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Barnabas Aid is an international aid agency that gives practical support to Christians in contexts of persecution, poverty and hunger. The ministry was founded in 1993 with a focus on believers suffering discrimination for their faith. Since then Barnabas has funded projects in more than 100 countries, providing hope and help to millions of our brothers and sisters in Christ. Some of our key projects include Bibles and Scriptures, food aid, medical supplies, education and vocational training, disaster relief, help for victims of violence, and support for pastors and church leaders. 

We are seeking a highly motivated and detail-oriented Finance Officer to play a key role in supporting our finance team. This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to a mission-driven organization while developing your professional skills in a supportive and inclusive environment.

Overview of the Finance Officer role and the team

The newly appointed Finance Officer will provide key financial support to the charity’s finance team, assisting in the day-to-day management of financial operations. The role involves maintaining accurate financial records, processing transactions, and ensuring compliance with charity regulations. The Finance Officer will play a crucial role in ensuring the charity’s finances are well-managed and support the smooth running of the charity’s operations.

Finance Assistant (full time employment contract)
£31,000 pa; 7.5% pension contribution by St James’s with 0.5% contribution by the employee; 25 days annual leave plus public holidays

St James’s, Piccadilly is seeking someone who has at least 2+ years experience working in finance or similar role, who has a strong knowledge of MS Office Suite and XERO with particularly extensive experience of using Microsoft Excel and financial modelling skills. A certified accountancy qualification or studying towards one is essential. 
This new role has been created as part of a review concerning St James’s partnership with St Pancras Church Euston Road.

St James’s is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. All post holders and volunteers are expected to share this commitment. 

St James’s actively welcomes applications from people who are currently underrepresented in our community including people with global majority heritage, people with lived experience of poverty and people who identify as LGBTQ+. 
Role description and person specification and application form (referee information required) can be downloaded from our website.

Closing date for applications is midday Monday 3rd February 2025. Interviews will be held on-site at St James’s Piccadilly and are planned for Thursday 13th February 2025. Aiming for a start date as soon as possible.

 Position Overview

The Finance Director will play a crucial role in overseeing the financial health and strategy of the Barnabas Aid family globally, ensuring that all financial activities align with our mission and values. Reporting directly to the Chief Support Officer (CSO), the Finance Director will lead the finance team and work closely with senior leadership to support strategic decision-making. This role requires a deep understanding of non-profit and charitable financial management, compliance, and funding. The Finance Director will be part of the Senior Leadership Team.                                                                                                                              

Are you a values-led proven leader with a passion for people who are disadvantaged, marginalised and often left behind by society?

We are looking for a new Chief Executive Officer to lead Catholic Care on the next phase of its journey. 

Our ideal candidate will possess exemplary personal values with a strong, proven vision, demonstrable skills for leadership and a resolute determined passion to care for people in need and improve lives.  Significant experience of leadership and developing and delivering strategy is required for this pivotal role with the charity.

Our Vision - Founded on the principles of Catholic Social Teaching, our Charity delivers practical services to people in need, particularly those who are disadvantaged, vulnerable, marginalised and at risk of being left behind by society regardless of their faith.  We are passionate about caring for and supporting both children and adults throughout the continuum of life. We make sure their voices are heard, and their lives improved though delivering high quality care, treating each person with dignity and recognising their own individual uniqueness. For more than 160 years we have worked tirelessly, evolving our services to meet the needs of people today and tomorrow.

Why Join Catholic Care?

Catholic Care is a forward thinking and vibrant charity providing services for, and employing people of, all faiths or of no faith at all.  For the past 160 years we have been meeting the needs of people who are or vulnerable across Yorkshire, having a positive impact on their lives.

Each year the work we do makes a positive difference to nearly 3,000 people, both through our CQC and Ofsted regulated services and in our local communities. We care passionately about the people we support who remain at the heart of everything we do. We are a values-led charity. Our values drive our working lives. They help us to make decisions about what we do, how we do it and who we do it for.

Your wellbeing is important to us, and we will make sure you feel valued.  We are proud to be a Mindful Employer and accredited with Investors in People and our approaches are there to support you along the way. We also offer benefits which reflect your hard work, including generous annual leave, pension scheme and sick pay policy.

Overview of the role

Working with the Board of Trustees, members of the clergy and parishes, the CEO will be responsible for shaping and delivering the strategic vision of the charity in its mission to support adults and children in need.

