Treasurer - Board of Trustees

What will you be doing?

Why This Role Matters

Kairos is entering a defining chapter. As we finalise our next five-year strategy, we’re focused on deepening our impact and strengthening our financial resilience — so we can keep showing up for women who face some of the harshest injustices in our society.

We’re not chasing growth for growth’s sake. Our priority is sustainability: building a diverse, reliable income base, improving our systems, and ensuring every financial decision reflects our mission and values.

As Treasurer, you’ll be central to this work — leading Board-level financial oversight, reviewing monthly management accounts, supporting statutory submissions, and helping shape an effective fundraising and finance strategy alongside the CEO, Finance Lead and Fundraising & Development Lead.

You’ll help us:

• Strengthen and diversify our income, with a clear eye on long-term sustainability
• Improve financial policies, processes, and planning
• Ensure compliance, transparency and sound decision-making at every level

Your Responsibilities Will Include:

• Leading the Board’s financial scrutiny, risk oversight, and reporting
• Reviewing monthly management accounts and providing financial updates to the Board
• Overseeing annual accounts and submissions to the Charity Commission and Companies House
• Working with senior management staff to improve financial systems, policies, and controls
• Supporting the development and delivery of a sustainable fundraising strategy
• Ensuring clear financial communication to help trustees make informed decisions

What are we looking for?

Who We’re Looking For

You don’t need to be a qualified accountant — but you do need to be financially confident, methodical, and aligned with our values. You’ll be experienced in management accounting and comfortable working with platforms like QuickBooks or similar software.

We’re especially keen to hear from women who:

• Have experience in finance, accounting, or charity financial management
• Can produce and interpret budgets, forecasts and management accounts
• Understand the charity reporting landscape and financial compliance
• Are excited to help shape ethical fundraising and income diversification strategies
• Can communicate financial information clearly to non-specialists

Lived Experience and Inclusion

We want our Board to reflect the diversity of the women we support. We strongly encourage applications from Black, minoritised and migrant women; disabled women; lesbian and bisexual women; and working-class women.

Your voice will be valued in a culture that centres lived experience, inclusion, and collective leadership.

Please note: This role is open to women only, as permitted under the Equality Act 2010 (Schedule 9, Part 1, GOR).

What You’ll Bring:

• A commitment to feminist values and Kairos’ mission
• Confidence with budgeting, management accounts and charity finance
• Experience using finance software (QuickBooks or similar)
• An understanding of (or willingness to learn about) income diversification in the charity sector
• A collaborative, curious mindset and a desire to make systems work better
• Time and reliability to support consistent, thoughtful financial governance

What difference will you make?

What Impact Will You Have?

As Treasurer, you’ll play a vital role in building the financial stability that underpins everything we do. Your insight, judgement and care will help ensure that every decision we make is not only bold and feminist — but also financially viable, legally compliant and ethically sound.

You’ll help translate numbers into meaning, turning financial data into clear, strategic guidance that empowers the Board to lead with confidence. From your quarterly reports to your advice on income diversification, you’ll ensure we stay rooted in reality — even as we imagine ambitious futures.

You won’t be alone. You’ll work closely with our CEO, Finance Lead and Fundraising & Development Lead to strengthen policies, streamline systems, and shape a more intentional, long-term approach to income generation. Your leadership will help us move closer towards to proactive financial planning — so we can focus our energy on supporting women, not just surviving.

In a funding climate that is increasingly unstable, your voice will bring calm, clarity and credibility. You’ll be helping us navigate financial uncertainty without compromising our values — or the quality and integrity of the support we offer.

At a time when frontline women’s services are being cut, underfunded or overlooked, your work will help protect and sustain a safe, specialist space that centres women’s rights, voices and dignity. You’ll be part of something powerful: ensuring that Kairos can keep showing up for women now — and long into the future.

Before you apply

Please apply though Reach website with CV and cover note.