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Welcome! We’re Glad You’re Here!

High Plains Church, Unitarian Universalist, is a liberal spiritual community. We worship every Sunday morning at 10 A.M. at 1825 Dominion Way, Colorado Springs, CO (Directions to Church)

If you are interested in finding out more about our church or our religious movement, we invite you to explore our church covenant and mission, Unitarian Universalist principles and beliefs, our worship services, our Religious Education programs for all ages, and our church leadership and staff. You can also read our newsletter, see what’s happening in our on-line calendar, and check out past sermons by our minister, the Rev. Matthew Johnson-Doyle. If you are thinking about becoming a member of our church, you can find out more on our membership page.

We are proud to be a certified Welcoming Congregation, where gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender folks and their families are fully welcomed.

High Plains is a member congregation of the Unitarian Universalist Association, in its Mountain Desert District. Other Southern Colorado UU Churches include All Souls UU Church in downtown Colorado Springs and the UU Church of Pueblo.

Our office is located at 1825 Dominion Way, Colorado Springs, CO, 80918. We’d love to hear from you by mail, by email at info@hpcuu.org, or by phone at 719-260-1080.

We hope to see you soon!

  News: High Plains Seeks Office Manager
Posted by: minister on Tuesday, April 22, 2008 - 10:38 PM

Church News
High Plains Church, UU
Office Manager
Job Description

THE SETTING
High Plains Church, Unitarian Universalist is a rapidly-growing liberal spiritual community serving 160 adult members, 60+ friends and 100 children and youth. We have a full-time minister, a 20hr/wk Director of Religious Education, a 10hr/wk Director of Ministry to Youth, and contracted piano accompaniment and cleaning. We own 4.14 acres on N. Academy, with a 6125 sq. ft. main building and an 1800 sq ft. education building (and a 36-hole mini-golf course). The congregation is known for its warm welcome, commitment to spiritual depth, small group and religious education programs, and its fun attitude. We’re a great place to work!

JOB DESCRIPTION
The Office Manager is responsible for the smooth operations of administrative tasks for the church, so that volunteers, church leaders, and other staff members can succeed in furthering the church’s mission to build a liberal spiritual community that welcomes all to lives of wholeness.

Reports to: Minister
Works very closely with the congregation’s Church Financial Officer, the Membership Team (co-)lead(s), Facilities Use Team Lead, Building Maintenance Team Lead, and selected volunteers.

Average of 15 hours a week, with two weeks paid vacation per year, and reasonable sick and family leave. Work to be done on site at 1825 Dominion Way. Schedule is flexible. The employee may set regular hours as they wish, with the minister’s approval (ex: three five-hour days, two eight and a half-hour days, five 3 hours days, or other variations). At least 13 of the 15 hours should be regular posted hours.

Skills: The qualified employee will:
1. have excellent people skills, and be welcoming and warm to church members, friends, renters, visitors, and others with whom they interact. The office manager will often be the first impression of prospective church members, and should embody the spirit of hospitality so important to the institution.
2. be proficient at the use of Microsoft Access, Excel, Word and Publisher. (Quickbooks is big plus!)
3. have good writing and editing skills.
4. be able to take initiative, solve problems, and self-direct their work.
5. be discreet about financial data and other confidential or personal information.

Duty areas will include:
1. Database management – entering information about members, friends, and visitors, including financial information, and producing reports, including directories, labels, tax statements, and the like. Processing Electronic Funds Transfers.
2. Publishing – collecting submissions for and publishing the monthly newsletter; publishing orders of service as required (about 4-6 times a year), special requests.
3. Facility management – Overseeing rentals (contracts, access, etc), scheduling building use, alerting building volunteers of building issues as needed, being point of contact with cleaning company, etc.
4. Office management – answering phones, sorting mail, ordering supplies, keeping bulletin boards and the like up-to-date.
5. Website and e-lists maintenance – updating listserv subscriptions, managing some website content.
6. Other duties as assigned.

Compensation
12.00/hour.
No benefits available.
Included is 10 hrs of paid training time in June, dates and times at our mutual agreement.
Position may grow in future years and when and if it reaches 20hrs/week, employee will be eligible for health insurance and pension.

A financial background check is required.

TO APPLY
Send a letter of interest and a resume to the Rev. Matthew Johnson-Doyle (minister AT hpcuu.org) by May 12th.



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