Are you a visionary leader with a heart for vocation and a calling to shape the future of ordained ministry? Could you inspire and guide others in discerning their path, while strategically leading a team committed to growing diverse and faithful leadership across our diocese?
- Salary: £56,167.94 - £60,488.55 per annum
- Contract: Permanent
- Location: Church House, Langford Locks, Kidlington, Oxford. OX5 1GF
- Hours: 37 hours per week – Full time
Closing date for receipt of applications: Thursday 06 November 2025 at 12:00
Interviews will take place at Church House, Kidlington, on: Tuesday 18 November 2025
About the role:
We are looking for a Lead Diocesan Director of Ordinands to join our newly forming senior leadership team (SLT) in the Department of Mission and Ministry. You will take specific responsibility for leading the experienced team of two full-time Area DDOs, one full-time Administrator, and 7 part-time Volunteer Assistant DDOs, who serve the considerable number of people who already come forward for licenced lay and ordained ministry across the Diocese. With the SLT, you will also play a key part in shaping a wider discipleship and vocations strategy to release the huge potential we see for many others to discover their callings, especially among under-represented groups.
About you:
You will have a great heart to grow and send leaders in God’s Church, and you will relish the particular opportunities for this in our diocese. You will be comfortable being part of a senior team and in leading a team. You will have the specific experience and skills required to oversee our extensive work with candidates for ordination and to take them through the Shared Discernment Process. You will also have the strategic mindset and gifts to help shape effective responses to wider vocation needs and opportunities as part of an overall strategy for discipleship.
This role attracts a Genuine Occupational Requirement (GOR) for the appointed person to be an ordained member of the Church of England under Part 1, Schedule 9 of the Equality Act 2010.
Benefits and Rewards:
- 25 days holiday per annum, rising each year by one day to a maximum of 30 days
- In addition to the statutory UK public holidays, the Diocese offers three privilege days
- Hybrid working
- Free parking and subsidised on-site café
- Generous employer pension contribution of 12.5% which includes a death in service benefit (5% Employee Contribution)
- Electric car and cycle-to-work salary sacrifice schemes
- Access to wellbeing support via Employee Assistance Programme
- Enhanced family-friendly policies and a generous sick pay provision
- Access to low-interest financial services from Churches Mutual Credit Union, including loans
- An attractive modern working environment
How to apply:
To apply, please email your completed application form and recruitment monitoring form to: recruitment@oxford.anglican.org The forms are accessible via the links below:
Job Description | Application Form | Recruitment Monitoring Form | Privacy Notice | Confidential Declaration Form | Confidential Declaration Privacy Notice |
We want our commitment to equality, diversity, and inclusion for all to be reflected in the composition of our staff. We are particularly keen to receive applications from candidates from communities currently underrepresented in the diocese.
The Church of England is committed to the safeguarding, care and nurture of everyone within our church community. In the Diocese of Oxford we follow and are committed to the Church of England's House of Bishops’ Safeguarding Policies and the relevant statutory legislation and guidance "Working together" to ensure the welfare of children and young people is paramount. This post is subject to an enhanced plus barred lists DBS check.
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for interviews. If you do not hear from us, your application has not been successful.