Communications Officer
Post Introduction
This role is the Communications Officer for the CYF Network and Teams responsible for national departments.
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 is also the lead owner of the strategy within the NCIs, and therefore responsible for ensuring that the work of other teams within the NCIs is aligned to the strategy and helps ensure its delivery across the Church. The team brings together existing responsibilities previously held in the Renewal and Reform team, the Evangelism and Discipleship team, and the Strategy and Development Unit integrating them into a coherent offer of support for all the key elements of the vision and strategy for the 2020s. The team will be responsible for ensuring implementation of the Emerging Church programme across the NCIs.
The team consults on and manages the distribution of significant national funding. 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 which arise from the strategy.
What you'll be doing
- Ensure effective two-way communication between the Diocesan CYF Network and the Vision and Strategy, Education and Ministry Division departments.
- Facilitate productive dialogue with shared agreed outcomes.
- Cascade all relevant information and opportunities regularly and as required.
- Help the CYF network to engage more fully with doubling the number of children and young by 2030.
- Offering regular two-way constructive feedback.
Please note, this is a 12-month fixed term contract, for 5 hours per week.
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.
To be successful in this role, you will:
- A good knowledge and understanding of how the CYF Network functions and connects with the national teams.
- Experience of communicating across networks in a clear and efficient manner.
- Ability to adjust communication style to various audiences.
- Good interpersonal and listening skills.
- Have energy, enthusiasm and passion to motivate others to engage with the national vision.
For a full person specification, please see the attached job description.
What we offer
Our benefits include:
- A salary of £5,559.71 per annum (£38,9189 FTE) 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
- Flexible working hours and location
- 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.
