Diocese of Carlisle

Vacancies List


  • Reaching Deeper Project Manager

    Are you an experienced project manager with a heart to see communities transformed?
    Can you communicate easily with multiple groups of stakeholders across organisational boundaries?
    Do you want a new challenge?

    The Diocese of Carlisle is looking for a Project Manager to work as part of the Reaching Deeper Project team who will:

    • Oversee progress, implementation, and monitoring of the Reaching Deeper project.
    • Join a small programme management office team, supporting a collaborative, project-based culture across the organisation.
    • Work with colleagues to evaluate the impact of the project and wider work of Reaching
    Deeper.

    This is a 0.4 FTE position, fixed until December 2026.
    Salary: £33,010 FTE equivalent (£13,204 actual)

    Closing date for applications: 9am Tuesday 2nd April 2024
    Interviews: In Penrith Thursday 4th April 2024

    If you would like an informal chat about the role, please contact Kerry Roughton, Head of
    Programme Management and Strategy Support, on:
    kerry.roughton@carlislediocese.org.uk
    Please return completed applications to: HumanResources@carlislediocese.org.uk Read more

  • 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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  • 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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  • Diocesan Advisory Committee Chair

    The Bishop of Carlisle and Bishop’s Council are seeking to appoint a new Chair to lead the Diocesan Advisory Committee (DAC) to support its members and the DAC office in supporting parishes in their development and care of churches in the Diocese of Carlisle.

    This is an opportunity to serve the Church and local Heritage, and to help create a legacy of well-maintained and well-used buildings. The guidance and support offered by the Chair and DAC to congregations is of huge value, as our parishes plan for and manage changes to their buildings in ways that balance worship and mission needs with conservation of their heritage, and as they address the challenges and opportunities their buildings face.

    Our new Chair will need
    • a real passion and enthusiasm for the mission of the Church, and for church buildings (both historic and modern)
    • a pragmatic approach to the challenges faced by those caring for churches and churchyards.
    • experience of chairing constructive meetings where participants with varying views and fields of expertise are heard and respected, and any disagreement successfully managed so a way forward can be reached

    The DAC has a Secretary; if you are interested, you may find helpful an initial conversation with her (Morven Anson) or the Acting Chair (Archdeacon Richard Pratt) on dac@carlislediocese.org.uk
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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