Location: Canterbury, Kent
Salary: Up to £11,466 per annum plus excellent benefits
Hours: 17.5 hours per week
Closing date: Friday 5 December 2025
Are you passionate about working with children and young people, exploring your faith, and discovering how your gifts can contribute to ministry? The Diocese of Canterbury is seeking a Children’s and Youth Ministry Intern to join our Education/CYP Team and gain hands-on experience in ministry across a variety of churches.
As our Intern, you’ll support, plan, and lead activities for children and young people, help organise events and trips, and contribute to projects that make a real difference. You’ll also take part in Catalyst, a dynamic training programme delivered by Ridley Hall, equipping you with practical skills and theological understanding for ministry.
This is a unique opportunity to grow in leadership, creativity, and confidence while serving in local churches and at diocesan level. You’ll attend monthly training sessions, join a residential, and receive ongoing mentoring and supervision throughout the year.
We’re looking for someone who:
- Is a practising Christian (GoR applies under Equality Act 2010)
- Communicates confidently with children, young people, and adults
- Is organised, proactive, and able to work collaboratively
- Has experience volunteering or leading activities with young people
- Is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children
- Sympathetic to and supportive of the mission, aims and objectives of the Diocese of Canterbury, including our churches, parishes and church schools, is essential.
Canterbury Diocese is the oldest in England and spans a diverse region from Maidstone to Thanet and the Isle of Sheppey to Romney Marsh. With coastal towns, rural communities and urban areas side by side, it offers a rich and challenging mission context.
At the heart of all we do is a vision of transformation for ourselves and our communities: no one can encounter God and remain unchanged. In the Diocese of Canterbury, we want to increasingly become a Christian community transformed through encounter with Christ, growing and overflowing to transform and bless the families, homes and communities we serve: Changed Lives, Changing Lives.
** Please send your CV and expression of interest to recruitment@diocant.org **
Benefits
- 17.5 hour week
- Generous life insurance
- Birthday leave
- 1 wellbeing day per annum
- 21 hours volunteering leave
- Central Canterbury location
Deadline: Friday 5 December 2025.