The Diocese of Liverpool is working in partnership with Together Liverpool to deliver a significant programme to advance racial justice across parishes and communities by listening to lived experience, brokering effective partnerships, and delivering scalable, evidence-based interventions aligned to diocesan priorities.
In Liverpool, this work will focus on around two priority deaneries, combining local training, partnership building and a small-grants programme to support practical local action, while feeding learning back into the wider programme.
The Project Co-ordinator will lead delivery of the programme within Liverpool Diocese. Working closely with Together Liverpool as the national hub, and alongside the Liverpool Programme Assistant, the postholder will translate parish and deanery insight into focused action: leading structured listening and needs and strengths assessment, identifying priority communities to work with, coordinating local delivery, brokering the right partnerships, and ensuring safe, accessible delivery with clear outcomes and robust reporting.
Duties and key responsibilities:
Strategic parish and deanery liaison
* Lead a listening and engagement process to inform a structured needs and strengths assessment and shape local delivery.
* Use available diocesan insight and relevant local data (, public data and partner intelligence) to help identify priority communities and agree focus areas with diocesan leaders and Together Liverpool.
* Work with deaneries and parishes to engage well with the programme, identify barriers to participation and coordinate practical solutions.
* Maintain clear relationships with local clergy and lay leaders, ensuring local activity is delivered to time and supports agreed outcomes.
Project planning and local delivery
* Contextualise the overarching programme plan to the Liverpool context, ensuring outcomes are met in ways that fit local capacity and need.
* Co-plan and deliver local activity (, listening exercises, training sessions, community conversations and partnership meetings).
* Oversee the local small-grants programme in line with agreed criteria and diocesan processes, supporting parishes to develop strong proposals and delivery plans.
* Coordinate contributions to programme-wide learning activities, including any wider learning events and conference activity within the programme plan.
Partner brokerage and community stakeholder engagement
* Support parishes to map key stakeholders in their communities and identify partnership opportunities.
* Use community organising approaches to build local participation and leadership: convene relationships, support listening activity, and help form and sustain local organising teams that can shape and deliver action with partners.
* Convene and support deanery-level stakeholder relationships (church, other faith communities, schools, local authorities, charities and community groups), in line with the programme approach.
* Maintain strong working relationships with Together Liverpool, the Racial Justice Unit and partner dioceses, ensuring local delivery aligns with wider programme learning and reporting.
Resource development and communications
* Capture relevant learning from local contexts and contribute to the development of best-practice guides, training materials and other programme resources.
* Develop and coordinate local stories and case studies.
Monitoring, evaluation and reporting
* Lead local monitoring and evidence gathering in line with agreed outcomes and the programme’s impact assessment approach.
* Provide project progress and finance updates as well as requested by Together Liverpool.
Risk, safeguarding and sensitivity
* Maintain a risk register and issues log for Liverpool delivery, reviewing this regularly and escalating as needed.
* Ensure local activity is planned and delivered in line with diocesan safeguarding, data protection, health and safety, and finance/procurement policies and procedures (including grant processes).
* Identify and respond to emerging community tensions or reputational risks connected to programme activity; agree mitigation actions with relevant colleagues, and escalate promptly.
* Support safe facilitation of difficult conversations, ensuring appropriate preparation, clear ground rules and signposting to support where needed.
Programme operations
* Manage a local activity budget within diocesan finance processes, ensuring appropriate records and approvals.
* Uphold safeguarding, data protection and equality, diversity and inclusion standards across local delivery.
* Line-manage the Liverpool Programme Assistant, providing clear direction, support and supervision.
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