St. John's Darlinghurst
Location: Darlinghurst, NSW
Location type: On-Site
Date advertised: 12th June 2026
Job Type: Part time
Closing Date: 30th June 2026
The Parish Administrator furthers the life and ministry of St John’s Darlinghurst by developing, maintaining, and overseeing essential administrative systems for the church.
It is an important public-facing role, providing an initial point of contact to enquirers and members of the public both physically at our front door and by phone, email, and website.
The role also facilitates smooth integration with St John’s Community Services (SJCS), who shares office space and facilities with the church.
If you could add the following after the opening information and before “How to Apply”:
Essential Attributes
The successful candidate will be:
- A mature Christian who loves God and the church.
- Eager to serve and enjoys providing ministry support.
- Highly self-motivated, working well independently and with others, and able to juggle multiple tasks at once.
- A problem-solver, adept at optimising systems, organisation, and long-range planning.
- A skilled user of current computer and communications technology.
- Highly attentive to detail.
- Affable, warm, hospitable, and flexible.
- Able to manage contract employees and delegate tasks to others.
- Able to engage calmly and positively with the public in a varied and challenging neighbourhood with compassion, wisdom, and discretion.
- It is not a requirement of the role that the successful candidate is, or becomes, a member of St. John’s.
Key Responsibilities
- Assist ministry staff with operations.
- Record-keeping.
- Liaising with contractors and external hirers.
- Managing the “front of house”
- Liaise with our external bookkeepers, including invoicing our hirers and managing invoices for payment.
- Preparing necessary content for Sunday services (orders of service, slides, etc.).
- Preparing and delivering church communications, incl. weekly emails and website maintenance.
Full position description available here.
How to Apply
To apply, email a cover letter and a resume to the Rector, Richard Glover: [email protected].
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