If you are keen to join to a small, passionate team where your skill and expertise will positively impact clergy families, and will be nurtured through our renewed commitment to staff development, then we’d love to hear from you.

As the largest and oldest charity supporting Anglican ministers and their families, we exist to serve those people who, through their ministry, spend their lives serving others.

Clergy Support Trust is an inclusive and supportive organisation. We warmly welcome applications from candidates of all backgrounds, and believe a diverse workforce leads to fresh ideas and creative thinking, as well as reflecting our diverse beneficiary base across the UK and Europe.

Current vacancies

Finance & Operations Coordinator

A newly-created position in a rapidly expanding organisation

As Finance & Operations Coordinator you will be a member of the small, supportive Finance and Operations team, working closely with the Senior Finance Officer, Head of Finance and the Operations & Office Manager.

Join us at a pivotal point in our history

As we embark on a new strategic period (2026-30) together with newly-announced funding streams, you will work alongside colleagues across the whole staff team, with responsibility for:

Supporting the Finance team in managing the charity’s finances:
Process purchase ledger invoices, by prompt inputting of invoices onto Xero financial system, ensuring accuracy and compliance with policies and authorised in line with delegated authority
Prompt processing of transactions

Supporting the setting up of weekly payment run, ensuring all payment information has been processed accurately; prompt invoice administration and timely payments to suppliers:
Processing staff and volunteers’ expenses ensuring accuracy and compliance with policies and authorised in line with delegated authority
Recording gift aided donations on Giveclarity for claim from HMRC

Support the Operations & Office Manager in the day-to-day office operations:
Welcoming visitors to the office
First point of contact for the Trust’s main telephone line
Dealing with incoming / outgoing post
Assisting H&S and housekeeping checks
Maintaining and overseeing cleanliness and use of the London office, ordering stationery supplies, etc.
Acting as a point of contact for contractors for regular maintenance visits

Support the External Relations Team:
Providing additional staff resources for key events, including the annual Festival at St Paul’s Cathedral, and Annual General Meeting for the Charity’s supporters

 

Job Profile and Person Specification (PDF)

Details

Type: Permanent. We are open to candidates who would prefer part-time (minimum 28 hours per week) or full-time (minimum 35 hours per week).

Location: London - Hybrid The expectation for this role is that the post-holder will be in the London office a minimum of 2 days of the week.

Salary: £28,000 - £30,000 (pro rata) Staff also receive an annual cost-of-living-related salary uplift in years where this applies.

Apply by email to vacancies@clergysupport.org.uk before 09:30 on Monday 17 March 2025 with:

  • Curriculum Vitae
  • Covering letter (no more than three sides of A4)

Interviews: First stage interviews will take place at our London office

Head of Charitable Development & Resources

A new role to drive our future vision.

This brand new strategic role provides an exciting opportunity for a dynamic, experienced professional to create and deliver a brand new suite of online and self-service support for clergy and their families.  This is a unique opportunity to drive the future vision of a 400-year-old charity.

A member of the Senior Leadership Team, you’ll be joining the leading Anglican wellbeing charity, supporting thousands of households each year, as we embark on a new strategic period (2026-30) and at a pivotal point in our mission.  

This new role will have the creativity and freedom to design, create and deliver a new online charitable offer to existing and new audience groups.  You will be responsible for planning, budgeting, delivering and overseeing a strategic plan for growth in our online / self-service offer.  Working with the Director of Charitable Services (DCS), Development & Resources Manager (DRM), other SLT colleagues and the wider organisation, this new, visionary role will be instrumental in delivering new solutions to clergy and their families, while delivering on our strategic objectives.

We need your skills and expertise to take our preventive, non-financial support further. This will include:

•    working with new and existing external partners 
•    sourcing potential digital agencies
•    contract management
•    project planning
•    monitoring and evaluation of new services
•    highlighting trends 
•    managing the online charitable offer to ensure they are easily accessible and available to all via suitable technology and digital platforms

 

Job Profile and Person Specification (PDF)

Details

Type: Permanent
Location: London - Hybrid (two days a week on average in the office, depending on business need). 
Salary: £59,077 - £62,187 (CST Tier S3). Staff also receive an annual cost-of-living-related salary uplift in years where this applies.

Apply by email to vacancies@clergysupport.org.uk before 09:30, Monday 24 February 2025 with:

  • Curriculum Vitae
  • Covering letter (no more than three sides of A4)

Interviews: First stage interviews will take place at our London office, on Thursday 6 March 2025.