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Senior Communications and Engagement Manager

Post Introduction

In February 2025, the Church of England’s legislative body, General Synod, voted on a motion brought by the Lead Bishop for Safeguarding on future structures for safeguarding in the Church of England. Synod votes on next steps for independent safeguarding | The Church of England 

This work was the culmination of a response by the Church of England to two reports published in 2024 about safeguarding structures and operations. The General Synod motion, as amended, sets the direction of travel for safeguarding structures and operations in the future. 

The lead safeguarding bishop and her team are in the process of constituting a Programme Board, which will oversee two Project Boards delivering major workstreams: Scrutiny of Church Safeguarding and Operational Delivery of Church Safeguarding. 

The day-to-day operation of delivering the work that General Synod has commissioned is the responsibility of the Safeguarding Structures Team. This team will deliver work to develop a scrutiny body which will scrutinise the Church of England’s safeguarding activities, through the Project Board delivering Scrutiny of Church Safeguarding.


About the Department/Role
The Safeguarding Structures Team sits within the Archbishops’ Council, which is a charity set up in law to co-ordinate, promote, aid and further the work and mission of the Church of England, and is one of the National Church Institutions.

What you'll be doing

The Senior Communications and Engagement Manager will work closely with the Programme Director as part of the Programme Team, and their role will be to design and deliver structured stakeholder engagement with a range of audiences.  

The postholder will need to develop a strong understanding of the Programme’s history and objectives to deliver both external scrutiny of Church safeguarding and external operational delivery of Church safeguarding, in order to brief and advise stakeholders and to invite their participation and support.   


Key role requirements
  • Ongoing online and public presence and narrative to help survivors, members of the public, people involved in local church safeguarding and others to understand the work and participate appropriately in its development
  • Regular online calls with groups of people who work in Church safeguarding and may eventually be directly affected by proposals to transfer functions to an external employer
  • Regular online calls with groups of people who work in a company secretary role in the 85 charities which are likely to be directly affected by the development of scrutiny functions which will audit the charities they lead
  • Regular emails and newsletters to audiences with an interest in this work, delivering consistent messages tailored to each audience
  • Press and media briefings to announce relevant developments and explain their significance

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. 

What we offer
Your Salary 
  • A salary of £68,999 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).
  • 30 days annual leave plus eight bank holidays 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. 

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The Safeguarding Structures Team sits within the Archbishops’ Council, which is a charity set up in law to co-ordinate, promote, aid and further the work and mission of the Church of England, and is one of the National Church Institutions.
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Overview

Salary £68,999
Annually
Post Reference cofe/TP/89255/8618
Contract Type Employee
Fixed Term Contract
Closing Date 27 May, 2025
Post Category Communications and Marketing
Business Unit CofE Central Services
Location Church House, Great Smith Street, London, United Kingdom
07 May, 2025
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