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GENERAL PURPOSE OF POSTION:
The Minister for Economic Justice will develop and implement strategy for worker justice and have working knowledge of economic justice and the ways economic inequity manifest in individual, communal and congregational life.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Develop a comprehensive and strategic approach and curriculum for economic justice that includes a short-term and long-range economic justice plan that engages all settings of the UCC to eradicate economic inequity in church and society.
- Work with staff colleagues in the national setting to explore and understand the intersection of economic justice with other justice issues, and to connect with Global Mission partners regarding matters of economic justice in other parts of the world.
- Create, curate, and work with conferences, associations, and congregations to implement strategies and programs related to economic inequity.
- Develop and implement a strategy for the involvement of the United Church of Christ in issues of worker justice, with particular attention to coalition building with worker-led and worker-supporting organizations on issues of common concern.
- Represent the national setting of the UCC in all settings of the UCC, ecumenically, and in interfaith settings as appropriately related to this portfolio.
- Provide leadership within the National Setting, General Synod, and other settings of the church as appropriate in developing public policy positions and making policy statements on issues of economic justice.
- Develop and nurture ecumenical and interfaith partnerships around economic justice.
- Serve as lead coordinator for Synod resolutions where issues of economic inequity are present.
- Demonstrate a theological understanding of economic justice in both the verbal and written articulation of our mission and vision.
- Continue to build the UCC Economic Justice Movement to engage UCC members in the work of economic justice through regular contact and action opportunities.