Racial Justice Support Co-ordinator

The purpose of this role is to work with colleagues in the Social Justice Team to deliver the outcomes of the Liverpool Diocese Racial Justice Strategy. The post holder will be responsible for facilitating opportunities and events for clergy, lay leaders and parishioners to engage in racial justice initiatives within their parishes and across the Diocese. As well delivering events this role involves supporting parishes to build strong relationships with their local community and church schools to promote anti-racist practice across the Diocesan structures. This role will include hosting at events and occasional presenting in both plenary and small group contexts.

Key working relationships

The post holder will work closely with, the Racial Justice Officer, the Social Justice Support Officer and other colleagues in the Social Justice Team. The post holder will be familiar and stay up to date with national church thinking and best practice around and engage racial justice as appropriate with regional and national networks.

Equality Diversity and Inclusion

Liverpool Diocese is committed to treating our whole community with dignity and respect. We desire to represent diverse identities within our community whether this be by race, culture, religion, sexual orientation, gender, disability or social background of each person to ensure they fulfil their potential within a proactive, loving and caring environment.

Key responsibilities include:

Facilitating Racial Justice Training

To be responsible for the planning, facilitation and oversight of the Racial Justice Training for clergy, lay leaders and school leader programmes including:

· planning the delivery of courses, publicity, venues, keynote speakers, communication with participants, arranging group leaders etc;

· on the day up-front hosting and facilitation of sessions (in person and online), including managing small groups, break out groups, resources and refreshments;

· Organising worship leaders and the availability for pastoral care and support to participants as needed;

· Collation & evaluation of feedback, including monitoring of responses from specific work done during the course and appropriate data collection to support the reporting framework;

· Supporting external training providers and facilitators with the planning and delivery of courses;

· Working with the team to revise and adapt course content to reflect feedback and diocesan priorities.

Resourcing Modern Slavery Awareness

To be responsible for the planning and oversight of the modern slavery awareness training and to support the growing network of modern slavery activists across the Diocese through:

· Planning and delivery of online modern slavery awareness training for PCCs and parishioners;

· Presenting Liverpool Diocese's modern slavery awareness portfolio of work to wider stakeholders including other church organisations and Christian charities across the Diocese;

· Supporting the network through organising and resourcing in person and online gatherings including organising publicity, venues, keynote speakers, communication with participants etc.;

· Developing relationships with organisations that support modern slavery awareness initiatives within churches, schools and worshipping communities;

· Working with Together Liverpool colleagues to plan and deliver collaborative modern slavery awareness initiatives.

Supporting Community and Stakeholder Engagement

To be responsible for supporting Diocesan and church leadership teams to connect, listen to and engage with UKME parishioners and community members to create collaborative anti- racism responses within parishes and across the Diocese through:

· Facilitating focus groups and community conversations by supporting communication, arranging venues and resources;

· Support in the creation of parish-based community action plans and the completion of actions;

· Facilitate and support the development of internal staff and clergy networks that provide support and learning;

· On the day up-front hosting and support for participants.

Racial Justice publicity, website and social media

To work with colleagues to promote and raise awareness of all aspects of racial justice work in Liverpool Diocese, including:

· Developing the range of online and print publicity for events

· Refreshing and updating the racial justice information available on the Liverpool Diocese and Cathedral websites

· Working with the communications team to develop the communication strategy for racial justice across the Diocese

· Creating racial justice updates to be used internally for staff and clergy

· overseeing and developing racial justice work on social media in liaison with our Communications team

Racial Justice Project Support

Working with colleagues in the planning, facilitation and oversight of racial justice projects through:

· Organising and attending project planning meetings, taking notes, creating and managing project timelines and outcomes;

· Establishing and maintaining processes for the collection of data to support the reporting framework for funders and Liverpool Diocese;

· Ensuring reporting templates for funding are completed and delivered on time;

· Liaising between internal Diocesan teams to ensure the smooth running of projects;

· Support the team in managing finances and liaising with the Accounts Team for payments;

· Monitor and report on project progression and development.