Florence Nightingale Museum: seeking Treasurer

The Florence Nightingale Museum, in London, is seeking to appoint a volunteer Treasurer to its Board of Trustees of the FN Museum from next financial year.  The role requires attendance at four meetings of the Board of ten trustees a year, plus liaison with the staff Finance Officer of the Museum, in reporting the annual accounts. A fuller advertisement and job description are available on the Museum’s website:

http://www.florence-nightingale.co.uk/about-us/vacancies.html

Application as outlined to the Director, Natasha McEnroe, from a qualified actuary wishing to be considered for this volunteer role would be welcomed.

This volunteer role would be external to IFoA business, and the member, if appointed,  would volunteer in a personal capacity and not as a representative of the IFoA. 

However, it is nice to note the historical links which exist:  Florence Nightingale had no formal links with the early Institute but worked with William Farr, honorary FIA who devised the first national English Life Tables. She brought pioneering innovation in compiling and presenting demographic statistics to inform for better outcomes from nursing and healthcare. They both surveyed mortality from the Crimea war in 1850s, Nightingale producing her coxcomb (pie chart-style) mortality statistics as evidence for changes to nursing and hospital design and to care leading to improving survival rates etc.

If you are a qualified member of the IFoA and would like to find out more, or express an interest in being considered, please contact David Raymont, Librarian, at the IFoA.

Closing date for applications: Friday 8 November 2013. Interviews to take place on Thursday 14 November 2013.