The Diocese of Chester is seeking to recruit a Jesus Shaped People (JSP) Champion to work in the busy Outreach team.

The JSP Champion will lead on the JSP Innovation Project in the Diocese and be a strategic member of the Team providing support and mentoring for the parishes in the project. The Champion will promote JSP in the diocese, liaise with the parishes on the JSP adventure and support the mission accompaniers. They will ensure the work of JSP is integrated with the diocesan strategy and the estates group network and be a conduit for parishes, the JSP Team, mission accompaniers and other parishes with an interest in beginning the Adventure.

The successful candidate will have an entrepreneurial spirit with a drive for initiative and creativity, be an enthusiastic advocate for intergenerational ministry and have a heart for the local church and particularly areas of social deprivation.

For informal conversation, contact Revd Peter Froggatt, Director of Outreach at peter.froggatt@chester.anglican.org

The job description, person specification and application form can be downloaded from the Diocesan website: https://www.chester.anglican.org/support-services/job-vacancies/other-vacancies/

PLEASE NOTE: Applications should be made via the Diocesan website using the diocesan application form, not through Pathways.

There is an Occupational Requirement that the post holder is a practising Christian, in accordance with the Equality Act, 2010.

Completed application forms should be returned to Mrs E A Geddes, Diocesan Director of Human Resources, preferably by email to liz.geddes@chester.anglican.org or by post to Church House, 5500 Daresbury Park, Warrington, WA4 4GE.

Closing date: Sunday 24^th September 2023

Interviews: Monday 9^th October 2023

Job Title: JSP Champion

Reports to: Mission Adviser & JSP Team Leader

Salary Range: £6,000 per annum

Hours of work: 1 Day per Week (7hrs) average over 3 years

Flexible working is required, including evenings and weekends

Normal place of work: Church House, Daresbury Park, Daresbury, Warrington, with some travel around the diocese.

Overall Purpose of the Post:

To Champion the JSP Innovation Project in the Diocese and be a strategic member of the Team providing support and mentoring for the parishes in the project. To promote JSP in the diocese, liaise with the parishes on the JSP adventure and support the mission accompaniers. To ensure the work of JSP is integrated with the diocesan strategy and the estates group network and be a conduit for parishes, the JSP Team, mission accompaniers and other parishes with an interest in beginning the Adventure.

Principal Duties and responsibilities include:

Strategic

• To work collaboratively with the JSP Team Leader and Diocesan colleagues to identify the partner parishes and future parishes
• To work collaboratively with local clergy,
• Build a network of the five parishes taking part
• Link JSP into diocesan strategy, appraising diocesan personnel of developments
• Link JSP parishes with the estates network group
• Assist with the support and development of mission accompaniers
• Evaluate the impact of peer-to-peer accompaniment
• support and champion the development of the JSP vision in the project parishes and across the diocese.

Evaluating and Learning

• Actively monitor and evaluate how JSP is working and unfolding in the partner parishes
• Seek feedback from churches, particularly regarding materials
• Offer input into adaptations with the aim of better equipping churches for wider work

Other key tasks

• Promote JSP, encouraging more parishes to see its’ benefits for discipleship – that is, that the JSP focus on the Jesus’ life and ministry, both vision and method, can bring about change to any church, radically transforming discipleship

There is an Occupational Requirement that the post holder is a practising Christian, in accordance with the Equality Act, 2010.

Date: August 2023

Note – this job description does not form part of your Contract of Employment.

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The work of the Chester Diocesan Board of Finance (DBF) is operated from within Church House and is located at Daresbury Park, Warrington.

The DBF is the body which oversees the central financial and administrative work of the Diocese of Chester, provides support, teaching and trained personnel to advance the mission and ministry of the parishes within the Church of England Diocese of Chester, and the mission and ministries of the bishops of the Diocese.

The DBF is part of the Church of England, the established Church of the land, which proclaims Jesus Christ as Lord and Saviour, and aims to proclaim the Kingdom of God in an open way to all people, of all races, cultures and backgrounds.

For many posts within the Diocese those who are not members of the Church of England are welcome to apply. We respect their right to express different religious and philosophical opinions but require them, as employees of the Diocese, to respect our ethos as an Anglican Christian organisation and not to undermine it. These posts will require the post-holders to be in sympathy with the aims and objectives of the Church of England.

Some posts may include an Occupational Requirement for the post holder to be a practising Christian in accordance with the Equality Act, 2010. Where this applies the recruitment documentation will state this.

The Diocese of Chester is in the province of York in the Church of England, part of the global Anglican Communion. For more information about our life, ministry and work please visit our website www.chester.anglican.org We are linked with the Anglican Church of Melanesia in the Solomon Islands and the Dioceses of Aru and Boga in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

The Diocese covers an area of 1025 square miles, approximately the old Victorian County of Chester, including parts which subsequently became absorbed into Merseyside and Greater Manchester. The Rivers Mersey and Tame approximately delineate the boundary with Liverpool and Manchester. There are areas of dense urban population, mainly in the north, stretching from Birkenhead to East Manchester. There are prosperous suburban regions of West and South Wirral, Chester and south of Manchester, with a mainly rural heartland, bounded by the Derbyshire Pennines and the Welsh Border. The overall population is around 1.6 million.

The diocesan bishop is Mark Tanner. He is supported by two suffragan bishops: the Bishop of Birkenhead, Julie Conalty and the of Bishop of Stockport, Sam Corley.

The Cathedral for the Diocese is in Chester.

The Diocese is divided into two archdeaconries: Chester covering the western half and Macclesfield the eastern, each with nine deaneries. There are 273 parishes, about 100 of which can be described as rural. Compared with many dioceses, there are few teams, and few multi-parish benefices. There are approximately 231 stipendiary clergy. The ministry of Readers and Pastoral Workers is important, with over 400 licensed. The role of self-supporting ministers is increasing, with over 80 in post at present.

Roughly speaking, the Archdeaconry of Macclesfield covers that part of the diocese to the east of the M6, plus the area around Crewe and Nantwich. The Archdeaconry of Chester covers the rest of the diocese to the west of the M6. Each archdeaconry has a broad mix of urban and rural parishes. The Archdeacon of Chester lives in Chester, and the Archdeacon of Macclesfield lives in Congleton. Both now work from Church House, Daresbury.