TRUSTEE & HONORARY TREASURER
We are a young medical charity entering our 5th year and restructuring to prioritise income generation to implement our ready projects and meet our aims. We are refreshing our Board with new Trustee roles and replacing former Trustees as they retire and looking for enthusiastic individuals with expertise.
We are particularly interested to hear from candidates who have already been trustees at a charity, including those with disabilities and/or from different ethnic backgrounds.
Who Are We?
Success-Life After Cure PLC is the only national charity to focus on maximising the quality of life of children and young adults with brain tumours, in both the short and longer term. We believe ‘cure alone is not enough’ and that recognising and rehabilitating the brain injury to support normal childhood and adolescent maturation, is a vital component to helping each child regain their future potential.
Each year in the UK some 800-1000 more individuals under 25 years, embark on streamlined toxic treatment pathways with little, if any, streamlined neurorehabilitation during and beyond repeated attempts to cure. Yet 80% now survive with little change over the last two decades. Survivors live a near normal life expectancy but tell us their lives are blighted by complex, and previously unforeseen, secondary physical and mental health care needs.
We are proud to represent the survivor and family voices, hear and amplify their experiences, alleviate their isolation and suffering, accelerate innovative health care solutions and advocate nationally, for a timely holistic recovery pathway to be commissioned alongside the cure itself. Only in this way can we help them achieve the independence and employment they want and deserve. Arguably, only then is the promised cure truly complete.
Application deadline: 10:00 – Thursday 30th January 2025.
What are we looking for?
We are recruiting a Trustee and Hon Treasurer to undertake responsibility for advising the charity (including the board) on the financial state of the charity, supervising the book-keeping and annual report returns, arranging banking and other financial facilities.
The Treasurer’s role will include supporting the board to develop a new 5-year strategy with a major focus on fundraising towards implementing its now defined and ready projects (i.e. not limited to finances).
The Treasurer will chair a new and growing finance committee, lead in budget forecasts for defined projects and business planning from the financial point of view, deliver the fundraising strategy and ensure smooth financial running of new income streams at Success. They will also support the charity to enable other Trustees to carry out their financial and governance responsibilities and assist the chief executive and the new development/ board in business planning, major grant applications and fundraising.
Essential Criteria
The successful candidate must:
1. Be a chartered accountant
2. Have senior management experience
3. Have senior level financial experience
4. Have been a charity trustee of one or more charities (preferably including a medical charity)
5. Have experience of managing investments.
Desirable Criteria
1. A passion for advocacy and fostering awareness of the needs of our particular community of disadvantaged children, young people and adults living with the aftermath of a brain tumour in their developmental years - before the age of 25
2. Some experience of ‘start-up’ charities and income growth
3. Skilled at analysing and succinctly communicating complex financial information
4. Working flexibly within a voluntary executive team alongside contracted staff.
What’s the commitment?
The Treasurer’s role is currently likely to include a voluntary commitment of up to a day per week to fulfil the needs of a ‘start-up’ charity in its income generation phase, and play a full part in the activities of its refreshed board of trustees.
All Trustees are encouraged to attend four annual board meetings at Baker McKenzie offices Bishopsgate which take place on Friday mornings, followed by afternoon working groups for the different sub-committees. A further annual strategy away day for the full Board takes place in January each year.
The Finance Committee is expected to meet online two weeks before each Board meeting. Trustees are consulted by email or virtually by ‘Microsoft Teams’ between meetings as the need arises.
We also encourage trustees to join our twice yearly conferences -in London and a northern regional centre- and our Carol concert in the City of London, our Summer of Fun Community Picnic and our Fundraising Events.
Trustees serve for an initial term of three years and a maximum term of six years and are legally accountable for the responsible governance of Success Charity - Life After Cure PLC.
Trustees are not remunerated.
Your application
We are keen to make this Trustee appointment by mid to end February when our current finance lead will retire, but will be available for a handover. The charity is at the same time restructuring to appoint further trustees to lead the new fundraising and development committees and refresh our 5-year strategy and goals.
We will look to the successful candidate’s inspiration and strengths to inform this exciting phase, and their capacity to work alongside the new chair of the development and fundraising committee, the Founder /CEO and the Comms/Marketing Teams.
Please review our website www.successcharity.org.uk for further information about our charity. On expression of interest, further information can be made available.
Please apply by emailing the founder Dr Helen Spoudeas at helen.spoudeas@successcharity.org.uk
Kindly enclose your CV and a one-page letter outlining the reasons for your interest in Success Charity and your relevant experience by 10:00 on Thursday 30th January 2025.
We anticipate inviting shortlisted candidates to interview in person on Wednesday or Thursday 5th or 6th February 2025. Candidates invited to interview will be asked to provide references only if they are successful.
Dr Helen Spoudeas
Founder Success Charity – Life After Cure
Consultant /Associate Professor in Paediatric Neuroendocrinology [formerly at Great Ormond Street and University College London Hospitals]
Advocate for Brain Injury Recovery Needs in Children and Young People [CYP] with Brain Tumours
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