Director of External Relations (Fundraising & Marketing)
Diocese of Bristol
Full time
Hybrid (2-3 days per week in Bristol)
£63,000 + pension
The Diocese of Bristol is the Church of England for over one million people living across Bristol, South Gloucestershire, North Wiltshire and Swindon. It covers a diverse and contrasting range of contexts and brings together over 200 churches, 70 church schools, a range of chaplaincies and networks of faith seeking to be a church for and serving all people in all places. Around 18,000 people worship regularly in our churches and 18,000 children and young people are educated in a church school.
As a diocese, we have been on the leading edge of some of the issues the Church of England has faced up to in recent decades – the first diocese to ordain women as priests and to declare a climate emergency, we have been willing to learn from outside the Church and sought robustly to address our failings in relation to safeguarding and racial justice. This is an exciting time for the Diocese as we implement our vision and strategy to take us through the 2020s and beyond.
We are looking for an extraordinary person who, as a key member of the Diocese of Bristol Senior Leadership Team (SLT), will bring a track record of successful strategic and operational leadership gained in a complex and diverse environment.
Our new Director of External Relations will be respons...