Director of Spiritual Diversity

Santa Clara University • Santa Clara, CA

18d

About The Position

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.

Requirements

• 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
• 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
• 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
• Master’s degree required
• Minimum four years’ professional experience in relevant field
• Experience in pastoral care or chaplaincy strongly desired

Nice To Haves

• A comprehensive understanding of and professional involvement with the Ignatian and Catholic educational paradigm is desirable
• Clinical Pastoral Education credits highly desirable

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 and executes programming to foster the religious formation of students
• Develops and executes programming to foster the interfaith formation of students
• Develops and executes programming to foster the spiritual formation of religiously unaffiliated students
• Develops students’ holistic formation through intensive mentorship and pastoral care
• Establishes and maintains a critical portfolio of partnerships, both on and off campus
• Manages all operational and financial aspects related to the portfolio
• Contributes to the broader work of the Division
• Executes other tasks as assigned

Benefits

• Santa Clara University offers a comprehensive benefits package for benefit eligible employees with programs and resources designed to promote and sustain personal health care, well-being, and the financial objectives of our employees and families.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director