Current Vacancies

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.

Grants & Services Officer

As one of our Grants & Services Officer, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring that grant applications are processed efficiently and applicants are dealt with holistically, compassionately and professionally.
 

As we help record numbers of people, the successfully appointed Grants & Services Officer will be required to:

Deal with applicant enquiries
Ensure a pleasant, helpful and empathetic welcome to applicants who contact the Charity by email, web form, written application or telephone.
Provide guidance to applicants in relation to the Charity’s grants criteria, services and process, ensuring they understand how to apply and that their request fits within our criteria.
​Identify any potential safeguarding concerns at an early stage, escalating appropriately 

Process applications and referrals to services in a timely manner
Verify that applicants are eligible beneficiaries and meet the Charity’s criteria.
Prioritise any applications with particularly urgent requests 
Check that each application is complete and follow up with applicants, as required, to ensure all information and supporting documents have been submitted.

Provide guidance and information to applicants
Provide clear guidance to applicants throughout the application process and respond to their queries quickly
Inform applicants of other potential sources of help and support

Recommend appropriate grant decisions
Prepare objective, non-judgemental reports for each case, with appropriate, clear recommendations in line with the Charity's grants criteria. 

Job Profile and Person Specification (PDF)

Finance Coordinator

A new role to support our expanding services.

As Finance Coordinator you will be a member of the small, high-performing and supportive Finance Team, working closely with the Senior Finance Officer and, Head of Finance.

Join us at a pivotal point in our history
As we embark on a new strategic period (2026-30) together with newly-announced funding streams, you will work alongside colleagues across the whole staff team, as well as our Trustees, partners and suppliers. You have responsibility for:

This newly created role will be critical to our success, with your principal responsibilities including:

1. Purchase ledger processing

2. Bank transaction processing

3. BACS payment processing

4. Expenses processing

5. Gift Aid processing

6. Month end and year end processes

7. Supporting our External Relations Team by preparing record of income for input into Salesforce as well as providing additional staff resources at key events

8. Providing occasional cover for the Operations & Office Manager
   
   
    

Job Profile and Person Specification (PDF)