Candidates must be practicing Catholics who embrace Ex Corde Ecclesiae and have demonstrated successful experience in progressively responsible administrative and educational leadership positions in a college setting. A doctoral degree is required, and evidence of earned tenure in an academic discipline is preferred. The incumbent must have demonstrated successful experience in strategic planning, entrepreneurship, fiscal management, resource allocation, and academic affairs personnel management.

Ideal candidates must be knowledgeable about curriculum design and its application to sound academic management; ability and skill in the design and application of methods for the evaluation of faculty and staff; ability to effectively communicate, verbally and in writing, complex ideas, and recommendations; ability to carry out the functions of leadership along a planned program of institutional direction; ability to develop and administer a budget of operations; ability to establish and monitor fiscal accountability within areas of responsibility; and a commitment to shared governance in a collegial environment.

Candidates must wholeheartedly embrace the unique mission of the college to educate students in the liberal arts and sciences so that in all things God may be glorified. It is necessary that the incumbent support and embrace the habits of excellence and virtue to foster the vision of Belmont Abbey College as a distinctly Catholic and Benedictine institution. The incumbent will consistently demonstrate skills, attitudes, and stable disposition of character to support the richness of our identity while fostering the development of mind, body, and spirit in our students, our staff, and the greater community.