AMEN hosts Senior Appointments workshop
- amenanglican
- Mar 27
- 1 min read
Yesterday UKME and GMH participants from across the Church of England met in Leeds for an AMEN hosted workshop on “Engaging Effectively with the Senior Appointments Process”. The event was facilitated by Helen Dimmock and Helen Averill, representing the Crown Nominations Commission (CNC) process and Archbishops' Advisers for Appointments and Vocations (AAAV) respectively.
The free, full day, workshop had a practical focus on understanding the appointment processes, researching posts and identifying gifts and skills, writing a good application, preparing for interview and practising responding to questions. Attendees were also able to hear from the Rt Revd Smitha Prasadam, Bishop of Huddersfield, about her own experience of the appointment process and her ‘top tip’ for preparation.
Participant, the Revd Canon Eileen Harrop said “The exploration, discernment and expression of interest processes were clearly outlined, which encouraged participants to enrol or continue as candidates for the senior roles of Dean and Bishops. We were practically guided to identify and articulate our unique gifts profiles with preparation and presentation techniques. Altogether an excellent day.”
The workshop was organized as the result of a joint desire from AMEN and the Church of England to actively encourage and seek UKME/GMH candidates for senior clergy posts and AMEN are looking forward to partnering with them again for future similar events.
The positivity surrounding the recruitment of Global Majority People, whether within the church or corporate business, often foreshadows unacceptable corporate and individual behaviours and conduct within the same organisation. The Church of England has an extremely shady complaints record in this respect. One which is simply not independently factually verifiable because the church (by design) keeps no data regarding complaints made by GMP regarding their white colleague’s behaviours of racism. Consequently, detrimental outcomes for Global Majority clergy are contained, confined within the minds of a few Bishops and others.
So, in addition to the positivity surrounding the recruitment of GMP, does the AMEN group and the Church of England have any plans to examine the complaints process so that new…