Director, Religious Life & Spiritual Life

Essential Functions:

• Develop and implement programs and initiatives that support students exploration of meaning purpose identity and ethical questions within a pluralistic campus environment including opportunities for dialogue around lifes big questions related to belief vocation belonging and worldview.
• Provide one-on-one and small group engagement with students navigating spiritual exploration identity development life transitions and questions of belief or values.
• Advise and support student organizations representing diverse religious spiritual and secular identities fostering student leadership development collaboration among groups and respectful dialogue across differences in belief tradition and perspective.
• Lead interfaith initiatives and educational programs that promote religious literacy mutual understanding and inclusive engagement for students of all faith traditions and those with no religious affiliation.
• Collaborate with campus partners across Student Life academic departments and other university units to integrate religious and spiritual exploration into the broader student experience and support faculty and staff advisors working with student faith or worldview organization.
• Establish and maintain relationships with local faith leaders congregations and community organizations; convene community partners to strengthen collaboration between the university and surrounding communities; and facilitate opportunities for students to engage with local faith communities and service initiatives.
• Provide leadership and oversight for significant campus traditions and events connected to reflection community gathering and interfaith engagement including programs such as Lessons and Carols Interfaith Week and Baccalaureate.
• Manage operations associated with Religious and Spiritual Life including oversight of facilities and multi-faith spaces budgets program logistics communications supervision of staff and student employees and assessment of programs to support strategic planning and continuous improvement.
• Service in on-call rotation.

Level of Education:

Masters degree in Higher Education Religious Studies Theology Divinity Student Affairs Counseling Social Work or a related field.

Work Experience:

Required: 3 years demonstrated experience working with college students or young adults in educational community or religious/spiritual contexts.
Experience working with diverse religious spiritual and secular communities in a pluralistic environment. Demonstrated commitment to supporting students from varied religious spiritual cultural and worldview backgrounds including students who identify with no faith tradition. Strong interpersonal facilitation and communication skills including the ability to engage diverse campus and community stakeholders. Ability to build collaborative partnerships across campus and with community organizations. Willingness to work occasional evenings and weekends to support student programming and campus events.
Valid drivers license and ability to travel locally to engage community partners.

Preferred:

5 years professional experience in higher education student affairs interfaith engagement or religious and spiritual life programming. Experience designing and facilitating interfaith dialogue bridge-building initiatives or programs promoting religious literacy and pluralism. Experience advising student organizations and supporting student leadership development. Demonstrated experience planning and leading significant campus events or traditions involving multiple stakeholders. Experience building partnerships with community organizations faith communities or civic groups.