Dean of Online Students

Job Type

Full-time

Description

• Position Starts June 2025-

The Dean of Online Students provides high quality, personalized, pastoral care to our online student body, both by meeting with students individually and fostering an environment that enriches the online student experience and provides touchpoints for the students to grow in their spiritual life. This role requires experience in pastoral ministry as well as initiative and creativity to care for students scattered around the world.

Duties and responsibilities

1. Pastoral Care of Students

a. Proactively initiate ongoing conversation with each online student.
? Systematically interact with the student body, maintaining a record of interactions/attempts
? Follow up with students relating to previous conversations or known needs.

b. Contact students who are flagged by faculty and/or staff as in need of pastoral contact.

2. Student Engagement

a. Design and employ creative avenues for student interactions that promote the... spiritual good of the students
? Monthly virtual coffee house: Set the topic and write a short devotional; Facilitate discussion via Zoom

b. Oversee the Core Advisory Team (student volunteer group) in their peer-to-peer student ministry and student/alumni engagement efforts

c. Collaborate with the Student Success team in retention efforts.

3. Support Seminary mission through travel to conferences and other Seminary-sponsored gatherings.

4. Other duties as assigned by supervisor.

Requirements

Qualifications
? Master's degree required; post-graduate studies preferred
? Ordained in a NAPARC denomination required
? Demonstrated ministerial experience required
? Strong familiarity and appreciation for Westminster's mission, theology, and instruction

Attributes
? Excitement around meeting and getting to know new people
? Bias towards serving others and building relationships
? Strong in team collaboration and communication; elicits trust, confidence, and ambition in team members
? Eagerness to learn and flexibility to try new things
? Exhibits wisdom, care, and kindness in workplace

This is a full-time, exempt position.

This job can be performed remotely, with occasional visits to campus required.

Leadership Accountability
? This position may supervise or coach employees.
? This position may be responsible for performance evaluations for subordinates.
? This position may make hiring and pay recommendations or termination recommendations.

Westminster Competencies

A successful employee will exemplify these competencies as they fulfill their duties and responsibilities:

Demeanor: Embodies the fruits of the Spirit in the office, interacts with people lovingly, joyfully, peacefully, patiently, kindly, faithfully, gently, and in a self-controlled manner.

Organization: Organizes their work in such a way that co-workers could find key resources/documents, and/or provide the tools necessary to succeed.

Communication - Equips supervisors and co-workers by communicating in a clear, kind, and timely manner

Initiative & Innovation - Identifies problems and/or solutions without being asked and consistently develops fresh perspectives, insights, and creative problem solving that help the team more efficiently and/or effectively achieve departmental and institutional goals.

Effectiveness & Dependability - Supervisors can trust you to produce timely, high quality, and generally error-free work with an appropriate amount of time and resources, that you fulfill your commitments, are on time to meetings, and provide advance notice of either delays or failures to meet goals.

Teamwork / Service - Clears the way for the success of others by providing support to their teammates in whatever way is needed;

Technical Proficiency - Effectively utilizes platforms and systems to help the team achieve institutional and departmental goals

Westminster Theological Seminary hires only personnel who belong to a Protestant evangelical church and subscribe to Biblical orthodoxy (belief) and orthopraxy (practice). Employees shall affirm their agreement with the historic, trinitarian Christian faith as expressed in the Apostles' Creed. Otherwise, Westminster Theological Seminary is an equal opportunity employer, dedicated to providing equal employment and advancement opportunities to all individuals, except as specifically allowed by federal and state law, and basing employment decisions on merit, qualifications and training. Westminster Theological Seminary does not discriminate in employment opportunities or practices on the basis of race, color, religion (except as religion is a bona fide occupational qualification), sex, national origin, age, disability or any other classification protected by law.

In accordance with the above paragraph, all employees are required to sign Westminster Theological Seminary's community life policy affirming their commitment to Christian belief and practice as described in the policy

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