Salary: £40,000
Location: Trinity House, London
Working Hours: A flexible role – part or full–time. We are looking for a minimum commitment of 21 hours per week. As a full-time post it can be split into a job-share.
- Are you excited by God’s generosity and believe in people and communities being generous disciples of Christ?
- Do you have the enthusiasm and communication skills to help lay and ordained people across our diverse Diocese reflect upon gratitude, generosity, and resourcing mission in their communities?
- In these challenging times, would you enjoy supporting parishes to explore every way they can enable giving, investigate new income streams or seize the opportunity of legacy fundraising?
- Are you interested in church or charity fundraising and looking for a new challenge?
- Would you like to join us, be willing to learn and work with us as we seek to be a Diocese that is Christ- centred and outward focused? If so, please read on.
Introduction
We are seeking a collaborative person to join our Giving Team, who would enjoy continuing to build and inspire a culture of generous giving across Southwark Diocese.
There is the flexibility for the post to be full, or part-time, or on a job share basis, with flexible working hours and is open to lay and clergy applicants.
Main Responsibilities
To inspire and nurture a culture of generosity; working with and through others to deepen understanding and outworking of generous giving on a personal and congregational level across our diverse Diocese.
Encouraging Generous Giving
- To strengthen discipleship by encouraging the principles and practical aspects underpinning Christian generosity and giving, both in worship and other gatherings.
- To work proactively with a breadth of parishes, (reflecting our demographic, economic and ethnic diversity), seeking opportunities to support their giving.
- Analysing current practice (both data and stories), understanding the financial situation of parishes, and helping them develop effective and creative giving practices.
- To help parishes in the planning of, advising upon and direction of giving programmes, and promoting good practice.
- To develop giving materials
- To promote and maintain a pattern of engaging training in good stewardship and giving practice
Promoting giving mechanisms
- Encourage all parishes in the adoption of the full basket of giving mechanisms e.g., regular giving through the Parish Giving Scheme, contactless and online giving, use of QR codes, legacies and more.
- For a fulltime post: to shape and develop a growth strategy for promoting, encouraging and growing gifts in wills, legacies and in memory giving for parishes and the Diocese.
Communication, training and support
- To be responsible for updating our website’s giving pages and helping with regular social media and parish communications.
- To help prepare and deliver training events
- To promote giving through Gift Aid
- To maintain links with the Regional and National Stewardship Network and other organisations.
The Ideal Candidate
Experience and qualifications
- The ability to communicate in a clear and lively manner both in writing and verbally
- To be numerate, with experience in Excel, and the ability to use spreadsheets for data collection and preparing accurate reports using data
- Experience of successfully delivering projects
- Experience of working with volunteers
- An understanding of diversity and cross-cultural dynamics
Skills/Aptitudes
- An understanding of, and a commitment to the promotion of, the principles and practice of Christian generosity and giving and a willingness to develop further
- An ability to develop good relationships and work with representatives of the churches
- regardless of their church traditions
- The ability to plan, advise upon and lead giving programmes
- The aptitude to understand finances, budgeting and budget management
- Good IT competency in Word and PowerPoint
- Organised, able to work to tight deadlines and manage conflicting priorities
- Ability to deal sensitively and diplomatically with a range of people
- Ability to maintain a high level of confidentiality
- A willingness and ability to work evenings and weekends as required
Character and personal qualities
- A desire to serve churches in Southwark Diocese with a passion for resourcing mission and ministry, that enables spiritual and numerical growth
- Be a committed, practising Christian, comfortable with working in the Church of England with parishes of different traditions, and taking part in their services.
- Be self-motivated, with the ability to work well both independently and as part of a team
About us
Southwark is a diverse and vibrant Diocese in so many ways, from the energy of the inner city to the beauty of the Surrey Hills. We are one of the largest Dioceses in the Church of England, serving the people of South London and East Surrey. We take joy in the distinctiveness and variety of God’s gifts and people. You will find churches that offer welcome, care and dignity in Christ’s name to their parishes; chaplains walking along side those in education, hospitals, and prison; and pioneering communities seeking to reach out and serve in new ways. We seek to be Christ-centred and outward-focused in all we do.
One of its three Episcopal Areas, Kingston is the richly varied part of London between Waterloo and Kingston upon Thames. We serve our population of about 1.1 million through ministries in more than 100 parishes, nearly 50 church schools, four universities, seven hospitals and hospices, and two prisons. All our churches are important centres in the community, offering worship, teaching, pastoral care and social action.
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