Purpose

To bring pastoral care, religious literacy and a sense of shared community to people who work, live, and pass through the Square Mile. City Chaplain Educators are appointed to serve both those of their own faith tradition and the traditions of others across the Square Mile: supporting individuals of all beliefs and none, equipping firms to understand the faith lives of their people and working alongside City partners to mark major moments of the religious year, meaningful, in the heart of London’s business district.

The role has four core areas of work: pastoral care, training, creating content, and supporting the wider work of FiTC.

Key Responsibilities

Pastoral care

• Provide confidential pastoral and wellbeing support to workers, residents and visitors across the Square Mile.

• Serve as an active member of the chaplaincy team, offering a visible, mobile pastoral presence by bicycle or mobility vehicle and responding rapidly where and when needed.

• Support people through personal, professional, spiritual challenges, and respond to critical incidents, bereavements and emergencies affecting City workplaces and communities.

• Help create and sustain a genuine sense of community in the City, connecting people and fostering belonging in an environment that can otherwise feel transient.

Training and religious literacy

• Teach on Faith in The City’s religious literacy kitemark programme.

• Deliver workshops and reflections on faith, identity, resilience, inclusion and leadership for businesses and civic partners.

Creating content

• Work with City partners and faith institutions to co-create meaningful experiences for major festivals, faith-specific and multifaith learning, commemorations and civic occasions.

• Build and steward relationships with faith communities, employee networks, businesses, local authorities and civic institutions.

Representation and leadership

• Contribute to the Centre’s vision, values, and strategic objectives, and to shared chaplaincy programmes.

• Maintain appropriate records, reporting, evaluation, and impact measurement.

• Various administrative responsibilities such as content writing for dedicated websites, marketing and promotion of chaplaincy offering.

• Promote equality, diversity, inclusion, and freedom of religion or belief.

Person Specification

Essential

• Knowledgeable and credible in their own faith tradition; an ordained, experienced or recognised leader within that tradition.

• In good standing with their faith community.

• Experience of chaplaincy and/or the world of business in the City.

• Able to hold their own at Board level, with the gravitas and professional credibility to operate in a senior corporate environment.

• Excellent communication, teaching and relationship-building skills.

• A genuine commitment to pluralism, interfaith engagement, and freedom of religion or belief.

Desirable

• Established relationships with relevant communal, civic, or business networks.

• Experience of online marketing and promoting chaplaincy activities.

• Experience designing or delivering educational or religious literacy programmes.

General Expectations

• Work as part of a respectful team alongside Chaplains as well as staff from all faiths and none.

• Operate with significant professional autonomy.

• Work collaboratively across faith communities, corporate partners, local authorities, and community organisations.

• Respond to generic pastoral emergencies in the City.

• Undertake ongoing professional development.