Employment

St. Thomas Aquinas High School in Dover, NH is seeking a qualified DIRECTOR OF MINISTRY AND CAMPUS LIFE
for the 2023-2024 school year.

The Director of Ministry and Campus Life leads all religious and service activity in a school in which faith is central to our mission-driven purpose. He or she creates and facilitates opportunities for students to explore, grow, and deepen their faith through service and activities. The Campus Minister nourishes our Catholic identity and must be a practicing Catholic.

Student Experience includes those vital aspects of education and personal development that are not strictly academic, athletic, or performing arts. These are extracurricular clubs and organizations, guest speakers, and school-wide community meetings and presentations. Often these experiences can be as impactful in a student’s life as anything a student learns in a traditional classroom. We believe these experiences are so important to our school culture and student life that we schedule daily time for them.

The Director of Ministry and Campus Life shall organize:

• Monthly masses and prayer services
• Campus observation of liturgical seasons and sacramental life
• Class-wide retreats
• A ministry-based Winterterm offering for a week in March
• Community service activities throughout the year
• Saints Taking Action, our school-wide community service day
• Service trips taking place on weekends, vacation weeks, and during the summer
• Young Neighbors In Action, a week-long summer program
• Student charitable giving such as dress-down days

The Director of Ministry and Campus Life shall:

• Nurture robust extracurricular clubs
• Work with the Principal to identify club advisors and support them
• Foster the development of student leaders within these clubs
• Schedule guest speakers for school-wide assemblies. Speakers might include public officials, community leaders, prominent alumni, employers, people who have unique experiences or stories to tell, and other achievers who can connect our students to the real world, lift their horizons, and serve as role models
• Coordinate with our Chaplain in regard to liturgy, sacraments, and Catholic Identity.
• Be present to the school community at large by attending and participating in school-sponsored events whenever able
• Facilitate opportunities for colleagues and members of the STA community to engage in faith activities
• Work with off-campus organizations that provide opportunities for students to foster faith and service

Qualifications:

• Ability to support and enhance the Catholic mission of the School and desire to contribute to a comprehensive, high performing High School
• Bachelor’s degree in theology or other related field required, Master’s degree preferred
• Dynamic, flexible, creative, adaptive personality
• Ability to build relationships with students and counsels students on matters of faith
• Ability to create a welcoming environment for people of all faiths
• Ability to create and provide opportunities for students to develop leadership skills

Please submit a cover letter, resume, transcripts, NH Certification and contact information for professional references to Stephanie Bolduc, Manager of Administrative Services, 197 Dover Point Road, Dover, NH 03820 or sbolduc@stalux.org. Candidates selected for an interview will also be required to fill out a Diocesan Teacher Application