Maintenance Collective Coordinator (Fixed Term)

Introduction

We are looking for someone to join our Church Buildings and Pastoral Reorganisation team as a Maintenance Collective Coordinator. 

The Diocese of Leeds has been awarded a Church Buildings Management Partnerships grant from the Archbishops’ Council, which has provided funding for this post for the period of eighteen months.  

The Maintenance Collective Coordinator will work alongside the Church Buildings Support Officer to run two pilot maintenance collectives, supporting PCCs to care for their churches by encouraging collective working. 

They will have the opportunity to be involved in a nationally innovative project which it is hoped will become a model for churches across the country to manage and maintain their unique buildings as assets for mission. They will play a key role in this pilot project, including the negotiation of contracts between PCCs and contractors, thereby building their practical knowledge and experience in the heritage and built environment.  

The coordinator will be key to ensuring good communication between stakeholders including PCCs, diocesan officers, contractors and volunteers, to enable the success of the pilots and learning from them.

The successful candidate must be self-motivated and come to administrative tasks with a creative approach and eye to improvements. They must have excellent interpersonal skills, with the ability to work in a team and to act as a positive first point of contact with people using our services. They must have excellent communication and organisational skills, with good attention to detail.

This post is for a fixed term, until the end of 2026. The package includes a competitive salary, flexi-time scheme, reimbursement of travelling expenses, an 8% non-contributory pension with an additional 5% matched contributions, hybrid working (50%), and 25 days’ annual leave plus bank holidays and four customary days a year (between Christmas and New Year).

Closing Date for Applications: Midnight 6 May 2025

Interviews: 21 May 2025

For an informal discussion about the role, please contact Alena-Rose.Douglas@leeds.anglican.org

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.

For 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