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Centenary Programme Manager

The Diocese of Derby and Derby Cathedral will celebrate their centenaries in 2027, marking a significant milestone in our shared life and mission. We are seeking a Centenary Programme Manager to lead, coordinate and deliver an inspiring programme of events and activities that celebrates our heritage and deepens our commitment to the diocesan vision: The Kingdom of God is Good News for All.

In this pivotal role, you will:

Design and lead the full 2027 Centenary Programme, ensuring it aligns with diocesan priorities and values.
Coordinate events, communications and multiple workstreams across 2026–27, managing timelines, budgets, risks and evaluation.
Work closely with senior diocesan leaders, Derby Cathedral, clergy, parishes and external civic and community partners.
Serve as the central point of contact for all centenary activity, ensuring consistent and engaging communication across the diocese.
Provide matrix leadership across working groups and support governance structures, preparing updates for key diocesan bodies.

The role involves travel across the diocese and some evening/weekend work (TOIL available). An enhanced DBS may be required.

We are looking for someone with strong project management experience, excellent communication and stakeholder‑engagement skills, and the ability to lead collaboratively across diverse teams. Sympathy with the aims of the Church of England and alignment with our diocesan vision are essential.

Why Join Us?

At the Diocesan Board of Finance, we believe work is more than a job. It’s a calling to contribute to something meaningful and be part of bringing about the Kingdom of God: Good news for all. Here in the Parish Support Team we live out values that genuinely guide the way we work together. When you join us, you become part of a values driven organisation that strives to bring out the Kingdom of God in the diocese of Derby.

This is a chance to contribute to meaningful work in a supportive, purpose‑driven environment with opportunities to shape governance and support senior leadership.

We are a Disability Confident Committed Employer and welcome applications from all backgrounds.

Salary: £50,000 (Full-time Equivalent Salary)

Working pattern: Part-time 21 hours per week

Contract type: Fixed term for two years

Closing date: Sunday 1 March

Interview date: Monday 9 March

>> Download the job description here (PDF)

>> Download our guide to working for the Derby Diocesan Board of Finance here (PDF)

>> Download an application form here (Word)

>> Download the recruitment monitoring form (to be returned with your application form) (Word)

Executive Assistant (Governance Officer)

The Diocese of Derby is looking for a highly organised and proactive Executive Assistant (Governance Officer) to support the Diocesan Secretary (CEO) and ensure the smooth running of our governance structures. This is a key role at the heart of our organisation, perfect for someone who thrives in a varied and fast‑paced environment.

The Role

You will:

Support and coordinate governance meetings (Diocesan Synod, Bishop’s Council, Business Committee).
Manage agendas, papers, minutes, and actions.
Lead diocesan elections and maintain governance and statutory records.
Assist with legal and compliance tasks (Charity Commission, Companies House, GDPR).
Provide high‑quality executive support: diary and inbox management, correspondence, and meeting coordination.
Support strategic projects and line‑manage a part‑time administrator.

Some evening/weekend meeting support is required (TOIL provided).

About you

You will bring:

Strong experience as an EA or senior administrator.
Excellent organisation, communication, and attention to detail.
Ability to manage multiple deadlines with professionalism and discretion.
Confident digital skills (Microsoft Office, collaboration tools).
A proactive, solutions‑focused approach.
Sympathy with the aims of the Church of England.

Desirable: knowledge of charity governance, not‑for‑profit experience, and a driving licence.

Why Join Us?

This is a chance to contribute to meaningful work in a supportive, purpose‑driven environment with opportunities to shape governance and support senior leadership.

We are a Disability Confident Committed Employer and welcome applications from all backgrounds.

Salary: £37,000

Closing date: Sunday 15 February

Interview date: Monday 23 February

>> Download the job description here (PDF)

>> Download our guide to working for the Derby Diocesan Board of Finance here (PDF)

>> Download an application form here (Word)

>> Download the recruitment monitoring form (to be returned with your application form) (Word)

Annual Parochial Church Meeting Forms 2026

Parishes are required to submit their APCM results to Church House, Derby no later than 31st May

APCM - Forms and Notices:

>> APCM01. Notice of APCM PDF or Word

>> APCM02. PCC Nomination form - PDF or Word

>> APCM03. Results (Return to Church House) PDF or Word

>> Diocese of Derby Data Form

>> Electoral Roll - Forms and Notices

Church Warden documents are under review for 2026 - further information is to follow

You can see more about the Church Representation Rules (March 2022 edition) here.

