Advertiser's description (via Bristol Food Network):
About Bristol Food Network
Bristol Food Network (BFN) supports, informs and connects stakeholders across Bristol who have an interest in making our food system more sustainable, just and resilient. We are a Community Interest Company (CIC) that has been engaging and working with food systems stakeholders in the city for over a decade.
We have coordinated significant projects and campaigns including our current focus – Bristol Good Food 2030, Bristol’s Silver and Gold Sustainable Food Places Awards; the Bristol Independents campaign and the annual Get Growing Trail which opens up community growing spaces across the city to the public.
We have a small team of staff delivering a wide range of food systems work, comprising a General Manager (who is also a director), Comms & Engagement Coordinator, Content Coordinator and Partnership Coordinator. The organisation’s work is overseen by a group of six directors. Our current core programme is Bristol Good Food 2030 – a city-wide collaborative programme, bringing together a diverse group of stakeholders to deliver a Good Food plan for Bristol to 2030. The communications programme supports the delivery of these plans, as well as the organisation’s wider aims of growing Bristol’s ‘good food movement’.
About the role
The board of directors of Bristol Food Network CIC is seeking new board members including someone who can additionally take on the paid role of managing the organisation’s finances.
Hours:
- Board member role: flexible, likely to be approximately 6 hours on average per month in a voluntary capacity (attending board meetings, pre-reading, email communications, and specific tasks as requested, such as attending external meetings as an advocate or assisting on reading or drafting strategy documents or fundraising bids)
- Paid finance role: approximately 4-8 hours per month on finance responsiblities (processing and paying invoices, bank reconciliations, maintenance of forecasting tool, preparation of annual accounts, planning meetings with General Manager)
Paid work will also include time spent on handover of the accounts systems and processes, ahead of officially starting the role.
Location: Home-based, with in person attendance at board meetings (central Bristol)
Remuneration: For the finance responsibilities only, nominally £150 per day for half a day per month, plus a day after year end for finance related work, totalling £1,050 per year. (Can be paid through PAYE if wanted, otherwise invoiced as a contractor.)
General director duties are voluntary. There is a potential to take on additional paid work to support the organisation as and when the opportunity arises.
Reports to: Board of directors on financial performance. Regular planning meetings with the General Manager.
Role purpose and responsibilities
- To be an active board member and company director, taking collective responsibility for the governance and strategic direction of the organisation, including attending board meetings and taking an active interest in the operations of the organisation.
- To process day to day accounts transactions (currently using QuickBooks Online) and manage the bank account
- To manage restricted and general funds as part of the bookkeeping process, and to manage credit control as required
- To prepare year end accounts for the accountant
- To maintain a forecasting tool, to enable future projection of funding requirements and to inform expenditure planning within funding limitations
- To assist the General Manager with forward planning and budgeting, and to support fundraising work with budgets tailored to specific potential projects or scenarios
Find out more here: Exciting opportunity – Bristol Food Network
