Generous Giving Manager
Salary £ 36,397 plus excellent benefits
Canterbury
Vacancy listed 26/08/2025
Application deadline 21/09/2025
Details
The Generous Giving Manager is a very exciting and influential role at the Diocese, as you will build on the strong and energetic foundations within our two-person Generous Giving Team to strengthen the financial sustainability of local churches by encouraging generosity in time, talents and financial giving. 

Working closely with deaneries, parishes and their leadership teams, you will identify local challenges and opportunities for generous giving, sharing innovative giving practices to help parishes and deaneries develop creative and effective ways to resource their mission.

 Communicating clearly and inspiringly the principles of Christian giving to diverse audiences, you will keep up-to-date with National Church resources, promoting and supporting a wide range of giving methods such as the Parish Giving Scheme (PGS), online and contactless giving. You will also offer guidance to parish officers for resources on giving campaigns, legacies and grant funding.

This is an ideal role for someone with a good understanding of church life, a passion for helping local churches thrive, a strong commitment to community engagement and an understanding of generosity grounded in Christian teaching. 

With demonstrable experience in fundraising or parish ministry, you should bring an awareness of the financial and missional challenges facing churches today, particularly in rural contexts. 

With an understanding of the Church of England’s structures, ethos, and range of traditions, you will have the proven ability to plan, advise on and lead giving or fundraising programmes in a not-for-profit or charitable context. You should also have a clear understanding of the teaching which underpins the Christian principles of giving.

Your motivational and collaborative approach across a variety of settings, combined with your outstanding interpersonal skills and natural ability at rapport building will ensure you are able to generate and develop creative, solution-focused ideas, engaging and inspiring individuals and groups, both in person and online.

 Typically, you will operate during office hours but will need to adjust your working pattern in order to meet with parishes in the evenings and/or occasionally their attend Sunday worship, so the ability to travel to remote locations and work flexibly is a necessity.

Closing Date 21st September 2025, 11.59pm

Benefits

- Permanent Contract
- 35-hour week
- 11% employer pensions contribution
- Generous life insurance.
- 24 days annual leave + Christmas closure and Bank Holidays
- Birthday Leave
- 1 Wellbeing day per annum.
- 21 hours of volunteering leave
- Central Canterbury location

Notes

**IMPORTANT INFORMATION, HOW TO APPLY - PLEASE READ**

How to apply:
1) The full role profile including details of responsibilities, salary and person specification which will help you inform your application can be found in the documents below.

2) In the documents below you will find our application form which you need to download and complete in MS Word before you start to apply online. You will need to upload this when applying for the role.
*You must complete our application form, CV's alone will not be accepted*.

3) It is important that you do not begin any part of the the online application process until you are ready to submit your completed application form as per point two above.

Regrettably, any submissions without a completed application form will be rejected.

If you have any problems with the online recruitment process, please do not hesitate to email recruitment@diocant.org or call 01227 459401 asking for People Services.

Attached documents
Title File
Role Profile 2025_08_15_-_Generous_Giving_Manager_Role_Profile.pdf
Application Form Application_Form.docx
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