Northampton Youth Ministry Office

Northampton Youth Ministry Office

Diocesan Youth Worker for Outreach

Terms and conditions

Job title:Diocesan Youth Worker for Outreach

Salary:£20,000 - £24,000 pa, depending on experience

Hours:37.5 productive hours a week

Location:Princes Risborough, Bucks

Holiday:22 days a year plus public holidays

Start Date:T.B.C

Summary of role

This post focuses on empowering local communities in their mission to call young people into a personal relationship with Jesus Christ.The Youth Worker will report to the Diocesan Youth Ministry Co-ordinator (DYMC).

Detailed responsibilities

Diocesan Work:

Developing a range of tools and training to enable mission to young people in schools and parishes.

Working with older teenagers and young adults to promote deeper faith understanding and a missional attitude, including leading our World Youth Day pilgrimage to Madrid in 2011.

Actively keeping in touch with new research and best practice in youth outreach.

Exploring new and adventurous ways of connecting the Gospel with culture through a range of activities and resources (these could include sports, arts, new media, music, current affairs, etc)

Leading and facilitating evangelistic sessions and activities in secondary schools, including sessions, assemblies and mission activities.

Encouraging collaboration between different groups to undertake outreach in local areas (for example, between different parishes, between schools and parishes or between different Christian denominations.)

Using the full range of media to connect with young people and youth leaders, including the NYMO website, our Facebook group, online blogs and print media.

Contributing to NYMO, diocesan and other publications.

World Youth Day

With the support of the Diocesan Youth Worker for Training and Formation, co-ordinate the ‘Passionate Youth Discipleship’ programme and events in preparation for the involvement of young people from the Diocese of Northampton in World Youth Day 2011 in Madrid, Spain, including:

• Heading up the WYD pilgrimage alongside a team of volunteer and paid staff
• Arranging the experience in Madrid, including liaising with venues and contacts in the UK and Spain, and developing a programme of formation for the WYD fortnight.
• Responding to pilgrim enquiries, recruiting new pilgrims where appropriate and ensuring effective communications between their application and WYD
• Leading a series of pre-WYD formation weekends on a variety of themes, as well as one group fundraising event and one post-WYD weekend

Work with the CYMFed WYD leaders group, and other Dioceses attending WYD on national aspects of the pilgrimage

As part of the wider NYMO team:

For the twice-yearly Lumos weekends:

Being a member of the Lumos core team, attending planning meetings and being a visible point of contact and support for volunteer leaders.

In particular, heading up the Stream Leader Support role on behalf of the Core Team, involving:

• Recruiting, training and supporting the team of small group and stream leaders.
• Developing the programme for the weekend with the stream leaders
• Providing practical and logistical support before, during and after each event.
• Alongside other Core Team members, taking responsibility for any safeguarding issues which may arise over the course of an event.

General:

Actively engaging with youth culture to inform the work of the whole team.

Facilitating occasional events or sessions alongside the rest of the team in other youth office projects.

Manage own projects and activities to meet deadlines.

Maintain own timekeeping records.

Undertake other reasonable requests.

Person specification

Essential

Experienced in parish youth ministry

Experience of different forms of mission and evangelisation

Comfortable working within a Catholic ethos and environment

Experience of World Youth Day (as either participant or leader)

Able to work collaboratively and creatively with a variety of people

Excellentcommunication and organisation skills

Good IT skills, including use of the internet and email

At ease with both youth culture and the institution of the Church

Willing to work in an organisation where high levels of flexibility and new thinking will be required

Full UK Driving License

Desirable

Formal qualification in either theology or youth work/ministry

Design or other communication skills

Any contract will be subject to references and an enhanced CRB check.