What will leadership look like?
Building a Renewed Leadership Team with Strategic Focus and Purpose
WHAT will leadership look like in each new Area?
Having explained why we're revitalising our Deaneries, this is what the new leadership will look like in each Area - our shorthand for a “revitalised Deanery”.
Each Area Leadership Team will be built around two legally required roles:
an Ordained Area Dean (appointed by the Bishop, currently known as the Rural Dean)
an Area Lay Chair (elected by the Deanery Synod).
Alongside them sits an Assistant Area Dean, who we expect would hold the Pastoral Care portfolio. Further members - lay or ordained - can be added, with each Area deciding its own numbers. We think a team of up to 7 is about right: big enough to share the load, small enough to stay agile and know each other well.
Between them, the team will cover six portfolio areas shown in the image above.
We don't expect full coverage from day one - Areas will build out each portfolio as they become able.
WHAT support will you get?
New teams won't be left to work it out alone. We're proposing three kinds of support:
a Transition Accompanier to help each team form and train,
increased Archdeacon support in each archdeaconry, and
£10k a year in transition funding per Area, with access to further project funding for collaborative mission work.
And every role - existing or new - will have a clear Role Description, so people know their responsibilities, can be selected fairly, and get the right training.
This consultation is your chance to tell us how well you think this model will work in practice.