Thank you for expressing an interest in becoming the Honorary Treasurer of The Royal Society of Wildlife Trusts.

The Wildlife Trusts are a movement of place-based independent charities putting nature into recovery throughout the UK and its Crown Dependencies. These Wildlife Trusts are working to bring nature back and empowering people to take meaningful action for nature wherever they live. 

RSWT works to ensure a strong collective voice for wildlife across those Trusts, coordinating work between individual Wildlife Trusts, and to lead the development of the movement and federation as a whole.

Key duties

1. To provide strategic support to the head of Finance and the wider Finance Team and oversee the presentation of regular management accounts and financial reports to Council (that meets typically 6 times a year; 4 online, 2 face to face).
2. Chair RSWT’s Resources & Audit Committee which meets online typically 4 times a year.
3. To advise Council on the financial implications of RSWT’s activities, and its present and future financial needs.
4. Analyse proposals presented to both Council and Resources & Audit Committee and examine their consequences.
5. To provide financial oversight and advice to Council in relation to RSWT’s annual budgets and strategic projections.
6. To ensure all financial information is provided to Council in a way that Trustees can make informed collective decisions surrounding financial
   governance.
7. To ensure that procedures and policies are in place to maintain RSWT’s financial stability and direct on financial reserves policy and investment policy.
8. Keeping Council informed about its financial duties and responsibilities including compliance with relevant legislation and Charity Commission guidance.

Essential skills

• Financial qualifications and experience
• The skills to analyse proposals and examine their financial consequences
• An ability to engage effectively in financial strategy and funding relationships (ideally an understanding of the principles of charitable fundraising and financial governance) 

Desirable skills

• Experience of charity finance, fundraising and pension schemes
• An understanding of wider financial markets
• Experience of auditing and scruitinising accounts
• Experience of a federated charity model
• An interest in nature and wildlife