The National Church Institutions (NCIs) are national administrative bodies that work together to support the mission and ministry of the Church of England. Their activities are hugely varied, ranging from management of a multi-billion-pound investment fund, to a grant-giving charity, a housing service for retired clergy and the administration of four multi-employer pension schemes.

The Procurement Team is part of the Finance department, a shared services function working across the NCIs to provide a comprehensive, cost-effective finance service to each organisation. The NCI procurement function was established 3 years ago, and has developed into a key strategic partner for these organisations, driving value-for-money, promoting a best practice approach and upholding strong ethical procurement principles.

Introduction

As Procurement Category Manager, you will support the Head of Procurement to spearhead and be responsible for building out our support to the IT, Property & Facilities and Professional Services departments, developing strong working relationships across teams and promoting great procurement practice and truly effective contract management. This will include running competitive tenders, appointing and managing preferred suppliers, and providing procurement support for key projects.

This post is based in Westminster and requires the flexibility to travel to work at Lambeth Palace or regionally as required. Remote working will be available for 2-3 days per week, subject to requirements and agreement.

Interviews will be held w/c 18th October 2021.

In return we offer a unique environment with opportunities for continuous learning, generous annual leave for work life balance and a range of benefits including discounted entry to attractions and what we feel is a market leading package when it comes to our pension scheme.

Operations Manager

The Operations Manager will be responsible for ensuring we use all the resources God has given us as effectively as possible as the staff team, volunteers, and congregation work together to implement our vision.

Vision

We are a community of Christians meeting regularly to worship God, to grow in God’s love and to share the good news of Jesus Christ with our neighbours.  We are an open, diverse and inclusive community.  In sharing his love, we try to meet some of the needs of the many different people living together in this place and to build community here.

Values

• to be faithful to our Christian heritage and calling and open to new thinking, ideas and other viewpoints
• to try to say ‘yes’
• to be respectful, welcoming and generous to each other and to our visitors
• to speak well of each other
• to be problem solving, collaborative and supportive of each other to get the best results for everyone
• to be empowering of one another to help all members of the congregation to participate as they are able and feel called

Our parish

Prior to lockdown, St George’s was a medium-sized congregation with a heart for mission and a programme of educational, cultural and social action activities.  As we recover from the pandemic we are seeking to re-build our life including now a substantial food programme which emerged during lockdown and which now runs as a food co-operative.   We are blessed with good resources especially of buildings and a willing congregation.

Employer

The Operations Manager will be employed by the Parochial Church Council (PCC).  The line manager is the Rector Canon Jonathan Sedgwick. 

Salary

£32,000 per annum.  A full-time post of 35 hours a week excluding lunch breaks with 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays.  It is possible to offer the role at a pro rata .8 of this as with the previous postholder.  The working pattern can be flexible with scope to fit work around family and other commitments and include some home working. 

We want to hear from all interested candidates, and to be considered for the position we strongly recommend submitting a detailed covering letter along with your CV, outlining why you're right for the role.

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Are you passionate about constructing ministry opportunities which inspire and equip Christians in the workplace (marketplace) to share the good news of Jesus Christ? Are you keen to see East Asian workplaces transformed by the good news of Jesus Christ? 

OMF International is seeking to develop its strategy to better facilitate and equip people in the workplace be more involved in cross cultural missions to East Asian peoples. To do this, we are looking for a self-motivated Workplace Ministries Project Manager to establish this ministry within OMF UK as an effective and accessible pathway for people to use their vocation in the workplaces and marketplaces of East Asia to share Jesus Christ.

The ideal candidate will currently be working in the marketplace. They will have proven experience in building purposeful networks across cultures, constructing organisational infrastructure and an ability to identify workplace opportunities and create promotional resources. In addition to this, the candidate should have excellent organisational skills, interpersonal skills and a strong personal drive to grow & develop this pathway into the workplaces/marketplaces of East Asia. Above all, the ideal candidate will have a deep commitment to world mission and to sharing the good news of Jesus.

There is initial funding for 3 years after which the role will be reviewed.

There is an Occupational Requirement for this role to be held by a committed Christian. 

The Fundraising Manager will be a key member of the Mass Fundraising team, the team is responsible for Community Fundraising, Challenge & Events and Individual Giving activity. Our focus is on delivering and developing fundraising opportunities and experiences that will not only maximising support for Dreams Come True, but turn one off fundraisers, into lifetime supporters. 

The role is a hybrid role, working from home mainly, with expectations to work from our Liphook office in Hampshire, there will also be the requirement to attend fundraising activities on a weekend or in the evenings. 

