Please note : This is a fixed term position for 2 Years
Working hours: 35 hours per week (working 5 days a week)
Interview Date: To be confirmed
Bexleyheath Salvation Army Corps and Community Centre is looking for a dynamic and highly motivated Community Mission Facilitator, to manage and develop the existing corps mission and outreach programmes, alongside the development, delivery, and evaluation of future community outreach, to facilitate local mission flourishing across the borough of Bexley.
Key Responsibilities:-
1. Provide a welcoming & safe environment for all members of the community.
2. Have operational responsibility for the delivery of mission programmes and community outreach.
3. Be available with pastoral & practical support for those coming in seeking assistance.
4. Plan, design, implement and evaluate specific programmes to ensure they are fit for purpose for the local community.
The successful candidate will have:-
5. Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to develop successful & collaborative working relationships both within and outside the corps, including with vulnerable people.
6. The ability to support the fulfilment of the spiritual aims of the programmes, showing compassion & understanding to participants and be willing to support an individual’s practical and spiritual needs.
7. Previous experience of working successfully in a similar role developing and managing church programmes to meet the needs of the community.
8. Previous experience of managing employees/volunteers, manage performance effectively, and provide practical emotional and pastoral support to deliver missional objectives.
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 and actively involved within a local Church setting.