Operations Director -Prince of Peace Catholic Church, Lake Villa, IL
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About the role
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Let's extract details.
About the role: combine description of Archdiocese and parish and role overview.
Paragraph: "The Archdiocese of Chicago, the third largest in the United States, serves more than 2.2 million Catholics in 216 parishes in Cook County and Lake County, a geographic area of 1,411 square miles. The Archdiocese, pastored by Cardinal Blase J. Cupich, has more than 13,000 employees in its systems and ministries, including Catholic Charities, the region's largest nonprofit social service agency. The Archdiocese also has one of the country's largest seminaries. The Archdiocese's 150+ elementary and secondary schools comprise one of the largest U.S. private school systems. Its schools have received 96 U.S. Department of Education Blue Ribbon Awards. Founded in 1955 in the northwestern section of Lake County, Prince of Peace is a healthy and vibrant parish community with more than 2,000 families and a solid school with about 220 students. Originally a small town, Lake Villa has grown in recent decades with the area but successfully maintains the hospitality and welcoming spirit of its small-town roots. The parish boasts many ministries and organizations that help people in the community feel like a family, and more importantly foster spiritual growth, formation, prayer, community responsibility, and intentionality in the life of discipleship. The parish has recently welcomed both a new pastor and a new principal for the school, and is looking forward to writing the next chapter in its history, one that works to elevate our spiritual lives and grow our community through new evangelization and orienting ourselves towards what is good, true, and beautiful in Christ and in our Catholic faith. The Operations Director (OD) will be a practicing Catholic, supporting the Catholic Church teachings, mission and values, serving as the professional administrator and strong strategic leader at one or more parishes of the Archdiocese of Chicago. The OD assists the pastor with the stewardship of the human, financial and physical resources of the parish, in accordance with Archdiocesan policies and guidelines. This role will be responsible for the leadership and team building of operations staff, including bookkeepers, office and maintenance staff. In this critical role, the OD will possess a Service Mindset, while being entrusted with highly confidential information, to work closely with the Pastor and Principal, where applicable, and the Director of Vicariate Operations, to drive positive financial and operational performance of the Parish. The OD demonstrates the ability to identify opportunities for improvement, evaluate issues and situations, and propose and implement recommendations/solutions."
That's a long paragraph but okay.
Now Responsibilities: list each bullet from sections.
Financial Management:
- Prepares, evaluates, and communicates the Parish (church & school) budgets, annual reports, profit & loss, balance sheet, accounts receivable, accounts payable, and general ledger.
- Develops monthly variance reports and reforecasts.
- Reviews all reports with the Pastor and Principal (as applicable).
- Ensures proper internal controls are in place and followed.
- Serves as Parish representative to banks, manages accounts, and identifies and resolves discrepancies.
- May perform bookkeeping functions including but not limited to, payables and receivables and all other Parish (church and school) revenue and expenses.
- Oversees purchasing, contract negotiations and vendor relationships.
- Acts as the staff liaison to Parish Finance Council; supports School Board as applicable and necessary.
- Coordinates capital campaign pledges and collections, fund raising events, pledge drives, Parish offertory collections and stewardship.
- Utilizes Archdiocesan best practices.
- Confirms that all federal, state and local taxes are paid in accordance with federal, state and local regulations.
School Support:
- Develops and manages the school economic model to assess the financial impact of initiatives (e.g. enrollment vs. tuition price vs. discounts vs. cost).
- Supports the principal in developing assumptions for the annual budget.
- Reforecast's school finances each fall after enrollment season.
- Supports and assists the Principal and Pastor in all school financial management matters.
- Tuition setting process
- Tuition collection process
- Financial aid process
- Expense tracking and management
- Serves as a member of the School Financial Aid Committee.
Buildings Management:
- Manages major repairs, renovations and capital projects in accordance with Archdiocesan policies.
- Acts as liaison to Archdiocesan administrative agencies.
- Manages custodial maintenance functions.
- Acts as a resource for the Building Committee.
- Is responsible for Parish security, leasing, rental, use of Parish facilities, and acts as a liaison to local government agencies.
Human Resources Management:
- Works closely with the Vicariate Human Resource Manager regarding all HR policies.
- Manages payment of salaries and benefits.
- Oversees the management of the Parish office (as applicable).
- Manages the Parish office staff and employee performance, including completion of performance management practices.
- Evaluates support staff through yearly performance reviews.
- Oversees implementation of the guidelines and policies of volunteers.
Communication/Information:
- Directs/oversees preparation of publication of relevant information presented on the Sunday Bulletin.
- Oversees the maintenance of the Parish census and database.
- Maintains Information Technology including but not limited to computers, internet, telephone, copiers, etc.
- Oversees the management of Parish operational and financial records.
Project/Team Management:
- Manages Parish project plans; identifies needs and required action, tracks and communicates status to relevant stakeholders, identifies challenges to plan progress and completion and makes necessary corrections, and implements initiatives as applicable progress and identifies follow-up actions.
- Organizes and facilitates weekly staff meetings to ensure all necessary information such as project plan status, new assignments, and status of regular responsibilities is communicated to and by team members in a timely manner and identify and address any challenges to progress and success.
