Project Director for Summer Residential Course for Senior Religious Leaders

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 29^th May. The successful applicant will take up the post from 1^st September or as soon as possible thereafter.