Volunteer Chair of the finance and commercial committee (treasurer) elect

What will you be doing?

2024 will be monumental in NCVO’s history. To help ensure sustainability for the charity sector – we must innovate, diversify, and challenge ourselves like never before. We must be bold, courageous, and ambitious to make the biggest possible difference. And for success, we need the most visionary minds on our board. This is where you come in. We need a treasurer that is not only highly skilled and experienced in financial and commercial leadership but can also think strategically. As the largest membership body for voluntary organisations in England, we make decisions that will positively impact communities at a time when they need us most. NCVO exists to support, empower, and advocate for charities, and has over 17,000 national and local charities as its members. Government decision makers, charity leaders, campaigners, funders and policy developers look to NCVO for our in-depth knowledge and wide-reaching connections. This is why the role of treasurer on our board is held in such high regard.

What are we looking for?

The chair of the finance and commercial committee (the treasurer) is likely to have:

a commitment to the mission and values of NCVO as well as the wider voluntary sector, including a commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion; a strong commercial mindset and understanding; a recognised financial qualification or substantial relevant financial experience; understanding of charity finance or a willingness to understand how wider financial skills translate to charities; integrity; strategic vision; objective and independent judgement; an ability to think creatively; a willingness to speak their mind as well as listening to others; an understanding and acceptance of the legal duties, responsibilities and liabilities of trusteeship; an ability to work effectively as a member of a team and to take decisions in the best interests of NCVO.

What difference will you make?

“NCVO isn’t a typical charity, and being its treasurer isn’t a typical role.” These are the words of our current treasurer whose second term is coming to an end in Autumn 2024. While we need their successor to have a strong track record of commercial and financial leadership, it’s critical that person can also think strategically, helping us make decisions that will positively impact communities at a time when they need us most.