The purpose of the role is to secure income for, and increase awareness of, Dreams Come true across the UK, by building, developing, and maintaining new and existing relationships in the community, using our portfolio of fundraising products to support.

 You will join a small, friendly and committed team, dedicated to building lasting relationships with supporters and raising much needed income to ensure we can deliver more dreams, to those who need it most.

The Fundraising Manager will work closely with the Head of Mass Fundraising and play a significant role in contributing to the fundraising team. You will be responsible for Community Fundraising, Challenge & Events and Individual Giving activity, focusing on a national effort and working very closely with the Head of Mass Fundraising to drive the continued growth of the charity’s community fundraising department.

The role also works closely with Bespoke fundraising team, which is responsible for Corporate, Major Donor, Trusts and Foundations (T&F) and Legacies and will provide support and guidance to the Fundraising and Marketing Officers.

The role is offered on a Full-Time basis, but does have flexibility for the right candidate. 

The role is a hybrid role, working from home mainly, with expectations to work from our liphook office on a regular basis, there will also be the requirement to attend fundraising activities on a weekend or in the evenings. 

To apply sumbit a CV and application form by Thursday 30th September. 

Please note we will consider applications on an ongoing basis, and will appoint earlier than the closing date if a suitable candidate is found. 

At Derby City Mission we are entering an exciting phase in our development and are looking for someone with excellent skills to support the Chief Executive and his office. In this role you will play a pivotal part in helping to make a real difference to those who need us most by providing an effective fundraising service both for our existing activities and to help us move forward with our growth and development plans.

As the Fundraising Facilitator, you will co-ordinate all DCM fundraising projects, including applications to trusts and foundations, pitching for corporate partners and working with the rest of DCM on fundraising events.

You will focus on maximising donations to achieve our fundraising targets. You will also manage DCM fundraising database, and will work with the Fundraising Development Team to maintain both the traditional and digital fundraising.

We’re looking for someone who has experience in fundraising or has an aptitude to learn swiftly. You should be a team player. You should be confident, proactive, an excellent communicator and organiser, who will enjoy the chance to take on this varied and active role.

At Wycliffe Bible Translators our vision is a world where everyone can know Jesus through the Bible.

We serve local partners worldwide as they bring God’s word to their communities in the language which speaks to them best.

While Wycliffe is well known in some denominations, there are others where it is largely unknown and the task of Bible translation has been assumed to have been completed many years ago. We love to introduce churches and individuals to the unfinished task and see fruit grow from these relationships.

Your role will be Church Relationships Manager for Central and Northern England. As a home-based role but with extensive travel required, you will be responsible for strengthening Wycliffe’s relationships with churches across the region, and recruiting Wycliffe’s next generation of members (missionaries). Drawing on your experience of church-facing fundraising and engagement, you will lead a team of Wycliffe members and volunteers and invite growing numbers of churches from many different denominations to participate in making God’s word available to all people. As a confident and inspiring public speaker, you will be able to preach and present in a variety of church settings, and coach and mentor others to do the same.

This is a full-time role (37.5 hours per week). The role is home-based, but the chosen applicant will need to be based in the region so that regular travel can be undertaken.

This post is subject to an Occupational Requirement that the post holder is a committed evangelical Christian under Part 1 of the Equality Act 2010.

JRS UK is seeking to recruit a full-time Senior Press and Media Officer to lead and develop JRS UK’s press coverage to help to achieve our vision of a world where people forced to flee their homes are welcomed with love; and to help lead our work at a critical time when the Nationality and Borders Bill is seeking to overhaul the UK asylum system.

The ideal candidate with have an active interest and engagement in current affairs, with a demonstrable ability to analyse and advise on which stories we should engage in to further our mission. You’ll have track record of generating positive news coverage across a variety of media streams, and a passion for amplifying the voices of the vulnerable.

You will be a key member of a small communications and fundraising team, seeking to broaden our media coverage across national and regional media, broadsheet, online and broadcast; as well as more specialist Christian and consumer media. We place a high value on encouraging refugee participation in, and the shaping of, our messaging, and you will play a key part in ensuring this.

The external communications of JRS UK seek to be clear and balanced, and congruent with our values as an organisation, protecting and highlighting the dignity of refugees at all times.

You will be passionate about raising awareness of the needs of asylum seekers and refugees in the UK, with an eye for what works in print, broadcast and social media. Happy to be ‘on the go’, you thrive on a fast paced communications style and getting agreed messages across to new and existing audiences.

