Digital Labs Officer

Christian Jobs are exclusively managing the recruitment of this position as part of an Executive Search campaign. All applications are to be addressed to applications@christianjobs.co.uk*

Title: Digital Labs Officer

Location:  Hybrid working. Ideally to include 2 days per week at Church House, Great Smith Street, London, SW1P 3AZ.

Salary: £32,787 rising to £35,355 on completion of 6 month probation. 

Type: Permanent (Open to flexible working or part time for this role)

Background: This role is an exciting opportunity within the Digital team to help deliver our award-winning Digital Labs programme that equips local churches to use social media, websites and other digital tools for evangelism and discipleship. We offer industry-standard advice made relevant to church leaders. Over 13,500 people have benefited from Digital Labs training since it began three years ago and we also offer blogs, videos, and a newsletter

Who we are and our values

We in the National Church Institutions support the mission and ministries of the Church locally and throughout England. We work together in our teams, with those who serve in Parishes, Dioceses, Schools and other ministries and with our partners at a national and international level. We have developed our NCI ‘people’ values which are below, and we work with these regardless of whether we are of Christian faith, another faith or no faith;

• Excellence
• Respect
• Integrity

The Role:

• Deliver the core Digital Labs digital skills training webinars
• Work with the Digital Labs Manager to support training sessions for ordinands and diocesan colleagues. 
• Co-ordinate, commission, edit and write content for the Digital Labs blogs and guides, including creating or commissioning short training videos for people to access digital skills on-demand.
• Create and send the Digital Labs monthly newsletter. 
• Project manage arrangements for large national events to equip church leaders with digital skills and promote the vision of The Church of England.
• Curate and administrate the Resources from the Church of England YouTube channel.
• Use Canva to create thumbnails, images and social media graphics to illustrate and promote Digital Labs activities, ensuring a consistent visual identity.
• Work with other members of the Digital Team to create resources for dioceses, parishes and churches to help them to participate in national campaigns and mark events.
• Evaluate and track the success of the training to show how this work is furthering the mission and strategy of the Church of England. 
• Champion local church use of digital platforms, creating and maintaining a library of great examples of how local churches are using ACNY and social media. 
• Maintain relationships with internal colleagues and stakeholders to develop collaborative resources, live webinars and blogs.
• Keep up to date with digital trends and social platform changes, and the latest innovative ways to promote the gospel in the digital environment, to feed into plans for webinars, newsletters, blogs and videos. 
• Assist with Communications department responsibilities to support General Synod in London and York, and at other major NCIs events.
• Other duties for Digital Labs as required, for example acting as admin of any future social community spaces for Digital Labs participants, such as a closed Facebook group.
• You may be required to manage external agencies, contractors and freelancers as well as provide informal management to other employees of the NCI

The Requirements

Essential:

Knowledge/Experience:

• Experience of using social media professionally.
• Experience of giving presentations and training groups. 
• Experience of planning small events.
• Experience of updating websites, writing blogs and creating newsletters.
• A good understanding of the digital environment and digital trends. 
• An awareness and understanding of Christian evangelism.
• Excellent project management and organisation skills.
• Excellent clear digital copywriting skills.
• Excellent clear verbal communication skills.
• Excellent IT skills with Microsoft Office and other industry standard applications.
• A passion for digital and helping churches use this.
• Comfortable and confident helping churches promote faith in Jesus Christ in the digital public square.
• Builds consensus and positive relationships within and across teams.
• Excellent interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work in a small core team, and as part of a wider team during certain events.
• Ability to work under pressure during busy periods.

Attributes:

• A passion for digital and helping churches use this.
• Comfortable and confident helping churches promote faith in Jesus Christ in the digital public square.
• Builds consensus and positive relationships within and across teams.
• Excellent interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work in a small core team, and as part of a wider team during certain events.
• Ability to work under pressure during busy periods.

Desirable:

Knowledge/Experience:

• Experience of project management, delivering on time and to budget, taking ideas from concept to delivery. 
• Experienced user of Canva.
• Basic video editing skills. 

Circumstances:

• Able to travel occasionally within England.
• Able to deliver evening webinar sessions occasionally.

Next Steps

To discuss this position further, please ring Joe Santry on 07563 131792 or email applications@christianjobs.co.uk. To apply for this position, please email a CV and completed Bio Details Form (attached) to applications@christianjobs.co.uk.

Interviews are expected to be held on the 21st July 2022.