Advert: Regional Children’s Work Specialist

Full time – 35 hours per week (flexible, including some evenings and weekends)
Annual salary – £38 – £43,000 pa depending on experience
Do you have the skills and experience to support local churches in their engagement with children?
Are you looking to work in a team to enable children to fully share in the life of the Church?
Can you come alongside local churches to help them discover and live out their mission?

We are seeking an experienced children’s worker for a regional role for the United Reformed Church in East Anglia as part of an interdisciplinary Mission Team supporting local churches in their mission and ministry. You would be our Mission Practitioner (Children’s Work).
In accordance with the Equalities Act 2010 Part 1; Schedule 9, there is a genuine occupational requirement that the post holder be a Christian.
Office based, with some working from home permissible, and a Full driving license as regular travel around the Synod is an essential requirement.
An application pack can be accessed via the Synod website:
www.urceastern.org.uk or by emailing Marion Gentry on admin@urceastern.org.uk
Only completed application forms will be accepted. No CVs.
Closing date for applications is 4pm on Monday 17th November.
Interviews will be held on Friday 28th November
As part of the interview, you are asked to prepare a ten-minute presentation, as if to a local church, on your choice of subject to display the essential knowledge and skills and abilities listed in the person specification. (The panel will not be role playing, but a discussion will follow about the content, assumptions, method etc.)