Social Justice Officer

Job Description

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Job Purpose

To promote, encourage and support social justice and climate justice action across the Diocese of Sheffield.

The Social Justice Officer will be a senior practitioner who will play a key role in encouraging and equipping people to step out in faith beyond our church walls, responding to issues of poverty and injustice and working with others to transform the communities around us, be that local, city-wide, our nation and to the wider world.

The work of the Social Justice Officer will be shaped by the Church of England’s Five Marks of Mission — proclaiming the good news of the Kingdom through presence and relationship; responding to human need by loving service; seeking to transform unjust structures of society, to challenge violence of every kind and to pursue peace and reconciliation; nurturing new believers...