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The Bishop of Birmingham wishes to appoint an ordained Discipleship Pastor (Plants & Locations) to provide spiritual and pastoral oversight for discipleship strategy across Birmingham, St Luke’s Gas Street and associated churches.
Are you excited by seeing the local church thrive as an instrument of God’s mission and seeing God’s people released into service? • Do you find joy in bringing order from chaos and experienced at translating vision into strategy and action • Are you a problem solver who seeks God’s wisdom and discernment in addressing complex situations? Then you could be our next Operations Manager.
To work collaboratively with the 6 participating dioceses, the Regional Racial Justice Board, and the Regional Racial Justice Team to ensure that this project has the intended impact, manage and coordinate activities across the participating dioceses, ensuring that identified outcomes are delivered in a timely way and within the constraints of available resource (time, money, and people) and be responsible for ensuring that qualitative and quantitative data is collected to measure outcomes and outputs against agreed targets.
To work collaboratively with the 6 participating dioceses, the Regional Racial Justice Board, and the Regional Racial Justice Team to ensure that there is consistency in approach to quality training and learning which can be effectively analysed for impact and development.
Support our participating diocese and their parishes in their identified approaches and routes to addressing racism within church youth groups, children’s groups and their work with children and families, enabling young people of GMH/UKME backgrounds to be supported in their discipleship journeys, and to work collaboratively with the participating dioceses and their parishes, and to facilitate gatherings and other opportunities for sharing experiences, good practice, and learning across church-based youth and children’s and families work
To collect, process, and analyse data to enable participating dioceses to fulfil their obligations and communications under From Lament to Action (FLA).
In the next few months, Church of England Birmingham is likely to be appointing ordained applicants, usually as Associates, to play key roles in church plants and revitalisations.
The ideal candidate will be keen and able to play for 2-3 Sunday services per month and Occasional Offices when required, be open to exploring fresh ways of using music to enhance worship, and to also accompany our choir.