Treasurer

An outreach clinic organised by our local partner, RCRA Uganda, in the Rwenzori Foothills, Uganda.

Candidate Pack
Treasurer

Welcome from the Chair of Trustees

Dear Candidates

Welcome to CHASE Africa. A small but fast-growing, vibrant organisation looking for a new Treasurer
to support our financial oversight and governance.

Since its inception 14 years ago, CHASE Africa has grown from scratch to an income in 2025 of
£830,000 – delivering over a 2.4 million healthcare and family planning services to often isolated
rural communities. We have a strong and highly motivated staff team and a thriving network of
local partners that has expanded from Kenya into Uganda and, more recently Tanzania.

CHASE Africa’s projects have already brought healthcare and empowerment to tens of thousands
of lives, particularly for women and girls, mitigating poverty and helping protect local environments.
It has the capacity and opportunity to greatly extend its impact – both geographically and in terms
of numbers reached.

Your  role  as  Treasurer  will  be  to  support  our  financial  oversight  and  governance,  working  in
collaboration with our highly experienced Finance Manager, CEO and Chair of Trustees.

Wishing you all luck in your application for this rewarding role.

Miles Geldard
Chair of Trustees
CHASE Africa

A community dialogue organised by our local partner, Save the Elephants

About Us

CHASE Africa was founded in 2000 and was
originally  called  The  Rift  Valley  Tree  Trust
(RVTT). In 2012, the RVTT changed its name
to  CHASE  Africa  (Community  Health  and
Sustainable  Environment),  to  reflect  a  shift
in  direction  and  began  to  support  primary
healthcare  and  family  planning  programmes
in remote, rural areas, initially supporting one
partner.

Over  the  past  fourteen  years,  CHASE  Africa
has grown substantially. We have worked with
sixteen  local  partners  (twelve  in  Kenya,  two
in  Uganda  and  two  in  Tanzania),  supporting
them  to  set  up  and  run  community  health
programmes  alongside  their  other  work.
These  programmes
target  remote,  rural
communities  that  face  numerous  barriers  to
accessing health services – particularly sexual
and  reproductive  health  services,  including
the unmet need for family planning.

We  have  built  up  a  well-diversified  income
source from a range of UK and International
Trusts and Foundations, who provide a mixture
of  restricted  and  unrestricted  funding.  We
have  an  enviable  record  of  donor  retention,
with  many  repeat  donors.  We  also  have  a
steady stream of individual supporters.

CHASE  Africa  has  transitioned  over  the  past
five years from being founder led and run, to
having a professional and ambitious team of
staff. We have maintained our core values of
community  focus,  collaboration  and  cost-
effectiveness and remain entrepreneurial and
nimble in our approach.

A Community Health Worker takes a patient’s blood pressure at an outreach clinic run by our local partner,
Kalyet Afya Foundation

Future Plans

There  are  exciting  opportunities  for  CHASE  Africa  to  scale  its  approach  to  other  communities,
areas and countries. We have ambitious plans to build on our experience to date to substantially
grow our impact over the next 5-10 years, by:

•  supporting more exemplar projects that test innovative approaches for improving Sexual and

•

Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) and access to family planning in rural areas;
incorporating more health system strengthening into our programmes to ensure sustainable
impact;

•  building tools and resources that can enable greater replication and scaling of our approaches;
•  strengthening the evidence base of the work we support;
•

influencing other implementing organisations (and their funders) to incorporate SRHR, women’s
health and gender equality into their programmes and approaches;

•  supporting policy efforts to see SRHR, family planning and wider community health being adapted
as key contributing factors to successful community-focussed conservation programmes and
building resilience to climate change (for example through participation in the IUCN Taskforce
on Biodiversity and Family Planning).

Patients gather at an outreach clinic organised by our local partner, Big Life Foundation, in Kenya

What  issue  is  CHASE
to
seeking
Africa
address and why?

Healthy  women,
healthy
communities, living in healthy environments

creating

CHASE Africa seeks to empower women and
girls  by  improving  access  to  health  services
in  rural  communities  and  by  addressing  the
high  unmet  need  for  family  planning.  In  so
doing we aim to improve maternal and child
outcomes,  especially  in  communities  that
have been marginalised and underserved.