Your role will involve responsibility for:

Leadership – to be visionary in the charity’s strategic development in line with the values and ethos of the charity

Governance – to take overall responsibility for the legal, risk, statutory and regulatory requirements of the charity

Strategy – to work with the Trustees, develop and deliver the strategic plan with responsibility for the continued development of Caritas across the Diocese of Leeds

Financial and Human Resource Management

Operational Efficiency including the lead role for the regulated services with Ofsted and CQC.

Our Ideal Candidate

We require a resilient, strategic thinker with strong values, extensive leadership experience and the ability to manage the inevitable conflict between the charity’s values and business decisions.

You will have a proven track record of success in leadership roles, delivering a successful strategic plan and with experience of financial management and governance.

This is an excellent opportunity to lead a well-established and respected charity, undertaking a wide variety of work.  As CEO you have the opportunity to drive strategy forward and have a real impact.

Please email for a recruitment brochure.

Alternatively, to apply; please email your current CV and application covering letter.

Longlisted Candidates will have the opportunity to visit us and our services on 5, 6 or 7 February 2025

 Interviews will take place on 18 February 2025.

We may consider a relocation package for the right candidate.

Thank you for your interest in our Charity.

St Gabriel’s Church serves Pimlico as a religious and as a community centre. Our 2* listed building was built in 1853 and is the centre for worship and a range of community activities, including concerts and rehearsals. Today our roof needs to be renewed at a current cost of £1.4 million. This is the final major part of an extensive programme of renewal works which has included restoration of the clocktower and the church walls, renewal of the organ, installation of new lavatory and disabled access facilities, and major drainage refurbishment.

Your role would be to raise income from regional and national Trusts & Foundations, to be responsible for the effective management of a prospect pipeline and ensure that high-quality bids and evaluation reports are submitted to deadlines. The money raised will support the remaining phases of major building work at the church.

The remarkable St Martin-in-the-Fields Trust is searching for a brilliant Major Donor Manager to join an established high-performing team to lead on a new focus of acquisition and stewardship.

Applications close at: 9 a.m. Monday 10th February 2025.

Location: A blend of working between Home and Trafalgar Square Office (60/40)

About St-Martin-in-the-Fields Trust

St Martin-in-the-Fields is more than a building. It’s a centre of ideas and vibrant, diverse communities. Its fine architecture and prominent location place it at the heart of the city and nation. It has a vibrant tradition, but St Martin’s has always been innovative in response to changing needs.

Architecturally, spiritually, culturally and socially, St Martin’s has helped to form the world around it. And it’s why we open our doors to welcome people on the very edge of society, including those who are homeless or sleeping rough.

St Martin-in-the-Fields Trust exists solely to support the work of St Martin-in-the-Fields. We raise money to help St Martin’s maintain its historic buildings, develop the world-class music programme for the mission and ministry of the church and help fund the work with homeless and vulnerable people.

About the role

The Major Donor Manager will play a vital role in fundraising activities to support their mission. You will be responsible for developing and implementing strategies to engage major donors and cultivate meaningful relationships, thus maximising donations.

At St Martin-in-the-Fields, the focus within the Trust team is to put the supporter and donor at the centre of everything we do, ensuring they feel inspired by our work.

We aspire that all donors are engaged and committed to our cause, ultimately making a commitment to do something amazing.

Who we are looking for

We are searching for exceptional major donor fundraisers who pride themselves on cultivating and building first-class relationships with remarkable donors.

Ideal candidates will be well-versed in public speaking and senior stakeholder engagement, bringing gravitas to all engagement opportunities. Candidates will also be hard workers who thrive when cultivating and building a pipeline of new support.

This is a hugely significant organisation with an incredible history, offering a fascinating and unique opportunity within major donor fundraising.

If you are interested in homelessness, heritage, arts, classical music or faith, this is a fantastic opportunity to develop your career and work for a vibrant, interesting and iconic charity.

Please click 'Apply via website’ to be redirected to the Peridot Partners website, where you can find full details of the job description and register your interest to apply.

Applications for this role close at 9 a.m. Monday 10th February 2025.

Use your leadership skills to help us be a beacon of what social care, life with learning disabilities, and a more human society can be.

About Us

L’Arche is a worldwide federation of people, with and without learning disabilities, working together for a world where all belong. We believe that people with learning disabilities have much to teach us and contribute to the world.

In the UK there are 11 Communities where 300 adults with learning disabilities and 700 staff and volunteers create vibrant places of welcome, belonging and celebration. L’Arche Communities are incubators for a model of change: mutual relationships lived across differences like disability, ethnicity, and faith traditions and a mutual mission to be a beacon of what social care, life with learning disabilities and a more human society can be.  

