Programme Support Officer - Finance and Projects

Church of England; Portsmouth; Hybrid; GBP 27,000 - 31,000; Full time

Job summary

Church of England in Portsmouth invites applications for a Programme Support Officer - Finance and Projects. The role focuses on ensuring financial and administrative processes run smoothly across parishes and diocesan teams, using project management frameworks to start and support projects and escalate issues to senior staff.

The post offers opportunities to develop through training and cross-diocesan collaboration.

Responsibilities

• The successful postholder will be a key part of this small team, ensuring our financial and administrative processes work effectively, and that information is gathered and disseminated efficiently.
• Using established project management frameworks, you will support Parishes in starting and running projects so that people and financial managements systems are working well and the most important matters are escalated to senior colleagues.

Job description

Location: Portsmouth
Salary: £27,250 to £30,670
Full time - 35 hours per week

Closing date:18th November
Interview date: 26th November

This timetable should hopefully enable the successful candidate to start in January 2027.

Programme Support Officer - Finance and Projects

The Diocese of Portsmouth has been successful in securing a number of large grants from the Church of England's Strategic Mission and Ministry Investment Board to enable delivery of our Rejuvenate strategy. The Strategic Programme Team exists to oversee the delivery of our strategy, working with our Diocesan teams and Parishes to support them through advice, guidance and administrative processing.

The successful postholder will be a key part of this small team, ensuring our financial and administrative processes work effectively, and that information is gathered and disseminated efficiently. Using established project management frameworks, you will support Parishes in starting and running projects so that people and financial managements systems are working well and the most important matters are escalated to senior colleagues.

There will be opportunities to grow in the role, learning from colleagues and other Dioceses, and undertake further training. You will be joining a positive working environment where we seek to grow the Kingdom through a wide variety of projects and practical action.

Please see the job description for full details.