UUMFE is looking for a Treasurer to begin as soon as possible. This is a Board-level volunteer role requiring about 10 hours per month. Ideally this person will have finance experience in a small business or non-profit and can explain financial opportunities and issues to the Board and the ED in a clear manner, as well as work with our part-time paid bookkeeper. Please email current UUMFE Treasurer at treasurer@uumfe.org.

How to Apply:

Please send a cover email or letter (see What to include below) and detailed resume to Treasurer@UUMFE.org with the subject line “Interest in UUMFE  Treasurer/Board of Directors.” 

What to Include in your cover email/letter:

Unless clear in your resume, please highlight some of the following:

• Do you have any UU affiliation(s)? Include the name of your congregation, if applicable?
• What skills, talents, hopes, and passions would you wish to contribute to UUMFE and its mission?
• Do you have any previous board and leadership experience? Please include the results/impact of such work? And, what are you hoping to gain from your board service to UUMFE?  
• Your ability to commit to ten hours per month attending UUMFE Board meetings and performing other UUMFE work

Job Description:

Accountability: The Board Treasurer is an executive and voting member of the Board of Directors of UU Ministry for Earth (UUMFE) and appointed in a manner consistent with the bylaws. The Treasurer is accountable to the Board for the fulfillment of the duties and responsibilities outlined below.

Time Commitment: Estimated ten hours per month: 

• Monthly Board meeting (2 hours),
• Monthly Executive Circle meeting (2 hours), 
• Once a month Bookkeeper meeting (1 hour)
• Preparing Treasurer Report (1 hour)
• Other Financial duties (0- 3 hour depending on the month )
• As called upon by Chair to serve in non-Treasurer Board tasks (1 hour)

Roles and Responsibilities: The Treasurer will offer guidance to the UUMFE Board and senior staff to ensure good fiscal planning, decision-making and oversight at a governance level. In addition, the Treasurer is a full Board Member and has the same responsibilities. See Appendix A for Board Member at Large description.

1.  Financial Control:

• Review bookkeeper work, ensuring compliance with government requirements and accounting best practices.
• Ensure that the organization maintains the appropriate financial “books and records”, primarily online files, of monthly and annual financial activities, and that these are accurate and up-to-date
• Ensure that government tax filings and remittances are submitted on a timely basis.
• Review monthly bank reconciliation for timeliness, accuracy and understanding of unusual items.

2.  Annual Budget  

• Prepare the annual budget and its presentation to the Board for review and approval
• Alert the Board to any important discrepancies between Budget and actual financial performance.

3.  Regular Tracking and Reporting

• Provide a quarterly analysis of UUMFE’s current financial position plus highlights of income and current and projected expenses

4.  Ongoing Financial and Payroll Operations

• Ensure that payroll and other liabilities are settled in a timely manner
• Serve as a signer of checks along with Executive Director
• Ensure that excess funds and reserves are properly held and invested
• Verify that donations are handled appropriately and that grants and service delivery contracts are accounted for in accordance with funders’ requirements

5.  Personnel Management

• Manage the part-time bookkeeper virtually.

Qualifications:

• Commitment to the organization’s mission and strategic directions
• An understanding of, and experience with, good financial management and reporting practices.
• Proficiency in QuickBooks software is desirable.
• An appreciation of the kind and level of financial information needed at a Board level to support decision making
• An ability to commit the time required to fulfill the responsibilities described, as estimated above

Term of Office:

• All Board Member terms are for a two year period
• All Board Members are encouraged to stay on a second and third term.

General Board Member Responsibilities:

For over 20 years, the Unitarian Universalist Ministry for Earth (uumfe.org) has been the leading collective voice in Unitarian Universalism, uplifting the need to face and adapt to the climate crisis, counter environmental injustice, and support the flourishing of all life. Our mission is to be a seedbed for spiritual grounding and education that inspires deep practices of Earth care, justice and flourishing for all. Our vision is a world in which reverence, gratitude, and care for each other and for the living Earth are central to the lives of all people.  

Our work is grounded in faith and spirituality, as well as in recognition that climate change is an existential threat demanding a moral response. We affirm and promote the seven principles of Unitarian Universalism as well as the proposed 8th principle, and we understand environmental and climate justice to be a moral imperative. 

UUMFE is navigating a period of growth and internal transition, as we seek to implement our new strategic vision. Towards this end, we are exploring a renewed purpose for our Board and welcome you to join us in this journey.

 Roles and Responsibilities

1. Serve as an advocate for the organization, in fulfillment of its vision and mission.

2. Contribute to our mission, utilizing your passion and skills, in one or more of the following areas:

Board-focused work, such as Board governance, Board development , Board recruitment, or human resources. 

Outreach  work, such as being a spokesperson for our mission and vision; participate in fundraising, stewardship, donor relations, congregational engagement, and/or visiting and/or leading worship or other programs. 

Programs and Partnerships work, such as working closely with staff in program planning and implementation; attending and participating in UUMFE programs; cultivating partnerships with relevant organizations; and planning activities around the UUA General Assembly and other important events.     

3. Make a personal financial contribution to the organization and/or solicit financial support from individuals, congregations, and others.

Qualifications

• Passion for supporting Earth care from a holistic perspective — which includes the range from climate justice and action, embodiment of a loving, reciprocal relationship with Earth, and spiritual grounding. 
• Strong interest in environmental justice with eagerness to consider justice and ministry for Earth from an anti-racist, anti-colonialist, anti-oppressive lens.
• Curious, flexible, creative, team player, good listener. 
• Able to dedicate 5 to 10 hours per month to the organization including attendance at monthly Board meetings and active engagement with one or more Circles (committees). 
• Strong background and/or involvement with the UU faith

We are looking to develop a dynamic, multicultural, multigenerational anti-oppressive Board, inclusive of people of color, trans and gender-nonconforming people, young people, people with disabilities, people living in poverty, and/or frontline communities.

Board member terms are 2-years and a member may serve up to three consecutive terms.