Board Treasurer

Board Treasurer - Job Description

Do you feel strongly about every child's right to play?

Do you have experience with bookkeeping?

Do you have 5-8 hours a month to support our work?

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Overview:

You will work remotely as a member of our board to support our team on the ground. Our dedicated team of coordinators and volunteers facilitate daily play sessions for displaced children in northern France. Without Project Play, the children we work with would have no access to safe spaces to play, grow and be themselves.

This is a voluntary role and an opportunity to use your skills to support the continuation of our grassroots organisation by overseeing our budgeting, bookkeeping and financial reporting

Essential:

• Working command of English;French strongly desired
• Experience of bookkeeping and financial reporting
• Supportive, detail oriented and positive
• Has an awareness of the situation on the UK/France border
• Believes in the power of play!

The Role:

• Assume primary responsibility for ensuring that proper accounting records are kept and that appropriate accounting procedures are followed. This includes leading on the production of quarterly financial reports and annual accounts.
• Provide support and oversight to our Operations Lead re. Day-to-day finances, including processing payments where appropriate. Review monthly bookkeeping and sign off on monthly reports.
• Attend a monthly finance meeting ( 1h).
• Attend quarterly board meetings (1-2 hours).
• Liaise with our fundraising team to communicate the organisation’s financial standing and monitor cash flow.

Board Responsibilities:

• All board members are responsible for upholding the highest standards of safeguarding and child protection.
• All board members are responsible for ensuring the sustainability and longevity of the organisation.
• All board members are responsible for the organisation being safe and compliant.

About Us:

Project Play is a grassroots organisation facilitating structured play sessions for children who are living in informal living sites and accommodation centres across Calais, Dunkirk and the surrounding area.

In the absence of any such provision from the state, we deliver play and informal education activities for children on the move. We are a friendly, hardworking team who aim to uphold the organisation’s principles of collaboration, communication, honesty and mutual respect. Creating a supportive and collaborative team dynamic is vital for our work.

Our sessions are designed to facilitate safe spaces in which children coming through northern France can exercise agency, nurture key developmental skills, build self-esteem and have fun. Through offering play-based psychosocial support, our team works to assist children and their families to minimise the impacts of toxic stress, trauma and ongoing adversity.

Safeguarding statement:

Project Play acknowledges the duty of care to safeguard, protect and promote the welfare of children and adults in our community. Safeguarding is at the core of our work and we are committed to ensuring that our safeguarding practice reflects best practice and upholds statutory responsibilities and government guidance.

Diversity and Inclusion statement:

We are an actively anti-racist organisation and we do not condone saviour complexes. While the spaces we work in are made up of predominately white middle class people, we are actively trying to diversify these spaces. We encourage applications from people with lived experience, people of colour and people who speak relevant languages.