Director Compass Center: Butler University

The Director of The Compass Center provides the vision and leadership for the university’s approach to supporting the faith and secular student communities. This role promotes interfaith engagement, encourages exploration of meaning and purpose through academic and co-curricular programs, and contributes to student wellbeing by fostering spiritual life. This position interfaces directly with students, faculty, staff, and community partners. The Director manages a team of professional staff, student employees, and campus affiliates who collectively work to advance the mission of The Compass Center.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the University's strategic goal of creating an intentionally diverse, inclusive, and equitable learning and working environment.
• Provide leadership and oversight for The Compass Center and ensure it is a visible, accessible, intentionally inclusive, intersectional, supportive, and welcoming campus resource that contributes to campus-wide belonging and success.
• Serve as a resource for student leaders, groups, and organizations throughout campus to support their meaning, purpose, and spiritual identity goals. These groups include, but are not limited to those affiliated with The Compass Center, the Efroymson Diversity Center, Student Affairs, and Athletics.
• Ensure successful operations within The Compass Center, including fiscal management and supervision/development of full/part-time employees, student staff/interns, and connected affiliates.
• Collaborate with colleagues throughout the different divisions and colleges around campus to ensure a strong university-wide network of support to enhance student success, faculty/staff development, and community engagement.
• Oversee and provide vision on key TCC initiatives including, but not limited to the Series on Religion and Society, Interfaith Council, A New View Film Series, the Multifaith Baccalaureate Service, and faculty workshops through campus collaborations.
• Build relationships with student leaders of the faith and secular communities, offering support, developing leadership skills, cultivating relationships, and networking across student organization boundaries.
• Develop and execute curricular and/or co-curricular strategies for students of underrepresented religious identities to find belonging and community, practice their traditions, and engage across campus, with a specific eye towards furthering inclusion for Atheist/Agnostic, Jewish, Hindu, Muslim, Sikh and Spiritual identifying students.
• Lead faculty workshops of meaning and purpose reflection and pedagogy/curriculum design
• Serve as campus contact for the Network for Vocation in Undergraduate
  
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  pursue grants, contribute to conferences, and share resources with Butler community
• Lead and coordinate the Spiritual Care Conversation and serve as an advisor on communication, support, and mediation as needed in times of individual/campus challenge, loss, grief, crisis, or celebration.
• Build relationships and networks with Indianapolis institutions and organizations of faith and secular life for partnerships on and off campus, such as the Center for Interfaith Cooperation, Christian Theological Seminary, local congregations, and local faith-based organizations
• Other duties as assigned by supervisor.

Required Qualifications

• Master’s Degree
• 3-5 years of working with college students and/or emerging adults in academic settings
• Experience working in varied contexts of faith or secular commitments, interfaith work, and/or diversity and inclusion initiatives
• Ability to prioritize multiple goals at once, place student needs first, and have a capacity for seeing the value of diverse perspectives

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s Degree in Higher Education Administration, Divinity/Theological Studies, Student Affairs, or related field is strongly preferred
• Experience working in administrative roles in higher education is strongly preferred
• Previous work in an interfaith chaplaincy role or position will be considered, but candidates should note there is not a formal religious affiliation required for this position
• Experience supervising,…