Please note this is a fixed term position for 3 years
Working hours: 18 hours per week (Mainly working during the weekdays but with some evening & occasional weekend work in-line with the nature of the role)
Interview Date: Week commencing 13th April
Woking Salvation Army is a vibrant church in Surrey, expanding its children’s (including youth) and families ministries to the local community. We are recruiting a motivated and experienced children’s and families leader to join our friendly team.
Key responsibilities:
1. Lead the children, youth and families’ ministry at Woking Salvation Army
2. Develop the youth and children’s outreach and discipleship activities
3. Grow the children and youth ministry in an innovative way that positively impacts young people’s relationships with Jesus and leads to a growth in families regularly attending Sunday worship
The successful applicant will have:
4. Experience of organising community activities for a range of different programme participants
5. Ability to prioritise, organise and manage your own workload to meet objectives
6. Good communication skills and the ability to develop effective working relationships with colleagues, programme participants and external stakeholders
7. A good level of English - both spoken and written - and numeracy at GCSE level or equivalent
8. Experience of working with software such as Microsoft Word, Excel, Powerpoint and email programmes
9. Awareness of relevant safeguarding matters
We expect you to exhibit behaviours that model our values of integrity; accountability; compassion; passion; respect and boldness.
This role has an occupational requirement that the successful candidate must be a committed and practising Christian and will be in sympathy with the doctrines of, and supportive of, the purposes and the aims and objectives of The Salvation Army.