Catholic Religious Education and Community Coordinator

Job Title: Catholic Religious Education and Community Coordinator

Location: Brunssum, Netherlands

Duties:

• As a Religious Education Coordinator, applicant is to provide religious education classes utilizing volunteers from the Catholic Chapel services within the community.
• The applicant will recruit volunteers to coordinate and teach weekly religious education classes, schedule teacher training events, and support local Vacation Bible School programs.
• Performing promotional endeavours and advertising campaigns, maintaining adequate records of functions and attendance, requesting timely and appropriate religious education materials and classroom supplies as needed, coordinating teacher training classes and teacher appreciation events, and answering community inquiries regarding the religious education program are all tasks of the applicant.
• The applicant is to assist the Chapel Catholic Community with denominationally specific, professional, ecclesiastical support for the Catholic Liturgical Cycle requirements.
• The applicant provides coordination support for the EERS of Catholic worship, sacraments, rites, and ordinances.
• The applicant will coordinate those services required to support: coordination among the Government Catholic Priest and the Director of Religious Education USAG Benelux.
• The Applicant will provide denominationally specific administrative support and coordination for Catholic Masses, Sacraments of First Reconciliation, First Communion and Confirmation, preparation of Catholic Rites, Sacraments, and Ordinances, parents meetings for sacramental preparation, and special events in support of the liturgical year such as Advent, Christmas, Lenten/ Easter programs and holy days of obligation.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree with a major or minor in the area of Religious Education, or any educational field from an accredited university or two years of college and three years of work experience (paid or volunteer) as a Bible School teacher, Sunday School Superintendent, Director of Religious Education, Christian School teacher or related field or six years of work experience (paid or volunteer) as a Bible School teacher, Sunday School superintendent, Director of Religious Education, Christian School teacher or related field.
• Work experience in military chapel environments is desired.