Location
York, North Yorkshire | United Kingdom
Job description
A. Learning about diversity programme
The post holder will be involved in a process of culture change across the whole Diocese which will include:
- Developing an appropriate Unconscious Bias and Diversity learning programme. We are at the start of this process and would expect the post-holder to be a shaper of this work, drawing from practice in other dioceses. It will be essential that this learning is seen in the context of our missionary commitments as a Diocese
- The programme will need a hybrid learning approach which we envisage will require both individual and communal learning, online and in person with appropriate self-reflection to demonstrate learning and practice.
- It is envisaged that the postholder will work collaboratively with racial justice enablers around the country to seek best practice for this resource and to learn from the experience of implementation from other dioceses
- To work with senior leaders to create a culture where this learning is embraced as part of who we are and what our mission as a Diocese is about
B. Discipleship resources
- To work with the Diocesan Discipleship Enabler and the Children and Youth Adviser, to produce resources for individuals to deepen their discipleship around the 4th mark of mission (transforming unjust structures). We envisage this to be part of a suite of discipleship resources in the Diocese
- To work with senior leaders and within the Mission and Ministry team, to identify contexts where embedding these resources will mobilise disciples across the Diocese and will begin to change a traditionally conservative culture (socially and theologically) into one that is missional more holistic.
- To ensure that underlying this approach is a Transformative Education which develops a conviction based approach to the embrace of difference and to radical hospitality where we are all changed through encounters with those who are different.
- To develop a set of indicators of the impact of such a set of resources. This may come from mission and parish returns of a change in demography, of socio-economic and heritages within the mission of each church
C. Parish Resources
- To explore with other Mission and Ministry team members, appropriate resources so that how parishes engage with their mission contexts can be enacted through the lens of justice, discipleship and church growth. One example is available from the Bristol Diocese
- To work with colleagues to embed this in an agreed number of contexts in the Diocese as part of our wider work to grow healthy churches/revitalisation parishes which are struggling missionally and financially - evidence seen in the growth of either or both of these
D. Racial Advocates Group
- To work with the two co-chairs in encouraging the work of this group across the Diocese as we seek to grow healthy churches which are marked by radical hospitality. This group is the closest that we have as a Diocese to a peer support group for GMH lay people and clergy and their allies
- To be an advocate through seeking ways to commend the work of racial justice across the Diocese
Radical Hospitality network
- To be a member of this network which is still in its infancy and which is working to grow a practitioner network of around 15 people who will hold briefs for various aspects of radical hospitality.
General Responsibilities
- Attend relevant meetings and have involvement in other projects and diocesan initiatives, drawing on the skills and gifts of the post-holder.
- Participate in an annual review and appropriate continuing professional development, including participation in professional networks extending beyond the diocese.
- Demonstrate a collaborative and professional approach to the role.
- Encourage good relationships with immediate colleagues, other staff and external contacts.
- Undertake such other duties as reasonably requested.
Closing date 26 Feb 2024
Interview date 8 March 2024
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Salary
£32.49k per annum
