2014 Term
Student Director
Position Description and Responsibilities
The Duke Catholic Center has undergraduate Student Directors. All of these positions are “equal” in
responsibility, status, and remuneration. The Student Directors work as a team with each other, with the
Campus Ministers, the Business Manager, the Peer Ministry Coordinator and the Development Director.
Being a Student Director is a profoundly important privilege and responsibility. As the Bible says, we do not
take this task upon ourselves; rather God calls us to ministry and God gives the grace to complete it. Confident,
therefore, that God is calling and will empower those who are discerned to be the Student Directors for the
coming year, all of us at the Duke Catholic Center look forward to an exciting, dynamic, productive and
prayerful year!
You will truly serve as a “director.” You will be given large and important areas of responsibility to oversee.
You will develop and hone your people and management skills. You will develop administrative skills, such as
working within a budget and scheduling facilities and people’s time. You will become an excellent delegator,
cheerleader, and encourager. You will find yourself mediating disputes and helping your peers in stressful
situations. You will have to know how to enter into constructive dialogue with the professional staff and how to
take direction from them. You will work in the sometimes awkward context of being both a friend to and
“supervisor” for other students. You will also have to be careful to take care of your own needs in constructive
and life-giving ways.
Most importantly, you have to pray. Liturgical and group praying is essential. But even more important is the
need to have a lively personal prayer life for yourself. You will need to pray for each other on a daily basis, as
well as seeking spiritual guidance to nurture your own development. You will need to pray for the professional
staff here at the Catholic Center. All this depends on your own personal relationship with God. Nurture that
relationship before and above all other things.
Being a Student Director means that you will be a very public minister of the Catholic Christian faith. You will
want to live your life in accord with the Gospel message and the teachings of the Church. Understand that
students – especially younger students – will look to you for example and permission. Invite God to be part of
every dimension of who you are, guiding you, directing you, and protecting you.
Of course, you will continue to be a full-time student at Duke. Giving sufficient time to your schoolwork is
vitally important to being an effective Student Director. It’s important to “walk the walk” if we are going to
present the Catholic Center as an organization which is led by student leaders. Your grades ought not to suffer
as a result of your involvement in the learning activity of being a Student Director. You will, of course,
participate in other campus organizations, but Student Directors are expected to make the Catholic Center their
priority. The time commitment for each Student Director position is dependent upon activities during the week
or month. Some weeks will require greater amount of work time. If work is averaged over the year ten (10)
hours per week is the expected time commitment to fulfill the responsibility of this position.
Job related qualities for all Student Directors:
 Responsible, dependable
 Resourceful
 Organized
 Prompt and responsive
 Work collaboratively with other Directors, Coordinators, and community members
 Ability to recruit and coach other leaders
 Results oriented, Problem-solving
 Inclusive and driven to reach out to all within our community
 Personally making the Catholic Center the primary (although not only) extracurricular activity
General Responsibilities for all Student Directors
Mass and Holy Hour are foremost priorities. Celebrating Mass and Holy Hour well are foundational musts.
Student Directors as a team need to address and process all we do with attention to excellent Masses and Holy
Hours.
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Meet with your Ministry Coordinators as needed on an individual basis to encourage them, give feed-back,
hear suggestions and offer constructive criticisms (move to individual descriptions and relate the objectives
to each ministry)
Attend and participate in weekly Student Director meetings
Attend and participate in a Formation and Planning Retreat at the beginning of the calendar year (January
2013)
Attend and participate in August Formation and Planning Retreat
Attend Bishop’s Annual Appeal Deanery Dinner in January
Attend and participate in Beach Weekend in September
Attend and participate in Diocesan Convocation (October) and Ignited By Truth (February)
Attend and participate in Freshman Orientation Week
Attend and participate in Holy Hour each week
Be part of a weekly Small Faith Community to continue spiritual enrichment, or be involved in other
approved formation process (choir practice, or Mass ministry, freshmen outreach, etc.)
Act as liaison between staff and students in order to share comments, concerns, suggestions
Be trained as Liturgical Minister, e.g. Eucharistic Minister, Lector, Sacristan, Choir, Greeter
Be prepared to fill in if designated student leaders do not fulfill their tasks
Maintain records of all events, programs and activities for future planning
Support Catholic Student Center activities.
Overview of Responsibilities for Student Director of Liturgy
 Serve as key student leader for all Liturgical ministries for the Catholic Student Center.
 Recruit, coordinate, coach and supervise Student Music Ministry Directors, Sacristan Coordinators,
Eucharistic Minister Coordinator, Altar Server Coordinators, Lector Coordinators, Hospitality Coordinators,
Holy Hour Sacristan Coordinator, Holy Hour Music, and Collection Coordinator. One coordinator must
attend each Mass (one attend 11am and one attend 9pm).
 Ensure all Sunday Masses are properly staffed and set-up before/during, and cleaned after Mass, including
both Sunday Masses and all special event Masses (Holy Week, Holy Days of obligation, etc.). Sunday will
be primary workday – attendance at both Masses is required.
 Actively work at improving our Mass.
 Continuously recruit and mentor new people to be involved in this area of ministry, ensuring that leaders for
the future are being developed.