Jobs and Volunteer opportunities
Find out about the latest job and volunteer opportunities at the United Reformed Church
Current vacancies at the URC
Finance Operations Manager
- London
- Permanent contract, Part-time (21 -28 hours per week)
- Salary: £50,000 per annum (FTE)
- Closing date for applications: 12 noon, Friday 17 October 2025
- Interview date: Friday 24 October 2025
Digital Content Assistant
- London (Hybrid) / Homebased
- Permanent contract, Part-time (21 hours per week)
- Salary: £21,397 per annum
- Closing date for applications: 12 noon, Monday 13 October 2025
- Interview date: Tuesday 4 November 2025
Employee benefits
Summary of Church House employee benefits
From holiday allowance to season ticket loans, find out about our employee benefits for Church House staff from the download below:
- URC Employment Benefits (PDF | 324kb)
Other URC jobs
Volunteer Positions
Commission Secretary – Ministerial Discipline Process
The URC’s Ministerial Discipline Process is looking for a Commission Secretary, effective from July 2025, but with ample shadowing time of the present post-holder built in.
Key tasks include:
- Keeping records of the panel for Assembly Commissions.
- Approaching identified individuals to sit on Assembly Commissions.
- Liaising with all those involved in disciplinary cases.
- Arranging meetings for Assembly Commissions, draft agendas, take minutes and assist to progress cases. Advise on due process.
- Drafting documents for approval by the Assembly Commissions.
- Monitoring and seek to expedite the progress of cases through the ‘hearing stage’ of the disciplinary process
- Making arrangements for formal disciplinary hearings and attend, including taking notes during the hearing, keeping records of decisions made, informing parties of decisions made and record keeping.
- Seeking feedback and drafting lessons learnt reports on all cases that entered the disciplinary process.
If you feel you have the gifts, graces, and skills – and are willing to undergo a safer recruitment process – please e-mail the Secretary of the Complaints and Discipline Advisory Group at [email protected] outlining your skills and experience.
Represent the United Reformed Church on the Milton Mount Foundation Board
Are you passionate about education and the life of the Church? The Milton Mount Foundation is seeking a United Reformed Church (URC) member to join its Board of Trustees and help guide its mission of educational support.
The Milton Mount Foundation exists to help fund education, primarily by making grants towards school fees using funds invested from the sale of the buildings of a now closed school, and also by offering grants towards university education.
This is a voluntary but deeply rewarding role that helps shape how the Foundation supports students across the UK.
For more details, please see below links for advert and role description. To express interest or request more information, please contact: [email protected]
Faith in Action Committee Members
Do you have a heart for discipleship and mission? Do you want to make a difference in the life of the wider URC and beyond? We are looking for new Committee members – this is your opportunity!
The new Faith in Action Committee (combining the work of the previous Children and Youth, Education and Learning and Mission Committees) are looking for new Committee members.
We are looking for people with an interest in our 3 focus areas: Children and Youth/Intergenerational (1 person), Mission including evangelism and ecumenism (3 people), Education/Lay learning (1 person). Each member will advocate for their focus area but also be a general member of the Committee promoting the work of mission and discipleship in the URC.
The Faith in Action Committee supports the United Reformed Church’s outreach in terms of evangelism and witness; public issues; community engagement; pioneering; ecumenical & interfaith relations; intergenerational worship; global & intercultural ministries; racial justice and legacies of slavery; as well as ministry among children, young people and young adults, intentionally listening to their voices; net zero advocacy; lay learning; and world justice through the URC’s Commitment for Life programme. The role of the Committee is to support and guide the Faith in Action staff team in implementing the work agreed by Assembly through the Mission Strategy created to reflect the focus areas vital to the life of the URC.
For more information or to have a conversation about this, please email [email protected]
Please click the below link for the full role description, person specification and Terms of Reference and if interested in making an application or nomination, please email [email protected] for an application form.
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Assessment Board Convenor
Do you have a passion for discerning what God is saying about Call and vocation? Then this could be an opportunity for you!
The Ministries Committee is looking for a Convenor for the Assessment Board to replace its current convenor who will complete their term at the July 2026 General Assembly. The convenor will need to have a working knowledge of the formal ministries of the United Reformed Church, and of the training programmes for the formation of Ministers of the Word and Sacraments (MWS) and Church Related Community Work (CRCW). Training will be provided, particularly in a period of ‘shadowing’ the current convenor in the run-up to July 2026.
