Church of England

Children and Families Minister Salary: £26,000-£29,000 per annum Hours: 35 hours per week Location: Christ Church, Fulwood Vision Christ Church's vision statement is: "Connecting people to Jesus Christ and to each other." This role is to do this in relation to children and young people and their families through expanding our existing work and developing new relationships. About Christ Church is a moderately sized church fellowship that suffered a large dip in Covid but is recovering. We sit in the open evangelical tradition with a mix of modern and traditional worship. Fulwood is quite a mixed parish with a fairly large and growing Muslim population. We have one state Primary School (Kennington) in the parish and one Church Secondary School (Archbishop Temple School). The other schools are faith based but not Church of England. We also have regular contact with Longsands Primary School, though it is just outside the parish. We have Junior Church or Messy Church most Sundays with the second Sunday being All Age Worship. Junior Church is our children's provision during Sunday morning worship. We have about 11 children and 9 young people on the books though attendance varies enormously week by week. Messy Church replaces Junior Church once a month and takes a freer, more craft based approach. Both are led by the same core of 3 lay leaders with support from 3 others. We take regular assemblies at both Kennington and Longsands Primary schools and lead a fortnightly After School Worship for families at Longsands in termtime. Role purpose The Children and Families Minister will develop relationships with families in the church and across the parish, witnessing to the love of Jesus in what they say and do. As part of the Diocese of Blackburn's Ignite Project, the role will help grow a thriving; community of young people and create pathways to faith. Through this project, our aim is to increase the number of children and young people engaged in active discipleship and raise up local leaders within our churches and communities. The Children and Families Minister will work with our existing families and Primary School aged children in current church settings, build on existing relationships with schools and community groups and reach out to new families. This post would suit someone who has previous experience of children's ministry, either paid or voluntary. The post would be well supported by the line manager, and church community, as well as the Ignite Project Mentor, the Ignite Leaders Community and where theological training is involved, Emmanuel College. As well as the line manager there will be a mentor / dedicated pastoral support person offered within the church. For full details of the role, including the person specification and instructions on how to apply, please visit: General vacancies The Diocese of Blackburn

The Church of England is looking for a Children and Families Minister to develop relationships with families in Christ Church, Fulwood. This role focuses on witnessing to the love of Jesus and growing a community of young people through the Ignite Project. The position requires experience in children's ministry and offers strong support from the church community and mentors. Responsibilities include engagement with schools, community activities, and supporting active discipleship among children and youth.

The Church of England is seeking a candidate to lead on establishing data measurement frameworks across its Church Growth Programme. This role includes overseeing statistics management, validating data, championing data quality, and coordinating IT needs with external suppliers. The successful candidate will manage the Contact Management System and utilize mapping tools like ArcGIS for strategic planning and analysis. Effective internal and external relationship management is essential. The position reports to the Programme Director and is integral to supporting diocesan operations.

Main Duties To lead on establishing and embedding an effective measurement framework across the broad range of nationally funded projects and programmes which support the diocesan wide Church Growth Programme alongside the overarching diocesan strategy, feeding into relevant governance structures including but not limited to Programme Board, Executive Board, Bishop's Core Team, Bishop's Council and Diocesan Synod. This includes identifying trends and representing data in creative ways to inform a variety of stakeholders. To act as the Diocesan Lead for Statistics which includes but is not limited to providing oversight of the annual statistics for mission return, annual return of parish finance liaising with finance colleagues, annual Energy Footprint Tool (EFT) liaising with NZC Support Officer and ensuring diocesan statistics are used to inform key decision making. To lead on data collation, validating and consolidating information from multiple internal and external sources, proactively liaising with stakeholders across departments to source, standardise and integrate multiple datasets into one single source of truth. To champion data quality and consistency throughout the Diocese by building and maintaining relationships with key data providers, defining collection requirements, providing guidance to contributors, and setting timely deadlines that consider any data cleansing activities that may be required. To act as the Diocesan Lead for IT, which involves acting as primary point of contact for our external IT supplier, Charing the IT Governance Group and liaising with the national IT leads to learn from and embed good practice including how we may better utilise / integrate AI into our working practices. Consider IT training requirements and provide / co coordinate third party IT training as required, to include but not limited to Microsoft Teams and other MS and non-MS packages. To take a lead on CMS (Contact Management System, essentially our diocesan contact database), attending relevant national meetings and reporting back and liaising closely with the Comms Team to help ensure accurate data to inform mailings / distribution lists. Establishing effective internal systems and processes to ensure effective maintenance of records. To lead on Mapping including the effective use of ArcGIS / MapInfo or equivalent to support pastoral schemes and diocesan strategic planning. Any other duties that would reasonably be included within the remit of this post. The post holder is an employee of the Diocesan Board of Finance (DBF) and will report to the Programme Director. Internal Relationships The Programme Director, Project Management Office (PMO) colleagues, the Finance & Operations team, the Communications team and heads of departments. External Relationships Project leads, vicars and PCCs in parishes, the national CMS user group, the national data services team and our external IT provider.