Within the context of shared life together, each of our Communities also offers high quality, person-centred support for our members with learning disabilities enabling them to lead fulfilling and empowered lives.

Context

Over the last decade L’Arche has transformed from a network of local Communities with a largely volunteer workforce to a unified and professional organisation. We have built a cohesive national entity, with governance and management centred in a talented National Leadership with oversight from a committed and supportive National Board. As a result, we have weathered covid, the cost of living crisis and the quality of our care and support is better than ever before.

The Role

We now seek a leader who can help realise the L’Arche 2030 plan for brilliant care, beautiful community and effective organisation. This will involve enabling and empowering the excellent National Leadership Team, strengthening and developing rigour in our commercial model, and translating our 2030 plan into a well-sequenced and well-resourced set of initiatives.

The Person

It will require a commercially savvy leader of integrity, conviction and empathy. You will ideally bring some knowledge of social care and have outstanding strategic and communication qualities. And you will be thirsty for our mission and values as the role will ask more of you and change you more than any other role you have encountered.

If this sounds like you, we would love to hear from you. For more details please see the job pack attached. Applications to be received by 18th February. 

We’re looking for a creative, customer-focused individual who is passionate about delivering a customer experience that is meaningful through crafting intentional, well-designed messaging across channels, that helps those we serve be the best stewards of the resources God gives them.

You will play a key role in delivering intentionally crafted communications designed to respond to opportunities arising from analysing the needs, sentiment and behaviours of our customers at different touchpoints. By connecting dots across product, service and engagement platforms, you will assist the Head of Customer Experience to deliver a cohesive experience that feels personalised, resolution-obsessed and best facilitates every stage of the customer journey. 

As a result of our Christian ethos, this post is covered by an Occupational Requirement (OR) under Part 1 of Schedule 9 to the Equality Act 2010. The successful applicant will be expected to be a practising Christian and to clearly demonstrate a personal commitment to the mission, principles, values and practices contained in our Ethos Statement, by:

· Active membership of local church congregation.

An understanding of the faith aspects of the work of Christian charities, including the preparedness to pray with colleagues, where appropriate.

We’re seeking a creative and motivated Junior Designer to join our team, supporting the Lead Designer in strengthening our product and graphic design capabilities. You will have the opportunity to expand your skillset in a prayerful and collaborative environment across a range of design disciplines. While extensive experience is not required, a strong design sense and a keen eagerness to learn are essential.

As a result of our Christian ethos, this post is covered by an Occupational Requirement (OR) under Part 1 of Schedule 9 to the Equality Act 2010. The successful applicant will be expected to be a practising Christian and to clearly demonstrate a personal commitment to the mission, principles, values and practices contained in our Ethos Statement, by:

· Active membership of local church congregation.

An understanding of the faith aspects of the work of Christian charities, including the preparedness to pray with colleagues, where appropriate.

As the Trusts, Foundations and Grants Senior Manager you will provide strategic leadership in trusts and foundations fundraising and grants management to make our work more impactful and effective. You’ll be developing, growing, and managing strategies, networks and leading technical proposal-writing to increase funding from mid-size trusts, foundations and other donors. Alongside, you will manage All We Can’s grants to partners, including restricted and unrestricted funding, overseeing the Programmes and Partnerships (PPT) grant budget and will manage grants received by All We Can, ensuring compliance with donor requirements, including reporting and financial oversight.

You’ll be able to shape our trust and foundations strategy and put it in practice to raise money to make a difference to our partners locally led work. You’ll join small and passionate team of people on the journey of decolonising international aid and working in partnership approach. Your work will be crucial to growing our income and developing our work.

To be successful in this role, you will:

1. Be an experienced fundraiser, with a strong track record of raising funds from large technical trusts and foundations who also brings a network of strong and established relationships with relevant trusts and foundations.
2. Have passion for locally- led development
3. Have a strategic mindset, with experience developing a strategy for unrestricted and restricted funding that meets the needs of the applicant organisation and needs and capacity of partners who will receive grants through successful proposals. 
4. Have experience pulling together teams of technical experts from within the organisation and relevant partner co-applicants, and leading and managing these teams to design and draft winning proposals, leveraging the skills of various team members as needed. 
5. Have proven experience managing a range of grants (development and/or emergency grants), including managing partner agreements and compliance, interfacing with partners, managing databases as well as guiding others to use databases.
6. Have ability to and passion for contributing to the organisation culture.

