Diocesan Director of Vocations

Introduction

The Diocese of Leeds is seeking to appoint an experienced priest to join the Ministry and Mission team as the Diocesan Director of Vocations, this is a senior role within the team.

Hours – Full time (35 hours)

Salary £42,548 - £46,843

The successful candidate will lead the Diocesan Vocations Team, working with ADDOs spread across the five episcopal areas.  The team forms part of the diocesan Ministry and Mission Team which aims to provide ‘non-silo’ resourcing of ministry and mission in a diocese with five episcopal areas and an ambitious programme for encouraging confident ministry and discipleship. The DDOV will play a leading role in ensuring vocations to lay and ordained ministry are promoted throughout the varied contexts of the diocese, combined with ensuring discernment processes are wisely administered and well-aligned with diocesan ministry opportunities and the national discernment framework. This includes giving particular attention to the Church of England’s vision to become younger and more diverse.  It also involves working collaboratively with those responsible for the range of lay ministry pathways in the Diocese (see https://leeds.anglican.org/how-we-can-help/clergy-lay-training/lay-ministry-and-leadership/) 

There is an Occupational Requirement that the post holder is a practising Christian and ordained member of the Church of England in accordance with Schedule 9 of the Equality Act 2010

The package includes a competitive salary, flexi-time scheme, hybrid working (50%), and 30 days’ annual leave plus bank holidays and four customary days a year (between Christmas and New Year).

Closing Date for Applications: Midnight 14 July 2024

Interviews: 22/23 July 2024

A full DBS check is required for the successful candidate

Our Values

The Diocesan values, Loving, Living, Learning, are vital to the way we encourage equality, diversity and inclusion in our workplace. We aim to:

• Love God, the world and one another.
• Live in the world as it is, but, drawn by a vision of something better, we want to help individuals and communities flourish,
• Learn when we get things wrong, by listening and growing together.

The Diocese of Leeds is proud to be a Living Wage Employer.

Leeds Diocesan Board of Finance (The Board) is committed to providing equal opportunities in employment and the workplace and in avoiding unlawful discrimination. Accordingly, the Board will ensure that recruitment and selection, training and development, and promotion procedures result in no job applicant or employee receiving less favourable treatment on the grounds of race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, class or caste, religious belief or lack of religious belief (unless this is an occupational requirement), disability, trade union membership or non-membership, gender or sex, sexual orientation, marital status, age, responsibility for dependents or being a part-time or fixed-term worker. The Board’s objective is to ensure that individuals are selected, promoted and otherwise treated solely on the basis of their relevant aptitudes, skills and abilities.

Clergy applying to this role, your Area/Suffragan Bishop must be informed of your applications at the earliest opportunity. Furthermore, you must seek a Diocesan Bishop’s Licence in order to be eligible for a new role, and please be aware that granting a licence is subject to a CCSL from your Area/Suffragan Bishop.

The Diocese of Leeds is currently unable to sponsor candidates without Right to Work in the UK. Candidates must have Right to Work in the UK to take up this role.

To download a copy of our policy for the recruitment of ex-offenders from the diocesan website, please click on the below link:

https://www.leeds.anglican.org/vacancies