Opportunities to Serve

SCBA Safeguarding Advisor

Responsible to: Designated Regional Minister (Lead for Safeguarding)
Salary: £8,326.80 per annum for 12 hours per week (FTE £27,456 / £13.20 per hour)

Main Purpose of Role:
To support the local church’s designated person for safeguarding in order to ensure good safeguarding practice in their church and pioneer missional activities across the SCBA churches

Key Tasks and Responsibilities:

Provide a first point of contact for advice with the local designated person for safeguarding when a safeguarding issue arises in a member church, whether child protection or adult at risk.
Offer advice and guidance on the application of the Baptist Union’s safeguarding policy (adopted by local churches) and local procedures at church level, including the involvement of statutory authorities as appropriate.
Offer on-going support to churches managing a safeguarding issue.
Oversee and manage safeguarding training programme for member churches, using the Baptist Union’s ’Excellence in Safeguarding’ training programme and materials (including offering training alongside a team of volunteer trainers)

Previous experience of working within Baptist Churches/Associations would be advantageous.
The Southern Counties Baptist Association is a Christian charity and as such, it is an occupational requirement that the holder of this post is a committed Christian and in sympathy with the Baptist Declaration of Principle.
The appointment will be subject to an enhanced disclosure from the DBS.

Working Hours:
2 day a week (approximately 12 hours) worked flexibly in agreement with the Regional Minister Team Leads. This will entail a mix of hours during the working week: daytime, evening meetings and occasional weekends. Although the majority of the time you will work from home there will also be in person meetings that you will expected to attend

To apply please send your CV and a covering letter addressing what excites you about and how you think your gifts will enable you in this role to office.administrator@scba.org.uk
Please include in your covering letter or CV the contact details of two people you are happy for us to contact for a reference (one of these should be your most recent or current employer).

For a full job description and details of the application procedure please click here

For more information you can contact Rev Hayley Young via email at h.young@scba.org.uk

Start date: To be negotiated with the successful candidate (ideally January 2025).
Application Deadline: 12noon on Thursday 28th November 2024
Date of interviews: Friday 13th December 2024

For more information, please download the SCBA Trustee Information Pack here

To download the SCBA Trustee Application Form, please click here

Please contact Amy Allen at office.administrator@scba.org.uk for more details

Further Opportunities to Serve

Yorkshire Baptist Association - Regional Minister

The Yorkshire Baptist Association is seeking a Regional Minister to join their team.

The person they appoint will be a key player in the team and must be committed to their direction of travel with its focus on planting, revitalising and re-imagining church as they seek spiritual and numerical growth among God’s people.

They are looking for a well-rounded individual who can inspire and enthuse others and has excellent interpersonal skills. They will be able to keep calm when others are not and will be a self-starter who brings a blend of skills, experiences and character traits to the role. In addition to providing support for our churches, they will have a track record of working amongst United Kingdom Minority Ethnic/Global Majority Heritage communities and be excited by the opportunity that comes from growing pipelines of missional leaders among the growing black and brown people/families joining our churches.

Extended application deadline: 5pm, Monday 18th November 2024

Interview date: Friday 29th November 2024

For more information, please click here

Christ Church, Chineham - Children, Youth & Families Leader

Christ Church is a growing evangelical and ecumenical church, with 15 nationalities and people of all ages from 0-91. They love that they have 70 children and young people in their church family, and they want to see them trusting their amazing God, and enjoying him forever. They are fully part of their life already, but need tailored learning and development through church, supporting discipling and nurturing at home. They want to find someone to help lead this work, and believe experience and passion is more important than formal qualifications. They're starting the role as part-time and with a 2 year fixed-term contract, but they really hope they'll be able to extend this much further.

Please contact their minister/pastor/vicar Jonathan Clark (jonathan@christchurchchineham.org.uk) if you'd like an informal chat about the role before applying.

Closing date for application: Sunday 24th November

For more information and to download the Job Description and Application Form, please click here

Shirley Baptist Church - Children, Youth & Family Worker

Salary: £24,000 to £26,000 per annum

This is an exciting opportunity for a FULL TIME Children, Youth and Family Worker at Shirley Baptist Church (SBC) in Southampton.

SBC are a mid-sized multinational church on the New Forest side of the city of Southampton.

They have a growing number of children, young people and families and are looking to appoint someone to lead and develop a thriving ministry on Sundays and throughout the week to children, young people and families, both in the church and the local community. This will involve developing new activities and initiatives.

The successful person will be able to enter wholehearted into this task and help them make church a place where children, young people and families are invited, welcomed and given the opportunity to encounter God in their lives. They are looking for someone to share our passion to see their children and young people come to faith and grow in a relationship with Jesus.

