Key Facts

Remote From:

Austria , United States

Full time

English

Hard Skills

Religious Education Remedial Education Critical Reading Organizational Structure

Other Skills

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Professional Responsibility
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Verbal Communication Skills

Roles & Responsibilities

Knowledge of Unitarian Universalism
Understanding of religious education and professional ethics
Organized with good critical reading skills
Strong verbal communication skills

Requirements:

Maintain the credentialing program plan
Assess candidates for credentialing through written work and interviews
Keep the program plan up to date
Respond to substitution requests from candidates

Unitarian Universalist Association

About Unitarian Universalist Association

The Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA) is a religious organization that combines two traditions: the Universalists, who organized in 1793, and the Unitarians, who organized in 1825. They consolidated into the UUA in 1961. Both groups trace their roots in North America to the early Massachusetts settlers and to the founders of the Republic. Overseas, their heritages reach back centuries to pioneers in England, Poland, and Transylvania. Each of the 1,000+ congregations in the United States, Canada, and overseas are democratic in polity and operation; they govern themselves. They unite in the Association to provide services that individual congregations cannot provide for themselves. Each congregation is associated with one of the UUA’s 19 districts. Unitarian Universalism is a liberal religion with Jewish-Christian roots. It has no creed. It affirms the worth of human beings, advocates freedom of belief and the search for advancing truth, and tries to provide a warm, open, supportive community for people who believe that ethical living is the supreme witness of religion.

Founded: 2018

Company size: 201 - 500

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Job description

Purpose: The Religious Education Credentialing Committee administers and oversees the Religious Education Credentialing Program for the professional certification of religious educators for our UU congregations.

The makeup of the Committee contains:

3 people representing congregational lay leader perspectives
1 person representing a parish minister perspective
1 person representing a credentialed religious educator - master level perspective
1 person representing a faith development minister perspective
1 “observer” appointed by the Liberal Religious Educators Association (LREDA)

Key responsibilities: The Committee maintains the credentialing program plan, assessing candidates for credentialing, keeps the program plan up to date, responds to substitution requests from candidates, and assesses the candidates through written work and interview.

Requirements: Knowledge of and/or commitment to: Unitarian Universalism,, religious education, education, AR/AO/MC, worship, and professional ethics and safety. Organized, good critical reading skills, verbal skills.

Length of Term: 2 years, with up to 3 renewals, for a total of 8 years.

Meetings: quarterly two hour meetings (virtual); two longer meetings (virtual) in April and October, which include interviewing candidates, over the course of four days each; one in-person retreat, approximately every 18 months, requires travel (at cost of UUA)

Length of meetings: annual meeting is 1 week long, other meetings are 2 hours by Zoom

Additional important info: must be able to set aside the time for the week of interviews and travel; flexible work/school schedules work best on this team, but every effort is being made to minimize interruptions to a traditional 9-5 work schedule.

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