Andover Parish Andover, England, United Kingdom
Hours
24,000
28,000
Description of Job
Go to www.andoverparish.org/jobs to download the full job description. To apply, email your CV and a covering letter to patovicar@andoverparish.org by the 31st of October.
Key Responsibilities:
* Lead worship (as the primary leader) at St Mary’s on Sundays, modelling best practice and setting a high standard.
* Lead worship at a range of other times during the week. For example: staff meetings, Alpha, conferences, special services, schools, care-homes and other events.
* Train and manage existing worship team at St Mary’s (musicians and production volunteers) and recruit, train and manage new volunteers.
* Develop the worship team’s discipleship, increasing leadership responsibility of key volunteers (as appropriate) and proactively taking opportunities to add value to their ministry e.g. through team nights, 1-1 coaching, pastoral visits and coffees, rehearsals and other training.
* Raise the standards of musical quality in the worship team, investing in volunteers and supporting a youth worship band and provide dedicated rehearsal time for musicians and bands.
* Release, equip, envision people of all ages in worship.
* Take time for creativity/developing new ideas and resources - writing new songs/arrangements.
* Work with our Parish Organist and occasional musicians at events etc. Plan and collaborate with others to ‘fuse’ worshipping styles/traditions as needed e.g. Christmas and Easter.
* Maintain an effective local and wider network (local contacts, other worship leaders, writers, musicians, Diocesan advisors etc.).
* Work collaboratively across the life of the parish and, over time, in support of a diocesan-wide resourcing ministry.
* Work with volunteers who lead worship at our other sites (and raise up more volunteers to serve the other congregations), occasionally supporting them in their worship leading.
* Line manage trainees and interns who may, from time to time, be working for the parish.
* Take a leading role on AV support for funerals, weddings, midweek services and other events in St Mary’s.
* Manage and maintain the technical equipment including computer(s) in the church building that is regularly used for sung worship, ensuring that it lasts and upgrading/replacing things where needed.
* Keep the stage and AV booth in the church building tidy and in good condition.
General responsibilities:
* With the Rector, Operations Manager and Parish Safeguarding Officer, take the lead on safeguarding and risk management across the worship team showing exemplary and best practice understanding of safeguarding policy and practice (training and refresher training will be mandatory).
* Manage ministry budget in your remit effectively.
* With support, identify and apply for grants that will enable the expansion and development of worship at St Mary’s.
* Help facilitate Sunday services operationally and enable regular reviewing processes.
St Mary’s Andover is a Resource Church in Winchester Diocese and part of the HTB Network of churches. In May 2023, we joined with other parishes in Andover town to create The Parish of Andover. Led by the clergy and a new PCC, our parish now includes four worshipping communities and we minister town-wide to a residential population of c. 50,000.
We are seeking to follow the way of Jesus and believe mission is ‘the church in motion’. We are passionate and joyful about our vocation to resource and all the Lord has called us to be and do together. We are discerning fresh vision for this new season and what’s already clear to us is that we want to see people come to faith in Jesus and the town thrive.
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