Cultivate Enabler

Introduction

Are you someone who:

We are looking for a gifted and passionate team member to work with local clergy and a local Cultivate team to grow mission locally and fulfil the diocesan vision of more people knowing Jesus, and more justice in the world.  Both experience and the evidence suggests that a key strategy for church growth is the planting of new worship communities, and so we have developed a programme called Cultivate that catalyses the growth of new worship communities and releases, trains and supports lay people in this pursuit.   Fundamentally, the essence of this role is to ensure that more people know Jesus and that churches in Liverpool Diocese are growing with disciples. 

 Cultivate Enablers will primarily be assigned to two particular deaneries and will deliver all aspects of Cultivate in each.  Cultivate works with both Larger Single Parishes (LSPs) and Single Parishes (SPs), enabling them to become more missionally effective, and it attempts this in two ways.  The first is supporting churches to “refresh” what already exists, enabling them to build missional capacity. The second is enabling a “fresh” wave of new worship communities and justice initiatives to spring up through envisioning, training and supporting lay leaders. Vitally, all clergy (and churches) engage with both pathways concurrently and all aspects of Cultivate are led by local lay and clergy teams.  Through both the FFM and DIP projects, we have a remarkable opportunity to work with every church in the diocese, encouraging and growing missional capacity and encouraging the planting of new worship communities, and therefore we are particularly looking for people who are able to work across a broad range of traditions in the church.   

 Duties and Responsibilities

Cultivate will work, as we have said, to enable churches to grow in their missional capacity and to catalyse the planting of new worship communities, using the Cultivate pathways but adapting to the locality, in conjunction with local clergy and a local team.  Therefore the core tasks will be: 

1.Establish key local relationships:

• Develop good relationships with local clergy in both LSPs and SPs
• Establish a local Cultivate team of both clergy and lay that will focus on the establishment of new worship communities and the development of lay planters in the area
• Together with the local Cultivate team, develop a work plan that focuses on the development of new worship communities and lay planters in their area

2.Ensure the establishment of new worship communities and development of lay planters:

• Ensure the 6-week Cultivate course, in-person and online, is delivered 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
• Enable an ongoing system of lay leader mentoring by clergy to be set up
• Ensure additional training to emerging lay leaders is set up
• Help to organise the annual retreat for emerging lay leaders across the diocese
• Work with the New Worship Communities (NWC) Enabler to establish and grow Learning Communities, which will support learning and development for emerging lay leaders but will also be a catalyst for NWC planting in deaneries across the diocese.

3.Grow missional capacity in existing churches:

• Deliver the Church 360 tool to churches and existing worship communities, delivering workshops and 1-to-1 conversations, facilitating all aspects of the process and enabling the establishment and review of action plans.

 4. 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

5. 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