The Assessment Board plays a vital role in the discernment, assessment and selection of students for training for MWS and CRCW. Its assessors are drawn from ministers and lay members of the URC.
If you feel you have the gifts and graces to serve in this way, please click the link for the full role description and if interested in making an application or nomination, please email [email protected] for an application form.
Closing date: 8 September 2025
Member of Accreditations Sub-Committee
Do you have a passion to support people who release the church in its local community to flourish in faith, hope and love? Then this could be the opportunity for you!
Ministries Committee is looking for a member for its Accreditations sub-committee to replace a member who has moved into another role. The member will need to have working knowledge of the formal ministries of the United Reformed Church.
The Accreditations sub-committee plays a vital role in supporting and creating new opportunities in shaping posts to be recognised as Church Related Community Work projects or Pioneering posts including current Special Category ministries, in approving certificates for ministers from partner churches both at home and abroad to serve with us, and in analysing trends in the Rolls of Ministers of the Word and Sacraments and Church Related Community Workers, Elders, Assembly Accredited Lay Preachers and Assembly Accredited Lay Pioneers.
Please click the link for the full role description and if interested in making an application or nomination, please email [email protected] for an application form.
Closing date: 8 September 2025
Convenor of Ministries Committee
Does developing the strategy and supporting the work of the Ministries Committee excite you? Then this could be an opportunity for you!
The Ministries Committee is looking for a Convenor to replace its current convener who will complete their term at the July 2026 General Assembly. The convenor will need to have a working knowledge of the formal ministries of the United Reformed Church and support of their training programmes.
The ministries committee carries the General Assembly responsibility and care for the formally accredited ministries of the United Reformed Church namely the Ministry of the Word and Sacraments, Church Related Community Work, Assembly Accredited Lay Preaching, Locally Recognised Worship Leading, Assembly Accredited Pioneering both lay and special category.
This responsibility includes all lifelong learning for these accredited ministries including funding and other educational elements.
If you feel you have the gifts and graces to serve in this way, please click the link for the full role description and if interested in making an application or nomination, please email [email protected] for an application form.
Closing date: 8 September 2025
Member of Ministries Committee
Does developing the strategy and supporting the work of the Ministries Committee excite you? Then this could be an opportunity for you!
The Ministries Committee is looking for two lay members to be part of its new committee agreed at General Assembly 2025. Member will need to have a working knowledge of the formal ministries of the United Reformed Church and support of their training programmes.
The Ministries Committee carries the General Assembly responsibility and care for the formally accredited ministries of the United Reformed Church namely the Ministry of the Word and Sacraments, Church Related Community Work, Assembly Accredited Lay Preaching, Locally Recognised Worship Leading, Assembly Accredited Pioneering both lay and special category.
This responsibility includes all lifelong learning for these accredited ministries including funding and other educational elements.
We are looking for lay members with expertise in education particularly adult, higher, or theological education who can bring a critical and constructive voice to group discussions.
If you feel you have the gifts and graces to serve in this way, please click the link for the full role description and if interested in making an application or nomination, please email [email protected] for an application form.
Closing date: 8 September 2025
Member of Children’s and Youth Programme Enabling Group
- Volunteer
We are recruiting two Children’s Advocates to join the Children’s and Youth Programme Enabling Group.
Please see the attached role description and person specification. Please share expressions of interest to [email protected] by 20 October 2025.
Non-URC jobs
Advocacy Coordinator
Would you like to use your understanding of politics and political advocacy, and your relationship-building skills, to tackle injustice? Can you bring people together to work for change? We are seeking to recruit an Advocacy Coordinator to develop and coordinate the delivery of influencing strategies around the identified public policy priorities of the Methodist Church and the Joint Public Issues Team.
This is a Permanent, Full Time vacancy.
Salary: £42,000-£47,000 depending on experience
Location: London (Hybrid – at least 2 days per week in the office)
Closing Date: Sunday, 28 September 2025
Interviews: Tuesday, 14 October 2025 at Methodist Church House, London
For more information, please visit: Advocacy Coordinator