Church administrator jobs in lincoln, lincolnshire
The Alderley Edge and Knutsford Circuit comprises five churches in Alderley Edge, Knutsford, Mobberley, Plumley and Mottram St Andrew
A key member of the Circuit Leadership Team (CLT), the prime responsibilities are to manage the Church properties within the circuit; provide financial support and reporting services appropriate to each Church and to manage and develop circuit communications. Additionally, the role will provide administrative and compliance support to the Circuit ministry team and Circuit Leadership team.
As a key member of the CLT, the job holder will play a full part in the development of the Circuit’s mission and ministry. Reporting to the Superintendent Minister, the role is full time, with flexibility over the pattern of hours worked.
Applicants will have experience of property management and finance and possess excellent communication skills.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
We are looking for a Finance Officer to join our team to administer the financial affairs of the District. This role will include working closely with the District Secretary and Treasurer to implement financial policies and controls, assisting with preparing budgets and accounts, managing payroll, processing receipts and payments and maintaining appropriate accounting records.
Role Purpose and Objectives
To administer the financial affairs of the District including preparing budgets and accounts, managing payroll, processing receipts and payments and maintaining appropriate accounting records.
Responsibilities
Financial Controls and Policies
- Support the District Treasurer to implement proper financial policies and controls, ensuring appropriate accounting codes for churches and charities are complied with.
Budgets and Accounts
- Assist the District Secretary, Treasurer and Resourcing Mission Committee to prepare budget and circuit assessments for the District with reference to the District Mission Plan.
- Work with the District Secretary and Treasurer to prepare annual accounts for the District, including liaising with the auditors and helping to draft the Trustees’ Annual Report, particularly with regard to accounting practice and policies.
- Support the District Secretary as needed to ensure compliance with the Methodist Church and Charity Commission requirements, including supplying the information for HMRC P11D forms.
Payroll
- Ensure District employees’ and ministers’ payroll information is correct and liaise with the central Methodist payroll bureau so that staff are paid on time.
Administration of Bank Accounts
- Monitor cash flow and administer transfers between bank accounts.
- Set up approved payments in online banking and liaise with signatories to authorise these for payment.
- Liaise with the Treasurer and/or District Secretary on transactions with the Central Finance Board and Trustees for Methodist Church Purposes, preparing paperwork to facilitate drawdown of funds.
- Administer changes to banking mandates.
- Administer changes to Direct Debits and Standing Order instructions.
Receipts and Payments/Book-keeping
- Check invoices and expenses claims for accuracy, before sending to authorised persons for approval.
- Record all bank transactions for all bank accounts on a monthly basis.
- Produce monthly fund summaries, with detailed analyses.
- Provide monthly ‘sub-accounts’, where required, for specific projects
Other key tasks
- Manage the District’s Financial Record systems, including archiving information as necessary
- With the District Secretary, review and renew the District’s Insurance Policies.
- Maintain the District’s Asset Register.
- Other duties commensurate with the role as agreed with the District Secretary.
For an informal conversation about the role please contact Lisa Murphy, District Secretary. To apply, please complete the application form and submit by the closing date and time. CVs will not be accepted.
Interviews to take place during the week beginning 7th July 2025.
A growing, evangelistic, justice-seeking and inclusive church without walls.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
The purpose of this role is to provide leadership, oversight and curation to the FYT Leadership Team, and to lead the smooth running of the FYT Organisation which supports the wider FYT Movement. This will include coordinating the delivery of the strategic plan, leading fundraising, and working closely with the FYT Board to oversee the smooth running of the organisation.
Hours: 22.5 hrs per week
Salary: £24,116 per annum (£40,194 pro rata) + 9% pension
Holidays: 5 weeks plus bank holidays and 3 additional days at Christmas
Location: Working from home, with nationwide travel expected
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead the FYT Movement – Engage with movement members
- Listening
- Inspiring
- Taking inspiration from
- Facilitating collaboration and cross-pollination
- Lead the FYT staff team – supporting, supervising, enabling and encouraging and ensuring appropriate HR functions are carried out.
- Lead the fundraising strategy for the organisation, giving attention to securing grants, as well as donor fundraising . Report as necessary to funders.
- Work with the Finance Officer to manage the budget and finances within the parameters agreed by the Board.
- Facilitate the effective function of the Leadership Team, enabling the smooth and efficient carrying out of the strategic priorities.
