Diocese of Carlisle

Vacancies List


  • Growing Younger Enabler for Youth

    Do you have a passion and drive to lead greater impact in mission to younger generations aged 10-25yrs through collaborative working?

    Are you a creative, imaginative, and innovative pioneer who respectfully engages with people and places in ways which honour and encourage them?

    Do you have an unwavering commitment to the delivery of quality youth work practice and ministry?

    The Diocese of Carlisle is looking for a Growing Younger Enabler for Youth to:

    • To enable and equip Network Youth Church and the Northern Young Leaders Project by leading and implementing a renewed approach to the Diocese’s work with young people and young adults.

    • To work collaboratively with our Schools and Missions Communities, including our Pioneers and Church Planters, to enable the faith, discipleship and vocations of young people and young adults, to be seamlessly encouraged and nurtured.


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  • Ministry Enabler - Three Rivers Mission Community

    A new exciting opportunity to be part of enabling growth and change to happen.

    We are seeking to appoint a new Team Member to the Three Rivers Mission Community - an area in North Cumbria encompassing the rivers, Eden, Gelt and Irthing.

    This really is a post with a difference, as you will initially share much pastoral and parochial responsibility with the current Mission Community Leader, in order for them to have the time needed to manage the process of change in these parishes, and to look to develop a strategy of how the Deanery can come together as Mission Community in a radically new way.

    The person appointed will be licenced as Associate Priest in each the Benefices of the Deanery; this is in order to underline the collaborative and Deanery-wide nature of the appointment.
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  • Children and Families Ministry Team Leader - Parish of Penrith

    CHILDREN AND FAMILIES MINISTRY TEAM LEADER

    Part Time (20 hrs per week)

    Salary £17,143 (£30,000 F.T.E) plus 15% non-contributory pension

    Could YOU be the right person to join our ministry team, leading Penrith Parish’s outreach to children and families across our community?

    Do you:
    • Long to see children and families discover the love of God?
    • Enjoy nurturing faith and helping build church community?
    • Relish the opportunity to work with and build a growing team?
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  • Priest in Charge - Living Waters Benefice

    Full-time Mission Community Leader and Priest-in-Charge - Living Waters Benefice*
    (Allonby, Aspatria, Crosscanonby, Dearham, Gilcrux and Hayton)

    Wanted:

    Someone who is…

    • an enabler of the ministry of all Christians
    • inspiring and energetic with a conspicuous joy and deep faith
    • a team worker and collaborator
    • approachable and relational, with a good sense of humour
    • down to earth and forward looking
    • a good listener
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  • Northern Young Leaders Project Interns

    The Northern Young Leaders Project is an exciting internship. We are looking for six young adults from the UK (aged 18-30) interested in exploring their calling and vocation, through a year volunteering in churches, parishes and pioneer projects across Cumbria. You will join with interns from across the world who come on a mission exchange here in Cumbria. The internship begins at the end of August 2023, running for 11 months. Read more