Senior Spiritual Formator for Employees I

The Se nior Spiritual Formator for Employees I designs, implements, facilitates, and evaluates spiritual formation programs and activities for employees of assigned units.

The position supports the University's aim to hone and enrich the community's talents, identity, values and character through structures and age-appropriate opportunities guided by the Ignatian tradition and pedagogy.

I. Program Design

• Plans and designs spiritual formation programs and activities that address employee needs in alignment with the Ignatian Spirituality Formation (ISF) Framework, ensuring consistency with the Office's mission and goals
• Develops session content, prayer guides, and program flow for talks,

spiritual conversations, recollections, and retreats
- Prepares semestral and annual reports, budgets, presentations, and other

documents for respective programs in consultation with concerned persons and/or teams
- Recruits and trains a pool of facilitators and staff to support retreats and other formation activities
- Collaborates with partner coordinators, offices, and departments for integrated formation programs, ensuring alignment where needed

II. Program Implementation

• Monitors the execution of formation programs before, during, and after events, ensuring alignment with objectives and quality standards
• Provides individual/group spiritual direction/accompaniment and guidance
• Facilitates talks, prayer sessions, spiritual conversations, recollections, retreats, and retreat supervision
• Monitors employees' spiritual formation journey by maintaining participation records, reviewing attendance and feedback, and ensuring their completion of the prescribed program cycle
• Serves as liturgical minister when needed, assisting in the preparation and facilitation of liturgical celebrations and ensuring that these are conducted in a prayerful and meaningful manner
• Represents the Office in engagements with external individuals and organizations regarding formation programs and services

III. Program Evaluation

• Develops or uses current evaluation tools such as surveys, interviews, and focus groups to gather feedback on program runs, and analyzes the data collected to derive actionable insights and recommendations for enhancing program formation strategies
• Attends regular meetings for team planning and evaluation of the Office's programs and activities and takes minutes as needed

IV. Performs other work-related tasks as may be required by the immediate supervisor and authorized representative Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Ignatian Spirituality and Formation: Strong knowledge of Ignatian spirituality concepts, values, and practices. Ability to design and facilitate reflective retreats, and recollections, and conduct spiritual conversations and spiritual direction that are appropriate and responsive to the needs of the participants
• Interpersonal Skills
• Networking and Relationship Management
• Communication Skills
• Customer Service Skills
• Organization Skills
• Technological Savvy
• Time Management

• Budget and Resource Management

• Minimum Qualifications: Bachelor's Degree graduate

• Graduate Degree or Certifications in Spirituality, Pastoral Ministry, Religious Education, Theology or Psychology is an advantage
• Background training related to Ignatian Spirituality or Campus Ministry
• With at least 3 years work experience as a formator
• With at least 5 or 8 day Ignatian retreat experience

The Ateneo de Manila University (Ateneo) is one of the leading universities in the Philippines. More than 150 years in existence, the Ateneo has grown into a major Jesuit institution. Officially it became a university in 1959. It offers over 100 academic degree programmes. Ateneo offers Basic Education (Grade School, Junior and Senior High School). In addition, the Loyola Schools (college) is made up of four schools (Social Sciences; Humanities; Science and Engineering; and Management) that offer graduate and undergraduate degrees, with a total enrolment of about 10,000 students per year. The Ateneo has 4 professional schools located in 3 campuses in Quezon City, Makati City and Pasig City (Business; Government; Law; and Medicine and Public Health), with about 4,000 professional postgraduate students. It has an array of research centres, 11 of which are recognized as Centres of Excellence by the Philippine Commission on Higher Education. In addition to a European Studies Programme, it has a Centre for Asian Studies that fosters comparative research on East and Southeast Asia. The Ateneo has 207 partnerships with universities around the world (82 in Europe, 87 in Asia, 11 in Australia and New Zealand, and 27 in North and South America) and is a member of the ASEAN Universities Network and 3 other international university networks. The Ateneo's Rizal Library is the most advanced in the Philippines with over 307,000 titles in its collection and online access to most major academic journals.

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