Liturgical Assistant

Coventry Cathedral is looking for a P/T (21 hours per week) Liturgical Assistant, to enable our range of services to run smoothly.

Excellent knowledge of Word & Excel are essential, and broad confidence with other IT packages is desirable.

While understanding of traditional Church of England worship would be very helpful, a sympathy for our vision and values and a willingness to learn is more important.

Duties include preparing service booklets for all our public worship; managing rota's and communicating these to the people involved; maintaining weekly lists of readings for each service and the prayer topics to be included each week; creating daily and weekly sheets with details of services and music for display in the Cathedral; ensuring the Cathedral website and internal bookings system are up to date.

Special services and events may require additional work.

Key Tasks & Responsibilities:

• Collate and print service sheets for weekly services and music details, choral evensong, Sunday Eucharist, and other special services (and to make them look inviting and accessible).
• Liaise with clergy, visiting clergy and diocese for specific details/needs to be included in service sheets. For example, reading and hymns.
• To create and organise rota's for each week with who is reading, leading, assisting at services and chaplain cover for the week
• To collate and produce organ lunchtime concerts order of service.
• Help manage the dept calendar, by updating the Cathedral's website so that the information is accurate, maintaining the cathedral's online diary, to identify and clashes and conflicts and liaising with other department at a fortnightly diary meeting to ensure the smooth running of liturgical activities.
• Liaise with other departments to ensure smooth running across the Cathedral, especially with vergers and music department to make sure that service planning is clear, so that not only the written format of services is correct, but logistics also. For example, chairing of nave and robing of visiting clergy.
• Update and to work with our marking department to make sure the website is up to date and accurate, making sure the information reflects the events of the liturgical department and services.
• Assist the Canon Precentor with diary management and taking on correspondence when appropriate.

Job Type:
Part-time

Part-time hours: 21 per week

Salary:
£10.42 per hour

Benefits:

• Sick pay

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Work Location:
One location

Application deadline: 31/01/2023

Reference ID:
Liturgical Assistant

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