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Director of Lifelong Faith Formation and Development

2 months ago


Chicago, Illinois, United States Archdiocese of Chicago Full time
Job Summary

The Director of Lifelong Formation is responsible for assisting the Pastor with overall lifelong formation efforts to ensure everyone in the parish encounters Jesus Christ and deepens their commitment to Him and His Church.

Key Responsibilities
  • Discern, design, and implement ongoing formation opportunities for everyone in the parish.
  • Develop, implement, evaluate, and improve formation initiatives.
  • Manage other ministry staff and teams of staff and volunteer leaders.
  • Demonstrate strong leadership skills to identify, develop, and retain fully formed and well-functioning teams.
Requirements
  • Awareness of Catholic faith as lived in current cultures.
  • Understanding and desire to implement the vision of Renew My Church.
  • Openness to understanding the mission of the Paulist Fathers.
  • Previous experience directing a parish faith formation program.
  • Demonstrated ability to collaborate with clergy, staff, parish leaders, and volunteers.
  • Practicing Catholic with understanding and support for Catholic Church teaching, mission, and values.
  • Subject matter expert in Lifelong Formation and its key methodologies, components, and strategies.
  • Comprehensive vision and understanding of evangelization.
  • Ability to form and nurture a community of missionary disciples.
  • Ability to direct the work of other staff or volunteers to drive key initiatives and programs.
  • Fluent in related Church documents, especially national and local.
  • Mature discipleship evidenced in ability to comfortably witness to one's own faith journey.
  • Developed skills in leadership and management; strong commitment to collaboration and teamwork.
  • Excellent interpersonal, oral, and written communication skills.
  • Familiarity with technology used for communicating and presenting.
  • Self-motivated, detail-oriented, collaborative, faithful, joyful witness, persistent, available, fair and balanced, dependable, person of integrity, sensitive to cultural, racial, and ethnic diversity and openness to the needs of the parishioners.
  • Ability to deal with multiple projects, flexible, sound judgment, and comfortable with change.
  • Ability to apply knowledge of stages of human development and faith formation best practices across all ages.
  • Open to ongoing formation and education as needed.
Preferred Qualifications
  • Master's Degree in Theology, Pastoral Studies, Faith Formation or equivalent.
  • Certification as a Catechist.
  • Professional Ecclesial Ministers and Pastoral Associates are preferred for this position.
  • Open to the diversity and multi-cultural needs of the parish.
  • Multi-lingual skills a plus.