Director of Spiritual Diversity Job Northern Kentucky USA,Education / Teaching

Location: Northern

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

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.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

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

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

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
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