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Westminster College, Cambridge: Application Procedure

Position: Director of Studies in Church History and DoctrinePlease find attached the following information:

Westminster College, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0AAwww.westminster.cam.ac.uk

Job Application Pack – Teaching Staff - DoSCHD- : Application Procedure – Senatus Roles – Reviewed December 2016

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Application procedure; A brief introduction to the

post; Job description; Person Specification; Application form; Equal opportunities monitoring

form;

Governance of Westminster College – General Assembly, 1996;

Westminster College Resolutions – General Assembly, 2006;

Westminster College Report and Appeal – General Assembly, 2010.

How to apply…Please read through all the information carefully before beginning your application. If you then decide you wish to apply for the position, please complete the enclosed application form. You should fill in the form step by step, noting the following points: Make sure the information given is accurate by checking for errors after you have

filled in the form. The supporting statement, expanded under and within ‘Suitability for the

Post’ is your opportunity to ‘sell’ yourself. In answering this section, it is important to provide evidence of your experience, knowledge and skills as they relate to the post. Please do not assume that we have prior knowledge of your capabilities.

If you need to use additional sheets for the supporting statement (and elsewhere on the application form) then please do so clearly stating which part of the application form the sheet relates to.

Please do not send or attach a CV as it will not be accepted.Applications sent by email are preferred; however applications sent by post (marked ‘Confidential’ on the envelope) will also be accepted. Please send completed applications to:

Mrs Syd Harper – PA to the [email protected]

Westminster College, Madingley Road, Cambridge, CB3 0AAApplications need to be received strictly no later than 12 noon on Friday, 3rd March

2017.Interview ProcessOnce we have received application forms, we will email an acknowledgement.1. After the advertised deadline date, all application forms received by the

deadline will be processed. Late application forms, however, will not be considered.

2. The first and last page of the completed application forms will be detached by the PA to the Principal and used for monitoring purposes only, or to take up references for those candidates who are short-listed. The equal opportunities monitoring form will also be detached and used for monitoring only, should you choose to submit this.

3. Shortlisted applicants will be contacted by the Principal’s PA to confirm interview times, location and the format of the interview (which will include a presentation element).

4. Unsuccessful applicants will be contacted by the Principal’s PA in the form of a letter.

Westminster College, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0AA

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Application Procedure – Senatus Roles – Reviewed December 2016


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5. Once all interviews have taken place, applicants will be contacted and told of the outcome by phone/letter and a provisional job offer will be made to the successful applicant.

Interviews will take place over Thursday 6th and Friday 7th April 2017. Candidates will be required to attend on both days. Overnight accommodation will be available if required.

We should be grateful if you would complete and return the Equal Opportunities Monitoring form. Completion is entirely voluntary

Westminster College, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0AAwww.westminster.cam.ac.uk

Job Application Pack – Teaching Staff - DoSCHD- : Application Procedure – Senatus Roles – Reviewed December 2016


A Brief Introduction and Context for the Appointment of the

Director of Studies in Church History and Doctrine

The Westminster College building opened in October, 1899, to replace the Presbyterian Church of England’s theological college in London. This move was largely inspired, and significantly funded, by twin sisters, Agnes and Margaret Smith. They were remarkable biblical scholars and travelled extensively. Westminster takes its name from the Catechisms and Confession of the Westminster Assembly of Divines which met in London from 1643-1649. The Westminster Confession, Presbyterianism’s foundation creed, is housed at the college. Another strand in our history involves Cheshunt College. Cheshunt’s origins lay in the college opened at Trevecka in Wales in 1768 by the Countess of Huntingdon which played a significant part in the English and Welsh Evangelical Revivals. It moved to Cheshunt in Hertfordshire in 1792 and thence to purpose-built premises on Bateman Street in Cambridge in 1914. In 1967 Cheshunt joined with Westminster and the Cheshunt buildings were sold. Many of the contents and archives of Cheshunt are housed at Westminster.

In 1972 the birth of the United Reformed Church saw Westminster take its place alongside other colleges training ministers for the new denomination. Westminster is now one of the four Resource Centres for Learning serving the URC (the others being Northern College in Manchester, the Windermere Centre and the Scottish College). Our brief continues to evolve and expand as we seek to offer education, training and support to candidates preparing for ordained ministry in the URC and other Reformed churches, lay preachers and worship leaders, elders, ministers in service and a wide variety of individuals, groups and churches who want to explore faith and living with us.