We welcome and encourage applications from people with experience of seeking safety in the UK.

This is an exciting new opportunity at Age UK Lewisham and Southwark - a dynamic and innovative values-led local charity that provides a wide range of services and support to older people in South London.

We are recruiting to a new Fundraiser position, to help us generate new sources of income from business supporters and local communities – as well as supporting our leadership team to finalise strong grant and contract applications. The postholder will work closely with the CEO and the whole team to develop new ways of engaging with local businesses and communities to increase our impact and further develop our work with older people.

Equality and diversity matter to us. If you think you’d be suited to this role we’d love to hear from you regardless of age, disability status, ethnicity, gender, religion or sexuality. 

Closing date: 9am on Monday 27 September 2021

A fantastic opportunity for a digital fundraiser to join a Christian charity and help us transform the lives of 35,000 children and families in Eastern Europe every year. This is an exciting new role where you can make a real impact. The Digital Marketing and Fundraising Coordinator will work closely with our International Digital Marketing Manager and UK Country Director to develop engagement with new people, raise awareness for the work of Mission Without Borders with target audiences and enable supporters to become more involved in our work through digital channels, social media, e-marketing, search, display and web.

Mission Without Borders is passionate about bringing about practical assistance and spiritual hope to children and families. If MWB's vision is a cause that inspires you, we would love to hear from you. You will be someone familiar with using digital communications for donor acquisition to raise funds and build an online community. Great understanding of Facebook and social media platforms is important along with a results-orientated and entrepreneurial attitude that thrives on successful campaigns.

The position offers flexibility with a mix of home working and office-based work (to be discussed). Initially the role is for 3 days a week, however we fully expect this area will develop in general activities and scope. 

Context

The Philanthropy team is developing an ambitious fundraising strategy to begin new and deepen existing relationships with our amazing major donors, that everyone can celebrate.  We are driven to raise the money and partnerships needed to deliver CAP’s vision to see transformed lives, thriving churches and an end to UK poverty. We work alongside our Fundraising Operations, Communications & Digital Engagement and Church Engagement teams to deliver a fantastic supporter experience. 

Purpose

The Philanthropy Engagement Lead sits within our Supporter Relationship Management team to lead and deliver a collaborative donor experience strategy aimed at deepening donor relationships and attracting new donors. This role reports to the Philanthropy Team Manager.

Working closely with other Fundraising & Communications teams (Supporter Development Team, Brand, Digital, Data Analytics, Fundraising Support & Events, and Speaker Team), this role brings strategy and leadership to the deepening engagement and improved experience of CAP’s donors.

Passion 

Our supporters are more than donors, they are a crucial part of the work we do. We are passionate about ensuring our supporters feel connected, engaged, inspired and committed to tackling poverty in the UK through CAP.  We want to give our supporters the best experience of Christians Against Poverty.

Personality:

We are highly driven, passionate, strategic, fun, adaptable, visionary and professional. 

The Trustees of St Petrock’s wish to appoint a dynamic, inspired and imaginative individual as the DIRECTOR of this well established homeless charity in Exeter.

St Petrock’s

St Petrock’s has been providing a range of support, housing and prevention services to fill the gap in services to individuals in need for 25 years. The charity is well respected in the city and works closely with partner organisations to support those most in need.

The role

The successful candidate needs to be a leader and a visionary who can help develop St Petrock’s offering to the local community, work collaboratively with partner organisations and continue to develop the fund-raising initiatives that are already well established.

Applicants will need to have experience in the field of homelessness and / or social housing.

This is a full-time post.  The rate of pay will be up to £40,000 with supporting package for an exceptional candidate with the required ability and experience. There will be a probationary period of 3 months.

A full job description is available below and from our website.

Applications

Applications for this position must be submitted on the application form which can be downloaded below or from our website.

ABOUT LISTENING EAR

• Listening Ear is a leading third sector, mental health organisation with its headquarters in Knowsley, Merseyside
• Our organisation specialises in delivering therapy and support services to children, young people and adults presenting with bereavement and traumatic loss, occupational health counselling and suicide postvention support services.
• Listening Ear holds full BACP Service Accreditation for its Adult and Children & Young People's services (the first organisation to achieve BACP accreditation in Merseyside in 2004)
• We are continuing to grow and now offer services in Merseyside, Cheshire, South Yorkshire, Lancashire and Kent & Medway.
   

