Member News: TACT wish to appoint a Trustee with an Accountancy and Auditing experience

Location: Homebased - With occasional travel
Salary: Non Salaried Post
Hours: Variable
Closing Date: 28/02/2023
Interview Date: tbc

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Role: Trustee with an Accountancy background/experience
Location: Homebased – Working Remotely- UK wide 

Commitment : 2 – 3 full days and up to 7 half days per year  (4/5 Board meetings per year, 2 face to face and 3 virtual. Board runs noon – 5pm.  All subcommittees are virtual)

Salary: Non-Salaried

Are you looking join an innovative and forward-thinking organisation where you can make a positive difference to the lives of children, young people and care experienced adults? Then this is an excellent opportunity for you to join the UKs largest non-profit making foster care provider who has 'outstanding’ levels of employee engagement’ as evidenced in the Times 100 Best Companies Survey in October 2021 and that is currently listed as 16th in the UK’s Best Mid-Sized Companies across all industries and the 4th Best Charity to work for in 2022. 

As a ‘not for profit’ organisation, TACT puts the needs of our children and carers first and look to appoint individuals who are as passionate about fostering as we are. Our core work involves providing high quality and well supported fostering for children and young people in the care of local authorities. Working in partnership with local authorities from our offices across England, Wales, and Scotland, we provide creative, effective and outcome-focused services. We also campaign on behalf of children and young people in care, carers, and adoptive families.

TACT wish to appoint a Trustee with an Accountancy and Auditing experience who will add extra skills and experience to the Board in order to help us navigate the increasingly complex environment in which we operate.  We are looking for an ACA qualified accountant and welcome applications from across the UK.

We especially welcome applications from those with care experience and are committed to having a board with a diverse and varied background and actively encourage applications from women and black, asian, and minority ethnic members of the community who are under-represented on the board

In this voluntary role, you will be help the organisation:

• plan for the future and develop the strategic direction of the organisation.
• challenge the executive management team in their plans and how their decisions will add value to TACT’s strategy and organisational management.
• communicate professionally with a wide range of people including colleagues, carers, and third-party organisations to establish professional working relationships which focus on the ongoing development of the TACT.

The successful candidate will have...

• Experience in Accounting & Auditing
• ACA qualification or equivalent
• Confidence in using all Microsoft Office applications including Outlook, OneDrive & SharePoint
• Excellent communication skills to suit a broad range of professional relationships.
• Good understanding of safeguarding procedures. data protection and information security.
• Ideally have experience and knowledge of fostering and care experience

Wellbeing
TACT prioritise wellbeing and as part of this role the Trustee will have access to:

• Employee Assistance Programme (including free CBT counselling, remote GP appointments, physiotherapy, mental health support and second opinions).
• One off free appointment with a Menopause Consultation from Menopause Support
• Free subscription to calm
• Please see the Job Information Pack for further information.

If you would like to speak with the Chair of Trustee’s or the CEO prior to applying, please contact [email protected] and this can be arranged. 

An Enhanced DBS clearance is required for this post, which will be processed by TACT on your behalf.

Closing Date: 28th February 2023 – Applications will be processed as they are received

Interview Date: to be confirmed (via Microsoft Teams)

Full details and application documents here