But our building had remained largely unaltered and was no longer meeting today’s demands. At the 2010 URC General Assembly a major appeal was launched as the first step towards renewing the building for a new era of service. With over £7 million now raised the building work, begun in June 2013, was completed in the summer of 2014. Teaching and residential accommodation and facilities have been transformed. Lift access to the entire building, and especially the beautiful library, has been created for the first time. New kitchen and administrative facilities radically enhance our capacity to welcome more people and offer even better hospitality. Alongside the physical change is the on-going development of our education and learning programmes and resources to cater for both lay and ordained, from the URC and beyond. These are the most dramatic changes Westminster has known.

We have also expanded the commercial business capacity of Westminster to help financially support the educational vocation of the college. We are developing as a venue for conferences and events, and provide high quality bed and breakfast accommodation alongside student and church use. We are now regularly used by visiting academics and a wide range of individuals and groups as a venue and overnight stop. Our chapel prayers are deliberately advertised and open to all visitors using our building so that our commitment to Christ remains central to

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our ethos and hospitality. Westminster stands as a sign of living faith in our diverse and dynamic academic and historic context.

The Cambridge Theological Federation (CTF) represents main-stream church traditions and provides a vibrant ecumenical context for our work. The CTF works in partnership with the University of Cambridge (for whom it delivers the BTh and DTM - Theology for Ministry - awards), the University of Durham (which validates the BA and MA in Theology, Ministry and Mission) and Anglia Ruskin University (with whom we deliver a Professional Doctorate programme). Staff are often involved in supervision for research degrees of our partner universities. There are about 40 academic staff across the Federation, from its nine institutions, providing a rich context of colleagueship within which we work. In summer 2015 the CTF central secretariat moved onto the Westminster site and is now housed in purpose built accommodation.

The redevelopment of Westminster will greatly enhance our relationships with two of our partners in the CTF in particular. The Cambridge Centre for Christianity Worldwide (CCCW) was already based at Westminster and has a very significant library and archive for studies in Christian mission and world Christianity. It is well connected to mission studies centres around the world and offers a wide range of lectures and seminars to help foster greater appreciation of mission in a diverse range of contexts. As part of the development of our building CCCW have moved into new and improved accommodation that enhances their capacity to welcome students and scholars from across the globe.

The Woolf Institute of Abrahamic Faiths is hard at work on a brand new building on our site, integrated with the Westminster buildings. Completion is planned for the summer of 2017. The Woolf Institute is a leading centre for investigating and teaching the current and historical relationships that exist between the faith-traditions of Judaism, Islam and Christianity, with special reference to Europe and the Middle East. Within the new Woolf building will be accommodation for the Faraday Institute for Science and Religion, a leading research centre for the interface between faith and the sciences. Sharing our evolving campus whilst retaining their unique identities, these institutions, and potentially others, will work collaboratively to foster a vibrant exchange of ideas, people and resources in a diverse and creative community of learning. Westminster will thus become a significant theological campus and place for many encounters and relationships. We are already enjoying some of the potential for synergy and collaboration.

We are an exciting institution, seeking more fully to help shape thinking about the life of faith and the future of the Church in the 21st century. We want to equip people to minister effectively amidst constant change, and to build up the whole Church as all of its members engage in their many and varied forms of ministry. We are developing particular interests in faith and the arts and spirituality and are seeking to develop an intentional programme of research, in part in conjunction with the CTF, in part in collaboration with wider research networks across the United Reformed Church. We will complete a purpose-built art studio for the use of staff, students and visitors early in 2017 as a further sign of investment in theology and discipleship in creative and broad ways. Our library and archives hold significant collections on the Reformed tradition in Britain that the post-holder will be welcome to engage with.

The post-holder will become the fifth member of a core academic staff team including the Principal, who will help develop and steer the further exploration of the vocation of the college with the Board of Governors. There will be the opportunity for the post-holder to follow their interests and passions as the future


of Westminster is being shaped within its overall vocation as defined by the General Assembly of the United Reformed Church. Our remit and delivery is particularly influenced by the priorities and policies set by the Education and Learning Committee of the United Reformed Church and in close discussion with networks of trainers and educators across our denomination’s thirteen Synods covering England, Wales and Scotland. Duties will be spread across the whole calendar year and include some weekend and evening commitments, especially as we continue to develop the resourcing we offer to local congregations as much as to the academic programmes. It is intended to schedule some dedicated research time for the post-holder.

