Head of Faith in Action

Location: Homebased with extensive national travel
Contract Type: Permanent
Job Type: Full time, 37.5 hours per week, Monday - Sunday; will work approx one weekend in four
Salary: £46,225 per annum
Benefits: Generous Holiday allowance Season Ticket loan Cycle to work scheme Charity worker discounts Enhanced maternity package Wellness, inclusion, and diversity groups EAP scheme Life assurance
Closing date 13-02-2024
Could you inspire the Catholic community to put its Faith into action?
'I was naked, and you clothed me, I was sick and you visited me, I was in prison and you came to me.' (Matthew 25)
This is a rare and exciting opportunity to build and develop networks of Faith-based support for their organisation, the leading Catholic charity working in prisons and the wider justice system.
As Head of Faith in Action, you will develop and deliver a strategy to build awareness and mobilise support for the charity's work with men and women in prison, prison leavers, and their children and families. Your work will build local relationships and support networks, and increase understanding, giving and voluntary action within the Catholic community and other Christian communities. Working with the CEO and in close cooperation with their Communications and Fundraising teams, you will engage and grow their historic base of support, encouraging and inspiring people, parishes, and communities to put their Faith into practical social action and to speak truth to power.
As well as building and stewarding grassroots support through parishes and other faith communities, you will also support the CEO, trustees and colleagues to nurture our relationships with the Bishops and other faith leaders and enable us to grow and maintain awareness of their work and key messages via Catholic and other Christian media, networks and channels.
About You:
This post is subject to a Genuine Occupational Requirement that the post holder is a committed active Roman Catholic Christian under Part 1 of Schedule 9 to the Equality Act 2010.
You will:
• be a committed Catholic Christian, confident in being able to speak authentically and in an engaging and accessible way about what it means to put Faith into action and Catholic Social Teaching, both to fellow Catholics, and to people unfamiliar with the teachings of the Church.
• have outstanding communications skills, capable of inspiring people to get involved.
• share their mission, vision and values.
• be effective in a specialised home-based role requiring networking, travel, great teamwork and coordinated working with Pact colleagues across England and Wales.
• be able to apply the skills and techniques needed to generate and cultivate leads and prospects for their fundraising team, and volunteering and Services colleagues.
• have a range of wide range of professional skills including competence in the use of IT applications and systems, public speaking, event and project planning and management, basic budget management, and drafting copy for social media, web and print.
In addition to the above, you will be resilient and flexible, and be able to work on occasions in a prison environment. As the sole member of staff in this role, you will work with colleagues to raise funds to support and develop and expand its work. You will act as an ambassador for their organisation, conducting yourself professionally at all times, with the highest standards of personal integrity and accountability.
What they offer:
Our client offers a range of benefits including a free advice, information and counselling service, contributory pension, corporate eye care scheme, cycle to work scheme and generous holiday entitlement. You will have the opportunity to attend training events to further develop yourself as a professional. You will undergo a thorough induction process and be supported by a friendly and enthusiastic team.
How to apply:
If you feel that you meet the requirements of this exciting new role, please complete an application form by clicking the `apply now` button.
* They reserve the right to close this vacancy early if they receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
Other information:
Our client is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes all applications including those with a criminal conviction (appointment to post is subject to a risk assessment).
For the right candidate(s), this role is open to the possibility of part time or flexible working, and job-share.
About them 
Our client is a pioneering national charity that provides caring and life changing services to men and women in prison, to people with convictions on release and in the community, and to their children and families.
Their vision is of a society in which justice is understood as a process of restoration and healing, in which prisons are used sparingly and as places of learning and rehabilitation, and in which the innate dignity and worth of every human being is valued. They work for the common good of Society, taking a public health-based approach. They work at the intersection of criminal justice, child and family welfare, mental health, wellbeing provision and health & social care.
Their volunteers and staff can be found in courts, prisons, probation services, and in communities across England & Wales. They are a diverse, inclusive, modern, and collaborative charity. They build effective partnerships and sustainable solutions based on their well-established understanding of the systems in which they work, and on their historic values and ethos developed through their 120+ years of service delivery.
You may also have experience in the following: Strategic Leadership, Visionary, leadership, Interfaith dialogue, Community outreach, Religious Diversity, Catholic Based programmes, Empowering marginalised communities, Grassroots initiatives, Ethical Leadership, catholic teachings etc.
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