- Provide Line Management support and supervision to the other members of the Leadership Team.
- Develop, implement and monitor FYT’s strategic plan in partnership with the FYT team and board
- Engage in practical theological reflection on FYT’s mission and how it is expressed.
- Attend and contribute as required to Board meetings, working closely with the Chair and Board to ensure that appropriate issues are raised, and that any agreed action is put into effect.
- Be an advocate for marginalised young people, the issues they face, and youth workers and projects working with them (pursuing prophetic mischief, provocation, and taking up our unique space in the youth ministry community).
- Make links with appropriate Christian, voluntary and statutory bodies and to represent FYT in appropriate forums and pursue opportunities for collaborative working.
- Support the active promotion of the FYT training and resource offer.
- Lead the monitoring and evaluation (impact assessment) of FYT’s work
Other functions:
- Meet regularly with Line Manager for supervision.
- Undertake administration and keep necessary work records.
- Comply with all FYT policies and procedures.
- Work collaboratively with the FYT leadership team and Board to ensure that organisational policies are regularly reviewed.
- Engage in CPD/lifelong learning.
- Undertake any other tasks that may be requested, commensurate with the nature and level of the post and as may be required by the Board of Trustees.
Additional Information
- The Leadership Team is supported by a contract with Giraffe HR that assists in the day to day running of the organisation, primarily managing the finances of the organisation.
- Engagement in ongoing, regular youth work with marginalised young people is not a requirement of this post, but encouraged. FYT will be flexible where possible in order to facilitate this.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Communications Assistant
Location: Remote with flexible working arrangements. You will be expected to attend regular team meetings in Bristol (with paid travel and subsistence).
Salary: £26,000 per year FTE, dependent on experience.
Contract: We are open to this role being part time (0.8FTE) or full time. We offer fully flexible working.
Closing date for applications: 1 July 2025
Due to high numbers of applications, prior to interview we plan to carry out initial screening calls with prospective candidates before selection for interview. We will be asking about your reasons for applying and how you think your skills and experiences align with the role.
First interviews: w/c 28th July 2025
Start Date: ASAP: This is a new post.
About Good Faith Partnership
Good Faith Partnership believes that good things happen when we work together in new ways. Our mission is to create solutions to society’s most difficult problems, including loneliness, the cost-of-living crisis, mental health, and supporting refugees and asylum seekers. We believe that we can improve people’s lives and build a better world by harnessing the power of unlikely relationships and trying something new.
We connect businesses, governments, charities, philanthropists, trusts and foundations, and communities to make lasting change—from incubating projects such as Warm Welcome to rolling out the Home Office’s Homes for Ukraine Scheme. By bringing unusual or different players to the table, we can spark new ideas and unlock new levels of potential.
At the Good Faith Partnership, we value diversity, and we recognise the enormous benefits and the social imperative of bringing together diverse groups of people. We therefore warmly welcome applications from a broad range of backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives.
The Opportunity
This is an exciting opportunity for a proactive individual to work within a small, friendly and dynamic team. If you are passionate about communications, and want to develop, grow and hone your skills, this role is a great place to start.
You will provide communications support for Good Faith Partnership and a range of projects we deliver, including:
● The Warm Welcome Campaign for people right across the UK particularly those experiencing fuel poverty or loneliness;
● Welcome Hubs for refugees and asylum seekers;
● ChurchWorks which aims to bring the Christian Church and government closer together to effect positive change in UK society.
We anticipate that the successful candidate will spend around two-thirds of their time supporting the Warm Welcome Campaign and the remainder supporting wider Good Faith Partnership projects.
You’ll work across all aspects of communications, including design and content creation, e-marketing, social media engagement and delivery, events, website management and managing our photo and story libraries. You’ll be delivering communications to support our campaigning and influencing, fundraising, awareness raising, storytelling and brand elevation.
This is an entry level communications post. We’re looking for someone who is organised and systematic, thrives on creating engaging written and visual content, and loves working with all kinds of people. You’ll be encouraged and supported to grow and develop your communications skills and expertise.
