Operations Director (Part-Time)

Stlukesmaidstone; Maidstone; Hybrid; GBP 18,000 - 26,000; Part time

Job summary

St. Luke's Maidstone, a church in Maidstone, is recruiting a part time Operations Director (22.5hrs/week). You will manage HR processes, oversee leaves, coordinate policy reviews, and lead procurement for IT, insurance, and mobile contracts.

You will support governance and build resilience across the church while working with leadership and admin teams. The role suits a flexible, proactive individual who aims to strengthen internal systems and drive accountability, efficiency, and impact within

Qualifications

• Experience managing a team of staff and volunteers in a church or charity setting.
• Ability to oversee HR processes and governance-related tasks.
• Good planning, policy review and procurement coordination skills.

Responsibilities

• Manage HR processes, oversee leave and TOIL systems.
• Coordinate policy reviews and ensure governance compliance.
• Lead procurement for IT, insurance, mobile contracts, etc.
• Support internal governance and resilience across the church.
• Collaborate with spiritual leadership and admin teams to embed consistency and efficiency.

Skills

People management

HR processes

Policy coordination

Procurement leadership

Governance & compliance

Job description

We are looking to recruit a part time (22.5hrs/week) paid Operations Director.

Are you good with people? Are you dynamic and energetic with experience of managing a team of both staff and volunteers? Do you want to be a part of our growing church and fun staff team? Are you good at planning ahead, supporting others with a passion for mission and ministry in the church?

Key responsibilities include managing HR processes, overseeing leave and TOIL systems, coordinating policy reviews, leading procurement (IT, insurance, mobile contracts, etc.), and supporting internal governance and compliance. Our Operations Director will build on the work already done to continue strengthening internal systems and provide essential resilience to our church.

Working closely with the spiritual leadership team and the admin team, you’ll be central to embedding consistency, accountability and efficiency across the church. This role will suit a flexible, proactive individual who thrives on variety and wants to make a genuine impact in our church community.

St. Luke's Maidstone is an evangelical (orthodox) charismatic Anglican church with strong links to New Wine and the Diocese of Canterbury . St. Luke's is designated a 'Resourcing Church' in the Canterbury Diocese so is very committed to church planting, church revitalisation and the evangelisation of the nations.

We are a church who seek to be deeply rooted in the Word of God and attentive to the Spirit of God. Our vision is to be a church family who 'LIVE for Jesus wholeheartedly and LOVE one another deeply, LEADing to transformed lives and communities.' This is a paid staff role and builds on the work of our current post holder.

Please take a closer look at the Job Advert and Job Description above for more details.