CHASE Africa supports local partners that are
working in communities where there remain
considerable  barriers  to  girls  and  women
realising their sexual and reproductive health
and  rights  (SRHR)  and  where  the  unmet
demand  for  modern  contraceptives  leads
to  high  numbers  of  unplanned  pregnancies,
unsafe abortions and HIV infection. In parallel,
rates of preventable maternal deaths are high.
Maternal  death  remains  the  leading  cause
of  death  of  women  of  reproductive  age
due  to  many  women  having  closely  spaced
pregnancies  without  appropriate  ante-natal
and post-natal support, or access to facilities
or trained staff for deliveries.

is  particularly  acute

for
The  situation
adolescents  and  youth  in  East  Africa,  who
experience  some  of  the  highest  rates  of
teenage  pregnancy  in  the  world,  alongside
being  the  group  at  greatest  risk  of  HIV
infection.  Girls  who  are  not  able  to  realise
their  sexual  and  reproductive  health  and
rights are at greater risk of sexually transmitted
infections  (most  notably  HIV)  and  gender-
based  violence
including  Female  Genital
Mutilation  (FGM),  and  are  often  forced  to
drop out of school, due to early marriage and
unwanted pregnancy.

Venzetina set up her own business and now sends her
two  children  to  school  after  CHASE  Africa  taught  her
about family planning.

Without  control  over  her  body  and  rights,  a
woman lacks agency to make decisions about
her reproductive health. Enabling women and
girls  to  realise  their  sexual  and  reproductive
health  and  rights  is  a  fundamental  step
towards greater gender equality.  It increases
a  woman’s  chances
their
education,  take  up  better  opportunities  and
contribute  to  the  growth  and  prosperity  of
their families and countries. It also a key factor
in building resilience to climate change related
drought,  flooding  and  seasonal  changes,
widely  acknowledged  to  fall  hardest  on  the
most  marginalised  communities  and  those
heavily  dependent  on  natural  resources  for
their livelihoods and food security.

to  complete

In  parallel  to  its  core  health  programmes,
CHASE Africa also supports activities that aim
to  protect  the  environment  by  supporting
community  level  activities  to  promote  and
improve  sustainable  management  of  natural
land  degradation  and
resources,  reduce
biodiversity loss. For rural communities that are
heavily  dependent  on  natural  resources,  this
not  only  benefits  ecosystems,  but  improves
livelihoods and lives, especially of rural women
and children who bear the burden of activities
such  as  collecting  water  and  firewood  and
suffer most from food insecurity.

How We Work

We  support  local  partner  organisations  to
start-up  and  run  community  health  and
environment  programmes,  providing  them
with  grant  funding  and  technical  support.
We  have  deliberately  selected  organisations
that  are  deeply  embedded
local
communities they serve, ensuring an intimate
understanding of the local context.

in  the

Our  approach  to  partnership  is  collaborative
and is highly regarded by all our local partners.
As well as providing grant finance for project
implementation, we provide capacity building
support  to  strengthen  their  organisational
capacity.

Our partners in turn work in close collaboration
and  partnership  with
local  government
services – facilitating better access to existing
health  services,  that  we  also  strengthen  as
part of our programmes.

We facilitate significant sharing of knowledge,
experience  and  best  practice  across  our
network of partners, through exchange visits,
webinars and an annual CHASE Africa Partner
Network conference.

CHASE Africa staff and our local partners at the 2024 CHASE Africa Partner Conference

Responsibilities of the Role

As our Treasurer, you will provide scrutiny and oversight of the work of CHASE Africa, with a
particular focus on financial issues.  You will use your financial knowledge and experience to
monitor the financial administration of the charity and report to the Board of Trustees on its state
of financial health and provide the board with the confidence and knowledge to make good
strategic decisions.

Ideally, the Treasurer will be available to work with the CEO and finance manager between Board
meetings to support with issues which may arise.

Key responsibilities include:

•  Liaise with CEO and Trustees to ensure the financial viability of the organisation’s strategy
•  Advise on the financial implications of CA’s strategic plan (3 year)
•  Present CA’s financial position and broader context at Trustees Board meetings
•  Support the finance manager with the production of an annual budget
•  Ensure that the Board is aware of its financial duties and responsibilities and the need to comply

with all legislation

•  Take a lead in interpreting financial data for fellow Board members
•  Ensure that all financial policies, procedures and the appointment of external financial advisors

are reviewed on a regular basis

•  Ensure relevant financial policies are in place as required by the charity commission
•  Be willing to be available to support the charity’s CEO and Senior Finance Manager as needed
•  Review  the  monthly  management  accounts  report  and  cashflow  with  the  CEO  and  finance

manager

•  Liaise with senior staff to ensure financial reports are user friendly for non-finance trustees

Acting as a Trustee is a voluntary role.

