Overview

The Church of England plays a vital role in the life of the nation and, through a network of parishes across the country, it provides Christian ministry and strengthens community life across numerous urban, suburban and rural settings. In addition, many of its members make a high-level contribution to a range of the most prominent public bodies.

The Church of England is a highly devolved institution. The National Church Institutions (NCIs) consists of seven distinct organisations which administer core functions that are most effectively handled at national level. The NCIs work to support the mission and ministries of the Church locally and throughout England.

Post Introduction

This is a unique opportunity to bring your operational skills and leadership passion into a historic institution which plays a national and local role in our spiritual and social life.

This role sits at the heart of the NCIs: the successful candidate will lead a broad range of shared services, enhancing customer service and improving effectiveness and efficiency through improvements to the operating model, and well-planned investment in systems and processes.

Saxton Bampfylde Ltd is acting as an employment agency advisor to the Church of England on this appointment. Candidates should apply for this role through our website at www.saxbam.com/appointments, using code FAEZE2. Click on the ‘apply’ button and follow the instructions to upload a CV and cover letter and fill-out an equal opportunities monitoring form*. If you have difficulty applying please call 0207 227 0880 (during office hours) quoting reference FAEZE2.

The closing date for applications is noon on Monday 16th March 2020.

Role Responsibility

The Role

This role will need to navigate the complexity of working across the national Church with the governance bodies of the various national institutions and engaging with wider Church customers and stakeholders.

Supported by a large team and reporting into the Chief Executive of the Church Commissioners, this is a challenging role with significant scope in which to make a major impact.

The Ideal Candidate

The Requirements

The successful candidate will be an experienced senior leader, with a strong grasp of financial oversight as well as technology and system and process transformation, who also brings experience of managing multidisciplinary teams.

They will be able to work effectively within a complex organisational structure and proactively identify pathways to improvement.

A collaborative team-player, they will have an enthusiastic commitment to the mission and values of the Church, including a dedication to the NCI Belonging and Inclusion Agenda. A detailed understanding of executive leadership, best practice in governance, and good judgement are prerequisites.

About Us

We in the National Church Institutions support the mission and ministries of the Church all over England. We work with parishes, dioceses (regional offices), schools, other ministries and our partners at a national and international level.

Excellence, Respect, Integrity

We follow these three values in everything we do, whether we are of Christian faith, another faith or no faith. To learn more about working for National Church Institutions and our benefits, please click here

As we are a member of the Armed Forces Covenant, we welcome applications from those of you who have served in our Armed Forces and their families.

We are committed to building a culturally diverse workforce. As part of this commitment, we welcome applications from people, regardless of their background. As a Disability Confident committed employer, it is important to note that there may be occasions where it is not practical or appropriate to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria* due to high volume. We limit the amount of interviews conducted to five applicants per open post we advertise. 

*Where applicable depending on post requirements.

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