- Brings ideas, plans, and best practices to the Parish from Vicariate and Archdiocesan meetings.
Now Requirements (must):
- Must be Catholic and demonstrate understanding, respect and support of the Catholic Church teaching, mission and values.
- Experience in Accounting, Finance, or related business practices.
- Able to identify opportunities for improvement, evaluate issues and situations, and propose and implement recommendations/solutions.
- Strong proficiency in QuickBooks and Microsoft Office, especially Excel.
- Experience in Human Resources practices, including people leadership, interviewing and selection, policy application.
- Be able to entrusted with highly confidential information. (Grammar: "Be able to entrusted" maybe keep as is.)
- Must hold bachelor's degree or higher in one of the related fields: Accounting, Finance, or Business Management.
Preferred (maybe Qualifications):
- Experience with a not-for-profit organization or in Church management.
Skills: Could list proficiency in QuickBooks, Microsoft Office (Excel), HR practices, financial analysis, etc. But we already have those in Requirements. Might be redundant. However we could still have Skills section listing: QuickBooks, Microsoft Office (Excel), financial reporting, budgeting, HR management, stakeholder communication, project management. But we need to ensure we don't invent details not in posting. The posting mentions those skills explicitly: Strong proficiency in QuickBooks and Microsoft Office, especially Excel. Experience in Human Resources practices, including people leadership, interviewing and selection, policy application. Ability to identify opportunities for improvement, evaluate issues and situations, propose and implement recommendations/solutions. Those are more like competencies. Could put under Skills.
But we already have them in Requirements. To avoid duplication, maybe we combine Requirements and Skills? But the instruction: use headings only when posting has real specific content for it. We have content for Requirements (must). We also have content for Skills (proficiency etc). Could separate.
But we must not repeat same content? Not prohibited but better to avoid redundancy. However we could keep Requirements as must-haves (education, experience, Catholic) and Skills as specific proficiencies (QuickBooks, Excel, HR). That seems okay.
Benefits: The posting: "The Archdiocese of Chicago offers a comprehensive total rewards package to include competitive compensation and benefit programs. Information about our benefit programs is available here." We'll put that as
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Pay: "This position has an annualized salary range of $65,570.00 - $81,963.00. An employee’s pay within the salary range will be based on many factors including but not limited to relevant education
for prose. We need to preserve all substantive information; do not invent or summarize away detail. We need to remove boilerplate etc. We need to output only HTML fragment. Let's structure:
About the role
... overview ...
Then Responsibilities: maybe break into subheadings? Not allowed; only headings from list. Could still have- with items that include the subcategories as text. But we need to preserve detail; we can include subheadings as plain text inside
- maybe using . That's okay.
But we need to use
- for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. So for responsibilities we can have a
- with each duty as
- . Could group similar duties but still each as separate
- . That will be many items but okay.
Similarly for Requirements: list.
Skills: maybe list.
Benefits: maybe
or
- ? It's a statement; we can use
. Pay: maybe
with salary range. Let's extract details. About the role: combine description of Archdiocese and parish and role overview. Paragraph: "The Archdiocese of Chicago, the third largest in the United States, serves more than 2.2 million Catholics in 216 parishes in Cook County and Lake County, a geographic area of 1,411 square miles. The Archdiocese, pastored by Cardinal Blase J. Cupich, has more than 13,000 employees in its systems and ministries, including Catholic Charities, the region's largest nonprofit social service agency. The Archdiocese also has one of the country's largest seminaries. The Archdiocese's 150+ elementary and secondary schools comprise one of the largest U.S. private school systems. Its schools have received 96 U.S. Department of Education Blue Ribbon Awards. Founded in 1955 in the northwestern section of Lake County, Prince of Peace is a healthy and vibrant parish community with more than 2,000 families and a solid school with about 220 students. Originally a small town, Lake Villa has grown in recent decades with the area but successfully maintains the hospitality and welcoming spirit of its small-town roots. The parish boasts many ministries and organizations that help people in the community feel like a family, and more importantly foster spiritual growth, formation, prayer, community responsibility, and intentionality in the life of discipleship. The parish has recently welcomed both a new pastor and a new principal for the school, and is looking forward to writing the next chapter in its history, one that works to elevate our spiritual lives and grow our community through new evangelization and orienting ourselves towards what is good, true, and beautiful in Christ and in our Catholic faith. The Operations Director (OD) will be a practicing Catholic, supporting the Catholic Church teachings, mission and values, serving as the professional administrator and strong strategic leader at one or more parishes of the Archdiocese of Chicago. The OD assists the pastor with the stewardship of the human, financial and physical resources of the parish, in accordance with Archdiocesan policies and guidelines. This role will be responsible for the leadership and team building of operations staff, including bookkeepers, office and maintenance staff. In this critical role, the OD will possess a Service Mindset, while being entrusted with highly confidential information, to work closely with the Pastor and Principal, where applicable, and the Director of Vicariate Operations, to drive positive financial and operational performance of the Parish. The OD demonstrates the ability to identify opportunities for improvement, evaluate issues and situations, and propose and implement recommendations/solutions." That's a long paragraph but okay. Now Responsibilities: