New job vacancy - Conference and Events Assistant
Westminster College has a new job vacancy for a Conference and Events Assistant. The position is full time - 36.5 hours per week, Salary Grade 3 - £18,005 to £23,352.
This small, friendly College situated close to the heart of Cambridge is currently undergoing a major refurbishment and will be significantly increasing its conference and events business.
We are seeking an experienced assistant to help develop and attract new business, arrange advertising and marketing literature, organise events and provide general assistance.
You must have experience in a similar role, be creative, enthusiastic, well organised and IT literate.
All our staff are conscientious, committed to the College, work as a team and have a flexible approach. In return we offer a competitive remuneration package including a contributory pension scheme, a meal when at work, car parking and a caring environment.
Download the application pack here or please telephone the College Office on 01223 330633 or via e-mail to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
There is no closing date but we wish to fill the position as soon as possible and applications will be reviewed when received so please reply promptly. We are happy to receive the application as a hard copy or by email. Postal applications should be marked ‘Confidential’ on the envelope, and applications should be returned to:
Mrs Sophie Wilson
Conference and Events Manager
Westminster College, Madingley Road
Cambridge CB3 0AA
Email:
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For a confidential discussion on any aspect of the job or your application please telephone Sophie on 01223 742266 (01223 33 06 36 after 17th June).
Westminster College is an equal opportunity employer.
NEW College Office telephone number - 01223 33 06 33
As part of the building works (which you can read all about on our Building Blog), we're moving over to a better telephone system.
The new College Office phone number is 01223 33 06 33. The new number is now live, and we'll be phasing out the old number (01223 741084) soon so please update your directories now. All the numbers here will be changing over the coming weeks, but we'll announce those changes here and on the building blog, so keep checking back for other changes.
Press Release
Westminster College is pleased to announce that we have offered for sale an important collection of manuscript fragments to the two university libraries at Oxford and Cambridge to acquire jointly for their public collections, and a sale has been agreed.
The fragments are all from the Cairo Genizah and date from the 9th century onwards. They were given to the college by Agnes Lewis and Margaret Gibson, the twin sisters whose story has now been made famous by Janet Soskice's book Sisters of Sinai (2009). The twins were major benefactors of the college at the time of its founding in Cambridge in 1899.
The fragments have been well cared for at Westminster College, but the college does not have the facilities or the resources properly to conserve, research or make accessible these very precious manuscripts. Initial discussions with the Taylor-Schechter Genizah Centre at Cambridge University Library therefore began two years ago. This outcome will reunite the separate collections, which were the result of rival activities a century ago.
The Governors of the College have always been committed to keeping the collection together and to securing for it the best possible location and ownership. This joint collaboration between the libraries of Cambridge and Oxford provides the ideal solution.
This sale will contribute towards the costs of enabling the re-development of Westminster College to serve today's church, just as the sisters in their day contributed towards the foundation of the college in Cambridge.
£7 million refurbishment
We're starting! Through our £7 Million Appeal Campaign we have successfully managed to raise enough money to make a start on the College refurbishment.
Having raised enough money to make a start and with full support from the United Reformed Church, we’ll be starting the re-development programme in mid- June 2013. For twelve months, builders will be on site working hard to transform our beautiful and historic building into a Resource Centre for Learning which we can continue to be proud of. While some of our activity can continue, we hope you will understand if – for that one year – we cannot offer all the services and support that you might normally expect from us.
After that we hope to embrace and celebrate what will be the biggest change to the college’s life since it was built in 1899, and look forward to a better future of service, study and hospitality.
Westminster will become a place of art and music as well as books; a place of prayer and quiet as well as lively discussion. We shall welcome a much greater variety of people and groups: for short stays as well as long courses, for prayer and reflection as much as study, for meeting and conversation as much as for learning.
The work means that we won’t be able to host an Open Day in 2013 but will, instead, introduce our dynamic and transformed building to you on in October 2014. In the meantime;
- Look out for our Building Blog (we’ll be announcing details soon)
- Be aware that the changes have already started– we’ll be changing our phone numbers very soon, with details announced on our website.
- Put our Open Day on Saturday 25th October 2014 into your diary
To those who have given, encouraged and prayed for us, thank you. To those who will come to Westminster to meet, worship and learn, we look forward warmly to making you welcome.
Principal, Westminster College
Westminster College's Principal, the Revd Dr Susan Durber, is stepping down from the post on 31st July 2013. The United Reformed Church is therefore seeking to appoint a new principal for Westminster College. The details and application pack can be found online at the United Reformed Church vacancies website at the following address: http://www.urc.org.uk/vacancies/