Project Director for Summer Residential Course for Senior Religious Leaders

4 weeks ago


Oxford, United Kingdom University of Oxford Full time

Location: Oxford/hybrid

Hours: Part time (0.5 FTE)

Contract: 3 years 7 months

The College is the key partner in a new project to deliver a series of residential summer courses for senior religious leaders. These will seek to consolidate and build on the work of the Global Interfaith Commission on LGBT+ Lives (GIC+) to increase the number of senior religious leaders advocating to reduce the violence and discrimination of LGBT+ people and to support the decriminalisation of anti-LGBT+ laws in their home countries. The project will seek to create a sustainable ‘Executive Summer School’ model of encounter, education and empowerment that is scalable to meet demand, and will be a safe private forum that will foster dialogue between religious leaders on the issue of LGBT+ lives. These courses will be delivered in partnership with Oxford University’s Department of Continuing Education, and funded by a grant from the Foreign and Commonwealth Development Office.

Duties of the Project Director

  • Working with partners to ensure the successful delivery of a series of summer residential courses held in Oxford.
  • Working with the Academic Content Board for the Project in the development and delivery of the course.
  • Working with partners to produce video content for the course.
  • Working through others to ensure accommodation and travel for participants and contributors and all the details for a successful academic course are arranged.
  • Working to ensure a sustainable ongoing model for the course beyond the initial funding period.
  • Ensure that the project remains within budget.
  • Report to partners, including FCDO, as required.
  • Produce a research article that reflects the project in terms of the theory and practice of change.
  • While this is a 0.5 FTE post averaged over the year some flexibility will be required; the duration of the course in the summer and the time immediately before will require full-time commitment.

Person Specification and Selection Criteria

The successful candidate will demonstrate the following in application and at interview:

Essential

  1. To be committed to the overarching aims of the project.
  2. To have, or to have submitted for, a PhD in a relevant field.
  3. Proven ability at conceptualising, designing and managing research projects.
  4. Proven track record in completing research outputs – peer review articles, reports, book chapters, books etc.
  5. Proven track record in managing a complex project, such as conferences, including people and finance.
  6. Can evidence an ability to work with others and the ability to organise research consultations and seminars.
  7. Can demonstrate a competent level of religious literacy. 
  8. Proven experience of being a self-starter who can work for long periods unsupervised.

Desirable

  1. Established or open to developing relationships with religious leaders across a wide range of geographies and faiths

Please see www.rpc.ox.ac.uk/about-regents/vacancies for the further particulars and details on how to apply. 

The closing date for applications is 5pm Wednesday 29th May. The successful applicant will take up the post from 1st September or as soon as possible thereafter.

£16,260 pa (FTE salary £32,581)



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