We are seeking a dedicated and enthusiastic individual to join Listening Ear as Reception Administrator to support with the recent growth of our services. The role covers all reception duties, including processing referrals and handling enquiries to carrying out general administrative tasks such as data recording/entry, to support the preparation of data used in statistical reports to our Commissioners. The Reception Administrator is the first point of contact for our clients and external agencies and therefore needs to be warm and welcoming, a good communicator and able to respond professionally to a varied range of calls/emails. Our Administration team manage appointment bookings and the allocation of clients across the Organisation for a growing team of paid therapists, suicide bereavement support workers and students on counselling placements with Listening Ear. The successful candidate will be highly organised and professional, with excellent communication skills and proven experience of managing their own time and workload in a busy, high-pressure environment. They will also need to have a good working knowledge of Microsoft Office and Outlook as well as strong IT skills and ability to learn using new systems.

The role is subject to receiving satisfactory references and a probationary period.

Full-time contract is for 35 hours' per week (7 hours per day). The sucessful applicant will be required to work flexibly to provide cover in our offices in Whiston & Halewood as well as working remotley from home. We will require a candidate who is flexible to meet with the needs of the charity.

The Application Form is available below and this should be returned to us by email.

Closing date: Saturday 9th October at 11:30pm - We reserve the right to close the application window early if there is a lot of interest in the role advertised. We therefore encourage you to submit your application as early as possible.

Start date: ASAP following receipt of DBS and relevant references - If you have a transferable DBS please inform us of this in your application.

Unfortunately, we are unable to contact unsuccessful applicants and are unable to give feedback on individual applications.

Director of Neighbour Experience

We are looking for an exceptional leader to lead the efforts of the organisation in making the experience of the charity’s neighbours better, as part of the launch of the new Neighbour Experience team.

The Neighbour Experience team is all about making the charity better, by serving those it interacts with, neighbours, just as Jesus taught us. Neighbours could be existing or future supporters, church leaders, donors, influencers or even paid staff and volunteers and, ultimately, it includes the children in projects around the world.

At the heart of the charity’s ministry is a relentless passion to act on faith and empower every child left vulnerable by poverty. The work is Christ centred, child focused, and church based.

Keep reading and apply if you think this is the role for you!

Position: Director of Neighbour Experience

Location: Office based (Fleet, Hampshire) or home based with regular travel to Fleet

Salary: £55,000 per annum

Hours: 35 hours per week flexible working pattern with occasional evening work

Contract: Permanent

Closing Date: 30th September 2021

Interview Date: 12th and 14th October 2021

About the Role

The global strategic priority is to refocus the entire ministry on serving its neighbours. This is achieved through knowing neighbours, by loving them and connecting them. But what does this mean for a billion-dollar child development organisation reaching such a diverse set of people globally?

The role of Neighbour Experience department is to bring this new philosophy to the UK and Ireland and activate it, to enable the charity to have a better focus on outcomes for all key selected neighbour groups – which would primarily focus on supporters, donors, influencers and church leaders, as well as staff and volunteers.

There is a team of incredibly talented strategic minds developing this strategy based out of the USA site. You’ll be primary point of connection with them, inputting the UK sites perspectives into their thinking and consider the best ways to bring this insight and new ways of working to the UK.

A key part of this role is to develop a strategy and a team in the UK that will help introduce and embed this philosophy inside the organisation. This will likely consist of four areas of specialty: Data Science and Reporting, Market Research, Journey Mapping and Product Management

In some areas of the business you’ll have direct responsibility for key business metrics and success of those initiatives (particular around supporter engagement and retention), while elsewhere you’ll partner with other departments and support and serve them to achieve outcomes.

Responsibilities include

• Actively maintain and promote the charity’s Christian ethos and values
• Partner in the Strategic Direction of the organisation as a Director in the Marketing & Engagement Division
• Set and maintain the strategy for Neighbour Experience across the whole organisation to meet key outcomes
• Provide Strategic Direction and Leadership to the Neighbour Experience Department
• Act as liaison point with the international site and represent the UK site in discussions about global roll-out of the Neighbour Strategy

About You

To flourish in this role, you'll need:

• Post-graduate level of understanding of marketing, sales, data science and/or experience design
• Experience of senior leadership
• Good understanding of product management, customer/supporter journey creation, CRM databases and compliance
• Financial management experience, including managing six figure budgets, forecasting and variance reporting
• Strong personal skill set

To flourish in this role, you’ll need experience in two or more of the following areas:

• Understanding and experience of managing a brand (in its widest sense) for a business or organisation with a turnover of £2m or more
• Experience of commissioning and leading market research activities
• Marketing and creative concept experience
• Been part of a team responsible for creating journey maps (or equivalent) for customers, prospects or other key audience segments

We need you to be…

Personally, committed to the Christian faith. There’s an occupational requirement for the holder of this role to be a practising Christian, in order to promote the charity’s ethos and help others to experience, explore and express the faith-based motivation of our work.

