Centre Administrator

Do you have the skills to support the administration of residential and day retreats, contributing to the overall mission of youth ministry at the Diocese of Westminster? Then you could be the SPEC Retreat Centre Administrator., Situated in Pinner, Westminster Youth Ministry's Retreat Centre, through the retreat experience, aims to create opportunities for young people to have a Spiritual and Personal Encounter with Christ (SPEC). The Centre Administrator has overall responsibility for administrative and secretarial support to assist with the day to day running of the retreat centre and its retreat programmes. As Centre Administrator you will be at the heart of ensuring that SPEC maintains a safe and secure environment for the staff, volunteers and guests who use the retreat centre and/or its services by ensuring that all centre policies and procedures are both up-to-date, and accessible to all. Additionally, you will work closely with the Centre Manager to develop a purchase system, and will be responsible for the office and housekeeping orders, thus supporting the smooth-running of the centre. Furthermore, you will collate the centre's quantitative and qualitative data and provide regular reports, particularly relating to the retreat programmes run at SPEC. Also, you will work alongside the Director for Youth Ministry and the Centre Manager to contribute to the Centre's budget. This means there's lots to get involved in - and to be excited about.

You will love working in an organised and goal-driven way, able to maintain focus whilst working alone, using your initiative to develop and organise all aspects of work within operational and regulatory parameters. The successful candidate will have experience and knowledge of managing an office, and ideally will have experience in fields of hospitality, finance/administration, business management or events management. Additionally, you will have excellent organisational skills, and an innate ability to think creatively to meet challenging targets and operational goals. The successful candidate will play a pivotal role for the Westminster Youth Ministry team, sustaining a diverse and demanding workload, whilst also managing relationships with a variety of stakeholders, all of which require you to communicate succinctly and with clarity. The successful candidate may have project management experience including risk and fiscal management, which are not essential. However, it is essential that the Centre Administrator is able to work with complete discretion and confidentiality, as well as demonstrating clear emotional intelligence and empathy whilst carrying out their role.

We are the Roman Catholic Diocese of Westminster, a faith-based charity with offices close to Victoria Train and Underground Station and just a short walk from St James Park and Westminster Underground stations. We are home to the Archbishop of Westminster (Cardinal Vincent Nichols) & our beautiful Westminster Cathedral. We are one of the leading Catholic dioceses in the country, delivering our charitable mission through our network of 208 schools in which over 90,000 pupils attend daily, 212 parishes and several hundred social justice initiatives. We seek to positively impact the lives of all members of society., The Diocese of Westminster is an Equal Opportunities and accredited Living Wage employer. To be successful, we aspire to be person centered at all times and place human dignity at our centre. We aim at all times to recruit the person who is best suited to the job, and we welcome applications from all communities and underrepresented groups, regardless of race, sexual orientation, disability, faith, age and gender. We guarantee an interview to disabled candidates who meet the minimum criteria. We strive to take a holistic approach to the development of our people so that we may better serve and empower the mission of our Church as ministered by the parishes, deaneries, schools and communities that we support. Our ambition is to work together to promote a more inclusive environment, which attracts all candidates and signals our commitment to celebrating and promoting diversity. We want people from all walks of life to feel valued for their individuality, thrive in our organisation, share a sense of belonging and demonstrate our values. With this in mind, we positively celebrate Diversity & Inclusion at the Diocese of Westminster and place it at the heart of our aim which is to reflect and connect with the diverse communities that we serve. Actions we take to provide equality of opportunity for all candidates include:

• We anonymise application forms during our shortlisting process to ensure that candidates are assessed without any consideration of their name, gender or background.
• As part of this anonymisation, we don't take into consideration where candidates studied, or the method of that study e.g. full-time, part-time or distance learning.
• We apply a consistent approach to our question setting across our applications and interviews to ensure that everyone is assessed against the identified values, competencies and job requirements. Our values are important to us and as such we use a scoring framework that marks candidates based on values, behaviours and competencies.
• We provide guidance and brief all our interviewers throughout the selection processes in recruitment best-practice to mitigate against any potential for conscious or unconscious bias or discrimination. Whenever possible we will have multiple interviewers when assessing each candidate to ensure marking is accurate and fair.
• We ensure all our assessment venues are accessible. We offer alternative formats of our application forms to encourage applicants with disabilities or who require reasonable adjustments to perform at their best.
• We will work together with candidates with a disability or health condition to implement reasonable adjustments to enable them to feel comfortable and strive during the assessment process.
  
  In return for your hard work and commitment to us, you will receive a competitive reward package which will include, but is not limited to:
• Life Assurance
• Access to Healthcare Cash Plan
• Discounts scheme through Reward Gateway - shopping, restaurants, cinema tickets gift cards and much more
• Specsavers Eyecare Vouchers
• Season Ticket Loan
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Access to low cost loans with Churches Mutual
• Employee assistance programme- free, independent 24/7 help and advice for work-related issues as well as problems affecting home life