Part Time Chaplain

• Facilitate one spiritual enrichment group per week for each residential unit (three groups total per week).
• Provide individual spiritual support, counseling, and guidance to youth upon request.
• Foster an inclusive environment that respects and supports diverse religious beliefs, spiritual practices, and cultural backgrounds.
• Develop and implement age-appropriate spiritual programming that promotes hope, resilience, personal growth, and positive values.
• Serve as a supportive resource for youth experiencing adjustment challenges, grief, trauma, or other life stressors from a spiritual perspective.
• Collaborate with program leadership to ensure spiritual services are delivered in a manner consistent with ORR requirements, program policies, and youth rights.
• Assist youth in accessing faith-based resources, services, or religious accommodations consistent with their identified preferences and program guidelines.
• Maintain appropriate documentation of services provided, as required by program procedures.
• Maintain professional boundaries, confidentiality, and ethical standards at all times.
• Demonstrate cultural humility, trauma-informed care principles, and sensitivity to the unique experiences of refugee and immigrant youth.
• Complete required ORR and KYUMH trainings including but not limited to: Code of Conduct, Prevention of Sexual Assault (PSA), Mandatory Reporting, and Zero Tolerance.
• Complete weekly documentation related to spiritual group activities and maintain required records in accordance with program and ORR requirements.

• Strong interpersonal, communication, and active listening skills
• Confidentiality
• Professional boundaries
• Empathy
• Respect for diverse faiths, traditions, spiritual beliefs, and cultural practices
• Cultural competence and cultural humility
• Trauma-informed care and sensitivity to the effects of trauma
• Compassionate and nonjudgmental approach
• Relationship-building and rapport development with youth
• Group facilitation and presentation skills
• Spiritual guidance and pastoral care
• Ethical decision-making and professional integrity
• Flexibility and adaptability
• Reliability and dependability
• Youth engagement and mentorship
• Understanding of child and adolescent development
• Ability to maintain a safe, inclusive, and welcoming environment

• High school diploma or equivalent

• Ordination, ecclesiastical endorsement, ministry certification, or formal theological training.

• Fluency in both English and Spanish, with the ability to communicate effectively with youth and staff.
• Experience working with children, adolescents, or vulnerable populations.
• Ability to pass all required background checks

• Bachelor’s degree in theology, ministry, religious studies, social work, counseling, or a related field.
• Experience serving as a chaplain, youth minister, pastoral counselor, or faith-based program leader.
• Knowledge of trauma-informed care and the impact of migration, displacement, and trauma on youth.
• Experience working with refugee, immigrant, or culturally diverse populations.

• Submit to federal and state background and fingerprint checks. 
• Submit to pre-employment and random drug screenings. 
• Maintain required trainings including CPR/First Aid. 
• Maintain ORR required vaccinations. 

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