We are in the process of significantly developing our teaching staff team. New academics have joined us in 2015 and 2016 to teach and tutor in the New Testament and Greek along with the Old Testament and Biblical Hebrew. These posts complement those of continuing academic staff who bring particular expertise in Pastoral Theology, and wide experience of ministry and church life as well as interests in the whole range of theological and ecclesial issues. We are actively seeking to recruit for the newly created full-time post of Director of Church Resource Development who will lead Westminster’s growing delivery of events, conferences and resources to equip the whole people of God in their discipleship and vocations. We expect much of this aspect of our work to have a growing digital and web-based provision, and to include much delivery in local churches and across Synods in collaboration with and through the invitation of congregations and ministers.

This sets the context into which we will welcome our new Director of Studies in Church History and Doctrine as the current post-holder returns to pastoral charge within the United Reformed Church. The person appointed will be a colleague excited by the academic programmes and cohorts we teach within Westminster and through the Cambridge Theological Federation. He/she will equally be skilled in exciting and educating the wider church in the many dimensions and facets of the Reformed tradition in its historical contexts and contemporary expressions. She/he will add to Westminster specialism in aspects of the ways doctrinal and ecclesial traditions shape and form the practices of Christian discipleship and church life, especially within the United Reformed Church. Alongside this core staff team, we are developing a programme of adjunct staff who will bring particular pastoral, ministerial or subject expertise to the life of the college. Westminster is also supported by a highly committed and specialised array of support staff who manage the administrative, domestic and business aspects of college life.

Westminster College provides an exciting and energising context from which to engage in academic practice. We offer the post-holder opportunity to both teach in the academy and engage fully and creatively in congregational discipleship. We have a focus upon initial ministerial formation and education within one of the world’s broadest ecumenical contexts along with teaching for the whole Church. We offer a campus of leading institutions rich in collaborative opportunity. Being a partner of the Faculty of Divinity of the University of Cambridge (appropriately qualified staff are normally appointed as Affiliated Lecturers of the Faculty) places us in the midst of a world leading research department of Divinity, with a highly active programme of Senior Research Seminars and guest lectures. Our links with the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Durham connects us to a top-rated research department in the UK which is actively committed to resourcing and furthering research across theological institutions teaching the new ‘Common Award’. Our


post graduate teaching through Anglia Ruskin University links us to a creative and forward-thinking university with world leading research.

To discover far more about Westminster’s exciting and evolving story visit:

www.westminster.cam.ac.uk



Other links you might find useful are listed below, in alphabetical order.

Anglia Ruskin University:

http://www.anglia.ac.uk/ruskin/en/home.html(ARU)

Cambridge Centre for Christianity Worldwide: http://www.cccw.cam.ac.uk/ (CCCW - a member of the CTF)

Cambridge Theological Federation: http://www.theofed.cam.ac.uk/(CTF)

Common Awards website: https://www.churchofengland.org/clergy-office-holders/ministry/ministerial-education-and-development/common-awards-in-theology,-ministry-and-mission.aspx

Eastern Region Ministry Course: http://www.ermc.cam.ac.uk/ (ERMC - a member of the CTF)

Faraday Institute for Science and Religion: https://www.faraday.st-edmunds.cam.ac.uk/

Margaret Beaufort Institute of Theology:http://www.margaretbeaufort.cam.ac.uk/

(MBIT - a member of the CTF)Ridley House: http://www.ridley.cam.ac.uk/

(a member of the CTF)The Instituted for Orthodox Christian Studies: http://www.iocs.cam.ac.uk /

(IOCS - a member of the CTF)United Reformed Church: http://www.urc.org.uk/

(URC)University of Cambridge: http://www.cam.ac.uk /University of Durham: https://www.dur.ac.uk/ Visit Cambridge: http://www.visitcambridge.org/

(for background information on what Cambridge has to offer)Wescott House: http://www.westcott.cam.ac.uk/

