Location: Millswood Campus, Adelaide | Full-time | Applications close: Wednesday 25th June 2025 at 5pm

Are you passionate about supporting Christian higher education in a professional, personal and purpose-driven environment?

Tabor is a Private Higher Education Provider offering tertiary education grounded in a Christian perspective. With faculties in Ministry Practice, Humanities and Social Sciences, and Education, we equip students—future teachers, counsellors, youth workers, pastors, musicians, and creative writers—for flourishing in their personal, spiritual, and professional lives.

About the Role:

The Dean of Faculty Ministry Practice serves as the strategic and operational leader of the faculty, responsible for ensuring its ongoing growth, excellence in student learning, academic rigour, spiritual formation, and societal contribution. This role champions the development of a vibrant, Christ-centred academic community that equips students for transformative ministry and leadership locally and globally.

The Dean will shape and steward a faculty culture that integrates scholarship, faith, and practice; deliver on strategic goals; cultivate high-performing academic teams; and position the Faculty of Ministry Practice as a leader in Christian higher education, together with other senior leaders in the organisation as needed.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide inspirational leadership to the faculty as a whole, including academic excellence and spiritual growth.
• Develop and implement faculty strategic plans in alignment with institutional goals.
• Cultivate strong networks with stakeholders, in a way that authentically embodies the biblical principle of “becoming all things to all people” (1 Cor. 9:20–23).
• Promote a vibrant and collaborative faculty culture that unites theological depth, practical ministry, and academic rigour and highly supportive and relational student engagement.
• Lead with financial and academic literacy, understanding and managing faculty budgets in collaboration with the Chief Financial Officer.
• Champion a Christ-centred community, fostering identity, belonging, and purpose among faculty and students.
• Exercise problem-solving, innovation, and resilience in a complex and rapidly evolving educational environment.
• Lead within a multi-denominational context, respecting and embracing diversity in theological and ecclesial traditions amongst stakeholders, staff and students alike.

Key Competencies and Attributes

• Exceptional communication skills (written and oral).
• High emotional intelligence and self-leadership abilities.
• Strong interpersonal and team-building skills with the ability to build authentic relationships across diverse groups.
• Proven ability to lead and manage strategy and operations in a dynamic, changing environment.
• Attention to detail and organisational excellence.
• Ability to interpret and work with financial statements and budgets.
• Demonstrated commitment to Christian values and spiritual formation.

You will also bring:

• A minimum of five years’ experience in academia, ideally in a senior leadership role.
• An earned doctorate or current enrollment in a doctoral program.
• A deep and active alignment with Tabor’s Christian ethos and mission.

We Are Looking for Someone Who:

• Is passionate about Christian education and community development.
• Has a strong ability to build culture, corporate identity and synergy and a sense of belonging for stakeholders.
• Is a builder of collaborative teams and empowers others toward shared goals.
• Brings vision, authenticity, and a servant-leader mindset.

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