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To lead on establishing and embedding an effective measurement framework across the broad range of nationally funded projects and programmes which support the diocesan wide Church Growth Programme alongside the overarching diocesan strategy, feeding into relevant governance structures including but not limited to Programme Board, Executive Board, Bishop’s Core Team, Bishop’s Council and Diocesan Synod. This includes identifying trends and representing data in creative ways to inform a variety of stakeholders.

To act as the Diocesan Lead for Statistics which includes but is not limited to providing oversight of the annual statistics for mission return, annual return of parish finance liaising with finance colleagues, annual Energy Footprint Tool (EFT) liaising with NZC Support Officer and ensuring diocesan statistics are used to inform key decision making.

To lead on data collation, validating and consolidating information from multiple internal and external sources, proactively liaising with stakeholders across departments to source, standardise and integrate multiple datasets into one single source of truth.

To champion data quality and consistency throughout the Diocese by building and maintaining relationships with key data providers, defining collection requirements, providing guidance to contributors, and setting timely deadlines that consider any data cleansing activities that may be required.

To act as the Diocesan Lead for IT, which involves acting as primary point of contact for our external IT supplier, Charing the IT Governance Group and liaising with the national IT leads to learn from and embed good practice including how we may better utilise / integrate AI into our working practices. Consider IT training requirements and provide / co‑coordinate third party IT training as required, to include but not limited to Microsoft Teams and other MS and non-MS packages.

To take a lead on CMS (Contact Management System, essentially our diocesan contact database), attending relevant national meetings and reporting back and liaising closely with the Comms Team to help ensure accurate data to inform mailings / distribution lists. Establishing effective internal systems and processes to ensure effective maintenance of records.

To lead on Mapping including the effective use of ArcGIS / MapInfo or equivalent to support pastoral schemes and diocesan strategic planning.

Any other duties that would reasonably be included within the remit of this post.

The post holder is an employee of the Diocesan Board of Finance (DBF) and will report to the Programme Director.

The Programme Director, Project Management Office (PMO) colleagues, the Finance & Operations team, the Communications team and heads of departments.

Project leads, vicars and PCCs in parishes, the national CMS user group, the national data services team and our external IT provider.

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Posted: June 6th, 2026