(a member of the CTF)Wesley House: http://www.wesley.cam.ac.uk/

(a member of the CTF)Woolf Institute: http://www.woolf.cam.ac.uk/

(a member of the CTF)


http://www.woolf.cam.ac.uk/

http://www.wesley.cam.ac.uk/

http://www.westcott.cam.ac.uk/

http://www.visitcambridge.org/

https://www.dur.ac.uk/

http://www.cam.ac.uk/

http://www.urc.org.uk/

http://www.iocs.cam.ac.uk/

http://www.ridley.cam.ac.uk/

http://www.margaretbeaufort.cam.ac.uk/



http://www.ermc.cam.ac.uk/

https://www.churchofengland.org/clergy-office-holders/ministry/ministerial-education-and-development/common-awards-in-theology,-ministry-and-mission.aspx



http://www.theofed.cam.ac.uk/

http://www.anglia.ac.uk/ruskin/en/home.html

Westminster College, Cambridge: Teaching Staff Job Description

Position:Director of Studies in Church History and Doctrine (DoSCHD)

Responsible to: the Principal of Westminster and, through him/her, to the Board of Governors of Westminster College, which itself is responsible to the United Reformed Church General Assembly. The Governors report to General Assembly through the Education and Learning Committee, which is therefore, in practice, the College’s primary avenue of communication with the United Reformed Church.

PreambleThis job description should be understood in the context of the responsibilities of the Board of Governors as they are spelt out in the texts of the General Assembly 1996, which define the governance of Westminster College. These texts are included in the application pack. Also included are key resolutions of the Training Committee agreed by General Assembly in 2005 and 2006. These confirm but reframe the Church’s relationship to the College as one of the United Reformed Church’s Resource Centres for Learning (RCL). Finally, to set this post in context, the 2010 resolutions of General Assembly relating to Westminster’s Development and Appeal are included which indicate ways in which the college has sought to transform its facilities and expand its provision as an RCL.

Further Particulars:This is a central teaching post for Westminster College, the Cambridge Theological Federation (CTF) and the United Reformed Church.

We are searching for a scholar and teacher with a passion for assisting church and academy in exploring Church history and doctrine, and especially the Reformed tradition, as they shape the faith, practice and mission of the Church today. Applicants must be educated to PhD level and be able to demonstrate on their application form that their PhD has either been awarded, or is close to being awarded. In the latter case any offer of this post may well be made subject to successful awarding of a candidate’s PhD. We would be particularly interested in applications from individuals whose areas of expertise include any of the following: public theology and apologetics; contemporary influences of the traditions forming the United Reformed Church (Presbyterian, Congregational, Churches of Christ); relating doctrine to worship and preaching; mission in the light of Reformed influences and resources; relating traditions and sources to contemporary spirituality and Christian formation. Candidates with other specialisms will be considered.

You will belong to a member church of the World Council of Churches and have a deep understanding of, and sympathy for, the Reformed theological tradition. You will have a passion for the education of the whole Church, and a commitment to the formation of Ministers of Word and Sacrament, Elders, Lay Preachers and local church members. You will want to engage people in study of Church history

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and doctrine as much in local churches as in the class room. You will have experience of a diverse range of ministries within the life of the Church, and be fully engaged in aspects of Church life yourself. You will be excited at the prospect of sharing deeply in the life of the United Reformed Church and in tune with its ethos of broad theological diversity and openness in ministry and leadership to people from all backgrounds. You will relish the opportunity to share in networks of teachers and trainers in other Resource Centres for Learning and across our 13 Synods as they embrace England, Wales and Scotland. You will want to play an energetic part in fostering the United Reformed Church’s stated desire to be a learning church in which all, lay and ordained, are encouraged to grow in depth and confidence in their faith and service (see General Assembly resolutions from the Education and Learning Committee, 2006). You will be engaged in active research, and play a significant part in developing and executing plans for research within Westminster College in its service to the United Reformed Church and within the ecumenical context of the Cambridge Theological Federation.

