If you are keen to join to a small, passionate team where your skill and expertise will positively impact clergy families, and will be nurtured through our renewed commitment to staff development, then we’d love to hear from you.
As the largest and oldest charity supporting Anglican ministers and their families, we exist to serve those people who, through their ministry, spend their lives serving others.
Clergy Support Trust is an inclusive and supportive organisation. We warmly welcome applications from candidates of all backgrounds, and believe a diverse workforce leads to fresh ideas and creative thinking, as well as reflecting our diverse beneficiary base across the UK and Europe.
Current vacancies
Head of External Engagement
(closing date: 09:30, Monday 1 December 2025)
Head of External Engagement
Clergy Support Trust is an organisation which “punches above its weight”, in terms both of the help provided to hardworking clergy households, and the influence we seek to have on Church culture. We are looking for an experienced communications professional, able to lead a broad function encompassing all aspects of our external engagement: media engagement, strategic communications, events and fundraising, so we are looking for someone with strong experience across these areas.
A pivotal point in our mission
As member of the Senior Leadership Team, you’ll be joining the leading Anglican wellbeing charity, supporting thousands of households each year, as we embark on a new strategic period (2026-30) and at a pivotal point in our mission.
Key responsibilities include:
• To lead, manage and report on the work of the External Engagement team.
• To design and deliver communications relating to the charity’s 2026-28 Strategy, ensuring appropriate, informative content for colleagues, applicants, supporters, partners and stakeholders.
• To oversee delivery of our first ever Fundraising Strategy.
• To be the charity’s principal Press Officer, and to support the Chief Executive
• as the charity’s principal spokesperson.
• To oversee the charity’s growing programme of events.
If you have significant experience in a comparable role, with exceptional writing skills and an excellent understanding of strategic communications together with previous team and budget management experience, then please download the application pack for further information, we would love to hear from you!
Details
Type: Permanent. 35 hours per week worked flexibly, Monday to Friday. The Trust’s business hours are 0900 – 1630.
Location: London - Hybrid. The expectation for this role is that the post-holder will be in the London office 1-2 days per week with seasonal fluctuations around events etc.
Salary: £62,000 - £68,000 Staff also receive an annual cost-of-living-related salary uplift in years where this applies.
Apply by email to vacancies@clergysupport.org.uk before 09:30 on Monday 1 December 2025 with:
- Curriculum Vitae
- Covering letter (no more than three sides of A4)
Interviews will take place at our Westminster offices on Monday 8 December 2025.
Successful candidates will then be asked to attend a second interview the afternoon of Monday 15 December 2025.