Your role is to provide vital administrative support to the people and culture team, specifically relating to HR, which includes recruitment, onboarding, payroll and contract administration. In so doing, you’ll contribute to the development and maintenance of a climate of collaborative relationships between staff at all levels, and the attraction, retention and development of employees working to fulfil CMS’s mission.

The organisation you’ll be joining

Church Mission Society is comprised of people who are passionate about mission and fired up about helping people follow Jesus. For over 200 years CMS has been at the forefront of global mission, living out the gospel of Jesus, seeing lives changed and communities transformed. If you join CMS you will find an organisation that has been reinvigorated with a fresh vision to make disciples of Jesus among people at the edges, both in the UK and around the world.

What you’ll need to succeed

The successful candidate will have proven administrative experience and enjoy working with a wide range of people. You will have excellent communication skills, plus scheduling and organisational skills, and enjoy a variety of responsibilities within the role. Experience within an HR setting would be an advantage.

It is also a requirement for this post holder to be in sympathy with the aims and values of CMS.

Further details can be found in the job description and person specification available to download below.

• Permanent, part-time (28 hours a week)
• Hybrid working – sixty per cent office presence at CMS House, Oxford.
• Starting salary £28,170 per annum (full-time equivalent) meaning £22,536 pa for 0.8 FTE (28 hours per week) with a generous pension contribution: up to 10 per cent employer contribution on annual salary
• 36 days of annual leave pro rata (including bank holidays) as well as enhanced paid sickness, maternity, paternity and adoption leave.
• Generous rewards and wellbeing package, including:
  • access to 24/7 employee assistance programme with qualified counsellors
  • regular wellbeing coffee mornings
  • support on menopause for women
  • up to three volunteer days a year
  • up to three family emergency leave days a year
  • retreats and resources for prayer life

Closing date

Please apply by midnight on Sunday 1 November 2026

Interviews will be held on Tuesday 10 November 2026