Responsibilities
Working closely with the Communications Manager and Director of Communications you will work in the following areas:
Content creation
You will help bring Good Faith’s many projects to life through engaging visuals, videos and communications materials by:
● Creating visual assets using design software such as Canva
● Creating other visual content including short-form video
● Helping commission other visually led content such as banners, flyers and reports
Social media
A significant part of the role includes increasing our reach through social media:
● Creating and scheduling regular content for LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, Threads, Bluesky and X
● Using insight data to drive social engagement
● Developing strategic partnerships with relevant accounts on the different social platforms
● Engaging with partners and stakeholders on social platforms—sharing stories with the wider team as standard
● Responding to posts, comments and direct messages
● Monitoring trends through social listening and sharing these with the team
Websites
You will support the Communications Manager by:
● Writing and publishing engaging stories and news items to profile the great work of the team and our projects
● Preparing copy and visuals for web pages in our CMS
● Uploading content to websites
● Ensuring website copy is accurate and up to date
Email newsletters
You will work with the Communications Manager to:
● Support email communications
● Help maintain the email communications database
● Create and schedule email communications, ensuring content has been approved by a team member
● Segmenting audiences to keep communications relevant and engaging
PR
You will support the Communications Manager in a year-round programme of PR and media relations by:
● Creating lists of contacts in our media database
● Helping to amplify our news through our email distribution platform
● Monitoring PR mentions of our projects through our media database
Supporting systems and resources
● Taking responsibility for developing and maintaining accessible communications systems
● Managing our digital image and stories library, keeping stories and case studies up to date and searchable by the rest of the team
● Securely storing and organising documents on our G-Drive, ensuring accessibility for the team and compliance with GDPR
● Supporting, maintaining and developing existing partnerships and managing the systems (including CRM use) needed for communications delivery
Teamworking
● Attending regular meetings, contributing to communications discussions and planning, adapting to social trends as well as opportunities and challenges
● Supporting the delivery of other Warm Welcome and Good Faith Partnership efforts
● Reporting to the Communications Manager, you will work closely with the Communications team and the wider team, as well as our network of partners and supporters.
Person specification
We are looking for candidates with the following skills and experience:
Content creation
● Familiarity with content creation tools such as Canva or Indesign.
● Experience of creating engaging content for social media or other channels.
Social media
● Good understanding of social media channels, including Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, Threads, BlueSky, X, TikTok and YouTube.
● Experience of interacting with other users on social media and websites.
● Experience of using web content management systems.
Email newsletters
● Excellent writing and proofreading skills.
● Familiarity with email marketing software such as Mailchimp.
Supporting systems and resources
● Highly organised and the ability to create and manage administrative systems.
● Familiarity with the Google suite of programmes including Google Docs, Google Drive, Google Calendar, Excel Spreadsheets etc.
Teamworking
● Ability to prioritise and balance competing demands on your time.
Competencies and behaviours in our team
The core competence of everyone in our team is the ability to build trusted relationships among people with diverse perspectives and backgrounds. We are looking for people who are:
● Committed to the power of relationships to facilitate social change
● Collaborative, inclusive, ambitious, aligning with our core values
● Self-starters with high levels of commitment, energy and motivation
● Curious and show initiative, with problem-solving skills and an ability to learn quickly and adapt to a rapidly changing context
● Calm under pressure, and can adapt quickly in a fast-paced environment
● Willing to pitch in to help other team members if needed
● Organised with effective time management skills.
Working arrangements
● Current members of the team are based across the UK, with some in London, Reading, Bristol, Manchester and Northern Ireland. Applicants must be able to travel to Bristol once a month for a Tuesday full team meeting. Given the nature of this role, we would also expect the applicant to carry out a reasonable amount of travel to both projects and partners across the UK.
● This role is fully remote, with flexible working arrangements.
● All employees, volunteers, partners, suppliers and consultants working with Good Faith are expected to adhere to our Code of Conduct and safeguarding policies. Good Faith’s commitment to safeguarding means we seek to ensure that no harm comes to people as a result of contact with the organisation’s programmes, operations or people.
● You will need to have the right to work in the UK.
Supporting your application
● If you disclose a disability during your application process and you meet the minimum criteria for the role, we will contact you to discuss any reasonable adjustment you might need at the interview. If you wish to disclose a disability, please email us.
● We’d be very happy to answer any specific questions relating to this role - please email us with ‘Query for Communications Assistant role’ in the email subject line and we’ll get back to you as soon as we can.
● Please specifically address the requirements listed in the person specification in your covering letter as we will use this to shortlist applications.
● For more information, see our website or find us on twitter at @goodfaith
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.