Children and Family Mission Lead

Woking Salvation Army is a vibrant church in Surrey, expanding its children’s (including youth) and families ministries to the local community. We are recruiting a motivated and experienced children’s and families leader to join our friendly team. 

Key responsibilities:

• Lead the children, youth and families’ ministry at Woking Salvation Army
• Develop the youth and children’s outreach and discipleship activities
• Grow the children and youth ministry in an innovative way that positively impacts young people’s relationships with Jesus and leads to a growth in families regularly attending Sunday worship.

The successful applicant will have

• Experience of organising community activities for a range of different programme participants
• Ability to prioritise, organise and manage your own workload to meet objectives
• Good communication skills and the ability to develop effective working relationships with colleagues, programme participants and external stakeholders
• A good level of English - both spoken and written - and numeracy at GCSE level or equivalent
• Experience of working with software such as Microsoft Word, Excel, Powerpoint and email programmes
• Awareness of relevant safeguarding matters

You may have:

• A valid first aid certificate
• A recognised qualification in Christian Ministry
• Ability to analyse and develop improved ways of working

We expect you to exhibit behaviours that model our values of integrity; accountability; compassion; passion; respect and boldness. Working patterns and location have some flexibility.

This role has an occupational requirement that the successful candidate must be a committed and practising Christian and will be in sympathy with the doctrines of, and supportive of, the purposes and the aims and objectives of The Salvation Army. 

In order to complete your application please download and read the job profile and any other attachments.

In the job profile you will find the criteria required for the role please make sure that you address this in your supporting statement as this forms the basis of our shortlisting.

Please note this is a fixed term position for 3 years 

Working hours: 18 hours per week (mainly during the weekdays but with some evening & occasional weekend work in-line with the nature of the role)

Closing date: Thursday, 18 Jun 2026

Interview Date: To be confirmed

Appointment will be subject to satisfactory references, a criminal record check, DBS Disclosure check for the adult workforce and enhanced with barred list check for the child workforce and evidence of your Right to Work in the UK in line with Home Office requirements.

As we are not a licensed sponsor, applicants must already have the right to work in the UK. Details on how to prove your Right to Work can be found here.  

Please note that any Salvation Army employees who are under notice of redundancy and apply for this position will be given priority consideration.

We reserve the right to close this advert earlier if we feel that we have received sufficient applications. 

Promoting equality in the workplace and as a disability confident leader scheme employer, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet all the minimum essential criteria for the vacancy.

Benefits:
25 days annual leave + bank holidays (pro rata for part-time) a contributory pension scheme; an employee assistance programme