Operations & Finance Officer Role
An exciting opportunity to join a progressive and award-winning UK Charity transforming the world of work for people who stutter.
This page firstly explains our new Operations & Finance Role and application process and secondly explains about 50 Million Voices.
Freelance Operations & Finance Officer (Contractor)
Contract: 6-month contract
Reports to: 50 Million Voices, Chair of Trustees
Direct Reports: None
Project: Operations & Finance improvement, £18 per hour, equivalent to up to £6,552 over 6 months
Hours: 14 hours per week - core working hours to be agreed in advance with some mandatory morning hours.
Location: Working remotely in UK
The role: Freelance Operations & Finance Officer
We are seeking a freelance Operations & Finance Officer to support a growing UK-based charity in transitioning from its founding years into a sustainable, scalable organisation. This contract role will involve overseeing governance, finance, HR, and operational functions, helping formalise processes and systems, and supporting key reporting and communications tasks.
This is a UK-based, fully remote contractor role. You will be making a difference through working closely with our founder and Chair, and a small team of freelancers and volunteers, while collaborating on agreed deliverables and timelines. The contract duration is initially 6 months, with potential for extension based on project needs.
Deliverables
Governance & Compliance:
- Prepare timely bi-monthly board papers in collaboration with the Chair.
- Update organisational policies, risk register, and compliance records.
- Produce the draft Annual Report and draft annual return for the Charity Commission (‘CC’), including narrative report and Receipts and Payments account
Finance & Administration:
- Please note, the number of monthly receipts & payments are usually in single figures, with peaks around 2 or 3 major events per year.
- Manage basic bookkeeping, receipts, payments, invoicing, and procurement.
- Manage budgeting, financial reporting, and liaison with the Independent Examiner re CC requirements
- Oversee Gift Aid claims and liaise with the bank.
Operations & IT:
- Identify and implement process improvements, including moving to more optimal use of office system (Microsoft Office 365)
- Oversee CRM (currently manual but looking to evolve to move to an external platform), website updates, data security, and IT supplier (IT Guys) relationships.
Relationship administration:
- Assist the Chair with networking follow-up admin and supporter communications as agreed.
Human Resources:
- Coordinate any staff and volunteer recruitment and onboarding.
- Maintain HR records and update freelance contracts every six months.
Ad-hoc support:
- Undertake ad-hoc tasks as required by the Chair or Board.
Skills and Experience Required
- Candidates who stammer and candidates who do not stammer are equally welcome to apply.
- Proven experience managing governance, finance, HR, and operations in a small organisation or charity.
- Skilled in producing board papers, updating policies, and ensuring legal compliance.
- Financial literacy: basic bookkeeping and budgeting.
- Proficiency in IT systems, CRM platforms, data security protocols
- Strong organisational skills and ability to manage competing priorities independently.
- HR administration experience: recruitment, onboarding, and record-keeping.
- Good communication and interpersonal skills whether you speak with or without a stammer or other speech difference
- Embraces purpose-led, international, friendly small-team culture.
Equal opportunities
We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified candidates, irrespective of age, disability, gender, race, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or any other protected characteristic.
Application:
Please send your CV, a 1-page cover letter outlining your relevant experience and interest, and 2 references to 50 Million Voice Chair, Iain Wilkie, at chair@50millionvoices.org
50 Million Voices
50 Million Voices is an ambitious UK charity and international community transforming the world of work for people who stutter.
We achieve this mainly through running experiential online learning events for people who stutter, allies and employers, and sharing best practices, including through giving talks either virtually or in-person.
Founded as a campaign in 2019 and a charity in 2020, we bring together people who stutter, allies and employers. We challenge ill-informed negative assumptions about stuttering, help to bring down barriers to employment and career opportunities, and encourage greater understanding and acceptance of stuttering in the global workplace.
These changes can benefit everyone: the 50 million adults globally of employable age who stutter, allies, employers and society at large.
Our Values
We believe that:
- Stuttering is a different not a defective way of speaking
- Stuttering should not be a barrier to getting any job
- Stuttering should not be a barrier to fulfilling our potential
- Teams and organisations are more successful when they embrace different ways of speaking including stuttering
Our Activities and Impact
- We’ve successfully run 8 flagship Global Practice Interview events to date involving over 750 participants from 39 countries.
- Feedback on the impact of these virtual events is consistently strong.
- For example, 94% of interviewees in our most recent events in October 2024 and March 2025, now feel ‘more confident’ than before about their next interviews as candidates who stutter. The remaining 6% feel ‘just as confident’ as before and would ‘definitely recommend’ the event to others who stutter.
- We know of several interviewees who have subsequently secured jobs or promotions, including already a new job for an unemployed interviewee from our March 2025 event.
- Many employers have subsequently improved their talent attraction, talent acquisition and promotion processes, thereby creating a win-win for themselves and for candidates who stutter.
- We’ve also run numerous educational sessions on stuttering in the workplace for employers, for example Audi, British Council, BT, Cargill, Compass, EY, NHS, Rolls-Royce, McCann, Royal College of Surgeons in England, TSB Bank and others.
- We often give talks at stuttering and disability community events, including global and national conferences and topic-led events. For example, we’ve recently been confirmed to speak at the International Stuttering Association World Congress in Finland in August 2025.
- In March 2025, we were named as a finalist in the Global Inclusion category for the Business Disability Forum’s ‘Disability Smart Awards 2025’. The other finalists were Coca-Cola and HSBC.
You can read more about our impact here.