Non-executive member of the Audit & Risk Committee

Non-executive member of the Audit and Risk Committee

We are currently recruiting for a new non-executive member to join our Audit and Risk Committee from 1 July 2025.

The committee’s remit is to advise and support the accounting officer and the Board of Trustees on their responsibilities for issues of risk, control and governance by reviewing the comprehensiveness of assurances, and the reliability and integrity of those assurances.

The non-executive member will be able to demonstrate knowledge, understanding and practical experience of:

• Board level or equivalent leadership expertise in a public and/or private organisation;
• Corporate governance;
• Risk management;
• Financial and performance management, preferably within a large complex organisation;
• Experience of auditing and/or scrutinising financial statements.

Candidates with prior experience of internal audit within the public sector, including local government, covering IT and digital, counter-fraud and the three lines of assurance model would be particularly welcome to apply.

The successful candidate should also be able to demonstrate:

• Communication skills with the capacity to readily gain the confidence of the chief executive and the other directors, internal audit and the National Audit Office;
• The ability to analyse and absorb complex information, strategically challenge and prioritise, and scrutinise performance;
• Sound judgement and a high level of integrity;
• Good interpersonal skills and the ability to work coherently with a team;
• The ability to work constructively as a member of a diverse team valuing diversity and equality of opportunity across the organisation;
• Professional knowledge of financial reporting processes and awareness of the governing rules within which public bodies must operate, including in reviewing the reliability and integrity of related assurance processes for the annual report and accounts.

About the National Heritage Memorial Fund

As the largest funder for the UK’s heritage, our vision is for heritage to be valued, cared for and sustained for everyone, now and in the future.

We believe in the power of heritage to ignite the imagination, offer joy and inspiration, and to build pride in place and connection to the past.

The National Heritage Memorial Fund was established in 1980 to save the most outstanding parts of our national heritage at risk of loss to the nation, as a memorial to those who have given their lives for the UK. It has a current annual budget of £5million. The Memorial Fund also delivers investment programmes for our sponsor department, the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), other departments of the UK government and for the devolved administrations across the UK.

In 1994, the Memorial Fund also became the distributor of the heritage share of National Lottery money for good causes, which we now deliver through the National Lottery Heritage Fund. This is the main focus of our activity, and we invest over £300m a year raised by National Lottery players. Since 1994, we have awarded over £9.2bn of National Lottery and other funding to more than 52,000 heritage projects across the UK.

How to apply

You can find the recruitment pack with further information about the role in the supporting documents below.

Please submit a CV and a short covering letter/statement via the Heritage Fund’s recruitment portal no later than 11:59pm on Sunday 19 January 2025.