Ovril advises churches and Christian organisations on all aspects of employment law, with particular experience in TUPE, discrimination, complex grievances and disciplinary matters. She provides practical, clear and solution-focused advice, helping organisations navigate sensitive and challenging employment issues with confidence. We’ve asked her a few questions as she starts work with us:
What’s been your journey to ECS and why did you join ECS?
I believe that the skills and abilities we have are gifts from God and that we are called to use them to serve and bless others.
Having been a Christian for many years, I had prayed for a long time that God would open a door for me to use my professional skills and experience to support Christian organisations whose purpose is to serve others and advance the Christian faith.
During a brief conversation, I heard about an opportunity to do exactly that. I prayerfully considered whether this might be the door I had been asking God to open and decided to submit an application.
I genuinely believe that God has given each of us a life to be a blessing to others. For me, being able to live out that calling through my work, by using my employment law experience to support churches and Christian organisations in their own ministry and mission, is both a privilege and an opportunity to serve.
What are you most excited about your work here?
What I enjoy most is getting to know other Christians and clients who are doing wonderful work for the gospel. It is incredibly rewarding to hear about their different ministries and the communities they serve. At the same time, I have the privilege of using my employment law experience to help them navigate some of the more challenging aspects of managing people and employment relationships. I hope that, by taking some of that complexity and burden away, I can play a small part in enabling them to concentrate on the important work God has called them to do.
What can we be praying for you as you start?
I would really value prayer that God helps me to settle well into the team and quickly feel at home in my new role, particularly as I adjust to working fully remotely. I would also appreciate prayer for patience, wisdom and grace as I learn new systems, processes and the particular aspects of EC’s ways of working.
Please also pray that, during this period of learning and adjustment, I keep my focus on God, build strong and meaningful relationships with colleagues and clients, and use the gifts and skills in a way that honours God.