Purpose:
The key purposes of this post are to:
- 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
- Working 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
Role contextual information:
Our role holder will be able to:
- Understand how racism intersects with youth culture and the diverse ways in which families work
- Be able to work for change within the diverse contexts across the region.
- Be able to scope existing children and youth work provision in which GMH/UKME communities are engaged across the participating dioceses, and identify where there is need but absence of provision.
- Establish and work effectively with our steering group from across the region from our participating dioceses to develop a programme of activity to meet the aims and outcomes of the Initiative, and work with diocesan children and youth work teams to develop strategies for addressing the gaps in provision, connecting need with resources.
- Work with diocesan children and youth work teams to identify and facilitate the sharing of good practice in this field, supporting diverse local contexts.
- Effectively connect the learning of the steering group into the wider Initiative’s board and the diocesan racial justice groups.
- Be a good communicator and networker, able to make meaningful relationships with people of all ages in their diverse contexts as well as to engage meaningfully with diocesan and parish structures.
- Be a good listener able to translate learning into appropriate action.