The Director of Community Engagement and Outreach Initiatives (program director) provides administrative management and strategic direction to the Black Congregations Resource Center’s Preaching Project Compelling Preaching Initiative (BCRC/CPI) program. The aids the Dean (CPI Director), BCRC Director, and Doctor of Ministry Director in executing grant goals and objectives with program outcomes and assessment reporting responsibilities. The Director of role is strategic, administrative, infrastructural, and operational. The program director serves as a brand ambassador for the Black Congregations Resource Center’s Compelling Preaching Initiative (CPI) at Howard University School of Divinity and reports to the Dean/CPI Director and works in collaboration with Administrative Program Coordinator to identify, analyze and document effective preaching, congregational care, and social justice advocacy practices in Black congregations; develop a recruitment campaign to enlist ministry leaders and laity; and increase alumni engagement with HUSD.
Internal contacts include Administrative Coordinator, BCRC staff, Dean of Chapel, Finance and Grants Manager, Director of Advancement, Admission, Retention, and Recruitment Coordinator, and graduate students. External contacts include alumni, clergy leaders, church administrators, non-profit leaders and organizations, vendors, consultants, and the general public.