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The Episcopal Church Office for Transition Ministry
Office of Transitional Ministry Platform
We find it a delight to collaborate with the Office of Transitional Ministry and to iterate the design of their nationwide jobs database. Their unique mission statement set the tone of our collaboration: “With our gifts, skills, and calls to ministry identified and shared we are poised to enter into ministry transitions with both confidence and vulnerability.”
For The Episcopal Church—which is composed of 109 individual dioceses in 17 nations—something as simple as posting job openings and internal hiring was a colossal task given that their platform was decades old. We created a web application that simplified and streamlined this process. Individual users maintain their professional profile on the platform so that higher-ups can mine their resumes and profiles to match them to the right positions. And individual worshiping communities (churches, schools, etc.) post their opportunities for individuals to search.
ApproachWe designed this platform from the database architecture to the user interface. Together these carefully engineered elements allow one to create a portfolio of information such as family demographics, salary requirements, unique skills, links to social media samples of one’s work—even one’s aspirations. These individual profiles can be mined and matched to job opportunities using a robust SOLR search engine. Users can carefully mine the data within the platform, save, and reuse their searches. They can also generate a PDF of any portfolio that interests them in their search for the perfect job or job applicant.
AdministrationThis mission-critical platform provides a sophisticated content administration workflow for the over 30,000 users who are updating their own information and also for the administrators who approve and publish content.
Features- Mobile-friendly design
- Fully-featured mapping interface to show job openings across the country
- Robust SOLR search engine
- PDF generation of portfolios
- Profile portfolios with demographics, skills, media samples, and aspirations