| Diocesan Vacancies |
| House for Duty Priest-in-Charge, The Parish of St Laurence, Meriden |
St Laurence Meriden are looking for a Priest-in-Charge with drive, energy and a passion for a rural ministry right in the heart of the English Midlands; someone who can encourage involvement and build a team, fostering the development of talents in a growing congregation; someone who wants to be at the centre of building a NEW vibrant, stable and self-sustaining community of the church within the larger village community; and finally someone who can lead a new expression of the Gospel for the salvation of today’s population.
We are praying for a candidate who is:
– A prayerful, spiritual and inspirational leader.
– Someone with enthusiasm to inspire and ‘recruit’.
– Someone to nurture and empower.
– A strategic thinker who can help set a vision and build on existing relationships with other parishes with whom we can share aspects of pastoral ministry.
– Someone passionate about people and a good communicator.
– An enabler of effective processes of mission and discipleship that can be applied in the life of the church, including such things as small groups, outreach and lay leadership.
– Gifted in the ongoing pastoral ministry required in a small village context, building on existing links with the wider village communities and school, while exploring and developing the potential for new areas of mission and ministry.
– Someone who can lead by example and be an enabler of workers for the Gospel and Church, by making space for involvement of new disciples, support for development of new leadership, and advice for those taking responsible roles.
This is a part-time, house-for-duty post and we have experience of operating within those constraints; but we can and want to do ‘more’. We want to connect more with our local community particularly our local Church of England Primary School.
For more information, click here.
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| Associate Minister House for Duty, The Bridges Group |
Two House for Duty Associate Ministers (Sunday + 2 days a week), one with a view to becoming Priest-in-Charge. One post will have a more pioneering role: to develop new, imaginative ways of being church in the community. The other post will be more traditional: to nurture and pastor those who love the traditions of the local church.
We are looking for two priests who will:
– Be prayerful, believe in a Christ-centred church, are empowered by the Holy Spirit, have a pastoral heart and will help every member achieve their full potential as Christians
– Work strategically, creatively and collaboratively with the team of clergy, reader and lay leaders
– Be happy to lead both traditional and more innovative styles of worship
– Inspire, nurture and empower others to grow as disciples and serve Christ in their communities
– Build strong relationships and enjoy talking with people of all ages from both inside and outside the church
– Recognise the potential of our church buildings for both mission and ministry
– Feel deeply at home in a rural setting.
We can offer you:
– A skilful leadership team and worship leaders
– A supportive and resourceful deanery and chapter
– A modern, detached four-bedroom vicarage (with the best views in the diocese from Napton Vicarage study!)
– A group administrator
– Three very good local primary schools – and the outstanding Southam College nearby
Jesus tells us that “I came that you may have life, and have it abundantly.” [John 10:10]
For more information, click here.
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| Rector - St Margaret's, Whitnash |
St Margaret’s Whitnash is a sociable, welcoming single Parish based in a small town just south of Royal Leamington Spa.
Our new Rector will be:
– Excited by the priority of the Good News of the Gospel
– Excited by the priority and power of prayer
– Excited by the priority of holiness
– Excited by the priority and passion of evangelism
– Excited by the priorities of training and enabling others
– Excited by the priority and purpose of giving
– Excited by the prospect of joining us.
For more information, click here.
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| Associate Minister - Bedworth Mission Hub Church |
The Diocese of Coventry is recruiting a new Associate Minister, fully funded at incumbent level with housing, for an initial period of five years. This is part of an exciting and adventurous mission strategy to see healthy churches propagate, plant, or graft 150 new worshipping communities over the next ten years.
Bedworth is a town located 5 miles north of Coventry. The town has a population of 32000 and the parish covers the town. There are two churches in the parish. The larger church in the town centre is All Saints, and a smaller church, St. Andrew’s. All Saint’s is a lively growing church with a variety of ages meeting across three Sunday congregations. St. Andrew’s is a small church mainly comprising of an elderly congregation with a range of new projects underway to enable it to grow and become part of the community again.
Our vision is that over the next 10 years every person in Bedworth has the opportunity to have the good news of Jesus presented & demonstrated to them. We want to do this by planting churches and missional communities across our parish.