Working as part of a small academic staff team at Westminster, and with further colleagues across the CTF and within our partner universities, you will also carry pastoral and administrative responsibilities for the good running of these institutions. You will share with colleagues in the oversight and formation of students at Westminster as they prepare for service in the United Reformed Church and beyond. Some of these students will be preparing for the Ministry of Word and Sacraments of the United Reformed Church. You are likely to have particular tutorial responsibility for a small group of Westminster’s students. You will be open to sharing in other duties as necessary and appropriate, such as becoming Director of Studies, Vice Principal, or Academic Librarian.

Terms and Conditions:This is a post of the General Assembly of the United Reformed Church. It is open to ordained ministers and to lay people.

Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Check:

This appointment is subject to a satisfactory enhanced DBS check.

Remuneration: For a ministerial appointment remuneration will be by stipend according to

the Plan for Partnership in Ministerial Remuneration of the United Reformed Church.

A lay appointment will join the United Reformed Church pay scale at a point comparable to a similar appointment at lecturer level within the University of Cambridge, based upon the UK higher education employers’ agreed scales. The starting salary will be between £38,511 and £48,743 per year, depending upon experience.

Probationary Period: The successful applicant will be reviewed in this post after her/his first

complete academic year (i.e. in summer, 2018).

Accommodation: A personal study and car parking are provided at Westminster College. Housing will not be provided for a lay appointment, although some college

rental accommodation may be available.


Appropriate housing will be provided for a ministerial appointment.

Pension: A ministerial appointment who is on the roll of ministers in stipendiary

service of the United Reformed Church will remain within the United Reformed Church Ministers’ Pension Fund.

A ministerial appointment who is not on the United Reformed Church’s roll of ministers, or a lay appointment, will be automatically enrolled in the United Reformed Church’s staff pension scheme.


Right to Work in the UK and Fluency in Written and Spoken English: A ministerial appointment who is not on the United Reformed Church roll of

ministers may require sponsorship by the United Reformed Church to receive a visa under the UK’s Points Based System for immigration if they do not already have the right to work in the UK.

United Reformed Church ministers, or a minister from another denomination, will be appointed for an initial term of 7 years.

A ministerial appointment not on the United Reformed Church’s roll of ministers would remain on her/his denomination’s roll of ministers and would receive a certificate of limited service to work at Westminster College.

A lay appointment must hold a passport from the European Union or the European Economic Area, or be able to demonstrate an alternative right to work in the UK.

A non-native English speaker appointment must be able to demonstrate fluency in written and spoken English (IELTS band 8: very good user – 9: expert user). This is a United Reformed Church requirement of this post, given the context of Westminster College. The UK Border Agency also applies tests relating to competence in English.

Start Date: Our ideal is to welcome this new member of staff to Westminster in

summer, 2017, in preparation for starting a full teaching load from September 2017. However, we are open to the possibility of negotiating a mutually agreed start date.

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Westminster College, Cambridge: Teaching Staff Person Specification

Position:Director of Studies in Church History and Doctrine

The new Director of Studies in Church History and Doctrine will join Westminster as its life enters a new phase in renewed premises with hugely enhanced capacity to serve the URC and wider church communities. The post will call for qualities of imagination and flexibility and will demand a willingness to share fruitfully in a series of teams within and beyond the college. The Director of Studies in Church History and Doctrine will relish the opportunity to help prepare individuals for ministry within an ecumenical context but will be as excited by the chance to refresh and encourage lay members of local congregations. She or he will be deeply committed to the vision guiding Westminster as a Resource Centre for Learning, to Westminster’s place within the Cambridge Theological Federation and Cambridge context and contribute to the future life of the United Reformed Church.

ESSENTIAL DESIRABLE MEASUREMENT

1. Education and Training An undergraduate degree in theology and religious studies. A relevant PhD (awarded, or close to being awarded).

A HE teaching qualification.

Application Form

2. Relevant Experience Experience of teaching theology or a related subject in the

context of Higher Education. Experience of delivering education and training within local

congregations or to those engaged in lay ministries within the church.

Demonstrated experience of ability to work closely in a team with a range of people, including those with differing interests and perspectives.

Experience of the United Reformed Church and its institutions and procedures, or willingness to acquire this familiarity rapidly and to work within its structures.

Readiness to work within an ecumenical context.

Experience of working within a context focused on formation for Christian Ministry.

Experience in developing curriculum within the Higher Education context.

Experience in the practice of lay or ordained forms of ministry.

Experience of the Reformed tradition.

