Job Description – Director of Spiritual Life

Job Title: Director of Spiritual Life

Department: Spiritual Development

Supervisor: Head of School

FLSA Status: Exempt

Summary

The Director of Spiritual Life exists to shepherd and strengthen the spiritual formation of the entire school community so that students, faculty, and families increasingly know, love, and follow Jesus Christ. This role ensures that biblical truth is not an add-on, but the integrating center of all teaching, relationships, and culture, shaping both the heart and mind of every student.

Through visionary leadership, relational discipleship, and strategic alignment, this role cultivates a cohesive, Christ-centered culture where spiritual formation is intentional, measurable, and deeply embedded across academics, student life, and community engagement. The Director equips educators to live out their calling as disciple-makers and ensures that the school’s mission is tangibly expressed in daily rhythms, institutional priorities, and long-term strategy.

Integral Qualities and Characteristics of a Lead Candidate:

• Deep alignment with the school’s mission and culture with faith for advancing God’s Kingdom
• Passion for Christian education and storytelling rooted in Truth and excellence
• Strong biblical leadership, relational wisdom, spiritual discernment, and pastoral care abilities
• Gifted communicator who can effectively teach, encourage, and inspire students and staff
• Collaborative leader who builds meaningful relationships across departments and grade levels
• Ability to engage students, faculty, and families with authenticity, grace, and biblical truth

Required Christian Qualities

• Is a born again Christian and has made a profession of faith of Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord.
• Believes the Bible to be the inspired, the only infallible, authoritative, inerrant Word of God.
• Accepts without reservation and lives by the school's Statement of Faith and Statement on Marriage, Gender, and Sexuality as a condition of employment and continued employment in this ministry.
• Manifests by daily example the highest Christian virtue, serving as a Christian role model both in and out of school.
• Glorifies God by partnering with parents within a Christ-centered community to instill a biblical worldview in students by educating, equipping, and encouraging in faith, excellence, and service.
• Integrates biblical principles and the Christian philosophy of education throughout instruction. ? Faithfully attends and financially supports a local church whose fundamental beliefs are in agreement with the school’s Statement of Faith.
• Has the conviction of being called by God to Christian school ministry.

Core Outcomes include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

• Outcome 1: A Clearly Defined and Lived Spiritual Formation Strategy

A coherent, PK–12 spiritual formation framework is implemented and consistently experienced across all divisions.

• Outcome 2: Faculty Equipped as Spiritual Leaders and Disciple-Makers

Faculty demonstrate confidence and competence in integrating biblical worldview and discipleship into their teaching and relationships.

• Outcome 3: Students Actively Growing in Faith and Christ-like Character

Students exhibit measurable growth in spiritual disciplines, biblical understanding, and Christ-like character.

• Outcome 4: Meaningful, Mission-Aligned Spiritual Experiences

Chapel, retreats, service opportunities, and discipleship programs are high-impact, aligned, and formative.

• Outcome 5: Parents Equipped and Engaged as Primary Disciple-Makers

Parents are meaningfully resourced, equipped, and supported to actively disciple and shepherd their children at home, resulting in stronger alignment between school and family spiritual formation.

Supervisory Responsibilities

Carries out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with NBCA’s policies and applicable laws. Responsibilities may include oversight of chapel teams, student leadership groups, spiritual programming volunteers, and other ministry-related initiatives. This role ensures alignment of spiritual development activities with the school’s mission, Statement of Faith, and overall strategic priorities.

