display impartiality, fairness and the ability to respect confidences.
- An understanding and acceptance of the legal duties, responsibilities and liabilities of Trusteeship from the Charity Commission and Companies House.
- Excellent people management skills, and an ability to build trusting relationships with Trustees, senior staff, external partners and stakeholders.
- Ability to make measured and fair judgements and decisions.
- A regard for Nolan's 7 principles of public life: selflessness, integrity, objectivity, accountability, openness, honesty and leadership.
Diversity and inclusion
At OTR, whatever your role or professional background, you will be expected to work in a way that is anti-oppressive and inclusive. A key focus for OTR is to develop an organisation that is inclusive for all. We do not claim to be experts in this, but we are committed to continuous learning and improvement in these areas and invite you to join us on this journey.
OTR recognises the benefits to individual practice and organisational credibility of having a diverse community of staff and volunteers and to this end, is continually working towards building and maintaining an environment which values and pursues diversity accordingly.
We recognise that tackling systemic inequality, prejudice, racism, and oppressive practice requires each of us to actively engage, self-examine and make changes where necessary in order to improve access and ensure an equitable experience for all in society and all of those who come through our doors at OTR.
How to apply
Eastside People is supporting Off the Record (Bristol) in the recruitment of this role. Please click here to apply by submitting a CV and a cover letter both in Word doc. format. Please use the cover letter (max 2 pages) as an opportunity to add to the information you have shared in your CV and ensure that you cover the following:
- Why is OTR’s work important to you and how can you contribute as our Chair?
- Your experience of working at a strategic level and of effective governance.
- How would you go about ensuring that our many stakeholders are heard and represented at Board level
Having a call of this kind will not influence the success or otherwise of your application.
The closing date for applications is Friday, 16th May. Longlisting interviews with Eastside People will take place shortly after and shortlisted candidates will have an interview with the panel at OTR during the week beginning 2nd June.
Thank you!
Actively Interviewing
This organisation is scheduling interviews as applications come in. They're ready to hire as soon as they find the right person. Don't miss your opportunity, apply now!
This is an exciting time in our growth as we look to grow our governance systems, build on our successes and ensure we are a radical, dynamic organisation rooted in our anti-racist and anti-oppressive values. We are looking for a new Chair for our Trustee board, to join us and help lead and shape the future of the organisation.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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Are you passionate about health and wellbeing and want to make a difference in the local community? We are looking for a dedicated individual to join our team of trustees and help shape the future of physical activity and sport in Northamptonshire
We would particularly welcome applicants with experience of finance or accountancy
Northamptonshire Sport recognises the positive value of diversity, promotes equality and challenges discrimination.
We want to have a diverse board, reflective of the local community, with a mix of skills, experience and competencies that best serves our aspirations.
We would welcome applications from people from black, Asian and other minority ethnic communities who are under-represented on our board
We are keen to receive applications from disabled people with a wide range of lived experiences including: learning difficulties, mental health conditions, neuro-diversity, deafness, hearing impairments, visual impairments, physical impairments and long-term health conditions.
If you are excited by the prospect of using your skills and experience to make a difference in physical activity and sport in Northamptonshire as one of our Trustees, we would love to hear from you.
Time Commitment
Our trustees meets formally at least six times per year. There is a further expectation that trustees will contribute to specific project groups as they arise from time to time, along with being invited to a number of events throughout the year.
Board meetings :
- 21st May 2025 (5.30-7pm)
- 15th Jul 2025 (5.30-7pm)
- 16th Sep 2025 (5.30-7pm)
- 18th Nov 2025 (5.30-7pm)
- 20th Jan 2026 (5.30-7pm)
- 17th Mar 2026 (5.30-7pm)
Closing Date for Applications 18th May 2025
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Thank you!
USPG is looking to appoint 3 Trustees (lay or ordained) committed to global mission within the Anglican Communion. At this time, we are seeking to appoint a qualified accountant and two trustees with significant regional knowledge (Caribbean/ Latin America, Middle East, East Asia or Africa) to serve from July 2025.
About You
In recruiting Trustees at this time, we are looking for individuals with the following skill sets and experience:
- Accountancy: A qualified accountant with current experience of scrutinising accounts of organisations of the scale of USPG (at least) is sought. The person appointed will become a member of USPG’s Finance & Audit Committee as well as contribute to the strategic discussions of the Trustee board.
- Global knowledge and understanding: A couple of trustees with significant regional knowledge, especially of the Caribbean/Latin America, but also of the Middle East, Asia or Africa. That understanding may come from working with the churches or from professional experience outside of the Church.
The role is not paid, but necessary expenses incurred for attending USPG meetings will be reimbursed.
About USPG
The United Society Partners in the Gospel, known widely as USPG, is the Anglican mission agency that partners churches across the Anglican Communion in rethinking mission, energising church and championing justice. Click here to find out more.
USPG is actively seeking a diverse board with a balance of gender, ethnicity and age.
Registered Charity
21 - 50
We bring people together from different parts of the global Church in mutually enriching conversation and profound encounters.
