Position Title:
Director of Spiritual Diversity

Position Type:
Regular

Hiring Range:

$102,800 - $115,560 per year; Compensation will be based on education, experience, skills relevant to the role, and internal equity.

Pay Frequency:
Annual

A. POSITION PURPOSE

The Director for Spiritual Diversity (DSD) is charged with envisioning and creating enduring structures, programs and relationships that support the development and nurturing of the spiritual life of the SCU community, especially those from diverse religious/spiritual traditions and students who identify as religiously unaffiliated. The DSD, under the direction of the Director of the Center for Spirituality and Faith (CSF), will create, direct, and implement plans and programs that foster multi-faith awareness and community-building on campus and support interfaith worship and community. The DSD will develop creative, engaging, and exciting growth-development programming and opportunities to engage the growing population of religiously unaffiliated students in the positive possibilities of a robust spiritual life, especially drawing on the tools of Ignatian Spirituality. The position will collaborate extensively with other Mission and Ministry partners, especially the Ignatian Formation team. In addition, the DSD will develop and sustain key institutional partnerships with a series of external partners connected to various faith traditions. The DSD will oversee a team of graduate assistants and student interns to execute the portfolio. This is a full-time, 12 month/year position.

B. ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

1. Develops a strategy to foster the spiritual and religious formation of students across the spectrum of faith traditions or those who are religiously unaffiliated

• Develops a comprehensive strategy for religious and spiritual formation that can be tailored to the diverse student body
• Establishes foundational programming and engagement opportunities to connect with the full spectrum of student experiences
• Develops an outreach plan to establish and maintain connections to students whose spiritual formation is not being met through traditional needs
• Establishes an assessment framework grounded in best practices and informed by national trends that can inform the establishment of strategic goals and tracking effectiveness and impact

2. Develops and executes programming to foster the religious formation of students

• Creates opportunities for students to practice their religious traditions by offering opportunities for prayer, scripture study, meditation, worship, and service, in collaboration with Center for Spirituality interns and with the leaders of student religious organizations
• In collaboration with the Center for Student Involvement, provides leadership, guidance, and mentorship to all faith-based registered student organizations
• Coordinates the celebration of religious holidays (e.g. Welcome Weekend Havdalah, Passover Seder, Ramadan Iftars and Eid Banquet, Holi festival, Diwali celebration, Sikh holidays, among others), in collaboration with the leaders of student religious organizations

3. Develops and executes programming to foster the interfaith formation of students

• Promotes interfaith and intercultural understanding, relationships, and community life
• Supervises interfaith interns and equips them with bridge-building skills to cultivate relationships with students, faculty, and staff on a spiritually diverse campus
• Guides student leaders through a strategic visioning and planning process
• Collaborates with student organizations to design events for the campus community, including dinners, cultural programs, and service projects
• Collaborates with faculty and staff to design curricular and co-curricular opportunities for students
• Identifies community partners to participate in educational experiences with students

4. Develops and executes programming to foster the spiritual formation of religiously unaffiliated students

• Creates dialogue and engagement opportunities for students who are religiously unaffiliated but still desire spiritual growth
• Works with Mission and Ministry's Retreat Team to develop, promote, and deliver retreats that offer opportunities for all students - including religiously unaffiliated students - to explore spirituality, meaning, and purpose. Draws on expertise and wisdom, as well as practices and scriptures, from diverse traditions to contribute to these retreat experiences
• Creates campus educational opportunities for campus partners to investigate and understand strategies for serving religiously unaffiliated students

5. Develops students' holistic formation through intensive mentorship and pastoral care

• Pastorally supports students, regardless of religious affiliation, during crises, spiritual accompaniment, and general mentorship
• Fosters particular in-depth leadership development for student leaders, employees, and volunteers to foster their learning and formation in ministry
• Accompanies students in the challenges they face in collaboration with CAPS and other university support units

6. Establishes and maintains a critical portfolio of partnerships, both on and off campus

• Directs the CSF's inclusion and support of faith-based student organizations
• Develops relationships with faculty and staff who can serve as resources and representatives of various religious traditions, with specific outreach to the Department of Religious Studies, the Jesuit School of Theology, and the Graduate Program in Pastoral Ministries
• Establishes relationships with local religious communities to make referrals for worship, as needed
• Develops relationships with religious bodies and interfaith organizations that resource students and advance interreligious education (e.g. Hillel of Silicon Valley, Pacifica Institute, the Healing Mountain)
• Represents the CSF on university committees, meetings and /or at events related to religious diversity, pluralism, inclusion, and in appropriate liturgical functions
• Discerns the appropriateness of outside religious organizations that wish to operate on campus or resource students