For full list of responsibilities and role requirements, please download the application pack.

Director of Ministry Development

We are seeking a visionary leader to join our team as the Director of Ministry Development.

As an active Christian, this role offers you the opportunity to integrate your Christian faith and be sensitive to its various expressions across cultures and denominations.

Position: Director of Ministry Development

Salary: £59,375 - £62,500 per annum, dependent on experience plus good range of benefits

Location: Milton Keynes/Hybrid (1 day per week in the Milton Keynes Office)

Contract: Permanent

Hours: Full time, 36.5 hours per week

Closing Date: February 5, 2025. Please note, we reserve the right to close the ad ahead of the closing date if a strong candidate is identified.

First Interview: w/c 17 February 2025

Second Interview: w/c 24 February 2025

About the Role

This pivotal role will drive our mission to expand and deepen partnerships with churches, Christian networks, and ministry leaders across the UK, aiming to secure 7,000 new child sponsors by the end of Financial Year 2026.

Key areas of responsibility include:

• Strategic Leadership
• Church and Network Engagement
• Team Leadership and Development
• Donor and Stakeholder Engagement
• Operational Management

About You

To be successful in this role, you will be a strategic, innovative leader who combines operational excellence with spiritual maturity. You will inspire internal teams and external partners to achieve transformative outcomes.

We are looking for someone with:

• Church Leadership and/or denominational leadership experience.
• Experience in marketing and communications.
• A strong personal commitment to the Christian faith, embodying World Vision UK’s mission to serve children in Jesus’s name.
• Proven success in a senior leadership role within a mission-driven, fundraising, or sales-focused organisation.
• Exceptional communication and public speaking skills, with experience in preaching or engaging with church and ministry audiences.
• A proven track record of building partnerships with church leaders, networks, or influencers to advance organisational objectives.
• Strong team leadership experience, including managing and developing teams with diverse skill sets.
• Expertise in operational planning, budget management, and performance monitoring.

If you are passionate about making a difference and have the skills to lead our ministry development efforts, we would love to hear from you.

Please upload your CV of full employment history explaining any gaps of employment and reasons for leaving your previous employer. This must be accompanied with a covering letter stating how you meet the essential criteria provided above.

Please note that you MUST have the Right to work in the UK documentation as unfortunately, this role is not sponsored, and your application cannot be considered any further without it.

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.

About the Organisation

With over 70 years of experience, our focus is on helping the most vulnerable children overcome poverty and experience fullness of life. We help children of all backgrounds, even in the most dangerous places, inspired by our Christian faith. Come join our 34,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children’s life stories!

In addition to the salary offered, we offer the following:

• 28 days holiday + bank holidays, rising with length of service to 30 days
• Holiday purchase scheme
• Private Health Scheme
• Pension - 7% employer contribution
• Eyecare test reimbursement
• Life Assurance up to 4 x annual salary
• Enhanced Maternity Pay
• Wellbeing Support – Employee Assistance Programme
• Cycle to Work scheme

As a child focused organisation, World Vision UK is committed to the safeguarding of children, therefore any offer of employment is conditional upon the successful completion of applicable background checks, including a criminal records check.

World Vision is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We value diversity and aspire to reflect this in our workforce. We particularly welcome applications from under-represented sections of the community. World Vision UK also operates flexible working policies and practices.

Other roles you may have experience of could include Ministry Development, Ministry and Mission, Director of Ministry Development, Director of Ministry and Mission, Head of Ministry Development, Head of Ministry and Mission, Church Engagement, Church Engagement Manager, Director of Church Engagement, Head of Church Engagement, Church Partnerships, Marketing, Communications.

PLEASE NOTE: This role is being advertised by NFP People on behalf of the organisation.

The Cardinal Hume Centre works to prevent and tackle youth and family homelessness.

Job title: Family Services Practitioner: Children, Families and Young People 0-19
Westminster, London
Hours: 35 hours (full time)
Salary: £32,642 per annum

Are you passionate about making a real difference in the world? Do you want to leverage your skills to combat homelessness for children and young people? Then we have the perfect opportunity for you.

We are looking to recruit a Family Services Practitioner to assist with the provision of our whole family holistic approach and to support parents and children in our Family service through a mixture of outreach support and the delivery of a range of learning and play activities. This is an exciting role in our Family Services team that will plan and support safe, creative, inclusive, and appropriate play and learning opportunities and assist in the planning and provision of practical help and emotional support to families experiencing short- or long-term housing and/or financial insecurity. The role is pivotal in reaching the Centre’s goal of helping children and families achieve improved long-term outcomes, greater resilience, and wellbeing.  

