Community Partnerships and Experiential Learning Coordinator

SUMMARY

Living Learning Program Support

• Collaborates with CTC staff on curriculum design and facilitates selected program elements.
• Coordinates logistics for faculty, staff, and community partners involved in program delivery.
• Establishes, strengthens, and maintains partnerships with churches and organizations in the Historic Northwest district through outreach, networking, formal agreements, and joint programming, with a goal of 10% annual growth.
• Serves as liaison with university Facilities to coordinate routine maintenance and timely completion of renovation projects for CTC office and residential facilities.
• Assists the Director with projects and programming connected to the Living Learning Program, ensuring alignment with institutional, grant, and community goals.
• Supports recruitment and outreach, including local travel and periodic national/international visits to churches, universities, conferences, and community faith-based initiatives.
• Engages prospective students throughout the admissions process, providing guidance from inquiry to enrollment.
• Assists in planning and executing at least three community-facing workshops or events each year, to raise the profile of CTC and advance its mission.

Student Field Experience Coordination

• Partners with the CTC team to plan and implement field experiences, including Clinical Pastoral Education site placements and internships with healthcare facilities, non-profits, and churches.
• Develops and maintains partnerships with organizations that host chaplaincy services, coordinating student placements and providing mentorship when appropriate.
• Cultivates relationships with churches and community partners to build recruitment pipelines and foster long-term engagement with CTC programs.

Program Support and Operations

• Collaborates with CTC staff to address ongoing program needs and ensure smooth operations.
• Responds to student, faculty, staff, and community partner concerns, emphasizing pastoral and relational support, while assisting with occasional administrative or logistical issues.
• Other duties as assigned.

EDUCATION:    

EXPERIENCE:

ESSENTIAL COMPETENCIES (Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities)

• Customer Service Orientation – Keeps internal and/or external key stakeholder(s), students, parents, faculty, staff and community partners in mind at all times.
• Professionalism – Displays a high level of professionalism, e.g. timeliness, reliability, communication, and work ethic.
• Christ-first Faith – Provides spiritual support to community members, including students, on their Christian faith journey.
• Adaptable/Flexibility – Ability to change or adjust to change.
• Attention to Detail – Ability to efficiently and accurately focus on a specific task or number of tasks. Reviews details with a critical eye.
• Confidentiality – Maintains the necessary confidentiality and discretion required for the position.
• Conflict Management – Functions professionally and wisely during difficult conversations, while under stress, and while managing challenging situations.
• Develops Others – Ability to promote continuous improvement within teams and/or individuals.
• Effective Communication – Expresses ideas and information in a clear and concise manner both verbally and in writing to convey clear, well-articulated messaging across a wide variety of audiences.
• Establishes Trust – Gains the confidence of others by actions and words that promote being honest, forthcoming, and vulnerable.
• Problem-solving – Anticipates, evaluates, diagnoses, and resolves problems in a systematic and fact-based manner.
• Results Orientation & Accountability – Takes accountability and identifies, executes and drives actions to consistently achieve desired results.
• Teamwork & Collaboration – Creates a climate that fosters commitment to a common vision and shared values that promote cooperation and working together through trust and support of others both departmentally and cross-functionally.

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS:

• Travel 10% of the time.
• Ability to work non-routine hours during certain times of the year.
• Ability to sit for prolonged periods of time.
• Ability to traverse campus and stairs.
• Ability to lift/move objects up to 25 pounds.