Giving Advisor Parish Resources Team

3 months ago

Ipswich, United Kingdom Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich Full time

**Giving Advisor, Parish Resources Team**

**Part-time (28 hours per week)**

We are looking for the right person to join our small friendly team. You must enjoy working with people, be persuasive, patient, resilient and appreciate the importance of our clergy and volunteers. Being able to motivate, help and enthuse both volunteers, staff and clergy is vital to the success of this role, and we would be pleased to hear from applicants who are passionate about enabling our parishes to increase generosity and giving to make a difference in their communities.

**PURPOSE**

The Giving Advisor works as part of the Parish Resources Team to support parishes to implement ways of improving giving levels and optimising costs as part of the Diocesan strategy ‘Growing in God’. This involves contact with our church volunteers, specifically treasurers and churchwardens and clergy as well as liaising with other members of the team, diocesan staff, the National Giving Team and various suppliers.

This role includes promoting: the Parish Giving Scheme (PGS), Digital Giving (donation devices and online giving including QR codes), advising on Gift Aid and GASDS, gifts in wills, grants and funding and assisting with a variety of training for parish volunteers and clergy.

**KEY TASKS / RESPONSIBILITIES**
- To engage with parish clergy and volunteers by telephone, Zoom or in person visits, to help set up contactless and online giving and to encourage them to register to use the Parish Giving Scheme.
- To help compile and give presentations (as part of the Parish Resources Team and on your own) around the Diocese to benefices, deaneries and synods to inspire and encourage those in the parishes to find ways to increase generosity and giving. Includes assisting in the planning and presenting at the Building a Generous Church annual conference.
- Work with the Parish Resources Manager and Giving Advisor in promoting all the resources and training we offer to our volunteers and clergy including encouraging treasurers to make use of the Treasurer Forum, ACAT and help new treasurers understand their role and be effective.
- Work alongside PCCs, diocesan staff and other key stakeholders to promote sound stewardship practice including developing and sharing resources with parishes.
- Promote planned giving, encouraging the adoption of the Parish Giving Scheme (PGS) by both parishes and donors through direct contact with relevant stakeholders. Take ownership of the PGS, acting as the first point of diocesan contact (lead).
- Maximise parish income through the promotion and uptake of digital giving platforms, notably donation devices (contactless) and online/QR codes (joint lead). Monitor usage of devices given out through the Digital Roll Out and Contactless Pilot churches and support them in increasing their giving both contactlessly and online.
- Encourage parishes to learn about and optimise their gift aid and GASDS claims (lead).
- Organise and facilitate the PCC Workshop programme including the various speakers taking part, the posting of sessions, sending out of slides and contacting participants. Also deliver PCC Workshops via Zoom on topics as part of the Parish Resources Team (lead). Take part in delivering any wider diocesan training programmes with the team.
- Encourage parishes to adopt and promote our gifts in wills best practice and resources.
- Encourage all parishes to seek competitive quotations for all purchases, notably through registering with the national church’s procurement arm, Parish Buying.
- Be able to advise parishes on grants and funding for parishes using the resources available.
- Liaise with our Communications Department in all areas to keep our volunteers updated including finding and promoting good news stories. Keep the team’s website and Insight pages updated and current as needed.
- Explain to parishes the purpose of Parish Share, in the context of supporting mission and ministry, and engage and support them in developing their strategies to maximise Share contributions.
- Work across departments towards mutual goals such as fostering parish growth, notably alongside the Mission and Ministry department and the DAC Department when working towards Net Carbon Zero objectives (G2GG) as part of the grants and funding remit.
- Be a visible presence amongst parishes, making a difference.

**KEY OBJECTIVES**
- Develop and deliver a strategy (with the Parish Resources Manager) to increase the number of parishes in the Parish Giving Scheme year on year and increase the number of givers.
- Support and increase the number of parishes with digital giving by helping facilitate donation devices and setting up online giving.
- Support and monitor the Digital Roll out and Contactless Pilot churches maintain and increase their giving.
- Promote gift aid and the Gift Aid Small Donations Scheme to parishes.
- Facilitate the PCC Workshop Programme by liaising with staff members, other organisations’ and volunteer

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