Vacancies

Friends International Birmingham: Apprentice International Student Worker

Birmingham is the youngest major city in Europe, with 40% of the population under 25 years of age. It attracts over 25,000 international students to its many universities.

Friends International is an evangelical mission agency dedicated to supporting and equipping churches to reach international students for Christ. We currently have 80 staff working in 35 university towns and cities across the UK and Ireland.

FI is looking for an apprentice staff worker to join our local team, developing our international student ministries alongside Birmingham churches. Reporting to the Centre Team Leader, your role will depend on gifts and experience, but it will include frontline ministry with students, mobilising and training volunteers, liaising with churches, and organising events and activities.

Friends International is investing in its Apprentice Staff Worker programme to enable those with good potential to gain training, mentoring and experience towards the full Staff Worker role. This opportunity is a two-year personalised programme of level-appropriate training alongside ministry engagement.

With training and support, over time you will raise the costs of salary, employment, training and work-related costs by developing a network of personal prayer and financial partners (churches and individuals). Seed funding is available, with a view to you growing full personal support over time with the help of experienced Friends International colleagues.

Further details of the role can be found at https://oscar.org.uk/jobs/apprentice-staff-worker-birmingham

If you already have substantial experience of cross-cultural or international student ministry, you could instead consider applying to the staff worker vacancy.

Location: Birmingham

Salary: £23,132 per annum full-time

Closing date: 20^th May 2026

Email: recruitment@friendsinternational.uk

Website: https://www.friendsinternational.uk