Chaplain & Community Engagement Coordinator

Chaplain & Community Engagement Coordinator

Safe Harbor Ohio exists to provide hope and healing to child survivors of sex trafficking and sexual exploitation.

As a member of the team, the Chaplain and Community Engagement Coordinator demonstrates humility and competence through servant leadership, inspires others to overcome all challenges with optimism and unwavering faith, and develops passionate people to fulfill the good works that God has prepared for them.

The Spiritual Program exists to bring hope and healing through the truth of the Gospel.

Job Title:

Chaplain and Community Engagement Coordinator

Department:
Administration

Reports To:

Chief Executive Officer

FLSA Status:
Exempt

SUMMARY:

The Chaplain and Community Engagement Coordinator develops, supervises, and monitors spiritual mentoring programs; identifying, vetting, and training potential volunteer religious services groups/individuals. Develops, maintains church partnership relationships.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

It is the responsibility of each employee to be a consistent witness for Jesus Christ and to adhere to the Statement of Faith/Standard of Moral Conduct. Further, each employee is responsible for dealing with others with a Christ-like attitude while helping them experience their worth in Christ and demonstrating behaviors reflecting relentless commitment, selflessness, and kindness.

Job-specific essential functions include the following:

• TEAM FIRST:
  Makes every effort to maintain a 'team first' spirit and atmosphere within the workplace environment, maintaining appropriate working relationships and promoting collaboration.
• Church Partnership Development & Donor Growth
• Builds, cultivates, and maintains strong relationships with local churches, faith-based organizations, and community partners to strengthen organizational support and expand opportunities for collaboration.
• Develops strategies to increase donations, recurring financial support, in-kind contributions and other resources that benefit the residents and programs.
• Volunteer Program Management
• Manages the entire volunteer process, including recruitment, outreach, screening, onboarding, orientation, scheduling, training, communication, engagement, and retention.
• Develops and maintains a reliable volunteer base while ensuring volunteers are appropriately matched with organizational needs and understand expectations, policies, and procedures.
• Chapel Service Leadership
• Leads and coordinates two weekly chapel services for residents, creating meaningful opportunities for spiritual growth, encouragement, reflection, and community building.
• Prepares or coordinates service content, speakers, worship elements, and other programming, as appropriate, while ensuring services are welcoming, organized, and relevant to the residents being served.
• Community Engagement
• Represents the organization within the local faith and community network, identifying opportunities to develop new partnerships, increasing awareness of the organization's mission, and creating additional avenues of support for residents and programs.
• Relationship & Program Coordination
• Serves as a primary point of contact for churches, volunteers, donors, and community partners, maintaining consistent communication and fostering long-term relationships that support the organization's mission and day-to-day operations.
• Mission & Resident Support
• Ensures church partnerships, volunteer activities, fundraising efforts, and chapel programming align with the organization's mission and contribute positively to the overall experience, development, and well-being of residents.
• Boundaries in place for Chaplain:
• Individual sessions with campus residents may not be conducted behind a closed door without another staff member present/camera monitoring. Chaplain should make every effort to conduct sessions in the cottages or in public places, easily visible on campus.
• Chaplain may not allow campus residents to access the internet or cell phone for any reason.
• Chaplain must follow staff instructions and defer to staff needs/requests during crisis.
• Chaplain must maintain appropriate boundaries with both residents and staff, ensuring that time must be evenly distributed between residents and ensure that an unbalanced amount of time is not spent with any particular staff member or members.
• Chaplain must be morally and ethically above reproach in his or her behavior.

Other duties may be assigned.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES:

Leads volunteers, focusing on excellence in performance and personal/character development. May also supervise a ministry intern. Carries out volunteer supervisory responsibilities in accordance with the organization's policies and…