AddressCAP’s vision is “Transformed Lives, Thriving Churches and an end to UK poverty”
The Church Engagement and Partnership team works to broaden and deepen CAP’s relationship with the church to help fulfill that visions, such that:
We inspire the UK church in its calling to serve those in poverty
We enable the local church to understand how CAP can help them outwork their mission
We bring the voice of the church into the heart of CAP
Job Description
The role of the Church Partnership Team is to work with churches across the UK to develop relationships, interest in CAP services and ultimately service openings. The team aims to serve and equip the local church to understand how a CAP service can support their vision and mission and enable them to reach those in their communities who may benefit from our life transforming services. This role is regionally based and covers a large geographical area and significant travel is expected.
We are extremely passionate about vision casting the work of CAP to potential partner churches and supporters. We are passionate about helping churches to overcome potential barriers in order to increase the coverage of the work of CAP through the local church across the UK, ensuring that the life transforming services we provide are accessible for all.
We love the local church! We are a driven, tenacious, relationship-building, target focused team who are full of compassion and who find some fun in every day.
Responsibilities
To develop and deliver a regional strategic plan, consulting with key organisational stakeholders, to deliver on the Church Engagement and Partnership goals.
Prioritisation of key contacts, churches and locations across your region to grow CAP’s influence and voice, and to open new services.
Work with the Church Partnership team leader to agree on a target number of openings for each training co-hort in your region.
To work with the Regional Leaders and Area Managers to ensure goal alignment and deepen local knowledge and connections in order to deliver on the directorate wide strategic goals.
To proactively manage and progress a caseload of churches within your region who have expressed an interest in any one of CAP’s ministries, through face to face meetings and all other appropriate forms of communication. This will include travel across the region to meet with appropriate churches/ leaders.
To work alongside a church to identify if a CAP service supports their church vision, and if appropriate, manage them through the church journey and experience to open a new CAP service.
To use existing, and proactively develop new ways of generating enquiries to ensure a healthy level of engagement with Churches about CAP’s ministries with support from the Church Partnership Team Leader and Church Engagement Team.
To effectively network with para-church organisations to enable opportunities to attend and represent CAP at events and meetings in the region to develop new key relationships and ensure new church enquiries are generated.
To work with the Events Team to ensure successful planning and delivery of Church Engagement events within your region where appropriate.
Alongside the Church Partnership Team Leader and in collaboration with the Regional Leader, develop relationships with key denominational and church leaders within your region in line with the strategic plan who are not currently connected with CAP and when appropriate book and facilitate face-to-face meetings.
Management of the Church Partnership campaigns and accurate church data management using Inspire or other appropriate systems.
To work with the local church team to ensure the appropriate candidate is identified and has a full understanding of the role and responsibilities involved and ensure People and Culture receive the appropriate information in a timely manner
To ensure new partner churches are aware of the key commitments in the Partnership Agreement and to help them establish the necessary infrastructure and resources needed to open a new CAP Service.
To work with the National Speaker Team leader to maximise church talk opportunities appropriately through Church Partnerships.
To work on exhibition stands (when necessary) to help generate enquiries.
To work alongside the Church Engagement Team to promote CAP’s wider range of products and support in the delivery where appropriate.
Achieve the target number of new enquiries from churches in your region to meet the organisational plan for new services
Achieve continual growth in the number of churches in your region’s pipeline for each new service opening
Achieve the desired number of new CAP service openings in your region in line with the organisational plan
Achieve the target number of priority church meetings and key contacts in line with the organisational plan
All church leaders contacted within 5 days of their initial engagement to follow up and encourage them in the next steps around partnering with CAP
Ensure that every new partner church completes and returns partnership agreements, additional policies and all candidate paperwork by the relevant deadlines for every new service prior to training (including Direct Debit Agreements).
Culture:
Clearly live out and embrace the cultural values of CAP.
Clearly demonstrate a heart and passion for the charity.
Sincere acceptance, understanding and practice of the Christian ethos and purpose of the Charity.
Other Responsibilities Include:
Being willing to pray with staff and be fully engaged with our Christ Centred culture.
To encourage friends, family and other contacts to support the charity through the Life Changer program, and other fundraising initiatives.
Attendance at annual CAP staff conferences
Christian Commitment:
The candidate must be able to give both verbal assent to and practical demonstration of Christians Against Poverty’s Statement of Faith and Core Values
Must be able to actively participate in prayer and worship, whether individual, small group or corporately, as an expression of own personal faith and in line with CAP’s Statement of Faith.
All adults working in, or on behalf of the CAP have a responsibility to safeguard and promote the welfare of children and adults. This includes: A responsibility to ensure a safe environment in which CAP Services can be delivered. Identify children and adults where there may be safeguarding concerns and to follow the CAP Safeguarding Policy in addressing any concerns appropriately.
CAP celebrates the value of diversity and our aim is for our workforce to be as inclusive as possible as well as representing the communities we serve. With this in mind, we welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds. We particularly welcome applications from candidates from black and ethnic minority backgrounds. We are committed to continue building an environment that embraces diversity and includes all.
The above job profile is a guide to the work you may be required to undertake but does not form part of your contract of employment and may change from time to time to reflect changing circumstances.
Skills required
Ability to build relationships and inspire others to take action
Ability to drive projects and deliver results, confidently leading the conversation and directing the next steps for action
Ability to talk confidently and with compassion about the subject of poverty inspiring Churches to respond to the need
Able to work remotely, unsupervised, under pressure and juggling multiple priorities and deadlines
Good influencing and negotiating skills
Ability to progress relationships and conversations to reach desired outcomes.
A confident communicator who promotes CAP’s culture and values at all times.
A confident public speaker.
Naturally decisive and proactive.
Resilient.
Ability to prioritise time, tasks and attention effectively in a pressured environment.
High levels of organisation skills and drive to reach targets quickly and efficiently.
Able to build strong working relationships within remotely-based teams.
An understanding of the variety of Christian denominations and streams within the UK.
Educational requirements
A-level or equivalent experience
Confident computer user including Word, Excel, internet and databases
Essential
Experience in driving and delivering results.
Broad experience and knowledge of the UK Church and denominational structures.
Experience of having to work using your own initiative.
Experience of working to a deadline and meeting targets.
Experience of building networks and relationships with external organisations
Experience of working as part of a team.
Administrative experience.
Good I.T skills
Comfortable praying for and with Church leaders