Church Administrator

Whitfield Parish
www.whitfieldparish.org

18 hours per week
£14.84 per hour (plus pension)

As a key member of our team, working with the vicar, church wardens and key volunteers we need a friendly person as our first and central contact point. Strong admnistration and computer skills are needed to maintain our church managaement systems, bookings and elements of programme. Send your CV to vicar@whitfieldparish.org or contact Chris for more information.

Children’s Ministry Leader and / or Youthwork Ministry Leader

Based at All Saints’ Church, Ockbrook near Derby (Available Full-time, term time only, or part-time)

Would you like to join a thriving, community-minded church to continue, grow, and develop our varied ministry with the children and young people in our local villages, supported by our committed and enthusiastic volunteers? All Saints’ Ockbrook has a growing congregation of different ages and a desire to bless all those around us. Our worship services are relatively informal, with a music group and variety of leaders and preachers.

Existing weekly activities include Shining Stars, a busy pre-school group, a Wednesday after-school Youth Café, Sunday Night Saints (a lively teenage group), and Rise & Shine (a Sunday morning group for 4 to 12-year-olds). We run a summer holiday club and a youth weekend away, enjoy periodic interactive all age (4ALL) services, and have experimented with breakfast services for families with pre-school children and babies. There are strong connections with the 3 primary schools in our parish, where the children’s coordinator is warmly welcomed to take assemblies and be involved in their activities.

You will have a strong Christian faith, have worked or volunteered with children or young people, and be passionate about encouraging children, young people, and their volunteer helpers. You will be educated to A-Level (or degree standard) or have an equivalent level of experience of working with children and/or young people.

This is available as a full-time position (37.5 hours a week), or as two part-time positions for a children’s coordinator and a youth coordinator (19 hours a week). In both cases, candidates can choose to work 52 weeks a year or 41 weeks a year mainly in term-time. You will receive close support including at the weekly church leadership meetings, and during regular one-to-ones with our vicar.

The salary for a full-time, full-year position is £27,441 with 28 days’ holiday including bank holidays. Salary and holidays will be pro-rata if working part-time and/or fewer weeks.

For more details, and an application pack, please email Tim Sumpter, Vicar of All Saints Ockbrook with St Stephen’s Borrowash, tmsumpter@hotmail.co.uk

Youth and Young Adult Ministry Leader - St Alkmund's Derby

The Parish of St. Alkmund’s in Derby is seeking to appoint an energetic, imaginative, experienced and suitably qualified person to the position of Youth and Young Adult Ministry Leader. This is an exciting opportunity to work as part of the ministry team in the parish, working with clergy, lay leaders and volunteers to realise the parish vision for effective youth and family ministry.

Able to connect with young people both inside and outside of church, you will be passionate about sharing the good news of Jesus and committed to nurturing faith in our youth. St. Alkmund’s is a lively, charismatic evangelical church in the Diocese of Derby. The appointment is for an initial period of 3 years. Hours are part time constituting 20 hours per week. Salary is £27,000 - £30,000 per annum pro rata.

Closing date for applications: Friday, 28 Nov 2025 at 5pm
Shortlisting: Monday, 1 Dec 2025
Interviews: Wednesday. 10 Dec 2025
Provisional starting date - as soon as possible.

An application pack and form are available by emailing mina@stalkmunds.org.uk

For further information or an informal chat, please contact Revd Mina Munns on 07960 250497.

>> Job advert

>> Full details of the role

>> Application form

Anna Chaplain to Older People

St Peter’s Littleover & Blagreaves invites applications for the part-time post (20 hours per week) of Anna Chaplain to Older People

Salary: £15,000 pa

St Peter’s seeksanAnna Chaplain who will provide support for the spiritual needsof older people across our parish.The Anna Chaplaincy is a national network, part of the Bible Reading Fellowship who also promote Messy Church.

This will include work in residential and nursing homes and sheltered housing as well as supporting our Lunch Club, Dementia Service and our pastoral visiting programme. They would also inspire new work to reach out to older people with the love and truth of the Gospel, helping them rediscover their faith from younger years, or encounter Jesus for the first time.

