Vacancies
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Board Matching Service Bean-counters, it’s your time to shine. In this edition of Our Community Matters, the board recruitment spotlight is on treasurers. Do you have a head for figures and a heart for community-building? Step up and get on board a board. Here’s a selection of the vacancies for treasurers currently advertised at www.goodjobs.com.au. And whether you’re an old hand or a treasurer newbie, be sure to enter the annual Commonwealth Bank Not-for-profit Treasurers’ Awards and get the recognition you deserve. For details, see page 42. New South Wales
Victoria
Crack Theatre Festival Inc supports the development of Australian artists by providing opportunities for discussion and networking, skills development and performance through the presentation of a free annual festival in Newcastle.
Permanent Care and Adoptive Families (PCA Families) delivers peer support, therapeutic programs and advocacy informed by strong lived experience and research. Funded through the Victorian Department of Human Services, its services include a carer helpline, peer support, and children and youth programs.
Treasurer, Crack Theatre Festival, Newcastle
Queensland
Treasurer, PCA Families
Treasurer and chair, Beyond A Joke Inc (Queensland but also national)
Treasurer, Women’s Information Support & Housing in the North, Alpine Shire Council
Beyond A Joke Inc provides school-based antibullying programs and publications. We are a young registered charity with DGR status in the process of becoming a company limited by guarantee. We are seeking a treasurer and chairperson with grant writing and governance expeirence.
Women’s Information Support & Housing in the North (WISHIN) is a social change organisation working towards gender equity for women and children who have experienced homelessness, family violence and related traumas. The board meets monthly in the Melbourne CBD.
Treasurer and general board members, Stepping Stone Clubhouse, Brisbane
Treasurer, West Stirling Neighbourhood House
Stepping Stone Clubhouse Inc is a mental health psycho-social recovery for purpose organisation and is located in Coorparoo in Brisbane. We are looking to appoint a new treasurer and other general committee members who have a range of complementary skills and experience to suit the organisation’s strategic direction.
Western Australia
The organisation will be tendering for the Empowering Communities Program of the Department of Communities in the coming months. We are seeking help from a suitably experienced individual.