About the organisation
Our commitment as a charity is to provide free free, confidential and accessible information and counselling, to support young people’s emotional and mental well-being when they are in need. We are available for all young people aged 11 to 24 who live, work or study in the borough of Richmond upon Thames. We provide crisis counselling, regular weekly one-to-one counselling sessions, walk-in information and a weekly sexual health clinic. We have counselling locations throughout the borough to make our service accessible to all and we also offer support to parents and carers.
About the role
We are seeing a Trustee and Chair of the Business Committee to join our Board of ten trustees who meet in person in Twickenham six times a year. The Board has three sub-committees – Operations and HR, Business and Infrastructure. Each trustee is also on one of these sub-committees.
The role of the Business Committee is to:
· Review management accounts, statutory accounts budgets and financial forecasts
· Review cash flow forecasts and banking arrangements
· Recommend the annual budget and the annual statutory accounts to the Board for approval
· Monitor fundraising strategy, fundraising applications and the level of fundraising achieved
· Ensure that OTR has appropriate financial controls in place and that these are being applied
· Keep the board educated and informed regarding financial and fundraising issues
The Chair of the Business Committee leads this committee, which meets via zoom six times a year, and they also liaise with Off The Record’s Business Manager, who has day to day responsibility for all the above matters, and with OTR’s Manager and Chair of Trustees. They may occasionally be required to liaise with existing and potential funders to explain the financial position of OTR and they will also need to do this annually at OTR’s AGM.
Although for external purposes, we need to call the person who is appointed ‘OTR’s Treasurer’, it should be understood that this is not a hands-on Treasurer role.
Overall time commitment (including attendance at meetings) is around 8 hours per month, although some periods will be busier than others (e.g. year-end).
Our ideal candidate
Applicants must have good interpersonal skills and be qualified accountants.
What’s in it for you
The successful applicant will join committed board members and staff in helping shape the service to be fully responsive to the needs of local young people. With financial oversight to help OTR Twickenham remain viable in this challenging funding environment, this is an important role on the Board. We need to raise £300,000 every year to provide our current services, helping around 1,200 young people every year.
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