Mission Co-ordinator (On Track)

New Wine; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 17,000 - 22,000; Part time

Job summary

Interserve is seeking a part-time Mission Co-ordinator to join the People Care Team in Birmingham, UK, to recruit and place volunteers for short-term mission opportunities both in the UK and overseas. The role is hybrid, requiring at least one day per week in the National Office in Birmingham.

You will lead recruitment, guidance, and member care, ensuring volunteers are well-supported and prepared for service while maintaining a strong Christian ethos.

Qualifications

• Excellent people and communication skills are essential.
• Cross-cultural experience is preferred, ideally overseas.
• Experience relating to adults from varied age groups and some exposure to children/young people is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Respond to short-term enquiry; provide information and guidance on Interserve and placement opportunities.
• Screen, select, prepare, place and support volunteers into international programmes.
• Develop, plan and lead preparation and orientation of new short-termers.
• Ensure short-termers receive supportive member care and maintain a healthy Christian life.

Skills

People skills

Communication skills

Cross-cultural experience

Job description

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Description of Job

We are looking for a part-time Mission Co-ordinator to join our People Care Team who will lead the recruitment and placement of volunteers for short-term mission opportunities in the UK and overseas. You’ll be the first friendly face for people exploring mission, and you’ll guide and encourage them from first enquiry to life on the field.

In this role you will:

• Respond to all short-term enquiries, provide information and guidance on Interserve and various placement opportunities.
• Screen, select, prepare, place and support potential and current short-term volunteers into our international programmes.
• Develop, plan and lead the preparation and orientation of new short-termers.
• Ensure that short-termers receive supportive member care in their location and continue to maintain a healthy Christian life.

We are currently looking for a mission-minded person who is passionate about Interserve’s vision and able to motivate and encourage others into mission! You will need to have cross-cultural experience preferably overseas and have excellent people and communication skills.

You will also ideally have experience of relating to adults from a variety of age groups, as well as some experience of working with children and young people.

The role is hybrid requiring at least one day per week in person at our National Office in Birmingham – the convent that used to belong to the Nuns from ‘Call the Midwife!’

Interview date: Wednesday 25th November 2026 at our National Office in Birmingham.

There is an occupational requirement for this role.

Interserve is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and adults at risk of harm and expects all within the Interserve community to share this commitment. DBS certificates will be required for all workers.

Interserve exists to be a community of disciples of Jesus Christ who…

through their commitment to wholistic ministry are agents of God’s transformational work as He reveals Himself to the peoples of the Asian and Arab World wherever they may be found. From our beginnings, through the women who served in the zenanas of South Asia, we have realised our call to serve the neediest people, that they may experience the goodness and grace of God in Jesus Christ, so that lives and communities can be transformed.