Director of Faith

Description

Job Purpose

Under the direction of the Open Sky Education (OSE) and HOPE Christian Schools (HOPE) leadership, the OSE Director of Faith will act as a strategic and dynamic leader ensuring HOPE Christian Schools is a vibrantly Christian community where our team is actively walking with Jesus personally and professionally and where our scholars have ongoing opportunities to grow in their relationship with Christ daily. He/she will support HOPE school teams to deliver exceptional and rigorous faith and character formation of every scholar in alignment with the Open Sky Education Model through a combination of hands-on teaching, shepherding, and professional development as well as strategic management and oversight of our Christian mission and its implementation.

Regional Leadership

1. Reflect Christ’s love into all corners of our HOPE Christian schools with staff, families, and scholars.
2. Develop and execute the plan to deliver exceptional and rigorous faith and character formation within HOPE.
3. Oversee the intentional integration of Christian faith formation into all elements of our Staff and Family Policies, Human Resources processes, educational program, marketing and communications, and our facility and website visual components.
4. Establish faith and character formation metrics and accountability standards.
5. Review school calendars and daily schedules to ensure faith and character formation meets standards.
6. Put systems in place to actively monitor and report on faith and character formation.
7. Provide training and coaching to school administrative teams and instructional staff to increase their effectiveness in delivering faith and character formation.
8. Plan and deliver methods to support our staff (personally and collaboratively with other HOPE leaders), on their active journeys in growing in their relationship with Jesus and living out their faith, including leading faith/devotion for meetings, offering small group or 1:1 activities, and leading faith-based activities in schools.
9. Understand and contribute to OSE Education model and faith and character formation resources, including providing support, professional development, and ongoing enhancements to our Christian Character Formation programming.
10. Support regional process improvement activities specific to faith and character formation.
11. Oversee Chaplains in School partnership.
12. Establish annual partnership goals.
13. Conduct regular (monthly or quarterly) partnership leadership meetings.
14. Manage contract and invoice approval.
15. Attend school chapel services and bible studies.
16. Conduct weekly meetings with each School Chaplain to provide support and coaching to increase effectiveness and alignment to OSE/HOPE Ed Model.
17. Provide support to Principal, Dean of Students, Chaplains, and/or school counselors in scholar-related needs or situations.
18. Build relationships with local church partners and faith-based community partners, maintain lists of partners, and help school teams and individuals connect with partners.
19. Identify and communicate opportunities for schools to participate in community service projects.
20. Support enrollment and staff recruiting activities by reviewing marketing content and participating in outreach activities.
21. Stay informed of best practices and identify opportunities to enhance faith and character formation.
22. Manage time, people, and resources efficiently and effectively.
23. Be on school sites regularly, and occasionally be available at night or on weekends for school-related events (parent-teacher conferences, athletic events, celebrations).
24. Lives and acts as a Christian role model and Open Sky Education and HOPE Christian Schools representative in his/her life for our scholars, team members, and community.
25. Agrees to always comply with our Code of Conduct and Statement of Faith.
26. Agrees to engage in the faith life of our scholars and in collaboration with other team members.

Open Sky Education Model Thought Leadership

1. Understand and contribute to our OSE Education Model.
2. Provide input to enhance national faith model based on HOPE Regional context, experience, and leading best practices.
3. Support educational quality and best practice sharing across Open Sky network.
4. Contribute thought leadership externally through writing, presentations, and membership in appropriate organizations.

Qualifications

1. Bachelor’s degree in theology, pastoral ministry, religious education/or related field, Master’s degree preferred.
2. Minimum of 5 years of full-time experience in faith formation.
3. At least 3 years in leadership/administrator role.
4. Track record of success and proven results in driving character development and faith formation achievement in supporting urban, lower-income communities.
5. Strong skills in MS Excel, MS Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook.
6. Integrity, credibility, and passionate commitment to Open Sky Education’s mission of providing a full and lasting education for all children.
7. Deep passion for urban, Christian education and closing the achievement gap.
8. Keen analytic, organization, and complex problem-solving skills which allows for strategic data interpretation.
9. Strong interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills; experience in effectively building relationships and communicating at all levels.
10. Exemplifies humility and servant leadership by continually raising the bar for excellence and successfully serving as a partner to team members and leaders.

An individual in this position must be able to successfully perform the essential duties and responsibilities listed above. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this position.