Event & Volunteer Coordinator, Office of Young Adult & College Campus Ministry (YACCM)

Location: Downtown Indianapolis

Posted: September 22, 2025

The Event & Volunteer Coordinator (E&VC) commits to forming lifelong missionary disciples of Jesus Christ within the Archdiocese of Indianapolis by establishing intentional relationships with young adults (18-39) and equipping them for mission. This position has ownership for the vision and execution of the major community-building events for Indy Catholic, including Theology on Tap, Intramural sports, and First Friday Adoration. In addition, the E&VC will develop leaders through continuing to build the volunteer management system. This position is highly collaborative and requires excellent teamwork skills.

Responsibilities:

  • Live a life of prayer, especially through scheduled daily prayer, daily mass, and frequenting confession.
  • Lead all community-building events for Indy Catholic programming, creating essential space to evangelize young adults in the Indy metro area:
    • Serve as the event lead for Theology on Tap, Intramural sports, and First Friday Adoration. This includes small and large-scale events and engages over 1000+ young adults per year.
    • Oversee and manage vendors, building relationships with local parishes, venues, and volunteers
    • Manage logistical needs of events (registration/ticketing, promotion, set-up, timeline, tear-down)
    • Write after-action reports, evaluating success of programming objectives and outcomes
    • Help build repeatable processes, templates, and best practices for Indy Catholic to create sustainability.
  • In collaboration with the YACCM team, contribute to the development of strategic plans, goals, and objectives for Indy Catholic, ensuring alignment with the vision of YACCM
  • Develop young adult leaders through management of a volunteer system:
    • Share the mission and vision of Indy Catholic with volunteers, creating buy-in
    • Recruit, form, and manage a volunteer team for seasonal events. This includes Theology on Tap, Intramural bowling, Intramural volleyball, and First Friday adoration.
    • Communicate regularly with the team to provide logistics, ongoing feedback, and direction for volunteer roles.
  • Drive communication and marketing for Indy Catholic to creatively share the Gospel in our parishes and the digital space:
    • Lead website development for indycatholic.org, including roadmap, design, and maintenance
    • Promote role-related events via email and social media through Indy Catholic accounts.
  • Represent the Archdiocese at national, regional, and local gatherings for young adult ministry.
  • Communicate with other diocesan offices to fulfill YACCM’s mission and priorities.
  • Fulfill the duties of the office, including attendance at all team meetings, weekly one-on-one’s with the Director, and Department-wide meetings and events.
  • Other duties as necessary to ensure efficient functioning of YACCM.

Skills, knowledge, and/or abilities:

  • Excellent organization and planning skills
  • Confidence in decision-making, able to take responsibility for an area
  • Comfort in presenting to a large-group and confidence in public speaking
  • Excellent interpersonal skills, ability to communicate with a high level of professionalism
  • Ability to handle multiple projects and priorities simultaneously
  • Is self motivated and diligent, consistently looks for the next-step or opportunity without prompting
  • Shares credit, emphasizes the team over self, and defines success collectively rather than individually
  • Is interpersonally appropriate and aware, has good judgement and intuition and understands the impact of their words and actions
  • Has a creative and relevant understanding of communicating the Gospel to the young Church
  • Willingness to foster the church’s mission

Education, training, and/or experience:

  • Has previous professional pastoral ministry experience with young adults in a parish or campus setting
  • Has training from a pastoral or evangelical organization in the Church and/or a Bachelor’s degree in a related field
  • Project management experience
  • Volunteer management experience preferred
  • Is a practicing and faithful Catholic in good standing, with a theological and ministerial perspective consistent with current Church documents
  • Must be able to understand and to comply with the Archdiocese of Indianapolis Code of Conduct
  • Must be able to successfully complete the Archdiocese of Indianapolis Child Safety Training
  • Background screening required
  • Valid driver’s license required

Working Environment

  • This is an onsite role at the Catholic Center working Monday – Thursday
  • Frequent evening and weekend work based on business need
  • Provides own transportation and is reimbursed for travel according to the archdiocesan norms
  • Must be able to maneuver equipment and ministry supplies through ministry settings, ensuring proper set-up for events

Interested candidates should send a cover letter and resume to Meagan Morrisey, Director of Young Adult & College Campus Ministry, at mmorrisey@archindy.org.

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