So, we are looking for an Associate Vicar that can work within the predominantly evangelical charismatic theology of the parish, who enjoys motivating a large team to plant & grow new worshipping communities & who lives life to the full.
We are seeking colleagues from a breadth of traditions who fit the following person specification:
– Self-starters who are good team players, but also have the skills and an ability to take on individual responsibility for key church growth projects.
– Have experience in leadership in a missional church.
– Teaching, enabling and facilitating in evangelism, everyday faith.
– Experience of leading or responsibility in a church plant, fresh expression or re-imagining the mission of the local church.
– Comfortable to work in a breadth of tradition to resource contextual mission.
– Engaging preaching and communication.
– Experience of developing and leading digital church services.
For more information, click here.
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| Associate Minister - Rugby Mission Hub Church in the Diocese of Coventry |
The Diocese of Coventry is recruiting a new Associate Minister, fully funded at incumbent level with housing, for an initial period of five years. This is part of an exciting and adventurous mission strategy to see healthy churches propagate, plant, or graft 150 new worshipping communities over the next ten years.
St Andrew’s, Rugby, offers its worship, mission and ministry in the modern catholic tradition. [While the principal acts of worship are eucharistic and choral, it embraces a variety of more informal worship including Muddy Church and Café Church.] As an Eco-Church Gold award winner, it has a strong environmental vocation and is a member of the Major Churches Network, HeartEdge and Inclusive Church. [The Associate Minister will need to find these priorities nourishing, whilst being comfortable across the broad spectrum of Anglican heritage represented in the Rugby Deanery and beyond].
We are seeking colleagues from a breadth of traditions who fit the following person specification:
– Self-starters who are good team players, but also have the skills and an ability to take on individual responsibility for key church growth projects.
– Have experience in leadership in a missional church.
– Teaching, enabling and facilitating in evangelism, everyday faith.
– Experience of leading or responsibility in a church plant, fresh expression or re-imagining the mission of the local church.
– Comfortable to work in a breadth of tradition to resource contextual mission.
– Engaging preaching and communication.
– Experience of developing and leading digital church services.
For more information, click here.
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| Director of Communications and Engagement |
35 hours per week with occasional evening and weekend working required
£48,670.00 per annum plus Life Assurance and 8.5% Employer Pension Contributions
The Diocese of Coventry is seeking to appoint a Director of Communications and Engagement to lead on the development and implementation of a Communications and Engagement strategy which enables the Diocese to fulfil our mission purpose of: worshipping God, making new disciples, and transforming communities and achieve our vision of Restored health, new growth and renewed relationships.
This post reports to the Diocesan Secretary and is based in the Coventry Office.
The main responsibilities are:
– Develop and implement a Communications and Engagement strategy
– Plan and build internal and external content for various communications platforms, social media and manage the content strategy and development of an organisation-wide editorial calendar
– Create brand guidelines and oversee their implementation
– Manage all press relations, statements and announcements for the Diocese
– Act as spokesperson for the diocese and Bishops when required, and advise the Bishop of Coventry on episcopal relations with the media and communications with the diocese
– Advise and support senior staff, clergy and parish officers on all aspects of their communications.
The successful applicant will have experience of:
– Experience in a similar role, within a complex organisational structure
– Building strong relationships and leading communications
– Developing a communications and engagement strategy
– Crisis and media communications management
– Developing digital and social media platforms to fit with missional purpose and vision
– Understanding of the Church of England parochial system and the wider organisation of the diocese.
For more information, click here.
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| Communications and Publications Coordinator - Holy Trinity, Leamington Spa |
Holy Trinity Church, Leamington Spa, invites applications for the position of Communications and Publications Coordinator. This part time post involves creating and managing social media feeds; producing internal and external publications; and administrative duties.
The post is for 8 hours per week over three days, with time split between working from home and from the church office.
Salary is £23,500 per annum paid pro rata;£12.05 per hour with Nest pension. It has potential to evolve as the church’s exciting vision for the future is realised.
For detailed information, please contact Helen Cave, Church Warden, email helencave@talktalk.net or the Revd Esther Peers, Pioneer Curate in Charge email esther.htleam@gmail.com
The closing date for applications is 24th September 2022
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