Fully Alive Chicago Project Administrator

Department
 

DIV 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 Project Administrator will provide business support for activities related to the Fully Alive Chicago project, 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 to coordinate daily projects, including preparing and maintaining Fully Alive Chicago project plans, budgets, staffing requirements, 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 administrative tasks including arranging meetings, developing agendas, preparing progress reports, and arranging logistics such as transportation, housing, and honoraria for speakers and project leaders.

• Manages communications about the project with internal and external clients, including 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 to track progress, both for individual participants and for the program as a whole. 

• Coordinates daily projects, including preparing and maintaining non-technical (not information technology or construction related) project plans, budgets, and staffing requirements.

• Handles tracking progress and identifying/resolving obstacles with a limited degree of supervision.

• Communicates to internal and external clients, developed through job-related training and considerable on-the-job experience.

• Performs administrative tasks such as arranging meetings, developing agendas, and preparing progress reports.

• Performs other related work as needed.

Minimum Qualifications
 

Education:

Minimum requirements include vocational training, apprenticeships or the equivalent experience in related field (not typically required to have a four-year degree).

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Work Experience:

Minimum requirements include knowledge and skills developed through 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)

When applying, the document(s) MUST be 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