Honorary Treasurer Trustee for Rennie Grove Peace Hospice Care

Welwyn Hatfield Community And Voluntary Services Limited; Remote; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A local charity organization in Watford seeks a Trustee to offer strategic leadership and financial oversight. The role involves active participation in Board meetings, ensuring compliance with governance standards, and supporting the charity's mission. Candidates should have extensive experience in financial leadership and be committed to the charity's values. This voluntary role provides networking opportunities and professional recognition.

Benefits

Professional recognition

Networking opportunities

Training and support

Qualifications

• Extensive senior financial leadership experience.
• Strong knowledge of accounting standards and best practices in governance.
• Exceptional communication and influencing skills.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic leadership and governance.
• Oversee financial controls and risk management.
• Advise on financial compliance and reporting.

Skills

Financial leadership

Strategic thinking

Stakeholder management

Communication skills

Job description

Overview

Become a Trustee and help make a real difference in the local community. We help people live well with illness, through early support, Living Well centres, end of life and palliative care and bereavement support.

Opportunity Type: Long-term Commitment

District: Dacorum, Hertsmere, St Albans, Three Rivers, Watford

Start Date: 30/09/2025
End Date: 29/10/2025

Location: From your office

Time of day: Weekday Mornings, Weekday Afternoons, Weekday Evenings

Practical Considerations: Meetings will take place at any of our buildings in Watford, St Albans and Tring. The buildings in Watford and St Albans are accessible for wheelchair users, but not the building in Tring. If there are any adjustments we need to consider to make sure we can support you in interview, please let us know.

Requirements: Will require a criminal record check (DBS)

Suitable for: Aged 26 and over, Older People, People with a visual impairment, People with restricted mobility

Suitable for volunteers interested in: Children, Families & Family Support, End of Life, Bereavement & Hospices, Trusteeship & Governance

Does this opportunity provide wheelchair access?: Yes

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About the role
The Trustee and Honorary Treasurer will serve as a key strategic leader on the charity’s Board, offering expert oversight and independent judgement to support robust financial management and organisational governance. The role is instrumental to ensuring the charity’s financial sustainability amidst a complex operating environment, and requires active collaboration with senior leadership, board committees and a broad range of stakeholders. Candidates must demonstrate deep commitment to the charity’s mission and significant experience in financial leadership.

Key responsibilities

• Governance and strategic leadership
• Actively participate in Board meetings and relevant Board committee meetings (e.g. Risk & Audit), providing objective advice on strategic direction, performance and resources.
• Work with the Chair, Chief Executive and other trustees to ensure the charity maintains the highest standards of governance, complies with all relevant laws and regulations and delivers on its mission.
• Contribute to the development, scrutiny and approval of organisational strategies, major projects and investment decisions, ensuring alignment with long-term goals.
• Champion the charity’s values, diversity and inclusion and ethical standards at all times.

• Financial oversight and stewardship
• Lead the Board’s oversight of all financial matters, including reserves and investment portfolios.
• Oversee robust financial controls, risk management frameworks and reporting systems.
• Brief and advise the Board on financial compliance and reporting.
• Oversee the preparation and Board approval of annual statutory accounts and budgets, ensuring compliance with relevant accounting standards (e.g. SORP for charities), regulatory requirements and best practice.
• Liaise with external auditors and oversee the annual audit process, ensuring any key findings are appropriately addressed.

• Organisational support
• Act as a sounding board and provide advice to Chief Executive and financial management as regards financial compliance and developments.

Person specification

• Extensive senior financial leadership experience.
• Strong knowledge of accounting standards, audit, risk management, (ideally) charity finance and best practice in governance.
• Exceptional communication, influencing and stakeholder management skills.
• Strategic thinker, capable of balancing detail with the bigger picture, and exercising sound independent judgement.
• Deep commitment to the mission, vision and values of the charity, including principles of equality, diversity and inclusion.

Time commitment

This appointment requires a commitment to Rennie Grove Peace Hospice Care to attend quarterly early evening meetings of the Board of Trustees and serve on at least one Board committee (Risk & Audit), with additional meetings as required. In addition to attending meetings, trustees will need to make time to read and evaluate papers. All our trustees are encouraged to actively participate and engage in external events and networking to represent and promote the charity, where requested.

Appointments are usually for a term of three years with the possibility of two further three year extensions by mutual agreement up to a maximum term of nine years.

Remuneration

This is a voluntary, unpaid trustee role. Reasonable expenses incurred in the course of duties will be reimbursed in line with the charity’s policy.

Benefits of joining our Board of Trustees include professional recognition, networking opportunities with fellow trustees as well as access to forums and communities of likeminded trustees at other organisations, training and support to get the best out of the role, and career development to diversify experience and demonstrate governance expertise and commitment to public service.

Application process

Please submit a covering letter outlining how your skills and experience would contribute to Rennie Grove Peace Hospice Care in your role as trustee, together with a recent CV. The supporting statement should demonstrate why you want to join our Charity, your suitability for this role and specifically address the key elements of this role specification. If your skills and experience fit, you will be shortlisted and final selection will be via a two-stage formal interview process with the Chair of Trustees, Chief Executive and one or two other trustees.

On successful appointment, the following will be required: Volunteer application form and appropriate references; Enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) check; Online course in data security, information governance and other essential learning; Legal documentation required to become a charity trustee.

If you would like to talk to someone about this role in more detail, please apply.