Fall Calendar Overview for Search

Part of The Settled Ministry Search Handbook

Here is an overview of the search team calendar for the Fall as you prepare your materials for your congregational profile and documents packet:

Search Team TaskTimeframe
Search team retreat with UUA’s trained facilitatorSummer at end of the first year of interim ministry
Submit application for Break Barriers, Build Beliefs (B4) workshopJuly-September
Host Break Barriers, Build Beliefs (B4) workshopSeptember-December
Congregational assessmentAugust-early October
Small group meetings/focus groupsSeptember-early November
Negotiating team selectedAugust-September
Negotiating team recommends contract (based on the Universal Ministerial Agreement) and compensation to board (informed by review of the Employer’s Participation Agreement on file with the UU Retirement Plan retirementplan@uua.org)October-November
Compensation worksheet due to UUA Transitions TeamNovember 30
Congregational record (search profile) finished and ready for reviewmid-November
Congregational record released (if approved) and visible to potential applicants December 1
Documents packet complete mid-December

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Visual colorful overview of the fall search calendar described in page text.