Cultivate Coach

Introduction

Job Summary: 

 The Cultivate Coach works with the rest of the Cultivate team to deliver the Cultivate programme across Liverpool Diocese within both Fit for Mission (FFM) and the Diocesan Investment Programme (DIP).  Each Cultivate Coach will primarily be assigned to two particular deaneries and will deliver all aspects of Cultivate, focussed on the “Fresh” and “Refresh” pathways.   Ultimately, they will seek to deliver on key project goals by growing missional capacity through the Mission and Planning Review (MPR) framework, enabling the planting of many new worship communities, refreshing existing churches and worship communities, and developing lay missional leaders across the diocese.  

Key responsibilities:

Cultivate will work, as we have said, across both FFM and DIP projects, and will therefore engage with both LSPs and SPs.  In both contexts, Cultivate will be an integral part of the MPR framework, seeking to grow missional capacity alongside growth in giving and financial sustainability.  The key tool for this is Cultivate’s “Refresh” pathway, using its Church 360 tool, alongside its “Fresh” (Planting) pathway, using the Cultivate course and other tools.  Therefore the core tasks will be: 

1. Deliver Cultivate through the Fresh and Refresh Pathways:

Refresh Pathway:

• As part of the MPR, deliver the Church 360 to churches and existing worship communities, facilitating all aspects of the process and enabling the establishment and review of action plans

Fresh (Planting) Pathway:  

• Deliver the 6-week Cultivate course, in-person and online, to groups of emerging lay leaders and clergy
• Deliver workshops to clergy (including Mission Plan workshops)
• Help to grow and develop emerging lay leaders, alongside clergy
• Coach clergy in their mentoring of emerging lay leaders, and mentor particular lay leaders, as appropriate
• Deliver additional training to emerging lay leaders
• Help to organise the annual retreat for emerging lay leaders across the diocese

1. Liaise with the deanery and diocese:

• Be the Cultivate contact for the deanery, develop good relationships with key personnel (including, in FFM, the local Cultivate Lead, the Change Facilitator, the Change Lead, and the Team Coach), engage effectively with all clergy, foster good relationships with emerging lay leaders. 
• Integrate work with the Vocations Team to ensure robust recruitment practices for Lay Leaders and support for vocational pathways for individuals including relevant learning and development opportunities. 
• Ensure excellent communication with key stakeholders and adhere to agreed procedures for the full delivery of Cultivate. 
• Measure and track delivery data
• Actively prepare the deanery for succession planning, enabling Cultivate to be delivered beyond the intervention period

1. Develop Cultivate:

• Together with the rest of the Cultivate Project Team, seek to develop Cultivate (including the key tools, processes and procedures that underpin both Pathways) through consistent participant feedback, effective review, and development meetings.  

PLEASE SEE ATTACHED RECRUITMENT PACK FOR FURTHER DETAILS AND PERSON SPECIFICATION.