King's Centre Leader
Job Descripon — September 2026
- Employer: The Philadelphia Network Limited (Network Church Sheffield)
- Contract: Permanent, subject to satisfactory references and an enhanced DBs check
- Hours: 22.5 hours per week (3 days, including Sunday), plus regular involvement inwider NCs team life (approx. 1 day)
- Holiday: 30 days pro rata, plus statutory bank holidays
- Pay: NCs Pay Scale, Grade 3 (Associate Senior Leader / Ordained Minister) —£45,580 FTE, £27,348 pro rata at 22.5 hours per week
- Pension: NCS pension scheme
- Responsible to: Senior Leader
- Usual place of work: King's Centre, Union Road, Sheffield, S11 9EH, with regular involvement acrossNCS
PURPOSE OF ROLE
To provide spiritual and organisa%onal leadership for King's Centre — a warm, all-age, familyfriendly church community in Nether Edge, Sheeld, and one of Network Church Sheeld's two bases — including pastoral care.
To lead King's Centre into its next season of life and mission, developing vision and strategy for prayer, worship, discipleship, mission, pastoral care and community outreach, in a way that is fully shaped by NCS's wider vision as one church, two sites.
To equip and develop staC, leaders and volunteers, and to grow the work of the Holy Spirit within the life and mission of the church.
To nurture communi%es and households, with par%cular focus on children, young people and families, and on deepening King's Centre's connec%on with the local community in Nether Edge.
To lead in Sunday worship and preaching, ensuring teaching is rooted in Scripture and open to the Spirit.
To have oversight of King's Centre's ministry in the local community, including Foodbank, King's Kids, Cuppa Club and related outreach.
To manage the King's Centre budget and resources wisely and transparently.
To serve as a full member of the NCS Leadership Team and as an NCS Trustee, represen%ging King's Centre's voice in NCS-wide planning, prayer and governance.
To contribute to the wider vision and mission of NCS as a ‘seven days a week’ serving church, not a one-day-a-week service church.
PERSON SPECIFICATION
Skills, Gi s & Aributes — Essenal
Demonstrates commitment to the vision, values and mission of NCS and King's Centre, including NCS's 2026–27 vision and priori%es.
A prayerful, Spirit-led leader with a mature and balanced Chris%an faith.
Rela%onal, approachable and hospitable; able to build community across genera%ons and backgrounds.
Proven ability to lead teams, inspire volunteers and develop leaders — par%cularly in a context where most people are already serving and capacity is limited.
Able to preach and teach biblically, engagingly and prophe%cally.
Missional in outlook, with a track record of engaging with those outside the church.
Organisa%onally competent, with the ability to manage people, %me and resources wisely.
Flexible, resilient and teachable, with a non-defensive, secure approach to leading through change.
Either an accredited Bap%st minister in good standing with the Bap%st Union of Great Britain, or open to entering forma%on and training towards Bap%st ministerial accredita%on while in post.
Comfortable working within NCS's Bap%st / Yorkshire Bap%st Associa%on context, alongside its wider Anglican, Bap%st and House Church heritage.
Skills, Gi s & Aributes — Desirable
Experience of leading church growth across all ages.
Experience of pioneering new ministries and leading through transi%on.
Experience of, and willingness to be involved in, city-wide ministries (e.g. Arise and Sheeld Leaders in Prayer).
Financial management experience.
Character & Spiritual Life — Essenal
A servant-hearted leader of integrity, humility and perseverance.
Models a healthy rhythm of prayer, rest and work.
Demonstrates teachability and accountability within a team.
Experience of the giJs and leading of the Holy Spirit, including the prophe%c.
A commitment to personal discipleship and growth.
A clear sense of call to ministry and to local church leadership.
Able to listen well to a congrega%on's history — including past disappointments — without becoming defensive, and to lead a reKec%ve, learning culture.
MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES
1. Spiritual & Pastoral Leadership of King's Centre
Providing the spiritual, pastoral and organisaonal leadership King's Centre needs to move into its next season, with a parcular focus on nurturing and building up the exisng congregaon:
Provide spiritual and organisa%onal leadership for King's Centre, including pastoral care for the congrega%on.