Application Form / Interview

3. Special Knowledge and Skills Expertise in at least one major aspect of the Reformed

tradition, preferably since the seventeenth century. The ability to teach Church history and doctrine at

undergraduate and graduate levels. An understanding of the discipline of Church history in the

context of ministerial formation linking knowledge, theological insight and pastoral practice.

A realistic plan for research, commensurate with the aims of the college, for the next 5 years.

Good communication skills both verbal and written. If a non-native English speaker then IELTS score of 8-9 or equivalent essential.

An ability to deliver education and training within local congregations or to those engaged in lay ministries within the church.

An understanding of and sympathy for the Reformed theological tradition.

Proven administrative ability. IT-literate.

A record of appropriate publications.

An ability to supervise research degrees.

Experience in developing collaborative research proposals and attracting research funding.

Experience of academic programme design and implementation.

Experience in spiritual and vocational development, and in building community.

Experience in developing e-learning.

Application Form / Interview / Presentation Assessment

4. Special Qualities and Aptitudes

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ESSENTIAL DESIRABLE MEASUREMENT

An ability to work creatively with those of different theological opinions.

Demonstrable ability to offer a range of teaching styles, including work with classes, small groups and individuals.

Capacity to expect change and handle it with discernment, not dismay.

Experience of change and its processes for congregations and institutions.


5. Any other requirements Willingness and ability to travel around the UK to deliver

learning events from time to time. A willingness to work flexibly across the calendar year

including some weekends.


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Please note that, as per the application procedure, this first sheet of the application form (containing personal contact details) and the last sheet of the application form

(containing reference information), will be detached from the rest of the application form upon receipt.

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Westminster College, Cambridge: Job Application FormPlease note that CVs will not be accepted in place of a fully completed

application formWhite boxes are left for your completion, and in the .doc format are table cells which will grow as you fill in text. To request the application pack and form in an alternative format, please contact Syd Harper on [email protected] or on 01223 33 06 49.Job Applied for: Director of Studies in Church History and Doctrine Title: Contact Telephone Numbers:

Please indicate convenient times for us to contact you. Discretion will be used when contacting you at work.

Home:

Work:

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Surname:

First Name(s):

Address:

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What is your nationality?

Do you already have the legal right to work and live in the UK?

If you do not currently have the legal right to work and live in the UK are there any other factors which may influence your right to work and live in the UK?

Do you require any special arrangements for interview and/or to help you take up this role?

Do you have a full and clean driving license?

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Section 1: Education – Professional, Postgraduate, First Degree/DiplomaPlease list all degrees/diplomas/professional qualifications etc. held or currently studied for, whether at first degree or postgraduate level. List the most recent first and give all results known whatever the outcome.

Please note this position is only open to candidates who have been successfully awarded a relevant PhD as described in the person

specification. Please be clear on this form of where and when such a degree has been awarded and that you have graduated.

From – ToMonth/Year

Higher Education Institution

Award and Title of Award (HND/Degree/Dipl/Msc/PhD

etc.). List main subjects below title

Results awarded(expected/awarded)

Section 2: Experience in Ministry and EmploymentPlease list all your pastorates/posts within the Church and any secular employment, listing the most recent first.

Please note that if you are ordained into a public ministry you must indicate the date and place of your ordination and the full name of the denomination

within which your ordination took place.From – To

Month/YearPastorate / Post

Section 3: Skills and AchievementsUse the space below to describe any other particular skills and achievements which may be relevant to this application. Please include any desirables which are relevant to this post.


Section 3: Skills and AchievementsUse the space below to describe any other particular skills and achievements which may be relevant to this application. Please include any desirables which are relevant to this post.

