Director of Community Outreach

Job title: Director of Community Outreach

About the Role Taylor University seeks a Director of Community Outreach to facilitate opportunities for faculty, staff, and students to serve others through missions, from local campus projects to week-long domestic mission trips during Spring Break, Summer, or other times. The role advances the university’s mission by fostering servant leadership and service opportunities in the Taylor community and the broader region.

What You'll Do

• Primary Oversight of Personnel: Student Leadership Team and Graduate Assistant (when applicable)
• Primary Oversight of Programming: Domestic Mission Trips (Spring Break/Summer), Community Plunge, Outreach within Upland, Grant County and the surrounding region, and ongoing service opportunities for students and employees to benefit Upland, Grant County, and the region
• Build and expand partnerships with Upland and Grant County-based ministries and service organizations
• Partner with 1846 Enterprises to help faculty, staff, and students invest in the town of Upland
• Strengthen initiatives and priorities of the Main Street Mile Initiative through service-based opportunities that engage Taylor constituents in serving our neighbors
• Recruit and develop student leader program and manage that team
• Oversee budget and all logistics for the Office of Community Outreach
• Serve on Taylor’s Service-Learning Committee and partner with academic faculty to spur service-learning opportunities across campus
• Other duties as assigned

What We're Looking For

• Master’s degree is preferred
• Experience in the areas of student development, campus ministries, community development, and/or local church ministry is beneficial
• Ability to affirm and support the University’s Foundational Documents (Mission Statement, Statement of Faith, Sanctity of Life Statement, Statement on Human Sexuality, Multicultural Philosophy Statement) and to uphold the Life Together Covenant