Chair of the Audit and Risk Committee (ARC)

Chair of the Audit and Risk Committee (ARC)

Remuneration: £9,500 per annum, plus out of pocket expenses.

Red Kite is a tenant-led, not-for-profit, charitable housing association which owns and manages 6,600 homes all within 15 miles of High Wycombe, in the south of Buckinghamshire. Our tenants and leaseholders take an active role in everything that we do. It is an enormously exciting time to be joining our Board. We have the group structure and financial resources in place to deliver some exciting plans and are seeking people that can bring experience, leadership, challenge and support to enable us to position our Board to help drive us and to work with us to realise our goals.

The Chair of the Audit and Risk Committee will bring their recent and relevant senior financial experience and leadership to this role with an ability to shape and encourage best practice. We particularly welcome applicants with some of the following experience:

• Experience of being a chair or member of an Audit and Risk Committee
• A professional accounting or auditing qualification with senior experience in an organisation of similar scale and complexity
• Experience of working at a senior level and in a position of leadership
• An excellent working knowledge of audit committee practices and risk management and assurance frameworks
• Current knowledge of the regulatory and risk management environment Knowledge of and experience in the public or private sector
• Experience of internal and external audit functions Experience of the year-end financial audit process.

Enthusiastic about this opportunity? Have some questions? Do get in touch with Sue Manning, Director, Forest HR. Sue will be delighted to speak with you after you've had a look through the relevant information pack. A copy of the information pack is attached separately for you to download.

The estimated time commitment for the role is around 3 days per month (including meetings, reading and preparation time, committee work, Board away days, appraisal, ambassadorial events, training and development, etc.)

Application is by CV and a covering letter which sets out why you are an ideal candidate. 

Closing date for applications: 10.00 am, Friday 6th June 2025

Initial interviews:  2nd and 3rd July 2025

Final stage:  Thursday, 24th July 2025