Section 4: Suitability for the PostExplain why you have applied for this job, making sure that you fill out each section below to outline your relevant qualifications and experience as they relate to the person specification. Emphasise why you consider yourself to be a strong candidate. Please use further sheets of paper if necessary.4 a: Why are you applying for this role?(supporting statement)

4 b: Education and Trainingi) An undergraduate degree in theology and religious studies:

ii) A relevant PhD (please include the title of your thesis and the date your

PhD was awarded, or expected date of award, and the name of the awarding institution):

4 c: Relevant Experiencei) Experience of teaching theology or a related subject in the context of

Higher Education:

ii) Experience of delivering education and training within local congregations or to those engaged in lay ministries within the church:

iii) Demonstrated experience of ability to work closely in a team with a range of people, including those with differing interests and perspectives:

iv) Experience of the United Reformed Church and its institutions and procedures, or willingness to acquire this familiarity rapidly and to work within its structures:

v) Readiness to work within an ecumenical context:


Section 4: Suitability for the Post4 d: Special Knowledge and Skills

i) Expertise in at least one major aspect of the Reformed tradition, preferably since the seventeenth century:

ii) The ability to teach Church history and doctrine at undergraduate and graduate levels:

iii) An understanding of the discipline of Church history in the context of ministerial formation linking knowledge, theological insight and pastoral practice:

iv) A realistic plan for research, commensurate with the aims of the college, for the next 5 years:

v) Good communication skills both verbal and written. If a non-native English speaker, then IELTS score of 8-9 or equivalent essential:

vi) An ability to deliver education and training within local congregations or to those engaged in lay ministries within the church:

vii) An understanding of and sympathy for the Reformed theological tradition:

viii) Proven administrative ability:

ix) IT-literate

4 e: Special Qualities and Aptitudes


Section 4: Suitability for the Posti) An ability to work creatively with those of different theological opinions:

ii) Demonstrable ability to offer a range of teaching styles, including work with classes, small groups and individuals:

iii) Capacity to expect change and handle it with discernment, not dismay

4 f: Any other requirementsi) Willingness and ability to travel around the UK to deliver learning

events from time to time:

ii) A willingness to work flexibly across the calendar year including some weekends:

Section 5: Personal InterestsPlease give details of any personal interests and activities.

Please note that, as per the application procedure, the next sheet of the application form (containing reference information), will be detached from the rest of the application form

upon receipt.


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Section 6: ReferencesPlease give the names of two individuals, not related to you, who will provide references.

One of these must be a present or recent ministerial colleague. The other should be a person who is equally able to comment on your ability to perform the role for which you are applying.

Please note that referees may be approached prior to interview.Name: Name:

How is the referee known to you? How is the referee known to you?

Position: Position:

Address: Address:

Telephone: Telephone:

E-mail: E-mail:

Section 7: AvailabilityPlease give the date from which you are available for employment (noting the start dates we have indicated for this post):

Section 8: Declaration1. I acknowledge that an appointment, if offered, will be subject to satisfactory

references and a satisfactory enhanced DBS check which are acceptable to Westminster College, a Resource Centre for Learning for the United Reformed Church.

2. I declare that the information given on this form is correct and understand that on appointment any misleading statements or deliberate omissions will be regarded as grounds for disciplinary action.

Signed: Date:

Name (please print)

Please return this form completed, along with any other appropriate or requested paperwork, to the address and person named in the

Application Procedure.

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Westminster College, Cambridge: Equal Opportunities Monitoring Form

In the interests of monitoring our recruitment procedures we would be grateful if you could answer the questions below. We will separate this from your application and it will not take any part in the selection process. Please note that completion of this form is entirely voluntary.

Thank you for your help.

Please tick as appropriate: Male Female

What is your Nationality? ....................................................

How would you describe your ethnic origin? White Black-African Black - Caribbean Black – Other Indian Bangladeshi Pakistani Chinese Other (please specify): ……………………………………………….

Do you consider yourself to be disabled? Yes No

If yes, what is the nature of your disability?

If selected for interview will you require any specific assistance or aids?

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Director of Studies in Church History and Doctrine (DoSCHD)

Application Pack

List of Appendices

Appendix 1 – 1996 Assembly – Governance of Westminster College Appendices pages 18 to 21

Appendix 2 –2006 Assembly – Book of Reports – Resolutions 36 and 37Appendices page 22

Appendix 3 – 2010 Assembly – Book of Reports – Resolutions 38 and 39Appendices pages 23 and 24

Job Application Pack – Teaching Staff - DoSCHD- Appendices 1, 2 and 322


Application PackAppendix 1 – 1996 Assembly - Governance of Westminster College



Application PackAppendix 2 –2006 Assembly – Book of Reports – Resolutions 36 and 37



Application PackAppendix 3 – 2010 Assembly – Book of Reports – Resolutions 38

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