7. Manages all operational and financial aspects related to the portfolio

• With the support of operations staff, leads the effective operation of program activities
• Manages annual allocated program budget development, reporting, and forecasting
• Hires, trains, and supervises student employees and interns
• Supports fundraising efforts and donor cultivation

8. Contributes to the broader work of the Division

• Consults with constituent programs to further align them with SCU's Jesuit, Catholic mission
• Supports the creative infusion of faith and spirituality throughout Mission and Ministry and broader campus programming
• Regularly attends and participates in Ignatian programming and Catholic liturgy events offered by other Division programs, including some events that may be held outside of regular business hours
• Regularly attends and participates in SCU campus-wide, staff-wide, and academic programming events to represent Ignatian Spirituality and Catholic life perspectives, to form relationships to support engagement with Ignatian Spirituality, and to inform Ignatian Spirituality programming, including some events that may be held outside of regular business hours

9. Executes other tasks as assigned

C. GENERAL GUIDELINES

• Recommends initiatives and implements changes to improve quality and services
• Identifies and determines cause of problems; develops and presents recommendations for improvement of established processes and practices
• Maintains contact with customers and solicits feedback for improved services
• Maximizes productivity through use of appropriate tools; planned training and performance initiatives
• Researches and develops resources that create timely and efficient workflow
• Prepares progress reports; informs supervisor of project status; and deviation from goals
• Ensures completeness, accuracy and timeliness of all operational functions
• Prepares and submits reports as requested and required
• Develops and implements guidelines to support the functions of the unit

D. QUALIFICATIONS

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The items below are representative of the knowledge, skills, abilities, education, and experience required or preferred.

Knowledge

• Awareness of religious and wisdom traditions and current spirituality trends; knowledge of interfaith dialogue frameworks
• Understanding of spiritual/religious development stages for contemporary young adults and the capacity to implement programs to meet these spiritual developmental aspirations
• Familiarity with interfaith dialogue across a broad range of religious traditions
• Knowledge of trends in the spiritual and religious practices of young adults
• Experience in educational institutions required, preferably involving teaching experience or retreat experience focused on spirituality and faith formation for diverse student populations
• A comprehensive understanding of and professional involvement with the Ignatian and Catholic educational paradigm is desirable

Skills

• Strong verbal /written communication and influencing skills
• Superior ability to communicate with religiously and intellectually diverse audiences.
• Inter- and intra-culturally competent and skilled in working with and supporting students, faculty and staff from a wide variety of backgrounds and orientations
• Open, objective, innovative, and oriented toward understanding and responding to issues from divergent perspectives
• Outstanding organizational and project management skills
• Demonstrated competence in MS Office, Excel, PowerPoint, Google Suite, Adobe Acrobat Pro required

Abilities

• Demonstrated ability to provide pastoral and spiritual care for students
• Demonstrated high-level performance in organizational entrepreneurship and creativity
• Demonstrated high-level performance in successfully driving projects from inception to completion, including curriculum or program planning and implementation
• Excellent overall judgment combined with attention to detail
• Ability to consistently demonstrate a commitment to equity and respect in the workplace, a genuine desire to promote a supportive climate for all members of the SCU community, intercultural awareness, communication and understanding, and the ability to manage difficult and contentious situations
• Demonstrated high level record of building and managing effective connections with a range of constituencies to achieve success
• Availability to work variable hours when required to accomplish project goals
• Valid U.S. Driver's License preferred

Education

• Master's degree required/or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Clinical Pastoral Education credits highly desirable

Years of Experience

• Minimum four years' professional experience in relevant field required.
• Experience in pastoral care or chaplaincy strongly desired

5. PHYSICAL DEMANDS

The physical demands described below are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

• Considerable time is spent at a desk using a computer terminal
• May be required to travel to other buildings on the campus
• May be required to occasionally travel to outside partners, customers, vendors or suppliers Travel may include out of state destinations and include overnight stays
• Some evening and weekend events required

6. WORK ENVIRONMENT

The work environment characteristics described below are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.

• Typical office environment
• Mostly indoor office environment with windows
• Offices with equipment noise
• Offices with frequent interruptions

We encourage all candidates to review this overview document for the newly named Center for Spirituality and Faith.



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