The Board of Trustees meet four times a year either in the office in Rode or online.

Women and children at a backpack nurse outreach in Narok county organised by our local partner The Maa Trust

Person Profile

•  Good background in financial management and analysis
•  Able to communicate financial information clearly and to people with different levels of financial

and data literacy.

•  Knowledge  and  experience  of  finance  practice  relevant  to  voluntary  and  community

organisations.

•  Have an excellent ability to interpret financial information and the confidence to raise questions

and challenge

•  Have a good understanding of, or be willing to learn, the rules and regulation around charity

finance

•  Have the ability to think creatively and strategically, exercising good and impartial judgement
•  Knowledge of current accounting processes, tools and procedures
•  High proficiency in Excel, Powerpoint for analysis and presentation
•  Understands  and  accepts  the  legal  duties,  liabilities  and  responsibilities  of  Trustees,  and  the

difference between governance functions and management functions

•  High level of integrity and sound judgement
•  Commitment to CA’s vision, purpose and culture and its way of working
•  Able and willing to devote the necessary time to the role

Desirable
•  CCAB/CIMA qualified professional or qualified by experience in financial management
•  Awareness  and  understanding  of  the  campaigning  world  and  the  health  community  in

developing countries.

•  An interest in international development and the issues we are supporting our partners to tackle

in East Africa.

Patients attend an outreach clinic run by our local partner, RCRA Uganda, in a primary school

How to apply

for

this  post,  please  submit
To  apply
a  CV  and  covering
letter  by  email  to
harrietgordonbrown@chaseafrica.org.uk
ruthhaynes@chaseafrica.org.uk.  The
and
cover  letter  should  be  no  longer  than  two
pages long and explain why you are interested
in this post and how your skills and experience
make you a good fit.

Timeline
Closing date: 27th March 2026

Selection process
All candidates will receive an update regarding
their application after the closing date.

Other trustee roles
We are also recruiting for 1 or 2 new Trustees.
If you would also like to be considered for a
trustee  role  (as  well  or  instead  of  Treasurer)
please  indicate  this  in  your  application  or
contact  the  team  for  an  informal  discussion
before submitting your application.

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
CHASE Africa is committed to an inclusive and
diverse  working  environment.  By  building  a
culture where everyone feels heard, respected
and valued we give everyone working with us
the opportunity to achieve their full potential.

Accessibility
If  you  need  any  reasonable  adjustments
or  have  any  additional  needs  with  your
application, please get in touch.

Safeguarding
CHASE  Africa  is  committed  to  creating  a
safe  and  rewarding  environment  for  all  our
people,  Staff,  Trustees,  Partners,  Volunteers
and  the  communities  we  support,  especially
children  and  vulnerable  adults.  To  fulfil  this
commitment,  we  have  established  robust
safeguarding  policy  and  processes
that
everyone  working  with  us  is  expected  to
follow,  along  with  a  confidential  whistle-
blowing  procedure  that  allows  individuals  to
raise any concerns they may have.

Queries
If  you  have  any  queries  on  any  aspect  of
the  appointment  process,  need  additional
information, or would like to have an informal
discussion,  please
ruthhaynes@
chaseafrica.org.uk

email

Role Details

Location
Board  meetings  are  a  combination  of  in-
person  and  online.  Physical  meetings  are
held in London and at our office in Somerset.
Other support can be provided remotely.

Term
Our  Trustees  serve  a  three-year  term,  which
may be renewed for two additional terms.

Remuneration
The  role  is  offered  on  a  pro  bono  voluntary
basis. Reasonable expenses to be reimbursed.

A community dialogue targeting men organised by our local partner, The Maa Trust

CHASE Africa
The Office
Barrow Farm
Rode Hill
Rode
Somerset
BA11 6PS
UK

CHASE Africa is a Charitable Incorporated Organisation
registered with the Charity Commission (No. 1200992).

chaseafrica.org.uk