Please note the charity can only consider applicants who presently have the right to work in the UK and all candidates must be personally committed to the Christian faith and be able to respect, uphold and work within our client’s Christian mission, values, culture and faith statements. This individual will represent and speak on behalf of a Christian charity and as such the Occupational Requirement for an active Christian faith is justified under the Equality Act 2010 Schedule 9, Part 1, clause 3.

You may have experience in areas such as Innovation, Innovation and Delivery, Research, Research and Innovation, Impact and Evaluation, Monitoring, Monitoring and Impact, Impact and Engagement, Policy and Research, Community, Supporter, Supporters, Donor, Volunteer, Supporter Care, Supporter Engagement, Community Engagement, Community Development, Research and Insight, Fundraising, Fundraiser, Market Research, Transformation, Campaigning, Marketing, Marketing and Engagement, Sales, Data, Scientific Data, Customer Care, Data Analyst, Director, Head of, Change Management, Compliance, Product, Product and Services, Marketing, Director of Marketing, Director of Marketing and Engagement.

Director of Innovation Lab

Are you a strategic and creative leader who is up for a new challenge? Do you have experience of working within an Innovation environment? Are you passionate about pushing the ministry to the cutting edge in its transformation to release even more children from poverty in Jesus’ name?

We have an exciting opportunity for a Director of Innovation Lab to kick off and lead the start-up phase of the Innovation Lab. You will play a significant part in enabling the charity to achieve the goal of doubling impact to serve more than 200,000 children in poverty a year by 2030. Ready for the challenge? Apply now!

Position: Director of Innovation Lab

Location: Home-based

Salary: £56,740 (within the grade £56,740 - £68,770)

Hours: 35 hours per week (Monday – Friday)

Benefits: Enhanced pension scheme with 10% employer contribution, equivalent of 5 normal working weeks' annual leave a year, plus normal bank holidays, Dental Insurance, Income Protection and Group Life cover on appointment.

Closing Date: 22nd September 2021 at 10am

Interview Date: W/C 11th October 2021

About the Role

As the Director of Innovation Lab you will manage the start-up phase of the Innovation Lab and be responsible for its overall success. You will closely manage and lead all operations and business components of the Lab and be responsible for leading the team’s pursuit of new products and services that have scalability potential to impact 20,000 children a year by 2030. You will also provide support to individual teams and engage the wider organisation in the Lab’s work.

Responsibilities

• Actively maintain and promote the organisations Christian ethos and values
• Manage the start-up phase of the lab
• Oversee operational and business components of the Lab
• Develop and inspire a high performing and creative Lab Team

About You

To flourish in this role, you'll need:

• Experience within an Innovation Lab / Hub
• Knowledge and practical experience of innovation and product development approaches
• Experience in using and embedding innovation tools, techniques and ways of working.
• Experience in using insights and analysis to generate strategic approaches
• An established record of stakeholder change management experience
• Senior leadership experience
• Strong commercial skills
• Project management skills with substantial experience delivering projects
• To be a strategic thinker

We need you to be…

Personally, committed to the Christian faith. There’s an occupational requirement for the holder of this role to be a practising Christian, in order to promote the charity’s ethos and help others to experience, explore and express the faith-based motivation of our work.

Please note the charity can only consider applicants who presently have the right to work in the UK and all candidates must be personally committed to the Christian faith and be able to respect, uphold and work within our client’s Christian mission, values, culture and faith statements. This individual will represent and speak on behalf of a Christian charity and as such the Occupational Requirement for an active Christian faith is justified under the Equality Act 2010 Schedule 9, Part 1, clause 3.

You may have experience in areas such as Strategy, Strategy Manager, Innovations, Innovations Manger,  Strategy and Innovations Manager, Strategy and Insights Manager, Faith, Church, Christian, Charity, Operations, Operations Manager, Service Manager, Products and Service, Impact and Engagement Manager, Product Lead, Product and Service Lead, Product Manager, Product and Service Manager, Product Development Lead, Product Development Manager, Service and Development Manager, Director of Strategy, Product and Service Director, Innovation Manager, Director of Innovation Resources, Impact and Innovation, Head of Service, Project Manager.