Ideally, we’re looking for someone with good experience of charity finances, but we would also welcome anyone with accounting or financial expertise who is motivated to learn about charity finances and being a trustee, to get in touch. We will, where appropriate, provide access to training opportunities.

Whether you come with relevant personal/life experiences and/ or professional experience we are looking for people who are:

• Curious
• Thoughtful
• Generous with their time
• Effective and responsive listeners
• Interested in cultural diversity
• Good team players
• Dependable (its important people turn up).

To be an effective board of trustees we also need some people with some of the following abilities:

• Forward thinking, able to identify issues to consider now in relation to future plans and trends.
• Longer-term thinkers with the strategic abilities to help Refugee Futures to prioritise, to maximise use of resources and be sustainable.
• Ability to thrive on organisational development and change.
• Practical, able to ask difficult questions to bring strategy and vision down-to-earth.
• Approachable qualities.
• Good communicators able to articulate the difference we make and positive narratives about people seeking asylum including via social media and report writing.
• Analytical thinkers and/or able to approach problems and issues from alternative perspectives.
• A positive attitude to learning, which is key to our development, collective decision-making and team work.

The Board is a welcoming group and we wish to build on its strengths, including a diverse range of life and work experience in the public sector, charities and other not for profit organisations, business, and also with lived experience of the immigration and asylum process.