What are the responsibilities and job description for the Pastor-to-Pastor Team Coordinator position at Presbytery of Greater Atlanta?
The Presbytery of Greater Atlanta is looking for a quarter-time Pastor-to-Pastor Team Coordinator. Our current coordinator will be retiring by May/June 2025. We are praying for a candidate who has a heart for ministry, pastoral care, self-care, soul-care, and equipping team members to be the hands and feet of Christ to the minister members and Christian Educators in the Presbytery of Greater Atlanta. Please send applications to ep@atlpcusa.org.
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POSITION: Pastor-to-Pastor Team Coordinator
REPORTS TO: Executive Presbyter
STATUS: Quarter-time, paid monthly stipend. Team members are volunteers. Presbytery paysexpenses (e.g., mileage, parking).
SUMMARY: The Pastor-to-Pastor (P2P) Team creates safe and sacred spaces to provide pastoral care to all clergy and certified Christian Educators in the Presbytery. The Coordinator is responsible for the P2P Team and coordinates meetings and activities and serves as ex-officio on the Committee on Ministry (COM).
RESPONSIBILITIES:
1. The Coordinator ensures that each P2P Team member has a focus on a special interest group of ministers or educators, such as but not limited to: African American, honorably retired, validated ministers, installed female pastors, and installed male pastors, equal/under 40 young pastors noting that members at large are included in each group. Team members maintain contact with each minister in their group, responding to situations of concern and sending welcome notes.
2. The Coordinator prepares and electronically distributes a monthly Pastoral Team Report highlighting illness, deaths, etc. as well as awards and recognitions; collaborates and coordinates with clergy-led cohort; maintains P2P Team lists; and sends out special reports for deaths of PGA clergy.
3. The Coordinator convenes quarterly P2P Team meetings to coordinate activities and share information about pastoral care of clergy and certified educators. The Executive Presbyter is the staff liaison.
4. The Coordinator is the P2P group leader for the Presbytery staff and members of the P2P Team.
5. The coordinator creates, coordinates and attends quarterly clergy gatherings.
6. The Coordinator is invited to meetings of the Committee on Ministry (COM) as an ex officio member without vote.
7. The Coordinator offers time-sensitive feedback to the Executive Presbyter to deepen, develop, and delegate the P2P Team.
PREFERRED SKILLS:
• Ordained PC(USA) clergy or ruling elder (eligible for commissioning as a Commissioned Ruling Elder)
• Extensive experience in pastoral care and/or chaplaincy
• Technical capability in the following areas: Email, Zoom, Constant Contact, Realm, Squarespace, Outlook Email and Calendar, Microsoft Teams, iPhone/Android with messaging capability
• Ability to drive to attend meetings and visits
• A desire to serve and support with joy and compassion
CONFIDENTIALITY: It is most important that the P2P Team exercises confidentiality in its contacts and care for clergy, except where reporting is required by law or the PC(USA) Book of Order (see below). The work of the P2P Team is not intended as a substitute for professional counseling or therapy when required for appropriate self-care.
G-4.0301 Trust and Confidentiality In the exercise of pastoral care, ministers of the Word and Sacrament and ruling elders who have been commissioned by a presbytery to limited pastoral service (G-2.10) work to create communities of trust, accountability, and confidentiality while protecting the vulnerable.
Confidentiality creates safe and sacred space for individuals to share concerns, questions, and/or burdens and seek spiritual guidance. Confidentiality should not be an excuse to hold secret the knowledge or risk of harm especially when related to the physical abuse, neglect, sexual abuse of a minor or an adult who lacks mental capacity. Ministers of the Word and Sacrament and commissioned ruling elders shall hold in confidence all information revealed to them in the course of providing care and all information relating to the exercise of such care except: When the person whose confidences are at issue gives express consent to reveal confidential information, then a minister of the Word and Sacrament or a commissioned ruling elder may, but cannot be compelled to, reveal confidential information, or when a minister of the Word and Sacrament or commissioned ruling elder reasonably believes that there is risk of imminent bodily harm to any person.
G-4.0302 Mandatory Reporting Any member of this church engaged in ordered ministry and any certified Christian educator employed by this church or its congregations, shall report to ecclesiastical and civil legal authorities knowledge of harm, or the risk of harm, related to the physical abuse, neglect, and/or sexual molestation or abuse of a minor or an adult who lacks mental capacity when (1) such information is gained outside of a confidential communication as defined in G-4.0301, (2) she or he is not bound by an obligation of privileged communication under law, or (3) she or he reasonably believes that there is risk of future physical harm or abuse.