The Cathedral of St. Matthew in Washington DC is hiring an Assistant to the Rector.
This role will ensure that the Cathedral maintains and projects a friendly and welcoming atmosphere and provides warm hospitality to callers and visitors.
other duties include:
- Welcome new parishioners by sending emails and preparing welcome cards.
- Communicate effectively with coworkers superiors the general public and others.
- Maintain the Rectors calendar on a daily weekly monthly and yearly basis to coordinate meetings events and liturgical duties.
- Maintain the Cathedrals calendar on a daily weekly monthly and yearly basis to coordinate liturgical events.
- Manage Priest and Deacon liturgy schedules.
- Type correspondence and notes for Rector and send emails on his behalf. Proof and edit documents.
- Manage database of parishioners and friends of the Cathedral this involves entering data and keeping it up to date.
- Process the deposit of checks sent by donors and prepare thank you letters for the Rector.
- Enter donor financial contributions in ParishSoft Family Suite and prepare yearly contribution statements.
- Manage invitations to parishioners to assist as Minister of Hospitality for special liturgical events.
- Coordinate volunteers to process Christmas Friends fundraising mailing ensuring that the mailing of 14000 letters gets done by the first week of December.
- Other related duties as assigned.
Qualifications
Knowledge Skills and Abilities
- Excellent written and oral communication skills.
- Effective team player with strong interpersonal communication and customer service skills.
- Ability to handle multiple tasks under time sensitive deadlines.
- Ability to handle confidential and sensitive information.
- High proficiency in suite of Microsoft Office tools: Excel Word and Outlook.
Required Education and Experience
- Must be a practicing Catholic who supports the teachings of the Catholic Church.
- Bachelors Degree
- Some experience in an administrative/secretarial role.
- Bilingual in Spanish would be very helpful.
Work Environment
- This job operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment.
- This position is normally inoffice 5 days per week
Physical Demands
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
Contact
Msgr. Jameson by email: or by phone:(direct line)