Vacancies

ST JAMES’ EPISCOPAL CHURCH, LEITH:
COMMUNITY AND FACILITIES ADMINISTRATOR

It’s not every job where you can say you genuinely make a difference to community life – but this is exactly that kind of role. At St James, you’ll make a real impact, allowing many different community groups to make the best use of our facilities and make St James a place where different local community groups come to and thrive.

Sound good? We’re looking for a Community and Facilities Administrator to join our team on a part-time contract (12 hours a week).

What you’ll be doing

You will be liaising with our community users, ensuring they get the best out of our great facilities. You’ll be the first point of contact with new enquiries, showing people what we offer, and seeing it through to booking, inducting them so they feel confident and safe when they are here, and keeping in touch with regular users. You will also support work improving our building facilities, including the organising of deliveries and trades. You will decide what to advertise on social media in order to help drive engagement and promote what we do. You will keep the money flowing by issuing invoices, paying bills and reconciling basic accounts.

What you will need

You are a natural organiser, and are the kind of person who makes things happen. You are happy to meet new people, answer questions, and sort out issues. You are detailed and confident in managing administrative processes, and improving them. You work easily with others. You are used to administrative systems such as Microsoft Word and Excel, and even better if you have used book keeping software such as Xero before. You have a flair for social media and can keep Leith informed about what we have going on. You are happy to spend some of your working hours on site in our office, but can blend that with keeping things ticking over remotely.

If you don’t have all of this, don’t be put off. Full training will be provided, and as long as you are keen to learn we’d love to hear from you.

What we are offering

We are offering pay at £15 per hour, and can discuss and agree with you when hours need worked, being flexible to other priorities you may have. The office base is at the St James church site, John’s Place, Leith, Edinburgh, EH6 7EL and you will need to be there a reasonable amount, but some work can be done from home.

Who we are

St James is an Episcopal Church in Leith Links, which aims to be friendly, inclusive and welcoming – we celebrate diversity in all its richness. We also celebrate the arts and consider the environmental impact of all we do.  We feel blessed to have a great facility and wish to use it for the good of the community we serve.

This role is about managing the community use, so there is no requirement to share our faith; however, it is important that you feel you can work alongside us with respect – many people from the church volunteer, and will work closely with you in different ways. We are a friendly bunch!

Please send a cover letter and CV to churchoffice@stjamesleith.org.uk no later than 30 April 2025. Interviews will take place during the week beginning 5 May.

A Job Description can be found on our St. James Leith website, where you can also see information on venue hire and facilities on offer.

HOLY CROSS, DAVIDSON’S MAINS, EDINBURGH: RECTOR

www.holycrossedinburgh.org

A full time position

Remuneration: Scottish Episcopal Church Clergy Standard Stipend

Situated in the district of Davidson’s Mains, a former village in the north west of Edinburgh and 3 miles from the City Centre, we are a friendly and welcoming congregation. Our new Rector will be someone who engages both pastorally and spiritually with the congregation and the local community, leading us forward in worship and outreach.

For more information or an informal discussion please contact The Very Reverend Frances Burberry (Dean of Edinburgh) on: 0131 315 0404 or email: dean@dioceseofedinburgh.org.

Congregational profile, person specification and application form are on the Holy Cross website.

You will be required to evidence your right to work in the UK. The Scottish Episcopal Church is unable to sponsor international clergy for this role. 

The appointment is subject to a satisfactory PVG Scheme Record Disclosure (Protection of Vulnerable Groups (Scotland) Act 2007).

Closing date: Monday, 5 May 2025

Interview date: Saturday, 24 May 2025

Registered Charity Number SC015766

SCOTTISH EPISCOPAL CHURCH PENSION FUND

Pension Fund Trustee

Owing to an upcoming retiral there is a vacancy for a new Trustee for the Scottish Episcopal Church Pension Fund. 

 This small defined benefit fund is open to new members and accruals and is operating with a significant surplus, which makes it rather unusually well positioned.  The Trustees meet twice a year and are supported by a Pensions Officer within the Church and by a range of external advisors.  A voluntary AVC component, managed by Standard Life, is also part of the member benefits overseen by the Trustees. The day-to-day administration is outsourced to Aptia UK Ltd.

 Some financial expertise is desirable in applicants but there is online training available in all technical aspects of becoming a pension fund trustee. There is additionally training provided by Mercer Actuarial on upcoming changes in the legislative landscape, as required.

 If you are interested in applying for the position of Trustee, please contact Neil Wright (neilw@scotland.anglican.org) by 30 April 2025.

MISSION TO SEAFARERS SCOTLAND

www.mtss.scot

The Mission to Seafarers Scotland is looking for a working from home volunteer Treasurer to assist with their accounts.  The Treasurer would be expected each month  to maintain records, pay invoices and then complete a simple spread sheet showing income and expenditure, provide details of VAT income and expenditure [although the VAT return  will be completed by our Head Office in London], and bank cash and cheques.

At the year end, the spread sheet will be given to our accountants who will prepare the P+L account.

The turnover is in the region of £70K per year.

Idealy the Treasurer would start in January 2025 and be a Trustee of The Mission to Seafarers, attend occasional meetings at our Seafarer Centre at Grangemouth and liaise with the other Trustees to advise them on financial matters.

We are looking for someone who has perhaps half a day per week to spend  with us.

Further details and information is available from Jeremy Hawkings, Chairman, The Mission to Seafarers Scotland Chair@mtss.scot

Charity No SC041938 and Company No SC389483

ST MARY’S DALMAHOY: MUSIC DIRECTOR/ORGANIST

Music Director/Organist

An exciting opportunity to contribute to the much-valued musical tradition at this welcoming and inclusive church in the broad church Scottish Episcopal tradition. We seek someone who:

• Is an accomplished organist or would consider a pianist with a keen interest in learning the organ
• Can work collaboratively and communicate effectively
• Is flexible and can help plan music that engages the whole congregation in worship
• Is liturgically aware, or willing to learn, committed and reliable.

We have a small loyal group of singers which meet on Wednesday mornings to practice the hymns for the 10:30am Eucharist on Sundays. We hope to grow this aspect of our congregational life. We also host an annual Choir Festival for Primary schools in the area. We hope to grow this community initiative in the future. In addition, there is the opportunity for a good number of weddings throughout the year.

For further details, or to arrange a visit and conversation, please contact the Rector, Christine Downey

Email: rector@stmarysdalmahoy.org.uk
Tel: 07986957718

Appointment subject to PVG check.