Posted:  04/22/2022

Catholic Bearcat, the dynamic and rapidly growing campus ministry at the University of Cincinnati, is looking for a lay campus minister to join the team! The campus minister collaborates with the priest chaplains to coordinate, organize, and run evangelization efforts for the students at the University of Cincinnati, providing primarily administrative and hospitality support.

Summary

The campus minister collaborates with the priest chaplains to coordinate, organize, and run evangelization efforts for the students at the University of Cincinnati, providing primarily administrative and hospitality support.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with the team to accomplish the vision and mission of Catholic Bearcat
• Planning, organization, and day-of event preparation for weekly Catholic Bearcat Night and other ad hoc events
• Coordinates marketing and digital outreach for Catholic Bearcat through social media and other forms of communication
• Manages the campus ministry calendar
• Develops and implements strategies for evangelization
• Develops, organizes, and provides formation for a core team of student leaders
• Helps to coordinate with FOCUS and SPO apostolates
• Create and coordinate service opportunities and retreats
• Attend all staff and campus ministry team meetings
• Build and maintains an annual budget for Campus Ministry programming
• Work as the main contact with the University and maintain a steady relationship with the administration, managing the status as a student organization with the student president
• Serve as a member of the University Interfaith Coalition

Skills

• Excellent knowledge of the Catholic faith and an ability to witness to and teach the Catholic faith well
• Strong leadership skills and ability to take initiative, while being able to work well as a member of a team and take direction
• Excellent communication and interpersonal, organizational, planning, and problem solving skills
• Outstanding ability to plan and run hospitality for events large and small
• Knowledge of and experience in digital design, marketing, and social media

Qualifications

• A fully initiated Catholic who is an active disciple of Jesus Christ with a deep life of prayer and regularly receiving the Sacraments, living in full communion with the Catholic Church
• A disciple who has a heart to bring college students to conversion
• Bachelor’s degree in Catholic Theology required (Master’s degree preferred)
• At least 5 years experience in Catholic college campus ministry
• Experience planning and leading retreats, small groups, and giving talks
• Must complete and maintain compliance with all Archdiocese of Cincinnati Safe Environment policies and practices

Flexibility is necessary to respond to the different responsibilities that the position requires. This position requires work to be performed outside of normal office hours, as needed.

Employees of the Archdiocese of Cincinnati will have knowledge of the Catholic faith, a willingness to work for a Catholic, faith-based agency and adhere to the policies of the Archdiocese of Cincinnati. Employees will not publicly oppose the teachings of the Catholic faith nor publicly advocate for any position in conflict with Catholic teaching, or the specific positions of the Archdiocese of Cincinnati or the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. This requirement includes any public speech, demonstration or writing including the use of social media or other digital technologies.