If you have a passion for helping the whole people of God grow in their discipleship and their ministries throughout their lives, then this might be the role for you!
An opportunity has arisen to join the Diocese of Oxford in our vibrant Mission and Ministry Department. We are looking to recruit an experienced minister with experience in coordinating and delivering high-quality training events, to play a key role in our Continuing Ministerial Development (CMD) team.
Annual Salary: £45,378.55 pro rata
Salary Band: J
Hours: 22.2 hours a week (0.6)
Contract: Permanent
Location: Church House Oxford, Langford Locks, Kidlington
Closing date for receipt of applications:
Sunday 8 March 2026
Interviews will take place at Church House, Oxford on:
Wednesday 18 March 2026
The Role
You will share in the development and delivery of wide, deep, agile, and imaginative programme of continuing ministerial training and development which resources and enables licensed, ordained, and lay ministers across the Diocese to thrive. The three key elements to the role are: to manage the delivery of the CMD programme across the Diocese for licensed ordained and lay ministers; to review the CMD taken by licensed ordained and lay ministers both through and outside the diocesan provision; to manage the diocesan sabbatical and grants schemes, and to hold communications around all other grants schemes related to the CMD of licensed ordained and lay ministers.
About You
You have a passion for seeing people grow in Christ and in ministry. You have sufficient experience of Christian learning and growing people in ministry to contribute substantially to the review and development of our continuing ministerial development provision. You have the administrative ability to manage and develop a suite of training programmes and support schemes. You have the flair and imagination to communicate our training provision attractively and accurately. You have proven experience in timely and high-quality administrative work, comfort in a multimedia environment, confident communication skills, and excellent organisational abilities, with a person-centred, can-do approach.
There is a genuine occupational requirement for the post holder to be a baptised Christian, woman or man, lay or ordained, who is a communicant member in good standing with the Anglican Church or in another Church which subscribes to the doctrine of the Holy Trinity.
Benefits and Rewards:
ODBF continues to offer a range of rewards and benefits to its staff, including:
• Competitive salary
• Generous employer pension contribution of 12.5% into the auto-enrolment pension scheme, which includes death in service benefit (5% employee contribution)
• Re-accreditation as a Living Wage employer
• Annual holiday entitlement starting at 25 days, excluding public holidays, rising each year by one day to a maximum of 30 days, pro-rata for part-time employees
• In addition to the statutory UK public holidays, the Diocese offers three privilege days to all employees, namely Maundy Thursday, Ascension Day, and Christmas Eve (or the closest working day, where this falls on a weekend)
• Flexible working patterns with the ability to do some work from home
• Sabbatical leave, after a qualifying period of service
• Access to wellbeing support via Employee Assistance Programme
• Enhanced family-friendly policies and a generous occupational sick pay provision
• Free parking and subsidised on-site café
• Electric car and cycle-to-work salary sacrifice schemes
• EV charging points on site
• Electric vehicle salary sacrifice scheme with Octopus Electric Dreams
• Cycle to Work scheme with Green Commute Initiative
• Contributions towards eye examinations and prescriptive lenses
• Access to low-interest rate financial services from Churches Mutual Credit Union
• An attractive modern working environment
The successful candidate must have the right to live and work in the United Kingdom.
If you would like to learn more about this opportunity before submitting your application, please feel free to contact human.resources@oxford.anglican.org to discuss the role in further detail.
How to apply:
To apply, please email your completed application form, recruitment monitoring form and confidential declaration form to: recruitment@oxford.anglican.org The forms are accessible via the links below:
Job Description | Application Form | Recruitment Monitoring Form |
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for interviews. If you do not hear from us, your application has not been successful.
We want the Church of England’s commitment to equality, diversity, and inclusion for all to be reflected in our staff. We are particularly keen to receive applications from UK Minority Ethnic / Global Majority heritage and disabled candidates, who are currently underrepresented.
The Church of England is committed to the safeguarding, care, and nurture of everyone within our church community. In the Diocese of Oxford, we follow and are committed to the Church of England's House of Bishops’ Safeguarding Policies and the relevant statutory legislation and guidance, "Working together" to ensure the welfare of children and young people is paramount.