UUA Chaplain

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Offsite

Salary Range: $15,000.00 To $15,000.00 Annually

Updated: October 1, 2025

Title: UUA Staff Chaplain

Staff Group: Administration

Reports To: Vice President of Programs and Ministries

Location: Open*

Job Category: Contract

Hours/Week: Up to 15-20 hours per month

* Location is open in the continental United States. You should have easy access to a major airport due to the travel requirements of this position.

Purpose

To provide spiritual and emotional support for UUA Staff in one-on-one and group contexts.

• Serves as the on-call Chaplain for UUA staff, providing basic virtual one-on-one pastoral care as requested.
• Creates occasional events for group spiritual care, nourishment, and grounding that are open to all UUA staff or particular groups (by role, staff group, identity, etc.)
• Creates and leads UUA staff chapel services, or gatherings for prayer/reflection, every other month.
• When requested by the General Assembly & Conference Services team, assists in the training of the General Assembly Chaplain Team, and works with the team to clarify expectations for that team and staff chaplains.
• Creates gathering spaces, meditation opportunities, vigils, circles, or other supportive community formats as needed for UUA staff in response to traumatic events in the world or within the UUA.
• Provides in-person support for occasional in-person UUA events, to be negotiated with supervisor.
• Provides ongoing or one-time support, when requested and as time allows, to committees or teams led by UUA staff.
• Performs other duties as requested by supervisor, the Executive Vice President, or the President.

Qualifications

This is a one-year contract position with an estimated $1,250 retainer fee each month. Note that qualifications may be met as a result of lived experience, volunteer work, professional experience, and/or formal or informal training. Note that qualifications may be met as a result of lived experience, volunteer work, professional experience, and/or formal or informal training.

• Master of Divinity or equivalent and completion of one or more units of Clinical Pastoral Education from an ACPE (Association of Clinical Pastoral Education) accredited center;
  Board Certification with BCCI (Board of Chaplaincy Certification, Inc.) is preferred.
• Deep understanding of current system theories in trauma-informed socio-emotional systems, especially related to the culture of Unitarian Universalism
• Ordained Unitarian Universalist Minister in active fellowship (preliminary or full) is preferred
• 3+ years of spiritual/pastoral ministerial experience is required
• Maintaining a grounded presence and high level of confidentiality under potentially stressful circumstances.
• Must be able to work independently and be highly self-motivated
• Flexibility to respond to requests for care within 24 hours; occasional ability to provide same-day care in urgent cases
• Fluency with Zoom and/or Teams technologies, as these will be the main platforms for provision of care
• Ability to travel to staff occasional in-person UUA events is preferred
• Understanding of issues around anti-racism, anti-oppression, and multiculturalism
• Work or lived experience with BIPOC communities is of particular value
• Eagerness to work in an organization in which the dismantling of white supremacy is a high priority

About the UUA

The Unitarian Universalist Association is a progressive religious denomination headquartered in Boston’s waterfront Fort Point Innovation District. Our faith community of more than 1,000 self-governing congregations brings to the world a vision of religious freedom, tolerance, and social…