School of Discipleship Lead, Jubilee House

Part time (21hrs/week) / £24,822 actual (£41,371 FTE) / Fixed term (12 month) maternity cover appointment

Since its launch in 2018, the School of Discipleship in Southwell & Nottingham Diocese has built both a wide and varied programme of learning opportunities and a strong reputation for excellence and discipleship/ministerial focus across church traditions, sizes and geographies. The focus has been on discipleship training (first through our RealLIFE course and now through the expanding suite of DISCIPLE materials) and ministerial development for Licensed Lay Ministry (as well as broadening some of our ministry skills training for all interested lay disciples). The School has also been at the forefront of seizing the opportunities offered by new learning technologies.

This post offers the opportunity to lead this ministry for 12 months, providing maternity leave cover for the current School of Discipleship Lead. The post will likely begin late-October 2026, but ideally some limited transition work in September (to meet the new LLM cohorts) would be possible.

The role description attached represents the existing School of Discipleship Lead role. If an informal conversation would be helpful ahead of making an application, please contact the Director of Discipleship & Ministry at: James.halstead@southwell.anglican.org.

Principal Tasks

• Contribute, alongside the Director of Discipleship & Ministry, to developing and leading the implementation of an innovative and coherent diocese-wide lay ministry strategy, giving proactive consideration to identifying lay leaders who grow lay leaders, and enhancing diversity amongst those called to public ministry.
• Take overall responsibility for the delivery of our in-house Licensed Lay Ministry training scheme, facilitating the discernment and formational development of candidates, delivery of modules, and appropriate arrangements to quality assure the programme.
• Develop creative and innovative ways to extend and strengthen the existing programmes, especially with an eye to enhancing the diversity both of candidates and the ministries they will exercise.
• Encourage lay discipleship in parishes through generating an imaginative, broad and engaging suite of resources, founded on the refreshed Disciple course.
• Collaborate with wider D&M team members and church leaders in providing of training across the 7 Areas of Focus, developing plans and teams to create new resources, courses and events accordingly.
• Be visible within parishes and liaise with the diocesan Communications team to promote and recruit to all courses and programmes.
• Contribute to (and realise the benefits of) national and regional networks.

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Closing Date: Friday 12th June