Project Manager

Project Manager - Transforming Southall and Hounslow

The Church of England in London is growing, vibrant and at the heart of communities throughout the capital. At the London Diocesan Fund we seek to do everything we can to support this mission and growth, using our resources to help our parishes and chaplains to serve over 4 million people.

The Diocese of London (LDF) is seeking a Project Manager - Transforming Southall and Hounslow to play a key role within the strategic 2023 Vision team and Willesden team, based from St Johns, Southall.

Introduction

The Project Manager - Transforming Southall and Hounslow is an exciting initiative that seeks to see church growth within a diverse and complex multi-ethnic, multi-religious area. We anticipate that growth will be evident in the planting of fifteen new congregations with significant numbers of new Christians, a growing depth of discipleship across the thirteen parishes and in tangible signs of both personal and social impact.

Crucially this project will sit under a Bishop’s Mission Order, led by the Bishop of Willesden, and seeks to resource the leadership potential of at least sixty lay leaders from mainly South Asian and African/African-Caribbean heritage backgrounds.

The Project Manager’s prime focus will be to enable and ensure the vision of the mission area becomes a reality. We are seeking a highly effective manager of change who has an abiding passion to see others flourish, and can provide administrative oversight, compliance, co-ordination and communication support to the Transforming Southall and North Hounslow Team to ensure that we equip, resource and support the mission area, including its clergy, lay leaders, volunteers, and parishes.

Main Responsibilities

The Project Manager will have experience of overseeing change and working with multiple stakeholders. They will be emotionally intelligent and capable of being adaptable when circumstances change and where context demands a different approach. They will have both a high level perspective and a strong attention to detail, with experience of leading and enabling others to deliver their goals.

Core responsibilities:

• Establishing project management systems and processes
• Overseeing the administrative leadership of the project
• Building good relationships with all thirteen parishes
• Resourcing and enabling the core team of mission lead, planting enablers and administrators
• Managing the delivery of the project within budget, monitoring the budget against outcomes
• Reporting the progress of the project to the Strategic Development Unit, Diocese and Bishop’s Mission Order Board
• Ensuring there is effective communication to stakeholders
• Ensure staff, lay leaders and volunteers are recruited on time and with good safe practice
• Develop and maintain strong working relationships with stakeholders

Please refer to the attached Job Description for the full details on the main responsibilities.

The Ideal Candidate

Experience, knowledge, training and qualifications

• Must have the right to work in the UK.
• Educated to A-level or equivalent standard, or higher.
• Understand and have empathy for the London Diocesan vision: 'For every Londoner to encounter the love of God in Christ’.

Aptitudes and abilities

• Administratively efficient with strong attention to detail.
• A desire to follow a career path in faith-based Community Transformation/Social Action/Church Growth and a willingness to learn.
• IT literate (MS Office Suite used)
• Understanding of Social Media, and/or the ability to learn as needed
• Excellent people skills and evidenced emotional intelligence
• Fluency in spoken English and ability to write clearly in English

Personal attributes

• Team player
• Professional and confident manner
• Dynamic and self-motivated
• Ability to deal with competing demands and prioritise work to meet timescales
• Used to dealing with a wide variety of people
• Ability to keep confidences
• Cross-culturally literate and interested and supportive of intercultural vision of BMO

The successful candidate will need to undergo a DBS (Disclosure and Barring Service) check

About us

Diocese of London is committed to creating and sustaining a diverse and inclusive workforce which represents our context and wider community.

We are aware that those of Global Majority Heritage/United Kingdom Minority Ethnic (GMH/UKME), women, and disabled people are currently under-represented among our clergy and workforce, and we particularly encourage applications from those with the relevant skills and experience that will increase this representation.

The LDF offers a supportive working environment, opportunity for career development and the following financial benefits:

• Competitive remuneration package
• 27 annual leave days to rise to 30 after 5 years’ service, plus bank holidays
• 15% employer pension contribution and salary sacrifice available
• Death in service benefit x3 of basic gross salary
• Enhanced maternity leave of six months full pay, after 12 months’ of employment
• Season ticket loans of public transport
• Access to Benenden Health Insurance
• EAP counselling through Health Assured
• Up to £100 for eye test and contribution to spectacles
• Two additional paid days for community volunteering