Trustee with financial experience

About Sounddelivery Media

Sounddelivery Media is a dynamic charity tackling injustice and inequality. We’re looking to strengthen our board by recruiting new Trustees to take us into the next stage of our development as an organisation.

Sounddelivery Media works alongside people with direct experience of social injustice and inequality to advocate for themselves and their communities publicly by providing training, support and media matches, media meet ups and media opportunities.  We work to address representation and diversity of voice in the media, finding platforms for our networks and building long term trusted relationships with journalists. 

About the role

We’re looking to strengthen our board by recruiting a new trustee with financial experience to take us into the next stage of our development.

Our current Treasurer has reached the end of their term and we need someone to join us who will maintain an overview of the organisation’s affairs, including its financial affairs, ensure its financial viability and ensure that proper financial records, controls and procedures are maintained.

If you are new to being a trustee, we can arrange training, mentoring and support – no previous governance experience is required. As well as skills and experience, we want to hear from you if you have the passion, commitment, interest and enthusiasm to fulfil this vital role.

About our Board of Trustees

Our trustees are volunteers who offer their time, knowledge and experience to oversee and guide the charity and its work. They also make sure Sounddelivery Media is financially sustainable, is run efficiently and professionally and operates within charitable law.

The Sounddelivery Media board meets at least four times a year. These meetings are sometimes face to face but mostly remote. Trustees are appointed for an initial three-year period; and may then be re-appointed for a further three years.

We can arrange training, mentoring and support for new trustees – no previous governance experience is required. As well as skills and experience, we want to hear from candidates who also have the passion, commitment, interest and enthusiasm to fulfil this vital role.

We are fully committed to ensuring it is as easy and comfortable as possible for skilled, talented people who have never previously participated in charity governance to be welcomed onto the Sounddelivery Media board and make a full and equal contribution. We can cover reasonable travel and accommodation expenses, data top-up vouchers and childcare costs to enable full participation.

Our existing board has strong experience in key areas including communication, fundraising, finance, governance and community action.

Role description

The overall role of a trustee with financial experience is to maintain an overview of the organisation’s affairs, including its financial affairs, ensure its financial viability and ensure that proper financial records, controls and procedures are maintained.

In addition to the general responsibilities of a trustee, duties include:

● Financial oversight of the charity – being assured that the financial resources of the organisation meet its present and future needs.

● Overseeing and reviewing the preparation of the charity’s annual budget. Then presenting the budget to the board for approval.

● Reviewing the quarterly management accounts and annual financial statements and presenting to the Board for approval in collaboration with the CEO and Finance and Operations Manager.

For a full role description of the trustee with financial experience role, please see our application pack.

About you

In addition to the person specification of a trustee, duties of the trustee with financial experience include the following:

● Financial qualifications and experience within the charity sector

● Some experience fundraising and income generation

● The skills to analyse proposals and examine their financial consequences 

● Supporting the board to make decisions relating to the financial health of the charity

● Providing appropriate oversight at operational level

How to apply

If you wish to apply please fill in this short application with a CV and expression of interest in not more that 2 pages why you want to join the Board of Trustees at Sounddelivery Media.

The expression of interest should set out clearly why you are interested in this role, and the relevant skills, knowledge and experience you can bring to the Sounddelivery Media trustee board.

For a full description of the trustee with financial experience role, please see our application pack.

Closing date: Monday 21st October, 10am

Interview One: Friday 1st November

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