Graduate Student Employee Monthly - Resident Chaplain - BC

Baylor University•Waco, TX

51d•Onsite

About The Position

The Resident Chaplain will live in an on-campus residential community as a pastoral presence. This role of “chaplain-in-residence” is to be an incarnational ministry, focused on relationships, spiritual care, and formation, as well as leadership within the residential community. The Resident Chaplain will work to be a visible and known presence in the residential community.

Requirements

Graduate student status
Ability to live in an on-campus residential community
Focus on relationships, spiritual care, and formation
Leadership within the residential community
Ability to be a visible and known presence
Ability to build intentional, ongoing relationships with residents
Ability to offer pastoral care to those in need
Ability to meet with and maintain contact with residents in crisis
Ability to provide spiritual direction, guidance, and care
Ability to make appropriate referrals
Ability to offer theological perspectives and spiritual guidance
Ability to encourage spiritual development of students
Ability to lead spiritually formative experiences
Ability to develop and maintain programs for residents
Ability to encourage student participation in local communities of faith
Ability to lead verbatim discussions
Ability to attend Spiritual Life didactics
Ability to participate in weekly meetings and individual supervision

Responsibilities

Regular participation in weekly residence hall staff meetings and regular meetings with both the Residence Hall Director and Spiritual Life Supervisor.
Leadership with and participation in residential life, events, and gatherings.
Intentional, ongoing relationship building with residents.
Being highly visible through various activities and creative use of media (newsletters, fliers, social media).
Meeting with and maintaining contact with residents who are in a crisis, including hospital visitation, grief care, and supporting those having health, academic, relational, and spiritual difficulties.
Being available for ongoing spiritual direction, guidance, and care.
Making referrals to the Chaplain’s office, Student Life case managers, Baylor Counseling Center, Title IX, and others in the Baylor community as appropriate.
Offering theological perspectives and spiritual guidance to residential staff.
Working with the residence hall staff, their Spiritual Life Supervisor, and other Spiritual Life Staff to encourage the spiritual development of students, through small group discussions, Bible studies, seminars, missional work, worship, etc.
Leading spiritually formative experiences for residents and developing/maintaining programs for their residents.
Encouraging student participation in local communities of faith.
Helping students to identify Spiritual Life as a community of ongoing care and spiritual development for the entirety of their Baylor experience.
Being responsible for leading verbatim discussions and attending Spiritual Life didactics.
Regular participation in Resident Chaplain weekly meetings and in individual supervision.