Director Chaplain Services

Position: DIRECTOR CHAPLAIN SERVICES
ARIZONA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS, REHABILITATION & REENTRY

Our mission is to enhance public safety across Arizona through modern, effective correctional practices and meaningful engagements.

The Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry (ADCRR) is committed to creating a safe, secure, and humane correctional system. With public safety top of mind, ADCRR and its more than 8,000 officers and professional staff are driven by a heart for public service and a commitment to deliver perfect effort each day. ADCRR is redefining itself as an agency whose daily work centers on transparency, accountability, and fairness.

DC DIRECTOR CHAPLAIN SERVICES

Job Location:

Address:

Education Programs and Community Reentry Division

801 East Jefferson Street

Phoenix, Arizona 85032

Posting Details:

Salary: $91,200.00

Grade: 23

Closing Date: 8/3/26

Job Summary:

Do you have experience inspiring and motivating a team of religious services professionals? Are you a leader with a degree in religious services? Make a difference in the correctional environment, be a guiding light for our amazing religious services team. Apply today!

The Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation & Reentry (ADCRR) is seeking a forward-thinking executive-level religious leader to fill our Faith Services Administrator position. This position directly supervises and oversees multiple Faith Service employees assigned to prison complexes statewide. This role not only ensures compliance with laws, rules, regulations, policies, and procedures pertaining to faith services but also involves collaborative efforts with other entities to expand and improve faith services within the institutions.

Acts as the Subject Matter Expert (SME) regarding religious programs, property, services, and diets. Guides executive staff, grievance coordinators, and legal counsel on responses to grievances, lawsuits, and religious service provisions. Additionally, represents the agency at meetings with other governmental jurisdictions and various community groups. And prepares a variety of technical, statistical, and administrative reports.

Job Duties:

* Manages all aspects of the Faith Services and any other services given by the Assistant Director or Deputy Assistant Director of Education, Programs, and Community Reentry

* Ensures compliance with laws, rules, regulations, policies, and procedures

* Directly supervises and oversees multiple Faith Service employees assigned to prison complexes statewide

* Confers with leadership, administrative staff, and the attorney General's Office regarding policies on religious services, programs, diets, property, and responses to grievances and/or litigation issues

* Facilitates collaboration with stakeholders to actively recruit religious volunteers to enrich faith services

* Provides guidance and counseling to Faith Services staff on matters related to religion

* Travel to various prison complexes, assessing and enhancing the effectiveness of religious programming and services

* Prepares and disseminates reports such as memorandums, correspondence, and grant reports

* Provides statistical data analysis by generating and compiling various data accurately and in a timely manner

* Attends meetings, trainings, and conferences

* Monitors drug testing for religious volunteers and contractors

* Researches complaints and responses to inmate requests for special services, diets, and privileges

* Confers and consults with religious leaders and publications for direction on appropriate responses to institutional staff, contractors, volunteers, inmates, and the public regarding religious issues and questions

* Responds to queries from the public regarding religious contracts, programming, privileges, donations, pastoral visits, and weddings

* Monitors the budget and compliance with contracts

* Reviews and revises agency policies and procedures to ensure compliance with Federal and state laws, rules, regulations, policies, and procedures

* Drives on State business that may include overnight stays

* Perform other duties appropriate to the assignment

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities (KSAs):

Knowledge of:

* Laws, rules, regulations, policies, and procedures pertaining to the assignment

* Principles and practices of pastoral care and counseling

* Communication and public relations techniques

* Principles and practices of management and supervision

* Religions represented in an incarcerated population, including major tenets (religious beliefs), religious service requirements, religious property requirements, and dietary requirements

* Various religious or holy publications and documentation

* Operational security requirements, policies, and procedures

* Computers and applicable software such as Microsoft and Google Suite

* Agency policies as they apply to inmate grooming, litigation, grievances, and discipline

* Fiscal and human resource management

Skill in:

* Verbal and written communications

* Coaching, training, and teaching

* Organizational and vision management

* Continuous…