Lead in Sunday worship and preaching, ensuring teaching is rooted in Scripture and open to the Spirit, across King's Centre's monthly rhythm of Café Church, all-age services and Communi%es Sundays.
Re-establish and oversee prayer ministry aJer services, and grow a culture of Spirit-led, prophe%c worship at King's Centre.
Walk sensi%vely with a congrega%on that has experienced transi%on and loss, listening well to its story and helping it move forward with hope.
2. Vision, Strategy & Mission
Leading King's Centre in developing and living out a vision for its next season, rooted in NCS's wider 2026–27 priories:
Develop and implement vision and strategy for prayer, worship, discipleship, mission, pastoral care and community outreach at King's Centre.
Build on King's Centre's exis%ng mission ac%vi%es — Foodbank, King's Kids, Cuppa Club, Men's Soup Group and related outreach — shaping clear pathways from community connec%on through to invita%ion, explora%on and discipleship.
Develop King's Centre's own pioneering ins%nct, drawing on its history of city-wide ini%a%ves, in a way that Nts its current size and season.
Champion evangelism and outreach in Nether Edge, including low-key, rela%onal opportuni%es such as seasonal services and community events.
3. Team, Volunteers & Resources
Equipping and releasing the people already serving at King's Centre, and growing capacity for the future:
Equip and develop staC, leaders and volunteers across King's Centre, including the lay leadership team and Kids & Families provision.
Recruit, train and support new volunteers, helping to ease the pressure that falls on a small, commiQed team.
Manage the King's Centre budget and resources responsibly, as part of the wider NCS budget.
Hold appropriate oversight of King's Centre's building, working with NCS opera%ons on maintenance needs.
4. Contribu1on to NCS as a Whole
Serving as a full and acve member of the wider NCS leadership community — not a leader of an isolated site, but a partner in one church, two sites:
Serve as a member of the NCS Leadership Team and as an NCS Trustee, contribu%ng to NCS-wide strategy, planning and governance.
AQend and contribute to regular NCS team mee%ngs, sharing in planning, series and event conversa%ons across both sites.
Work ac%vely to build cross-pollina%on between King's Centre and St Thomas Philadelphia in worship, preaching, prayer, and youth and children's ministry.
Ensure King's Centre is consistently included and well communicated with on NCS-wide events, building and vision decisions.
Contribute to the wider vision and mission of NCS as a ‘seven days a week’ serving church, not a one-day-a-week service church.
5. Wider Church Life
Be a member of, and ac%vely involved in, King's Centre and the wider NCS community.
Live an authen%c Chris%an life through healthy rhythms of prayer, reKec%on, rest and community.
Ensure compliance with child and adult safeguarding policies at all %mes, and ensure training remains up to date.
In agreement with the Senior Leader, take on other reasonable du%es as required and as capacity allows.
This job descripon re.ects the key responsibilies of the role, but these may vary over me according to the needs of the organisaon, and you may be asked to undertake any task that is reasonable and in keeping with the role, grade and your skills and experience.
SAFEGUARDING
Under our Child & Adult Safeguarding Policies, before any appointment is made you will need to disclose any previous convic%ons, complete an enhanced DBS check, provide references and sa%sfy the other requirements of the Policy. Further details will be provided on request.
NCS is commiQed to safeguarding and promo%ng the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. All post holders and volunteers are expected to share this commitment.
SPECIAL CONDITIONS
This role is iden%Ned as having a genuine occupa%onal requirement under Schedule 9 of the Equality Act 2010 as requiring the post holder to be a prac%sing Chris%an who shares and upholds our Chris%an Ethos, beliefs and values.
This employment is condi%onal on, and will not commence un%l, we have received an enhanced disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service which is sa%sfactory to us.
Dra ing note: the salary above re.ects Grade 3 on the current NCS Pay Scale (June 2026 revision); pension arrangements remain to be con6rmed by Trustees before this job descripon is 6nalised.
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