Alliance for Catholic Education
Description: Saint Ignatius College Prep, a Jesuit Catholic school in the heart of Chicago, is a diverse community dedicated to educating young men and women for lives of faith, love, service and leadership. Through outstanding teaching and personal formation, the school challenges its talented student body to intellectual excellence, integrity, and life-long learning and growth. Inspired by the gospel of Jesus Christ, this community strives to use God’s gifts to promote social justice for the greater glory of God.
Job Summary: The Prefect of Mission will provide direction, vision, and oversight for the spiritual development curriculum and co-curriculum that are core to the Saint Ignatius mission. This includes leading a variety of developmental campus-wide initiatives, including the chapel program and service experience. The Prefect of Mission will also create new strategies to enhance the worship, discipleship, personal development and spiritual lives of students.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.
Lead a rigorous and highly effective talent development system, including recruitment, selection, hiring, onboarding, training, mentoring, and evaluation of division personnel.
Oversee the Faith and Formation curriculum and co-curricular, identifying opportunities for growth, and leading the division through a disciplined process of continuous improvement.
Serves as the primary point coordinator for all aspects of spiritual formation for the school including chapel, discipleship, prayer, retreats, conferences, and service opportunities.
Direct worship experiences, to include coordination of the calendar, contracting and selecting speakers, overseeing mass, and communicating programs to the campus.
Provide Leadership and Supervision for the following:
Director of Culture
The Student Deans
The Office of Formation and Ministry
The Athletic Director
The Office of Diversity
Responsible for the ongoing development, management and assessment of programs and services that promote spiritual formation of faculty, students, and parents.
Serve as an academic instructor as needed in spiritual formation classes.
Provide pastoral counseling services and crisis intervention for students in partnership with the guidance office.
Provide support to students and families in emergency situations.
Serves as a liaison with the community religious organizations, pastors, and other groups.
Develop, prepare and manage the divisional budget.
Qualifications: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily with or without a reasonable accommodation. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.
An understanding of and commitment to the Saint Ignatius mission, values, goals, and strategies.
Experience with or knowledge about Jesuit, secondary education is critical.
An understanding of customer service commitment and a servant leadership attitude.
Outstanding written and oral communication skills.
Strong public presentation skills, especially using digital tools.
An ability to interact comfortably with individuals of diverse social, economic and ethnic backgrounds.
An ability to initiate tasks and follow through seeing them to completion.
An ability to assess and solve problems, including interpersonal conflict.
Well-developed leadership skills, including wisdom, executive presence, talent recruiting and development, and negotiation skills necessary to work collaboratively with multiple constituencies.
Capacity to deal with multiple tasks as well as to wisely set priorities.
Excellent written, verbal, and nonverbal communication skills.
Attention to detail with disciplined follow up and follow through.
Capacity to create conditions for maximum motivation and engagement among faculty and students.
Familiarity with best practices in formation development and programming.
Master’s degree or higher degree in school leadership, curriculum, or related field of study.
Five or more years of classroom experience, Catholic and urban school experience preferred.
Experience in school administration, including supervisory experience in ministry.
Detail-oriented and high level of integrity and work ethic.
Additional Information: This position is eligible for the usual and customary benefits that are provided by the School.
Salary Range: $105,000-$120,000