Please note that this role requires flexibility to allow for changes to the weekly rota to meet the needs of our clients. The Family Centre is open on Saturdays and will require some Saturday working. The work pattern rotates from Tuesday – Saturday or Monday – Friday.

Please refer to the job description for further information. 

In your cv and cover letter, please outline how you meet the requirements of the role, why you would like to work for us and what about your previous experience makes you suitable for this role. You must account for any gaps in your employment history. 

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. We require job applicants, staff and volunteers to complete a criminal records self-declaration. This role requires an enhanced DBS check plus children’s barred list. It is an offence to apply for the role if the applicant is barred from engaging in regulated activity.

Benefits

· 26 days’ leave rising to 28 days’ leave after two years’ service (pro rata for part time staff)

· Discretionary wellbeing and celebratory days

· Access to Blue Light Card discounts

· Pension: stakeholder pension scheme and we will match employee contributions up to a maximum of 6%.

· Life assurance cover (after probation passed)

· Season ticket loan

· Training and development opportunities

Closing date for applications: Monday 3rd February 9am
Interviews: Monday 10th February 

Please note that a test will form part of the interview, if you are shortlisted details will be provided to you in advance of the interview.

If you’ve not heard from us three weeks after the closing date, please assume you have been unsuccessful on this occasion.

About the Diocese of Chester

We exist to serve 1.65 million people with the Good News of Jesus. This is a key season of change. We are embarking on an ambitious vision and strategy, which includes seeing hundreds of additional church communities planted, engaging with schools in such a way as to shape a generation, building worldwide partnerships, transforming communities and sharing Christ with the 1.65 million. It is a diverse diocese, divided by geography, wealth, education, ethnicity, but united in our need for Christ

The Role

The Diocesan Secretary – CEO (DiSCEO) is pivotal to this mission and will lead and transform the central services of the Diocese.

We are looking for a someone with broad operational leadership expertise who is captivated by our vision to love and serve the diverse and rapidly changing communities of our Diocese. We need an inspiring leader who can manage complex relationships, steward resources wisely, develop and implement strategy.

The role covers three main areas:

1. Diocesan Secretary: Promote the mission, culture, and safeguarding practice of the Diocese as the senior Lay Leader of the Diocese of Chester.
2. CEO of the Diocesan Board of Finance: Offering excellent managing directorship for the charity that undergirds the Diocese and maintaining the ethos and values central to our shared vocation.
3. Member of Bishop's Senior Staff: Providing counsel, support, fellowship, and wisdom in the Bishop's overall leadership of the Diocese as part of the Senior Staff Team.

We are here to ‘love Jesus and love people’ in this extraordinary diocese. To do so, we need a Diocesan Secretary with the leadership and skill of a CEO ready to partner with us as we begin this new chapter.

How to Apply

Carnelian has been appointed by the Board to lead this search. Please get in touch if you would like to explore this role further.

This is an exciting opportunity for a  senior leadership role to develop and implement strategy and programmes to deliver Southwark Vision 2024-35, Christ Centred|Outward Focussed.

This is a role for someone who has a heart to see the Church of England grow and thrive, who is committed to the development of mission and outreach in our churches and who finds joy in seeing congregations welcoming children, young people and families, growing and becoming more diverse in all ways, to represent all the people that we serve. The Diocese is committed to becoming a truly anti-racist organisation and to increasing our diversity at all levels. We especially welcome applications from those with Global Majority Heritage, those with disabilities and other protected characteristics.

The main focus will be delivery of the Diocesan Investment Programme, a nine-year partnership with the Church Commissioners which will invest £29m in projects in the Diocese aligned with the Church Commissioners’ nine year ‘Vision and Strategy’ programme. The role will also oversee the whole range of other centrally funded programmes and projects including Strategic Development Fund, Racial Justice Programme, Net Zero Carbon Programme, Flourish funding, and will provide expertise and input into other areas requiring strategic experience. 

This is the ideal opportunity for someone with experience of implementing complex, high-value programmes in a matrix-management environment, leading teams, managing risks, and reporting to senior individuals, boards and committees.

Whilst this opportunity is available on a part-time basis and we can offer flexibility around how the 21 hours is worked, there may be scope for more than 21 hours, and please contact Nicola Thomas, Diocesan Secretary for a discussion if this is of interest.

Closing date: 27th January 2025

Interview are anticipated to take place in mid-late February