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.

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.

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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.