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Trustee Treasurer
The Hummingbird Project is looking for a Treasurer to join our Board of Trustees. We are looking for someone with strong financial skills and experience who can help us ensure the charity is financially well-managed, sustainable and able to continue delivering for young people from a refugee background.
As Treasurer, you will provide oversight of Hummingbird’s financial health, sustainability and long-term planning. You will support the Board to understand budgets, accounts, cash flow and financial risks, while providing constructive challenge and helping identify opportunities.
You will support budgeting and financial controls, oversee our annual accounts and help ensure we meet our legal and regulatory responsibilities. Above all, you will help ensure our financial decisions are sustainable and reflect Hummingbird’s mission, values and responsibilities to the young people and communities we work alongside.
What Is Needed:
Has strong financial acumen and experience of financial management, accounting, finance or a related field.
Ideally has experience of charity finance and an understanding of the particular financial and governance responsibilities of charities.
Is confident reading and interpreting financial information and explaining it clearly to others.
Can ask constructive questions and provide appropriate challenge while working collaboratively and supportively.
Is committed to the rights, dignity and wellbeing of young people from refugee backgrounds.
Deadline: rolling
Complete an application form and send this with your CV to [email protected]
Do you have lived experience of forced migration and are looking for your next role?
At the Hummingbird Project, we are committed to increasing the representation of people with lived experience of forced migration in our team, including our volunteers and board of trustees. Research conducted by Breaking Barriers reveals that people from refugee backgrounds in the UK are 4 times more likely to be unemployed than people born here, and on average earn about half the amount per week that UK nationals do. This is despite high levels of qualifications and skills.
If you come from a refugee background, and are thinking about your future career, you can get personalised one-to-one employment support from The Launch Pad Collective, Breaking Barriers and the Experts By Experience Employment Initiative. They can support you with your CV, writing your cover letter, interview preperation, and ongoing training and mentoriships.
In this document we set out the culture of wellbeing at the Hummingbird Project. In the spirit of reflective practice, this is a working document that will be reviewed and updated on an annual basis, with the input of the Hummingbird team.