If you’re interested in working in Youth Ministry, there are currently some opportunities in the diocese to do so:

Youth Project Coordinator

Location: Our Lady & St Vincent, Potters Bar

Hours of Work: 25 hours per week (negotiable upon appointment, including evenings and weekends)

Salary: £17.50 per hour

Closing Date: 11th April 2023

Our Lady and St Vincent, Potters Bar are looking for a Youth Project Coordinator to help direct and enable the parish’s support of young people.

This new role will create a broad provision of youth ministry, primarily helping young people’s development and understanding of a lived Catholic faith through the growing in their relationship with God and one another.

Responsibilities will be focused on collaborating with volunteer youth workers and catechists to create a rich programme of activities to our young people, primarily within the 8 -18 age group. This will include expanding existing areas and creating new areas of youth work, initiating and developing different youth activities to inspire young people as well as coordinating existing catechetics and adult volunteers.

Download a more detailed role description here>

Download the parish’s Youth Framework here>

Youth Ministry Coordinator

Location: St Alban & St Stephen, St Albans

Hours of Work: 20 hours per week (negotiable upon appointment, including evenings and weekends)

Salary: £13 per hour

Closing Date: 10th March 2023

The Parish of St Alban and St Stephen is the larger of two catholic parishes serving the city of St Albans and the immediate area. We are an increasingly diverse community, with a large number of young families, wanting to develop and implement a strategy of accompaniment aimed at our young people transitioning into, through and out of secondary education.

Working alongside an existing catechetical co-ordinator, who has responsibility for sacramental preparation including confirmation, you will have a unique opportunity to shape the pattern of youth ministry here at St Alban & St Stephen Your initial task would be to work with our youth strategy group and young people in developing a strategy for our accompaniment of young people. A key measure of success would be our young people’s sense of a welcoming parish, which is willing to walk with them and which affords them a voice.

Download a more detailed role description here>

Alternatively, if you’re interested in working with like-minded Catholics, sharing your faith and helping young people encounter Jesus in a new way, why not join Westminster Youth Ministry’s new Volunteer Programme! Find out more here…