UK Director - CLC Bookshops

Thank you for visiting us!
It has been good to touch base with a good many of our valued customers as we have had stands at a number of events over the past few months. Our prayer is that your faith has been strengthened and your vision of God enlarged as you have met with Him in the heat, cold, rain or wind. How wonderful that He is constant and dependable, unlike the British summer.....

CLC has a number of opportunites described online

We wish to connect with Christians with a genuine passion for literature mission who wish to share their enthusiasm, experience and training in a wide range of roles and activities. If you believe that you have a skill and are attracted to the mission of CLC, contact us.

We are a registered charity, a literature mission distributing Christian literature, Bibles, gifts and media throughout the UK and overseas through locally operated resource centres. In the UK CLC operates 21 bookshops and is a wholesale distributor to the retail Christian product industry, including online retailers.

To grow the ministry even more , we are seeking people who share the vision and mission of CLC and who are able to bring strong management and leadership capability. This could involve coordinating a team of volunteers and/or paid staff from Inverness to Canterbury and many points in between. Or it could be just you and a computer. If you have relevant business operations training and/or experience and believe you should now apply those skills into a ministry context please call and talk about your interest.

We are keen to hear from you if you are excited about the possibilities of how you might fit into our mission. If you feel that this is you, then after reading below, send an email to
personnel at clcbookshops dot com for more details.

Please pass this information on to anyone who may have relevant skills and interest.

We urgently need a number of suitably qualified people. Please note that some posts may be salaried and others not. In this latter case some personal support will be needed from friends, family, churches or personal means. The roles that are not salaried do not consitute employment, though CLC can supply some funding. Please read the last section for more details.

Head of Finance - Based near Winchester, the Head of Finance requires the necessary skills and experience for this computerised job, which entails all the activities usually associated with buying and selling, plus annual reporting to the Charity Commission and dealing with designated and undesignated gift income.

Bookshops - Opportunities exist in many cities. In addition to general sales staff, some trainee manager positions are also open.

Wholesale - openings exist for people to get involved in a variety of tasks such as order processing, customer service, goods receiving, restocking shelves and database management.

IT Support - This part-time role would require some travel for the successful applicant who has the relevant IT experience and knowledge. When not dealing with IT matters the successful applicant would ideally be based at our wholesale distribution centre.

Website Design & Development - The applicant will have suitable website experience and knowledge so as to be able to keep the website fresh and updated via backgrounds, banners, pop-ups etc.

HR Assistant - The role includes maintaining and updating personnel records and documents, updating HR needs on the website, processing new starters, collecting and transmitting monthly payroll data, giving support on general HR admin tasks, supporting recruitment processes, creating and maintaining HR best practices.

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CLC is well-known for its non-employee policy here in the UK. But things are changing....

A fact not appreciated by many is that CLC has employees in each of the other 57 nations where we are present. The UK and

ministries maintained the personal support system begun way back in the 1940’s. But even CLC USA adopted a salary structure a few years ago, while still maintaining their current non-employed system, so as to recruit bookshop staff. Like our colleagues over the pond, CLC

now has a hybrid support system for its workers. Some of our vacancies, therefore, are now open to employment.

Funding for our fulltime volunteer staff comes from two main sources: while CLC can cover some domestic costs, friends, family, churches and/or one's own funds supply the rest. A small non-guaranteed allowance is also available, donations permitting. This support system has enabled us to make donations to many and varied book-related charitable organisations and projects around the world, plus the

ministry has pioneered, developed and maintained several CLC ministries worldwide.