Closing date for applications: Sunday 24th November 2024

For more information, please click here

BMS World Mission - Expenditure Accounts Assistant

Hours: 21 hours p/w
Salary: £21,374 to £25,855 (pro-rata for part-time_

- Do you love working with numbers?
- Are you passionate about accuracy and details?
- Would you like to use your skills to make a global impact?

BMS World Mission is looking for a part-time Expenditure Accounts Assistant to join their small, fast-paced finance team in providing the organisation with excellent financial services. In this role, you will assist in the maintenance of the purchase ledger to process purchase transactions into their accounting system and assist with the monthly bank reconciliations.

About you: The successful candidate will be a flexible team player with excellent numeracy and organisational skills and superb attention to detail. Ideally you will have experience of purchase ledger processing or be willing to learn.

Closing date for applications: 9am, Friday 29th November 2024

Interview date: Monday 9th December 2024

For more information, please go to BMS World Mission Roles

Baptists Together - Legal Services Manager

Salary: £45,000 per annum
Full time, hybrid working

The Baptist Union of Great Britain (BUGB) is looking for a new Legal Services Manager to provide legal services and support to their1,800 churches, associations and colleges across England and Wales. This is a great opportunity to bring together your professional skills and experience and your Christian faith.

Based in their Didcot offices, this varied role will manage a legal team of 8 people including Solicitors, Paralegals, and Administrative colleagues, covering a range of issues from property, data protection, charity law and governance,

BUGB are seeking an experienced solicitor who has the intellectual agility to work across all these areas, together with the interpersonal skills to build strong relationships with colleagues and churches across our Baptist movement. You will have excellent management skills and the ability to coach and encourage a talented and capable team.

The nature of the role means that there is an occupational requirement for the postholder to be a practising Christian, and to be committed to a servant leadership approach to working with our teams and churches.

For more information see the information pack on our website: www.baptist.org.uk/jobs

Closing date for applications: Monday 2nd December 2024

Lee Abbey - Warden

This is a significant appointment, for an ordained leader with a proven commitment to the renewal and mission of the Church in the world. Working in partnership with a core leadership team and reporting to the Board of Trustees, the Warden (who has normally been an Anglican priest) has overall responsibility for:

Leadership of the vibrant and dynamic international and ecumenical Community
Hospitality and ministry to our guests
Stewardship of Lee Abbey Devon and its stunning 280-acre estate
Developing links with the wider Church to inspire everyday faith

Over 8,000 guests are welcomed each year to the Conference, Retreat and Holiday Centre, the Beacon Activity Centre, and summer Youth Camps. Lee Abbey Devon is part of a wider network under the umbrella of the Lee Abbey Movement, communicating Christ through relationships nationally and globally.

Closing date for applications: 14th December 2024

For more information, please click here

Chipping Campden Baptist Church - Youth Ministry Leader

Full time (with a probationary period (6 months) or exploring options for a job share role.
Salary from £26,000 - £30,000 (depending upon experience).

- Are you a passionate disciple of Jesus, gifted in leadership, with a calling to connect with young people and draw them to Jesus?
- Are you willing to step out in faith, build God’s Kingdom, and engage in creative mission and ministry amongst teenagers?

Chipping Cmapde Baptist Church (CBC) are looking for a Youth Ministry Leader (YML) to join their leadership team and serve in this strategic ministry position. If you are experienced, self-motivated and enthusiastic about seeing the lives of young people transformed, they’d love to hear from you.

They are looking for someone to lead and build on our existing youth work, influence, grow, develop, co-ordinate and have pastoral oversight for all aspects of 11-18’s (secondary school ages) youth work at CBC.

CBC are a growing church in the North Cotswolds committed to mission and relevant engaging ministry, and are passionate to see Jesus’ Kingdom built.

Closing Date for Applications : Saturday 11th January 2025
Interview Date : Thursday 23rd January 2025

For further information including the Job Description and Application Form please visit www.campdenbaptist.org.uk/yml

Javea International Baptist Church, Spain - Pastor

Javea is a smallish town about halfway down the Mediterranean coast of Spain and Javea International Baptist Church (JIBC)is a member church of the EMBA.

They are currently without a regular pastor, with ministry being supplied in the interim by a “Squad” of pastors prepared to serve for up 90 days at a time - 90 days being the upper limit for British passport-holders, since Brexit. The Squad is now in need of a new recruit or two, so they would probably be looking for someone recently retired (or free to serve for some other reason), or maybe someone planning a sabbatical. In certain circumstances, JIBC would consider an offer from a pastor willing to serve only for a month or a couple of months. The attached Profile gives a good idea of the set-up.

Squad members have their air fares to and from the UK covered, the use of an excellent apartment as a manse, and the use of a VW Golf.

JIBC is also hoping to appoint a regular pastor and again we would be grateful if you could make this known through your networks. The drawback is that anyone appointed would need either a passport of an EU country or an alternative qualification to live in Spain.

Please click here to download the Church profile,

Please click here to download the Pastor profile,