Vacancies and volunteering

Our current vacancies

• IT Systems Engineer
  
• Senior Minister for Orchard Road Presbyterian Church (Singapore)
  
• Children and Families Worker
  
• Chaplain to the UK oil and gas industry
  
• Children and family worker
  
• Volunteer Opportunity: South Africa
  

Partner organisations

• Youth and Community Worker
  
• Children’s and Families Worker Research Project
  
• Manager Income Monitoring and Development - World Council of Churches
  

Parish ministers

List of current vacant charges (17 Feb 2012)

Read more information about these and other ministries posts. If you wish to advertise your charge in Ministers' Forum, please contact the Editor, Rev Dr John Ferguson

About our vacancies

Our vacancies include:

• posts within the Church offices in Edinburgh advertised through its Central Services Committee
• posts working overseas advertised through the World Mission Council
• local posts employed by our parishes and presbyteries, which are funded locally, and not through any of the employing agencies of the Church
• posts for local projects supported by the Parish Development Fund.

CrossReach

Vacancies within the social care agency of the Church, CrossReach, are advertised on its own website at www.crossreach.org.uk/vacancies

Parish ministers

All parish minister posts are included in the current vacant charges list. You must be an ordained minister of the Church of Scotland or graduate candidate to apply for any of these. Please contact the interim Moderator for each charge to apply.

Ministers of other denominations who may be interested in vacant charges must first contact the Ministries Council for information about admission to Church of Scotland ministry.

Filling a vacant charge - when a charge becomes vacant, an interim moderator and nominating committee are appointed to assist in finding a new minister. For more information and guidelines for both, visit resources for ministries.

The call to ministry - ministry within the Church of Scotland can take a variety of forms. For information on how you can answer a call to one of our ministries and about training and recruitment, visit Ministries in the Church.

Associate minister and other ministries

Associate minister and other posts involved in ministry are not currently listed on this site. Please contact the HR department below for more information.

Contact for more information

For more information about these posts or to request an application pack to be forwarded to you, please email or phone, quoting the relevant reference number.

• Email: hr@cofscotland.org.uk
• UK telephone number: 0131 240 2249
• International Telephone: + 44 131 240 2249