We are looking to recruit a part-time (20 hours a week) Finance Lead who has the skills and experience to help steer us through our next phase of organisational development. You will ensure that our financial administration and management is robust and that we are fulfilling our statutory requirements. Reporting to the Director, and working alongside the whole staff team, the Finance Lead is responsible for the timely and accurate transactional financial record keeping of the charity. You’ll help keep the organisation running smoothly and can shape our future operations and resilience through your strong financial acumen and initiative taking.
Since 1982 Ripon Museum Trust has run three museums in the heart of the City of Ripon. We tell the interlinked story of poverty, law, crime, punishment and justice - using a Grade II Victorian Workhouse Museum, Grade II* Liberty Gaol and Police Station, Grade II* Georgian Courthouse and a collection of 9000 objects to explore our themes. Our mission is to use the unique trio of the Workhouse, Prison & Police and Courthouse Museums, collections and the stories they tell to help people explore big issues such as fairness, equality, justice and welfare. Through excellent engagement, programming and outreach, together we will inspire people to become compassionate and active citizens, shaping society for the better.
Arts Council England (ACE) and The National Lottery Heritage Fund (NLHF) recognise our potential and consider us worth investing in, and the next couple of years promise to be the most exciting in the museum’s development.
Ripon Museum Trust is a close-knit community of staff and volunteers with strong values of fairness, ambition, community, team-work and learning. By drawing parallels between the past and the present we aim to inspire people to seek a fairer society- come and be part of this brilliant team!
If you are interested in this position, please send your CV and a covering letter to alexa.vernon@riponmuseums.co.uk. For informal discussion about this post please contact Alexa Vernon, Director of Museums in the first instance on alexa.vernon@riponmuseums.co.uk
