Join Bricks Board as our New Treasurer

Bricks Board role is to shape and set the strategic direction of the organisation, agreeing the vision and key objective in partnership with the CEO. This includes oversight of two current areas of work St Anne’s House and Bricks Public Art Agency.

Now is an exciting time to join Bricks board and lead us through into the next stage of our work, now in our sixth year as a charity, and our fourth year at St Anne’s House we are gearing up for a phase of consolidation, long term thinking and capital building works.

We welcome all applications, and if you think this is not for you, still apply as we are always interested to hear from people that want to support our work and communities.

Deadline for applications: 30 October 2024.

Our ideal candidate would bring experience of one or more of the following:

• Director or Head of Finance in a Charity
• Charity auditing
• Chartered accountancy
• Experience of a large scale capital project, including housing.

TREASURER ROLE

Bricks board’s role is to shape and set the strategic direction of the organisation, agreeing the vision and key objective in partnership with the CEO. This includes oversight of two current areas of work St Anne’s House and Bricks Public Art Agency.

The full board meets six times a year, generally 6pm on a weeknight and lasting no more than two hours, with the option to join online or at St Anne’s House.

There are subcommittees for:

• Finance and Fundraising (three times a year)
• Capital project (six times a year)
• Fundraising and Income (six times a year)
• H&S and Operations (twice a year)
• Public Art (twice a year)

The treasurer role, has a specific responsibilities on top of the general trustee role, this includes:

• Chairing the Finance and Risk Subcommittee
• Supporting CEO and Head of Finance on a strategic and ad hoc basis

We appreciate that trustees live busy lives and will work with you to find a balance that works for all and make sure it’s within the capacity you want to give.

CURRENT TRUSTEES

Spring this year we ran an open process to recruit new trustees to Bricks board,  profiles for those trustees can be read here.

Current Treasurer James Flintoff will be stepping down from the board in November 2024.

Bricks works with Bristol’s creative, local and social enterprise communities to programme collaborative activities and secure permanent spaces in the city for our communities to build community resilience and sustainable futures.

We believe in the civic role of artists and that through collaboration we can have a strong collective voice to influence the growth of the city.

KEY AREAS OF WORK

Community Led Creative – Working with local resident groups through creative processes to support local voices in the development of the city.

Artist Development – Throughout our whole programme we work to promote and develop local talent.

Public Art Producing – Working with developers and the city to write and produce public art programmes that support local voices.

Creative Infrastructure – Working across the city, constructing cross-sector partnerships to secure and run long term creative infrastructure for Bristol citizens.

OUR VALUES

Creative – We believe in the power of creativity inside everyone.

Collaborative – We believe in the magic and added value of collaboration.

Hospitable – We are welcoming and want to bring people together.

Sustainable – We are financially and environmentally sustainable and conscientious.

Local – We are locally rooted and accountable. We support local voices.

Inclusive – We listen to people and are people-led.

Entrepreneurial – We believe in exploring new ways of doing things and connecting value.

Civic – We are for all people in our city.

PRE-APPLICATION

You are welcome to have a pre-application chat with either CEO Jack Gibbon, or outgoing Treasurer James Flintoff. 

Contact Jack on jack@bricksbristol.org  or James on james.flintoff@hotmail.com to set up a phone call or meeting.

APPLICATION

If you would like to apply please email Jack Gibbon jack@bricksbristol.org with a short introduction as to why you would like to join Bricks board and what you would bring to the organisation, attaching CV or links if relevant.

You can use video/audio as your application, just send us the file to review.

Applications will be reviewed by Jack, and existing board members.

FEEDBACK

We welcome feedback on how we can improve our recruitment processes, you can do this via email to hr@bricksbristol.org.