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SalaryAre you passionate about Racial Justice in the Church and committed to eliminating racism? Do you want to use your skills to challenge, encourage, enable understanding and effect change where it is needed? If you’re excited to join a team appointed to be a catalyst for the promotion of Racial Justice and elimination of racism in the West Midlands Church of England dioceses, read on.
As Church of England Dioceses in the West Midlands, Church of England Birmingham alongside the dioceses of Coventry, Gloucester, Hereford, Lichfield and Worcester are excited to have funding from the Racial Justice Unit to recruit a team of 11 people. That team will help us ensure that structures, practices and behaviours throughout our Church and churches embrace people of GMH and UKME backgrounds and enable them to flourish. The whole team includes a Director, Programme Manager, Theologian, Communications Catalyst, six development workers each with a different focus, and a support worker. The team has 3 years to enable us to fan into flame a movement of change within us that continues to be effective and transformative long beyond the funding.
The team will be responsible for supporting the development of activities in our widely diverse contexts. Those activities include: sharing theological insights informed by our cultural origins; sharing worship practices; reviewing participation in our structures and activities; inviting previously unheard contributions into our governance structures; deconstructing whiteness; reimagining invitation into parish and community activities; and working in church schools and among young people. Relationships between people in all parts of us matter as much as the composition of our committees. The team will be accountable to a Regional Racial Justice Board made up of people from each of our dioceses committed to effecting change in these areas.
The purpose of this role is to work collaboratively with the participating dioceses and the Regional Racial Justice Team to ensure that this project has the intended impact. Managing activities across the participating dioceses, the postholder will ensure that identified outcomes are delivered in a timely way and within the constraints of available resource (time and money). The postholder will also be responsible for ensuring that qualitative and quantitative data is collected to measure outcomes and outputs against agreed targets.
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Terms and Conditions
This is a fixed-term contract for the three years of funding provided for this project
Hours: Full-time 35 hours (5 days) per week. Some weekend/evening work may be required, for which the equivalent time may be taken back from standard working hours
Salary and Pension: Salary of £40,000 plus membership of the Church Worker’s Pension Scheme with 12% employer contribution
Holidays: 5 weeks per year plus Bank Holidays and 3 Discretionary Days between Christmas and New Year
Employer: Birmingham Diocesan Board of Finance
Responsible To: The Regional Racial Justice Director
