The post of Director of Mission and Ministry offers a significant opportunity for a strategic leader and bold thinker to join the Diocese of Newcastle at a momentous time as we welcome our new Diocesan Bishop, the Rt Revd Dr Helen-Ann Hartley. As a member of the Bishop’s Staff Team the Director will hold a key role in helping us to achieve our diocesan aims and priorities.

The post of Director of Mission and Ministry offers a significant opportunity for a strategic leader and bold thinker to join the Diocese of Newcastle at a momentous time as we welcome our new Diocesan Bishop, the Rt Revd Dr Helen-Ann Hartley. As a member of the Bishop’s Staff Team the Director will hold a key role in helping us to achieve our diocesan aims and priorities.

The post of Director of Mission and Ministry offers an opportunity to make a distinctive contribution to support and deliver key changes arising from the diocesan vision in three main overlapping areas:

1. Ongoing formation for ordained and lay leadership for mission, including the discipleship of all God’s people;
2. Discerning vocations for ordained and lay leaders who are looking outwards in mission and naturally inhabit a mixed ecology of church;
3. Growing younger and more diverse as the Body of Christ.

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Framed by the Rivers Tyne and Tweed the Diocese of Newcastle is the Church of England’s most northerly diocese. Formed in 1882 the Diocese covered an area almost equivalent to the then County of Northumberland. With 172 parishes across 2,110 square miles the Diocese now covers the local authorities of Northumberland, Newcastle, North Tyneside and also small parts of County Durham and Cumbria. The 12 deaneries within 2 archdeaconries serve a population of 831,600 people across a variety of communities ranging from sparse rural to large inner-city areas of deprivation.