Please see below for our latest vacancies – both voluntary and paid. In addition to these roles, we are always looking for volunteers to join our team. To find out more about volunteering at the Abbey, please click here.
The purpose of Bath Abbey is to “Live and Tell the Good News of Jesus”. To find out more about how that purpose is worked out, through the Abbey’s Vision and Mission priorities, please see our Mission Action Plan and our Values.
Abbey Retail Shop Manager
Bath Abbey is looking for an experienced and enthusiastic Retail Shop Manager to lead our retail operation. Based in the Abbey’s 1920s Jackson extension, the shop plays an important role in welcoming visitors while generating vital income to support the Abbey’s conservation, ministry and work.
The successful candidate will manage our retail team and volunteer support, overseeing purchasing, stock, merchandising and day-to-day operations. You’ll also work closely with colleagues across the Abbey to connect the shop with our services, exhibitions, concerts and events, while helping to develop new opportunities, including e-commerce.
We’re looking for an experienced retail manager with strong commercial awareness, excellent customer service skills and the ability to lead and motivate a team. Experience in a heritage, museum, charity or ecclesiastical setting would be an advantage.
This is a full-time, permanent role working 40 hours per week, including regular weekends and bank holidays. The salary is £30,170 per annum.
Application Deadline: Friday 2nd October, 2026 at 1.00pm.
Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis, and the vacancy may close before the advertised deadline. We encourage early submissions to avoid disappointment.
Visitor Experience Manager
Bath Abbey is looking for an experienced and enthusiastic Visitor Experience Manager to lead our visitor experience team and help ensure everyone who walks through our doors receives a warm, welcoming and memorable experience.
Working across our busy visitor operation, the successful candidate will lead and develop a team of staff and volunteers, oversee tours and group bookings, support exhibitions and visitor events, and help us continually improve the visitor journey. The role will also contribute to admissions, Gift Aid and value-added opportunities that support the Abbey’s financial sustainability.
We’re looking for an organised, supportive and confident leader with a visitor-first approach and experience in visitor operations or customer service. Experience of working within a heritage attraction, together with an understanding of accessibility and volunteer management, would be an advantage.
This is a full-time, permanent role working 40 hours per week, including regular weekends, bank holidays and occasional evenings. The salary is £30,170 per annum.
Application Deadline: Friday 2nd October, 2026 at 1.00pm.
Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis, and the vacancy may close before the advertised deadline. We encourage early submissions to avoid disappointment.
Lay Clerk (Tenor)
Bath Abbey Choir is seeking to appoint a Lay Clerk (Tenor) to join its established team of adult singers. The Abbey has 12 Lay Clerks who sing the alto, tenor and bass parts, supporting our boys’ and girls’ choristers who sing the treble line.
The successful candidate will be an accomplished choral singer with excellent sight-reading skills and stylistic awareness across the choral repertoire. The role involves singing at regular weekly services, including Sunday Choral Eucharist and Choral Evensong, as well as weekday Evensongs, alongside additional major services throughout the church year.
There are also opportunities to take part in concerts, broadcasts and recordings, which attract additional fees. This role offers the chance to contribute to the Abbey’s outstanding musical tradition in one of the UK’s most celebrated ecclesiastical buildings, renowned for its acoustics and world-class Klais organ.
Bath Abbey is committed to safeguarding. Appointment is subject to a DBS check and completion of relevant safeguarding training. You must have a right to work in the UK.
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To apply, please send a CV and covering letter to Huw Williams, Director of Music: hwilliams@bathabbey.org
Deputy Lay Clerks
Bath Abbey Choir is looking for deputy Lay Clerks. The Abbey has 12 Lay Clerks who sing the alto, tenor and bass part in the Abbey choirs and support our boys and girls choristers who sing the treble part. Singers need to have some experience singing chorally, and be confident sight-readers.
In recent months there have been opportunities for our deputy Lay Clerks to accompany the choir on tour and take part in concerts, recording and broadcasts. Deputy Lay Clerks get the opportunity to be associated with the Abbey’s excellent music making in this building, with its fine acoustics and world famous Klais organ.
Bath Abbey takes safeguarding seriously therefore as part of our Safer Recruitment process applicants will be subject to an enhanced DBS Clearance check and the relevant Safeguarding training.
For further information, please contact Huw Williams, Director of Music: hwilliams@bathabbey.org