Publish What You Fund’s financial, administrative and human resource management and structures need to be good. As we are scrutinising and critiquing others which means our approach must go beyond simple legal compliance to good practice on issues such as health & safety, employment and financial management systems.

Staffing

As an advocacy organisation, Publish What You Fund is dependent on the knowledge, credibility, skills and relationships of its staff to deliver on our objectives. Investing in the recruitment, training, management and retention of a core team of excellent staff is essential to our success.

Structure

A small senior management team (overseeing the three work streams) will be supported by a number of junior research and administrative roles, as well as selective commissioning of work from external associates (e.g. research pieces) as well as running a well-managed, supported internship programme.

Planning, administrative and financial management systems

Adopting the attitude that “plans are nothing; planning is everything” our approach is of a rolling three year plan and budget, which supports the integrated programme of work set out in this document. The work we undertake demands that our administrative and financial management systems are better developed and of a higher standard that might be expected from an organisation of this size precisely because of the level of transparency and credibility needed.

Funding

As resources are fundamental to our success, we need to invest in getting the right portfolio and structure of financing which assures our independence and the perception of that independence. In practice this means our funders are likely to have less say in our activities than other stakeholders will.