Cornerstone Project Manager
Post Introduction
The Cornerstone Project Manager will lead the successful implementation of Cornerstone, an innovative online generosity tool designed to help churches grow a culture of generosity and strengthen financial resilience. This pivotal role will enable sustainable ministry by supporting churches in growing their giving.
Cornerstone is available free of charge to all Church of England churches and offers three key functions: Insights, Pathways, and a Grants database.
You will oversee the diocesan rollout in partnership with Diocesan Giving Advisors—managing everything from onboarding to delivering in-person workshops across the country. The role also involves supporting churches with data interpretation, user support, and resource creation, while ensuring platform functionality and development in line with a three-year roadmap.
Reporting directly to the Head of Giving, you will play a key role in building strong relationships with dioceses and maintaining our partnership with The Kindness of Strangers.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead nationwide rollout of Cornerstone, including planning and delivering workshops and training.
- Manage project governance, timelines, budgets, risks, and reporting.
- Oversee platform performance, enhancements, and agile development cycles.
- Build strong stakeholder relationships across dioceses and internal teams.
- Line-manage the Cornerstone Project Support Officer.
- Advocate for Cornerstone at meetings, conferences, and forums.
- Contribute to communications and promotional activities for the platform.
Key Role Requirements
- This role involves some travel across England and Wales and may occasionally require weekend work. If the postholder is not based at Church House, they will need to attend meetings and training there as required.
- The position is primarily home-based until 31 December 2028, with an expectation to attend Church House once or twice a month.
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.
Please refer to the Job Description for more information about the role and person specification.
You will need to be/have:
- Experience within the Church sector (paid or voluntary), ideally related to giving or church finances.
- Proven ability to lead projects using agile methodologies.
- Strong understanding of digital platforms and user engagement.
- Excellent communication, training, and stakeholder management skills.
- Ability to manage complex schedules, budgets, and competing priorities.
- Highly computer literate (Microsoft Office, Canva, Monday.com).
What we offer
Your Salary
- A salary of £48,557 per annum, 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 your salary.
Your Benefits
- 25 days annual leave (increasing to 30 days within 5 years) plus eight bank holidays and three additional days (pro-rated if working part-time).
- We welcome all flexible working arrangement requests. This is looked at in a case-by-case scenario and if this fits within the department’s needs. 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.
- We offer many services and initiatives under our Family Friendly Programme, some of these include enhanced Maternity Leave initiative, Adoption Leave, Paternity Leave, & Shared Parental Leave. Structured induction programme and access to a range of development opportunities including apprenticeships.
- Automatic enrolment and access to Medicash (one of the UK’s leading health cash plan providers), providing you with many services including reimbursements of routine dental treatment, optical, specialist consultations, and therapy treatments. Unlimited access to virtual GP & Private prescription service and health & Stress related helplines.
- Access to Occupational Health, and an Employee Assistance Programme
- Access to the Department of Education Restaurant and Westminster Abbey with a plus-one guest.
- Apply for eligibility for an Eyecare voucher.
- Opportunity to join the Civil Service Sports & Social Club, and get involved in a range of staff networks, groups and societies.
ABOUT NATIONAL CHURCH INSTITUTIONS
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.
Please note: You must have the right to work in the UK to be considered for the role.