Competencies To perform the job successfully, an individual should demonstrate the following competencies:

• Strong attention to detail; accuracy is a must.
• Job Knowledge - Competent in required job skills and knowledge; exhibits ability to learn and apply new skills; keeps abreast of current developments; requires minimal supervision; displays understanding of how a job relates to others; uses resources effectively.
• Implacably optimistic
• Continuous Learning - Assesses own strengths and weaknesses; seeks feedback to improve performance; pursues training and development opportunities; strives to continuously build knowledge and skills; shares expertise with others.
• Problem Solving - Identifies and resolves problems in a timely manner; gathers and analyzes information skillfully; develops alternative solutions; works well in group problem solving situations; uses reason even when dealing with emotional topics.
• Customer Service - Manages difficult or emotional student, parent, faculty, or staff situations; responds promptly to student, parent, faculty, or staff needs; responds to requests for service and assistance; meets commitments. ? Communications - Expresses ideas and thoughts verbally; expresses ideas and thoughts in written form; exhibits good listening and comprehension; keeps others adequately informed; selects and uses appropriate communication methods.
• Teamwork - Contributes to building a positive team spirit; puts success of NBCA above own interests; able to build morale and group commitments to goals and objectives.
• Written Communication - Writes clearly and informatively; edits work for spelling and grammar; varies writing style to meet needs; presents numerical data effectively; able to read and interpret written information.
• Performance Coaching - Defines responsibilities and expectations; sets goals and objectives; gives performance feedback; motivates for increased results; recognizes contributions; encourages training and development.
• Delegation - Delegates work assignments; sets expectations and monitors delegated activities.
• Managing People - Includes staff in planning, decision-making, facilitating, and process improvement; takes responsibility for subordinates' activities; makes self available to faculty and staff; provides regular performance feedback; develops subordinates' skills and encourages growth; continually works to improve supervisory skills.
• Business Acumen - Understands business implications of decisions.
• Conflict Resolution - Encourages open communications; confronts difficult situations; maintains objectivity; keeps emotions under control; uses negotiation skills to resolve conflicts.
• Impact & Influence - Uses authority appropriately to accomplish goals.
• Cost Consciousness - Works within approved budget; conserves organizational resources. ? Diversity - Promotes a harassment-free environment.
• Ethics - Treats people with respect; keeps commitments; inspires the trust of others; works with integrity and principles; upholds organizational values.
• Organizational Support - Follows policies and procedures; completes administrative tasks correctly and on time; supports organization's goals and values.
• Strategic Thinking - Develops strategies to achieve organizational goals; understands organization's strengths and weaknesses.
• Adaptability - Adapts to changes in the work environment; manages competing demands; changes approach or method to best fit the situation; able to deal with frequent change, delays, or unexpected events. ? Personal Appearance - Dresses appropriately for position; keeps self well groomed.
• Attendance/Punctuality - Is consistently at work and on time; ensures work responsibilities are covered when absent; arrives at meetings and appointments on time.
• Dependability - Follows instructions, responds to management direction; takes responsibility for own actions; keeps commitments; commits to long hours of work when necessary to reach goals.; completes tasks on time or notifies appropriate person with an alternate plan.
• Judgment - Displays willingness to make decisions; exhibits sound and accurate judgment; supports and explains reasoning for decisions; includes appropriate people in decision-making process; makes timely decisions. ? Planning/Organizing - Prioritizes and plans work activities; sets goals and objectives; organizes or schedules other people and their tasks.
• Safety and Security - Observes safety and security procedures; determines appropriate action beyond guidelines; reports potentially unsafe conditions; uses equipment and materials properly.

Qualifications

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Education and/or Experience

• Bachelor's degree from accredited four-year college or university in a related field.
• Minimum of 3 years of experience in pastoral ministry, student ministry, discipleship, chapel leadership, Christian education, student leadership, or spiritual formation leadership preferred.
• Demonstrated ability to lead spiritual programming, teach biblical truth, mentor students, and cultivate Christ-centered community within a team-oriented environment.

Language Skills

Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations. Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals. Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of students, parents, faculty, administrators, and the general public.

Reasoning Ability

Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists. Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.

Computer Skills

To perform this job successfully, an individual should have knowledge of RenWeb Database software; Google Drive Internet software; Excel or Google Sheets Spreadsheet software and Word or Google Docs Word Processing software.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to stand; walk; sit and talk or hear. The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision and distance vision.

Work Environment

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly exposed to outside weather conditions. The noise level in the work environment is usually loud.

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