Extraordinary Election: Board Member of Finance

EUROPEAN YOUTH PARLIAMENT UKRAINE Board Member of Finance - Extraordinary Election 2018

Number of candidates - 1

Responsibilities • Coordinates work and distributes responsibilities within the department; • Assists in finding the funds to enable the projects; • Maintains contacts with donor organisations and sponsors, including official correspondence, meetings and reporting; • Controls submitting of all reports to sponsors after the events; • Leads and reports the financial situation of the organisation; • Creates and updates sponsor kits, potential sponsors database; • Stores sponsors contact history; • Ensures proper budgeting of events; • Reports to the President on actions/activities conducted.

Anastasiya Tokar

City of residence Kyiv (till the middle of July)

Link to Members platform profile https://www.members.eyp.org/users/anastasiya-tokar

Current occupation - place of employment and your position and/or name of educational institution and programme you are enrolled in.

Wix company, customer solutions expert/Minerva student

Motivation to become a Board Member on Finance for the remaining term.

First of all, taking over any leadership position in such a big organisation is a great challenge. I love challenging myself and creating obstacles to overcome. I believe that only through a tough time there might be an improvement. Thus, becoming a Board Member on Finance will create a great opportunity for me to test myself, improve time-management skills, strengthen communication skills and develop other ones I have yet to embrace.

Secondly, being in EYP makes me want to give something back to the community, and taking over the position will help me to do that. Give back in order to express my gratefulness towards everything EYP Ukraine has given to me and has yet to give.

Finally, as I have already started working on the Finance Department of EYP Ukraine, I had gotten familiar with all the flaws we have faced throughout this year. I have already contacted some of our sponsors and have cleared a path on how to improve the situation we are in now. Therefore, I would not want to give up something I have already started, though I will definitely pass it on to another person if they are elected instead of me.

Relevant experience within and outside EYP, which can help perform as a Board Member on Finance

I have gone through the numerous trainings, Training Camp`s module on NC governance and Fundraising modules in different NGOs (FRI, Ecoltava) in particular. I have been already introduced to the structure and the work of the Board of National Committee in Ukraine. Additionally, I have repeatedly taken over leadership positions both in EYP and outside which will help me to manage the work within the Department and with the Organisers of the remaining events.

Vision of the development of the Finance Department

I believe, the Finance Department is supposed to be one of the strongest ones as without the proper web of sponsors there will be a lot of challenges for the organisation to maintain its work on a proper level. Moreover, the Department needs to be always accessible and transparent with its work. The communication flow with the sponsors needs to be structured and constantly on-going. Moreover, new grants and opportunities to fundraise need to be always searched and updated. Finally, the Finance Department needs to be constantly helping organisers with their own fundraising. It might be totally overwhelming for them to search for financing for a huge organisation, though having nobody else to help you out there.