Matthew Key
1 Dec 2025
The Europe Collaboration is seeking a 2-day a week Project Manager to assist and expand our work. A strategic ministry role with flexible online working.
Job Description: Project Manager
Organisation: Europe Collaboration (a platform of Openwell LTD).
Based: Online & with European travel.
Term: Mid-February 2026 – 31 December 2027 inclusive, with the intention to be extended.
Hours: 0.4 (2 days a week).
Pay: €45k – €50k (Full Time Equivalent, Per Year) / €18k – €20k (2 days a week, Per Year).
First Interview: Online, last week of January 2026.
Second Interview: In person, Wednesday 11th February 2026, Oxford, UK.
Preamble
The Europe Collaboration (EC) has the goal of seeing 100 exemplar churches planted in the key cultural cities of Europe through a dynamic partnership of donors, church planters, referral partners and domain experts. So far, the EC has raised over €7 million to support 42 church plants from Paris to Bucharest, Aarhus to Athens, for five-year terms. In 2026, we hope to add a further 8-10 church plants to the Europe Collaboration. Our work is also expanding to include a ‘future church planter leaders’ programme for aspiring church planters (Timothy Fellowship), and a property investment fund (Christian Property Collective), capable of securing significant buildings for church plants in the heart of Europe’s cultural centres.
Goal
The Europe Collaboration (EC) is seeking a Project Manager to aid our expanding work in supporting our portfolio of 42+ church plants across Europe (excluding the UK). Joining two other staff members, you will work closely as a team of three to identify, vet, and adopt vibrant church plants across Europe’s cultural centres. We will work to improve the way that church plants are onboarded, supported, and reported to donors. The role will also include supporting and participating in several conferences, such as our ‘Onboarding Gathering’ for new EC pastors in February 2026, our ‘Pastor & Spouse Retreat’ in June 2026, and our ‘Timothy Fellowship’ for potential future church planters in September 2026.
Responsibilities
1. New Church Plant Vetting and Onboarding: The Project Manager will work with the EC Team and a wide network of Referral Partners (organisations and individuals on the ground who know our vision and mandate), to identify promising church plants for our next ‘Round’ of church planting support, starting in early 2026.
Church plants will be interviewed by the Project Manager and EC Team, and those matching our criteria will be invited to apply for funding, which involves a rigorous application process that the Project Manager will play a full part in. The final portfolio will be presented by the Project Manager and EC Team to a board of Donors, who make the decision about which church plants to invest in. From there, the Project Manager will lead the process of onboarding the church plants onto the EC platform, financially and relationally.
In 2026, the Project Manager will deputise the vetting and onboarding process within the EC Team. In 2027, the intention will be that the Project Manager will lead the vetting and onboarding process, with the EC Team supporting.
2. Church Plant Support Strategy: Nothing helps to establish the EC more effectively than successful plants that point back to tangible ways in which the EC was catalytic. The Project Manager will lead a cross-portfolio review of our current support mechanisms and draw together a new vision and strategy for how we can more effectively support our church plants. This new strategy will be rolled out in 2026, with full implementation in 2027.
In addition to this, the Project Manager will be the lead for a couple of the EC Portfolios – cohorts of church plants that started their EC funding at the same time – acting as the point-person for those church plants, getting to know and support them on a deeper level.
3. Reporting Development: The Project Manager will continue to innovate our reporting to ensure that our reports are accurate, representative, relevant, and insightful. Twice yearly, the Project Manager will lead the write-up of the Portfolio reports, which contain data on church growth, budgets, and vision. These will be produced in a timely manner for our donors and in coordination with the Project Director.
4. Conference Participation: The EC typically runs 2-3 conferences per year for our church planters and donors. The Project Manager will play a full part in these conferences, which may include opportunities to preach and teach, mentor, coach, as well as build relationships and encourage those in the Collaboration.
5. Avid Learning: Over time, the EC hopes the Holy Spirit will guide us to some of the keys for effective life-giving ministry in the European context. We remain curious, and we endeavour to listen, observe, learn, distil, document, and distribute learning. We want to participate wisely in forums and conferences at the direction of the Project Director.
Working Pattern
The Project Manager will work 2 days a week, preferably as two full days in the week, for example, Monday and Thursday.
Qualifications
Requirements:
- Church leadership experience ideally in the context of a church plant.
- Competent project management skills and experience. Used to working in teams and able to suggest improvements for how they work.
- Excellent personal skills online and in-person.
- Independent worker, motivated, and with a passion for the EC mission.
- Fluent in English speaking, reading, and writing.
- Currently living in Europe (outside of the UK) and fluent in a European language other than English.
Next Steps
Please send a CV and a one-page introduction to matthewkey@openwell.co by 20 January 2026.