Transformation Team Programme Lead
The Diocese of Newcastle is seeking a Transformation Team Programme Lead.
Full time, fixed term to March 31st 2028
As part of our commitment to develop our capacity for diocesan growth and renewal, the Bishop’s Council have committed to a period of local consultation, engagement and strategic discernment in order (through prayer, conversation, research and modelling) to develop a ten-year strategy for growth (or ‘Diocesan Transformation plan).
As a step towards this we are recruiting a fixed term programme team to support this period of discernment, design and development. A key element of this will be appointing an experienced programme lead, with experience of church growth programme leadership, to lead the discernment and development of our transformation strategy (ready for submission to the national Church in December 2027).
With a track record of developing vision and resourcing missional engagement, the successful candidate will have a history of leading change, will be motivated by serving and resourcing communities, able to inspire engagement and critical thinking, and able to channel the insights of a broad coalition of partners to design change and enable missional growth in an explicitly Christian context.
Able to think creatively, you will be a theologically rooted leader, who is ready to contribute to, resource and lead strategic development and planning, working collaboratively within our governance structures and with senior leaders to energise common action around our shared missional purpose, producing workable and sustainable strategic solutions to renew missional in ways that are authentically Christian and contextually appropriate.
Leading a small programme team, you will enjoy working collegiately across the breadth of Diocesan structures and traditions, resourcing the contribution of others, and facilitating the co-creation of a longer-term transformation strategy capable of aligning our resources, people and places towards our shared purpose.
Working closely with the Diocesan leaders, you will engage widely with local communities and will be informed by an understanding of the missional and socio-economic distinctives of the North East, and motivated by the guiding missional charisms and convictions of Aidan, Hilda and the saints of the region, whilst drawing on the current missiological insights and resources to energise all of God’s people to respond to our shared missional call in Christ.
The role is a full time, fixed term role (to March 31st, 2028) based at Church House, with some regular working in parishes, weekend and evening work.
Find out more / apply via Pathways.
Closing Date: 26 August 2026