They would also grow, train and manage a team of volunteer Anna Friends to support the chaplaincy work across the parish.

The successful applicant would also become part of the growing national network of Anna Chaplains with the Bible Reading Fellowship who can provide training.

To see a fuller picture of the BRF Anna Chaplains across the country, please visit www.annachaplaincy.org.uk and to find a fuller job description go to www.stpeterlittleover.org.uk/anna

It is an occupational requirement for the person appointed to be a professing and practising Christian, lay or ordained, in a church affiliated to the Council of Churches in England and Wales (Equality Act 2010).

Enhanced DBS and references will be required.

Please apply in writing.

Closing date for applications Friday 14 November 2025.

Role Description

Organist, St John The Evangelist, Derby

We are looking for a new organist!

Are you a musician who would like to help to lead us in worship, playing our 150 year old organ?

Come and see us on a Sunday morning at 9.45am or get in touch with Mina if you'd like to find out more. Contact details and more information, including the role description, can be found on our website: https://stjohnsmillstreet.org/about-us/music/organist/

Records Retention and Compliance

The Church of England has recently released a new records retention schedule and accompanying guidance which helps you and your parish ensure best practice when it comes to data compliance:

>> Records and Information Management | The Church of England

This schedule (published in 2025) replaces the previous guides on retention, including: Keep or Bin, Cherish or Chuck, Chapter and Verse, and Save and Delete. Your retention policy may need amending considering this new schedule.

It is primarily designed for use by the following: Cathedrals, Minsters, Bishops Offices, Diocesan Offices (Including DBF’s DBE’s), Archdeacons, Deaneries, and Parishes of the Church of England.

Why should you use this schedule?

The schedule sets out how long records should be retained for, and the justification for that retention and what the disposal action should be. It was developed in consultation with a range of stakeholders from across the Church of England. It provides best practice for applying retention and disposition of records held by church bodies.

• It is far more comprehensive than the previous schedules
• It provides defensible reasons for retaining, archiving and destroying records
• It should give you confidence that you can destroy records at the appropriate time
• It supports the requirements of Data Protection Legislation
• It supports good record keeping practices

Please note that this is a living document and so it will be regularly revised and updated as the need arises, for example to include new records, or when legislation or business practice changes. Keep an eye out for further guidance notes being released in the coming months

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New Position

Derby Diocese Board of Education

Vacancy in See Committee

About the Vacancy In See Committee

This is a statutory committee, serving for a three-year term, who only meet when there is a Vacancy in See.
Meaning, in the case of the Diocese of Derby, if the post of the Bishop of Derby were to become vacant, then the Vacancy in See committee would meet.

Members don’t need to be on any other committee, synod or be a PCC member.
Members do need to be on an electoral roll or be a clerk in holy orders within the Diocese*

Should a Vacancy in See arise, Members would then meet to identify the needs of the Diocese and work with the Crown Nominations Commission of the General Synod, to identify the next Diocesan Bishop.

This process is governed by The Vacancy in See Committees Regulation 2024. The General Synod makes the Regulation, which is a Consolidation Instrument within the meaning of Standing Order 71(9) of the General Synod.

*Eligibility Criteria (in full…)

Any cleric beneficed in the Diocese or licensed under seal by the Bishop of Derby is eligible for election by members of the House of Clergy of the Diocesan Synod, except that no archdeacon and no person in Episcopal orders is eligible to be elected in this election. (The election involves the whole House of Clergy of the Diocesan Synod. This means that a person from one Area/archdeaconry can be proposed, seconded and be voted for by persons from another).

Any lay person who is an actual communicant, as defined in Church Representation Rule 83(2), and whose name is entered on the electoral roll of a parish in the Diocese is eligible for election by the House of Laity of the Diocesan Synod. (The election involves the whole House of Laity. This means that a person from one Area/archdeaconry can be proposed, seconded and voted for by persons from another).

More information

For more information, please contact the Presiding Officer - presidingofficer@derby.anglican.org.

Resources

>> Diocesan Synod Members for Triennium 2024 - 2027 [PDF]

Electoral Roll 2026

In every parish there must be a church electoral roll (referred to in the Church Representation Rules as ‘the roll’) on which the names of lay persons are entered. The roll of a parish must be revised annually, except in a year in which a new roll is prepared (last prepared in 2025).

