Description
Our Lady of Good Counsel Parish is seeking a full-time, in-person Director of Parish Relations to manage the external-facing operations of the parish and help ensure our parish family continues to thrive.
Essential Duties
- Office Administration: document organization, office hospitality, answering the phone, welcoming visitors
- Parishioner Relations: onboarding new parishioners, maintaining parishioner records, receiving parishioner inquiries
- Communications: preparing the weekly bulletin and newsletter, updating the parish website, sending ad-hoc parish-wide emails
- Volunteers: managing and delegating work to various groups of volunteers
- Sacramental Coordination: scheduling and recording the various sacraments
- Event Planning: scheduling, coordinating, planning, and executing recurring and one-off parish events
- Other duties as assigned
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- Communication: Communicates clearly, thoroughly, charitably, and professionally in both written and verbal contexts
- Relatability: Displays kindness, patience, and maintains a disposition of cheerfulness and service towards others
- Integrity: Takes responsibility for tasks and projects, meets deadlines, and is reliable
- Discretion: Exercises confidentially, sound judgement, and prudence on sensitive matters
- Order: Creates environments and systems that are up-to-date and organized
- Punctuality: Maintains attention to detail, respects the time of others, and is well prepared
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office and Google Workspace; familiarity with Flocknote, Canva, and PDF applications
Qualifications
- Undergraduate degree or 3-5 years work experience
- Practicing Catholic with ethical standards, personal integrity, and conduct consistent with the morals and teachings of the Catholic Church including faithful obedience to the Magisterium.
Our Lady of Good Counsel offers a comprehensive benefits program, including medical, dental and vision plans, STD/LTD fully paid by the employer, retirement plans including a 403b plan and a defined benefit pension plan. Paid time off includes generous vacation and sick leaves, plus paid holidays.
Note: All employees are required to consent to a background check, commit to our Code of Conduct policy, and complete online and in-person trainings prior to hire.
