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

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)

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 a minimum of 2 days of the week.

Salary: £32,650 - £34,335 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 12:00 on Monday 13 October 2025 with:

  • Curriculum Vitae
  • Covering letter (no more than three sides of A4)

Interviews will take place at our Westminster offices and are likely to take place w/c 27th October 2025.