Revision the Electoral Roll: preparation

Each Parish should have one Electoral Roll, even if there is more than one place of worship within the Parish
At least 14 days before the proposed revision takes places, a notice must remain on display
Revision of the Roll is completed not less than 15 days or more than 28 days before the APCM
After the Roll is revised, no names to be added or removed until after the APCM
The APCM must be held in the period 1 January and 31 May
Number certified includes members of daughter or district churches

Publication of the Revised Roll:

Each Parish must display the revised roll (every name - no other personal data), electronic or otherwise, for at least 14 days
Make a copy of the roll available for inspection (on a reasonable request)

Who can Apply:

Anyone that has moved into the parish
Anyone that has joined the church
Anyone that has turned 16 (since the last revision of the Roll)
When someone leaves the Parish and the name is removed from the Electoral Roll, a notice should be sent to their new parish
When someone applies to be added to the Electoral Roll, a notice should be sent to their former Parish Electoral Roll Officer

The full guidance on preparing the new Electoral Roll can be accessed here: Church Representation Rules online - part 1 | The Church of England

Downloads

Forms and notices

Electoral Roll - Forms and Notices:

>> ER01. Revision of Electoral Roll - PDF or Word

>> ER02. Application for enrolment on Electoral Roll - PDF or Word

>> ER03. Electoral Roll certificate for return to Derby Church House - PDF or Word

>> ER04. Electoral Roll privacy notice PDF

>> ER05. Parish Guidance: The Electoral Roll and GDPR PDF

>> Data Form

The full guidance on preparing the new Electoral Roll can be accessed here: Church Representation Rules online - part 1 | The Church of England

Please find a link to the APCM information and forms:APCMs - Diocese of Derby

Vacancies

Welcome

Derbyshire has some of the most beautiful landscape, not just in England, but anywhere in the UK.
With a range of contexts from the agricultural villages in the west to the ex-mining communities of the east; the beautiful peak district and the urban multi-cultural centre; we minister in a number of contrasting environments.

With mission at our heart we are investing in our future to ensure we continue to grow God’s kingdom in Derbyshire.
Is God calling you to join us?

Diversity statement

The Diocesan Board of Finance is a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability and require adjustments to apply for this role, please let us know. We are committed to offering an interview to disabled people who meet the minimum criteria, and to supporting existing employees who have a disability.

We particularly welcome applications from UK Minority Ethnic/Global Majority Heritage (UKME/GMH) candidates who are currently underrepresented in our organisation. All appointments will be made on merit of skill and experience relative to the role.

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Safeguarding

The Diocese of Derby is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. All post holders and volunteers are expected to share this commitment. All appointments are subject to acceptable pre-appointment checks, including a satisfactory Enhanced DBS Check.

>> Further information on our commitment to safeguarding

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Clergy vacancies

Parish support vacancies

External vacancies

Children’s Ministry Leader and / or Youthwork Ministry Leader
Based at All Saints’ Church, Ockbrook near Derby (Available Full-time, term time only, or part-time) Would you like to join… See More
Youth and Young Adult Ministry Leader - St Alkmund's Derby
The Parish of St. Alkmund’s in Derby is seeking to appoint an energetic, imaginative, experienced and suitably qualified person to… See More
Anna Chaplain to Older People
St Peter’s Littleover & Blagreaves invites applications for the part-time post (20 hours per week) of Anna Chaplain to Older People Salary: £15,000… See More
Organist, St John The Evangelist, Derby
We are looking for a new organist! Are you a musician who would like to help to lead us in… See More
Church Administrator
Whitfield Parishwww.whitfieldparish.org 18 hours per week£14.84 per hour (plus pension) As a key member of our team, working with the… See More

The Archdeacon of East Derbyshire

The Venerable Matthew Trick

Acting Archdeacon of East Derbyshire

Following the retirement of the Venerable Karen Hamblin, Bishop Libby has appointed the Venerable Matthew Trick, Archdeacon of Derby City and South Derbyshire, as Acting Archdeacon of East Derbyshire from 1 October 2025.

The Venerable Matthew Trick
Archdeacon of Derby and South Derbyshire
Acting Archdeacon of East Derbyshire
matthew.trick@derby.anglican.org
01332 388684

Claire Collishaw
PA to the Archdeacon of East Derbyshire
claire.collishaw@derby.anglican.org
01332 388656