Boston College Introduction
Founded in 1863, Boston College is a Jesuit, Catholic university located six miles from downtown Boston with an enrollment of 9,654 full-time undergraduates and 5,072 graduate and professional students. Ranked 37 among national universities, Boston College has 923 full-time and 1,336 FTE faculty, 2,822 non-faculty employees, an operating budget of $1.4 billion, and an endowment in excess of $3.9 billion.
Job Description
The Curriculum Development Specialist for So I Send You will develop a curriculum to be used in the So I Send You Program, a five-year project of the Boston College Clough School of Theology and Ministry (CSTM) which will offer formative experiences to 160 pastoral leaders (both ordained and lay) from 16 parishes in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston (RCAB), organized into four cohorts over four years.
The So I Send You curriculum will be a multilingual, modular resource designed to support parish leaders in understanding and practicing synodal leadership. Developed in collaboration with the So I Send You Assistant Program Director and cultural competency experts, the curriculum will:
- Take the form of a clear, practical, well-researched, and accessible modular resource.
- Primarily draw from the 2024 Final Document of the Synod on Synodality (FDSS), supplemented by complementary sources.
- Include practical tools for leadership development, community engagement, and spiritual formation.
- Be piloted and refined through feedback from participating parishes.
- Be adapted and available in Spanish, Portuguese, Haitian Creole, and Vietnamese to reflect the significant linguistic diversity in the RCAB.
- Be available to all parishes and organizations in the RCAB and beyond.
- Inform the eight educational sessions, especially the online course, launched in Year 3, as well as possible future Continuing Education offerings.
This role requires strategic planning, content creation and evaluation, communication, a depth of knowledge of, appreciation for, and commitment to Catholicism and the Roman Catholic Church, and a deep understanding of and appreciation for Roman Catholic polity overall.
The Curriculum Development Specialist holds primary responsibility for developing the curriculum for the So I Send You Program, which will be used with the parishes participating in the program and beyond.
The Curriculum Development Specialist will use the primary themes for the So I Send You programming
Theological Foundations
Practical Leadership Skills
Pastoral Models and Peer Sharing
Spiritual Formation in Synodal Spirituality
Advanced Leadership Development
to develop content for multiple modalities. Drawing upon the 2024 Final Document of the Synod on Synodality, the Curriculum Development Specialist will identify and engage content experts as well as creatively manage input from So I Send You stakeholders.
This is a part-time, grant funded position with funding through Spring 2027. The position will be 10-15 hours per week beginning in June 2026.
Hiring Range: $32.64/hr to $40.80/hr. Pay rate commensurate with relevant experience.
Requirements
The Curriculum Development Specialist should possess:
- Adaptability, flexibility, and strong judgment skills;
- Pastoral sensitivity, warmth and diligence to questions, issues, and challenges related to parish and ecclesial life and ministries;
- Creative responses to institutional, financial, logistical, and interpersonal challenges.
Requirements
- Excellent communication skills, both written and oral
- Motivated to learn new skills: interest in learning new programs and concepts in Internet technology and best practices, research new tools, training, assessment and process adoption.
- Strong organizational, communication and proofreading skills required.
- Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously, work independently/as team member.
- Detail-oriented
- Adept at problem-solving
- Creative
- Able to work well with groups of people
- Cultural competency and sensitivity, with sensitivity to linguistic diversity preferred.
- Knowledge of and commitment to formative theological education for ministry in the Roman Catholic tradition.
- Pastoral sensitivity, warmth and diligence to questions, issues, and challenges related to parish and ecclesial life and ministries;
- A depth of knowledge of, appreciation for, and commitment to Catholicism and the Roman Catholic Church.
- An understanding of Roman Catholic polity.
Education/Training and Certification, Licensure, Registration Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree required with a strong preference for a degree either in theology, education, or administration
- Experience working in an educational environment is preferred
- Any certification or attestation in pastoral ministry, adult faith formation, intercultural competency or curriculum design is a plus
Experience
The candidate should have at least 2 years of increasingly responsible professional experience, preferably in secondary and/or higher education.
Closing Statement
Boston College offers a broad and competitive range of benefits depending on your job classification eligibility:
- Tuition remission for Employees
- Tuition remission for Spouses and Children who meet eligibility requirements
- Generous Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
- Low-Cost Life Insurance
- Eligibility for both University-Funded 401k and Employer-Sponsored 403b Retirement Plans
- Paid Holidays Annually
- Generous Sick and Vacation Pay
- Additional benefits can be found on https://www.bc.edu/employeehandbook
Boston College conducts pre-employment background checks as part of the hiring process.
Boston College is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of any legally protected category, including disability and protected veteran status. Boston College's Notice of Nondiscrimination can be viewed at https://www.bc.edu/nondiscrimination.