list each bullet from sections. Financial Management: - Prepares, evaluates, and communicates the Parish (church & school) budgets, annual reports, profit & loss, balance sheet, accounts receivable, accounts payable, and general ledger. - Develops monthly variance reports and reforecasts. - Reviews all reports with the Pastor and Principal (as applicable). - Ensures proper internal controls are in place and followed. - Serves as Parish representative to banks, manages accounts, and identifies and resolves discrepancies. - May perform bookkeeping functions including but not limited to, payables and receivables and all other Parish (church and school) revenue and expenses. - Oversees purchasing, contract negotiations and vendor relationships. - Acts as the staff liaison to Parish Finance Council; supports School Board as applicable and necessary. - Coordinates capital campaign pledges and collections, fund raising events, pledge drives, Parish offertory collections and stewardship. - Utilizes Archdiocesan best practices. - Confirms that all federal, state and local taxes are paid in accordance with federal, state and local regulations. School Support: - Develops and manages the school economic model to assess the financial impact of initiatives (e.g. enrollment vs. tuition price vs. discounts vs. cost). - Supports the principal in developing assumptions for the annual budget. - Reforecast's school finances each fall after enrollment season. - Supports and assists the Principal and Pastor in all school financial management matters. - Tuition setting process - Tuition collection process - Financial aid process - Expense tracking and management - Serves as a member of the School Financial Aid Committee. Buildings Management: - Manages major repairs, renovations and capital projects in accordance with Archdiocesan policies. - Acts as liaison to Archdiocesan administrative agencies. - Manages custodial maintenance functions. - Acts as a resource for the Building Committee. - Is responsible for Parish security, leasing, rental, use of Parish facilities, and acts as a liaison to local government agencies. Human Resources Management: - Works closely with the Vicariate Human Resource Manager regarding all HR policies. - Manages payment of salaries and benefits. - Oversees the management of the Parish office (as applicable). - Manages the Parish office staff and employee performance, including completion of performance management practices. - Evaluates support staff through yearly performance reviews. - Oversees implementation of the guidelines and policies of volunteers. Communication/Information: - Directs/oversees preparation of publication of relevant information presented on the Sunday Bulletin. - Oversees the maintenance of the Parish census and database. - Maintains Information Technology including but not limited to computers, internet, telephone, copiers, etc. - Oversees the management of Parish operational and financial records. Project/Team Management: - Manages Parish project plans; identifies needs and required action, tracks and communicates status to relevant stakeholders, identifies challenges to plan progress and completion and makes necessary corrections, and implements initiatives as applicable progress and identifies follow-up actions. - Organizes and facilitates weekly staff meetings to ensure all necessary information such as project plan status, new assignments, and status of regular responsibilities is communicated to and by team members in a timely manner and identify and address any challenges to progress and success. - Brings ideas, plans, and best practices to the Parish from Vicariate and Archdiocesan meetings. Now Requirements (must): - Must be Catholic and demonstrate understanding, respect and support of the Catholic Church teaching, mission and values. - Experience in Accounting, Finance, or related business practices. - Able to identify opportunities for improvement, evaluate issues and situations, and propose and implement recommendations/solutions. - Strong proficiency in QuickBooks and Microsoft Office, especially Excel. - Experience in Human Resources practices, including people leadership, interviewing and selection, policy application. - Be able to entrusted with highly confidential information. (Grammar: "Be able to entrusted" maybe keep as is.) - Must hold bachelor's degree or higher in one of the related fields: Accounting, Finance, or Business Management. Preferred (maybe Qualifications): - Experience with a not-for-profit organization or in Church management. Skills: Could list proficiency in QuickBooks, Microsoft Office (Excel), HR practices, financial analysis, etc. But we already have those in Requirements. Might be redundant. However we could still have Skills section listing: QuickBooks, Microsoft Office (Excel), financial reporting, budgeting, HR management, stakeholder communication, project management. But we need to ensure we don't invent details not in posting. The posting mentions those skills explicitly: Strong proficiency in QuickBooks and Microsoft Office, especially Excel. Experience in Human Resources practices, including people leadership, interviewing and selection, policy application. Ability to identify opportunities for improvement, evaluate issues and situations, propose and implement recommendations/solutions. Those are more like competencies. Could put under Skills. But we already have them in Requirements. To avoid duplication, maybe we combine Requirements and Skills? But the instruction: use headings only when posting has real specific content for it. We have content for Requirements (must). We also have content for Skills (proficiency etc). Could separate. But we must not repeat same content? Not prohibited but better to avoid redundancy. However we could keep Requirements as must-haves (education, experience, Catholic) and Skills as specific proficiencies (QuickBooks, Excel, HR). That seems okay. Benefits: The posting: "The Archdiocese of Chicago offers a comprehensive total rewards package to include competitive compensation and benefit programs. Information about our benefit programs is available here." We'll put that as
. Pay: "This position has an annualized salary range of $65,570.00 - $81,963.00. An employee’s pay within the salary range will be based on many factors including but not limited to relevant education
- for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. So for responsibilities we can have a