Communications Assistant
Post Introduction
About the Department
The Vision and Strategy team has been established to support the whole Church in its engagement with the national Vision and Strategy for the Church for the 2020s, and to support implementation of the Emerging Church programme. The team champions the three strategic priorities of the strategy to enable us to be a church for everyone: missionary disciples, younger and more diverse, and mixed ecology and the six bold outcomes that arise from the strategy.
Thy Kingdom Come (TKC) is the global, annual, ecumenical prayer movement, initiated by the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Archbishop of York. From Ascension to Pentecost, Christians worldwide are encouraged to participate in 11 days of prayer. A number of resources are produced for churches, families and individuals to aid in this time of prayer.
This new role of Communications Assistant is for 1.5 days a week, to provide communications support for Thy Kingdom Come until the campaign ends at the end of June 2025. Year 2025 marks 10 years since the campaign launch, making additional communication support essential.
In this role you will be:
- Preparing and sending regular communications to key internal and external stakeholders, including drafting emails for approval and sign off.
- Social media scheduling – working with the project lead to develop the content calendar and upload content to social media platforms.
- Respond to social media enquiries in a timely way.
- Manage the Thy Kingdom Come stories / testimonies database including writing up stories, cataloguing them etc.
- Admin support for content creation such as organising logistics for video recordings, audio recordings etc.
- Provide communication support for the Thy Kingdom Come website - including regularly updating content / resources / draft mini web articles.
For a full job description, please see attached.
About You
The Church of England is for everyone and we want to reflect the diversity of the community the Church serves across the whole country. Therefore, while of course we welcome all applications from interested and suitably experienced people, we would particularly welcome applicants from UK Minoritised Ethnicities (UKME)/Global Majority Heritage (GMH) and other under-represented groups. As a Disability Confident employer, we are committed to recruiting disabled people. We offer interviews to disabled people who meet the minimum criteria for the role.
To be successful in this role you will have/be:
- Experience of working in a communication role - understanding of campaigns / strategic comms
- Understanding social media within an organisation/ storytelling and use of content management systems for / scheduling tools
- A team player
- Flexible
- Resourceful
- Energetic
- ‘Can do’ attitude
What we offer
- A salary of £10,014.60 per annum (FTE £33,382) plus age-related pension contributions between 8-15% of salary. We will also match any pension contributions you make up to an additional 3% of salary.
- 25 days annual leave (increasing to 30 days within 5 years) plus three additional days
Our benefits include:
- Flexible working hours and location, with an expectation to come into our office in Westminster occasionally
- Structured induction programme and access to a range of development opportunities including apprenticeships
- Access to Occupational Health, and an Employee Assistance Programme
- Opportunity to the Civil Service Sports & Social Club, and get involved in a range of staff networks, groups and societies
We try to be as flexible as we can in your work pattern to support you with other commitments, and to give a good work-life balance.
The National Church Institutions comprises a wide variety of teams, professions and functions that support the mission and ministries of the Church of England in its vision to be a church, centred on Jesus Christ, for the whole nation - a church that is simpler, humbler, bolder.
We Include. You Belong.
Our Belonging and Inclusion Strategy aims for everyone in the National Church Institutions (NCIs) to feel that they belong, and are valued for who they are and what they contribute. Together, our people contribute in different ways towards our common purpose, whichever NCI they work in and whatever their background.
Living out our values in all that we do, we:
- Strive for Excellence
- Show Compassion
- Respect others
- Collaborate
- Act with Integrity
We believe our commitment to belonging and inclusion fuels our progress and drives us forward. The NCIs are a safe, inclusive workplace for people of all backgrounds and walks of life. We welcome applications from people of all faiths and of no faith. We want to encourage applications from a diverse group of people who share our values. Even if you have never thought about working for us before, if you have the skills and experience we’re looking for then we would like to hear from you.
