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Careers at CCEF
Are you passionate about biblical counseling?
CCEF is a community of people who are passionate about the vision to restore Christ to counseling and counseling to the church. Our staff represent a broad range of experience, skills, and responsibilities that together work toward our mission year after year. Are you interested in joining our team? Check out our open positions below.
Open Positions
Dean of Faculty
Operations Administrator
Dean of Faculty
hours
Full-time, Exempt
reports to
Executive Director
Location
Hybrid (minimum 2 days onsite, weekly); Travel: <10%
description
There are two equally key elements in this role. First, the Dean of Faculty helps lead CCEF by representing the voice of the faculty to the Executive Director and the Leadership Team so that the faculty’s perspective can always be central to institutional decisions. Second, the Dean shepherds the faculty of CCEF in their content creation, both as individuals and as a team. This role ensures faculty receive needed support, evaluates faculty fidelity to CCEF’s distinctives and faculty integrity as ambassadors of CCEF, gathers and synthesizes faculty perspective on significant matters, and ensures that the faculty coordinates well with other departments.
responsibilities
General Responsibilities:
- Participate as a member of CCEF’s Leadership Team
- Determine the structure, budget, and staffing of the faculty
- Oversee the faculty onboarding process
- Advise the Executive Director (XD) on strategic content creation goals for CCEF
Faculty Oversight:
- Actively pursue faculty and represent their perspectives to the Leadership Team. This includes:
- Pursuing individual faculty to know their organizational experience and content interests
- Ensuring the faculty’s opinion is understood by the Leadership Team on all appropriate matters, especially issues of theology and philosophy of ministry
- Ensure the faculty receives and grasps relevant information and perspective from the Leadership Team
- Mentor faculty and/or oversee a system providing mentorship and oversight for faculty in their content production and vocational development
- Oversee faculty meetings with a primary goal of facilitating high-level, candid engagement on the most significant issues in biblical counseling and CCEF content creation
- Identify needs and opportunities for faculty development (e.g., writing seminar, studying Scripture or a book together)
- Make recommendations to the XD and/or any committee appointed by the XD about which exceptions to the Westminster standards to allow for faculty
- Oversee wise, equitable, and fitting annual workloads for each faculty member
- Promote a consistency between what we teach and how we operate internally with each other as a Christ-honoring and collegial team.
Content Creation:
- Serve as a faculty member with an appropriately sized annual content creation menu
- Counsel a small but consistent caseload
qualifications
- Member in good standing of a gospel-centered local church
- Agreement with and enthusiastic support of CCEF’s mission and core beliefs
- Experience with CCEF’s materials, such as our courses, journal, books, etc.
- Relevant experience in cultivating relationships with colleagues; adept at contributing to a supportive, team-oriented work environment
- Significant alignment with the Westminster Standards or other Reformed confession
- Demonstrated ability to do groundbreaking practical theological work consistent with the distinctives of CCEF
- Willingness to engage in candid and constructive conversations regarding performance evaluations and opportunities for growth
- Demonstrates tact, discretion, and care in all communications; possesses a high comfort level with maintaining confidential information
- Ability to maintain flexibility and discipline, with strong planning, organizational, and self-management skills
- Ability to enable and encourage others to be a part of projects
- Ability to see projects through to completion to meet the desired results
- Maintain ongoing support, supervision, and direction to their staff
- Effective written and verbal communication skills
- Master’s degree required
Operations Administrator
department
Operations
hours
Full-time (40 hrs/week), Exempt
reports to
Director of Operations
Location
Hybrid (minimum 3–4 days onsite); Travel: <5%
description
Oversee and administrate the needs of the building & grounds and IT at CCEF that allow the organization to function in a healthy, godly, and efficient way.
responsibilities
Facilities
- Oversee contract workers such as snow plows, plumbers, masons, landscapers, etc.
- Maintain office equipment and their contracts
- Oversee onsite events
- Cleaning and stocking of the facilities
- Outdoor facilities maintenance
IT
- Set up new hires
- Manage relationship with outside IT firm and ensure helpdesk tickets are resolved
- Ensure onsite audio/visual needs are meeting the needs of remote and onsite employees
Customer Service
- Provide backup to customer service when needed to ensure that customer emails are responded to in a timely manner
- Provide backup to the front desk to welcome visitors, answer phones, etc.
Department Support
- Support the Director of Operations and Operations Manager with special departmental projects
- Provide administrative support to the department
qualifications
- Agreement and support of CCEF’s mission and core beliefs; experience with CCEF’s materials required
- Willingness to engage in candid and constructive conversations about performance evaluation and identify opportunities for growth
- Relevant experience in cultivating relationships with colleagues; adept at contributing to a supportive, team-oriented work environment
- Ability to maintain flexibility and discipline with strong planning, organizational, and self-management skills
- Demonstrates tact, discretion, and care in all communications; possesses a high comfort level with maintaining confidential information
- Ability to see projects through to completion that meets the desired results
- Strong project management and problem-solving skills
- Effective written and verbal communication skills
- CCEF coursework required
- Bachelor’s degree required
- Technological proficiency with experience in Google Suite, Microsoft Word, and Excel required
Employees must possess an appreciation for and congruence with the stated Christian mission of CCEF to restore Christ to counseling and counseling to the church by thinking biblically about the issues of living in order to equip the church to meet counseling-related needs.
To apply, please send resume and cover letter to Jill Butler, Director of Operations, at jbutler@ccef.org.