[Hiring] Multicultural Vitality Coordinator @Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society

Role Description

The Multicultural Vitality Coordinator provides program coordination for multicultural church planting, revitalization, and redevelopment initiatives within the Congregational Vitality department of The Episcopal Church. The position cultivates relationships and partnerships with dioceses and communities, particularly those historically underrepresented in church planting, and helps ensure that congregational vitality strategies, programs, resources, and partnerships are culturally responsive and rooted in the lived experiences of diverse communities.

This position serves as a multicultural connector, facilitator, and resource within the Congregational Vitality Department, helping coordinate cross-departmental support and resources while accompanying diocesan partners through the assessment, development, implementation, and ongoing support of multicultural congregational vitality initiatives.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and relevant experience.
• Three to five years of experience in ministry leadership, multicultural ministry, congregational development, church planting, program coordination, community engagement, or a related field.
• Demonstrated experience building trusted relationships and working collaboratively across cultures, languages, racial and ethnic communities, and geographic contexts.
• Demonstrated commitment to cultural humility and culturally responsive approaches to ministry, leadership, and community development.
• Working knowledge of The Episcopal Church’s structures, polity, and ministries, or demonstrated experience working effectively within a comparable denominational, churchwide, or nonprofit context.
• Strong relationship-building and partnership-development skills, with the ability to work collaboratively with diocesan leaders, congregations, ministry practitioners, churchwide staff, and community partners.
• Strong facilitation skills and experience creating spaces for listening, shared learning, collaboration, and relationship-building.
• Strong program and project coordination skills, including the ability to manage multiple initiatives, relationships, timelines, and stakeholders.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to communicate effectively and respectfully across diverse cultural contexts.
• Ability to listen to and synthesize perspectives from multiple communities and translate learning into practical strategies, resources, programs, and partnerships.
• Ability to work independently in a remote environment while collaborating effectively with a geographically and culturally diverse team and network of partners.
• Ability and willingness to travel for diocesan visits, gatherings, cohorts, meetings, and other program activities.

Requirements

• Graduate education or advanced training in theology, ministry, intercultural studies, community development, organizational leadership, or a related field.
• Ordained or lay ministry experience within The Episcopal Church.
• Familiarity with the ethnic ministries and multicultural networks of The Episcopal Church.
• Bilingual or multilingual proficiency, especially in a language represented among communities served by The Episcopal Church.

Benefits

• This position regularly requires prolonged computer use and participation in virtual meetings.
• Frequent written and verbal communication.
• Ability to organize, transport, and set up event materials.
• Travel by air and ground transportation and navigate hotels, conference facilities, churches, and other event sites.
• Occasionally requires lifting or moving materials weighing up to 25 pounds.

Company Description

The Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society has worked hard to foster a work environment that is achievement-oriented, self-actualizing, encouraging and affirmative of the value of both Society colleagues and our customers. Every employee of the Society is valued for how work is done as well as what work is done.

The Episcopal Church Center is an equal opportunity employer and we actively seek qualified candidates from protected groups as defined under Federal and New York State laws as well as General Convention resolutions. We do not discriminate in employment decisions on the basis of race, color, ethnicity, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, disability, marital or military veteran status.