at University of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois, United States
Job Description
DepartmentDIV Divinity: Staff
About the Department
The University of Chicago Divinity School is a space and a community dedicated to some of the most important, most exhilarating, and most humbling questions of humanity. The School is animated by two impulses seldom found together: by the critical study of religious traditions, objects, and ideas, and by the implications of those traditions and ideas for how faith might be practiced, life might be lived, and community might be realized. The conjunction of these approaches in a Divinity School situated at the very center of one of the world's great research universities has produced many scholars, teachers, leaders, and ideas that have had a profound effect upon the possibilities for thinking about religion, and thereby a profound effect upon the world.
'Fully Alive Chicago' is a cohort-based peer learning program for religious leaders and their congregations, funded by the Lilly Endowment's Compelling Preaching Initiative. Through a curriculum of retreats, workshops, consultations, and coaching, clergy and their faith communities will explore, exercise, and enhance their ability to connect, communicate, and teach their life-giving wisdom, both within their spaces of worship and beyond their walls.
Job Summary
The Program Administrator will provide logistical support for all aspects of 'Fully Alive Chicago,' a cohort-based peer learning program for religious leaders and their congregations, funded by the Lilly Endowment's Compelling Preaching Initiative, which will support clergy and congregations as they evaluate, reimagine, strengthen, and extend their preaching, teaching, and communication practices.
Responsibilities
- Collaborates with Director of Programming on curricular design and researching and securing retreat venues, workshop locations, meals, and other necessary materials.
- Staffs program functions to provide hospitality and enhance communication.
- Facilitates arrangements with speakers and program leaders, such as transportation, housing, and honoraria, as needed.
- Manages communications about the program: building and maintaining a useful website, creating promotional materials, issuing communications to support participant recruitment.
- Collaborates with Director of Programming and principal investigator to develop and implement evaluation processes, both for individual participants and for the program as a whole.
- Uses in-depth knowledge and experience to administer the delivery of services to program participants and/or beneficiaries such as communicating with programs sponsors and academic advising for undergraduate students.
- Develops and communicates program priorities and performance standards and assesses operations using these criteria. Plans and conducts quality assurance reviews and recommends changes as appropriate.
- Manages program budgets and recommends or makes budgetary recommendations.
- Has a deep understanding when interacting with faculty, researchers and staff for committee work or information.
- Performs other related work as needed.
Minimum Qualifications
Education:
Minimum requirements include a college or university degree in related field.
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Work Experience:
Minimum requirements include knowledge and skills developed through 5-7 years of work experience in a related job discipline.
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Certifications:
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Preferred Qualifications
Experience:
- Experience in or familiarity with congregational leadership, in the study and practice of preaching, and/or in training others to preach.
Preferred Competencies
- Theological curiosity.
- Practical creativity.
- Commitment to sustained public engagement.
- Commitment to collegiality and peer learning practices.
Application Documents
- Resume (required)
- Cover letter (required)
When applying, the document(s) MUSTbe uploaded via the My Experience page, in the section titled Application Documents of the application.
Job Family
Administration & Management
Role Impact
Individual Contributor
FLSA Status
Non-Exempt
Pay Frequency
Biweekly
Scheduled Weekly Hours
10
Benefits Eligible
No
Drug Test Required
No
Health Screen Required
No
Motor Vehicle Record Inquiry Required
No
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