Director of Mission and Evangelization, Pastorate of St. Patrick & St. Joan of Arc (Aberdeen, MD)

Director of Mission and Evangelization, Pastorate of St. Patrick & St. Joan of Arc (Aberdeen, MD)

Director of Mission and Evangelization coordinates ministry and evangelization programs for the Pastorate of St. Patrick and St. Joan of Arc and ensures a mission-driven evangelization and ministry efforts throughout the Pastorate. The work schedule includes evening and weekend hours.

Director of Mission and Evangelization 
• Under the leadership of the Pastor, the Director of Mission  provides the primary point of focus within the Pastorate for the purpose of developing staff and parishioners  to  become and grow as people who believe and foster The  Great Commission to go and make disciples of all nations.   
• Assists the Pastor in ensuring that all Pastorate programs and activities have Missionary  discipleship  as  the  first  and  foremost  objective  so  that  the  Mission  is integrated in all aspects of the Pastorate life.  
• Ensures that the Pastorate is a center of evangelization.    Leads or directs efforts to ensure outreach to the unchurched, and to those who may have drifted away from the Church.   
• Oversees  collaboration  among  Pastorate  ministry  leaders  to  implement  programs and activities through the lens of Evangelization.
• Leads  and/or  develops  strategies,  guidance,  and  activities  for  Evangelization  that can  be  applied  in  or  adapted  to  the  Pastorate  functional  areas  of  faith  formation, music and liturgy, welcoming, sacramental life, social outreach, and mission support.
• Coaches and forms ministry leaders, staff and volunteers in the practical application of  missionary  discipleship  into  day-to-day  Pastorate  events  and  engaging  inactive Catholics, registered parishioners, and those seeking a faith home.
• Oversees communication of the mission with parishioners, surrounding community, inactive Catholics, and those seeking a faith home.
• Actively participates in Pastorate planning and budgetary activities to assure alignment of the mission with Pastorate programs.
• Assesses  the  efforts  of  the  Pastorate  to  meet  the  strategies  and  action  items  of  the Pastorate  Pastoral  Plan  that  are  based  upon  the  Core  Mission  Priorities  and  Vision
Elements. 
• Engages parishioners to consider an active role of evangelizing.  Forms and coaches volunteers  in  methods  and  techniques  of  evangelizing  to  engage  inactive  Catholics,
registered parishioners, and those seeking a faith home.
• Contributes  to  Pastorate  communications  with  parishioners  regarding  evangelizing the  surrounding  community,  especially  inactive  Catholics  and  those  seeking  a  faith
home.
• Works with and supervises Coordinators of Religious Education

Required Qualifications
• Practicing and devoted Catholic who is fully able to participate in the sacramental life of the Church;
• Bachelor’s degree in theology, religious studies, pastoral ministry or related field (Master’s Degree Preferred).
• Ability to work well as a team player
• Excellent interpersonal and relational capability and communications skills;
• Excellent planning and visioning capabilities
• As required, proficiency in a language prevalent in the served community is preferred.
• Experience in supervising paid staff and volunteers is preferred.

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