Melbourne CBD: Scots’ Church seeks a General Manager
19 March 2025
Since our beginnings in 1838, Scots’ Church has been an integral part of Melbourne. Our landmark 150-year-old neo-Gothic building is located on the north-west corner of Collins and Russell Streets in the heart of Melbourne’s Central Business District. Our church offices are next door in the heritage-listed Assembly Hall. We are ideally placed to share the love of Jesus and his Gospel of grace with CBD residents and workers, as well as the streams of visitors and shoppers that Melbourne always attracts.
Alongside our many faith-based activities, we host a variety of conferences and musical events. Rooms within the Assembly Hall are frequently hired for corporate seminars, school groups, and other meetings and events.
We are a constituent part of the Presbyterian Church of Victoria.
Our growing church family has an official membership of 381, with four CBD worship services each Sunday (two of which are badged as the International Christian Church) and another service in our Flemington branch church.
Our Church Choir pursues musical excellence.
At present, we have a Scots’ ministry team of five and an employed administrative and operational staff of 13.
We are seeking to appoint a full-time General Manager. Salary and conditions are negotiable.
The General Manager reports directly to the Senior Minister. This position provides both high level leadership and day-to-today oversight of Scots’ Church property, finance and administrative matters. The General Manager ensures our property, finance and administrative activities align with and contribute to the Church’s objectives and long-term sustainability. As a member of the leadership team, the General Manager actively participates in strategic development, provides leadership, and fosters collaboration across all internal and external stakeholders, acting with the utmost professionalism, integrity and trust as guided by the gospel centred values of the Scots’ Church Melbourne.
The successful applicant will have:
• Demonstrated ability to play a key role in a non-profit organisation committed to Christian faith and values, and
• Enthusiasm for the ongoing growth and progress of Scots’ Church’s mission, and
• Capacity and capability to inspire others working together to foster a church community united in Christian faith and service.
Qualifications:
• Diploma or degree in a relevant field, e.g. business administration, finance, property management
Experience:
• Relevant experience in church administration or a related field; or alternatively, previous volunteer engagement in a church community, and appropriate professional experience.
The full Job description can be found here.
Applications, addressed to the Session Clerk, together with CV can be sent to: sessionclerk@scotschurch.com
REV PHIL COURT, Session Clerk
Why not join the mission in North East Victoria?
You can read more details here.
Contact Stuart Withers to further discuss this opportunity.
Email: stuart.withers@pcv.org.au
Mobile: 0411 191 337
WYNDHAM PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH IS
SEEKING ITS NEXT PASTOR
Rev Peter Greiner, currently on Long Service Leave, has notified his intention to retire in February 2025. The congregation has elected a Selection Committee which is now inviting expressions of interest from ordained PCA ministers or licentiates.
Wyndham is a Pastoral Charge. Its parish bounds are within Wyndham City, the fastest growing Local Government Area in Australia.
You can download the church’s prospectus here
To find out more, or to request a Position Profile, you can contact me on:
Email: philipcourt52@gmail.com
Phone: 0490 064 166
REV PHIL COURT
Interim Moderator
Wyndham Presbyterian Church
Pastoral Vacancy – Home Mission Station of St John’s Presbyterian Church, Somerville, Victoria
It is a mainly elderly congregation with a weekly average attendance of 25. There is a strong biblical and gospel-focused, conservative emphasis among the congregation.
There is an excellent modern church building seating about 150, and a modern 5 bedroom manse.
Somerville is a pleasant, growing community on the beautiful Mornington Peninsula, Victoria.
We are seeking an energetic home missionary, or ordained minister, willing to focus on a biblical, gospel-based ministry. The appointment would be by the Presbytery of Flinders, of a person accredited by the Ministry Development Committee.
Enquiries to the Clerk of Flinders Presbytery, Rev Brett Peatman, flindersclerk@gmail.com , Or the Interim Moderator. Frank Savage. fsav31@hotmail.com
Seeking a Minister for South Yarra Presbyterian Church
South Yarra Presbyterian Church, a congregation of the Presbyterian Church of Australia, was established on its present site in 1854 and has continued to proclaim the gospel in the inner suburbs of Melbourne. The congregation is now looking to call a new senior minister.
We are a Reformed and evangelical church that values sound preaching and a confessional approach to worship, teaching and congregational life. We are thankful for a tradition of fine preachers and pastors and want to maintain a faithful and welcoming witness to the gospel. We are currently a vigorous congregation with between 40 and 50 regularly attending, with an active eldership, drawing people both from South Yarra and across Melbourne, from a variety of cultural backgrounds. A pastoral support worker has recently been employed to assist us in expanding the ministry of the congregation. Our property’s size and inner-city location provides considerable scope for future ministry, and we are looking to renew our heritage church building as part of that process.
Our selection committee is seeking expressions of interest from those with experience in congregational ministry, who prize the preaching of the Word and welcome the opportunity to pastor within a confessionally Reformed context.
For further details, please contact the Interim Moderator, Rev. Bob Thomas, at revbobthomas@gmail.com / ph: 0417 592 646, or the Session Clerk, Rev. Ben Nelson, at ben.nelson@ptc.vic.edu.au. Visit www.southyarrachurch.org to find out more about our congregation.
Koroit-Port Fairy Parish is seeking to call a Pastor
This Parish is looking to call a pastor in 12-24 months time. The ministry is currently served by a full-time interim pastor, under whom much growth is taking place, following a long ministry by the recently retired minister.
The Selection Committee are seeking a pastor to build on this solid and encouraging foundation, as younger families are being drawn into fellowship..
Koroit is seeing much development as it borders the city of Warrnambool, and prosperous farmland; Port Fairy is a unique tourist town on the coast.
If you sense God’s leading to this ministry, please get in touch with the Interim Moderator, Rev Rod Waterhouse at rodwhouse@gmail.com or 0438 555 983.