Retreat Coordinator

Full-time · $55,000–$75,000 annually
· South Gate, CA, with regular travel to correctional institutions throughout California.

Jesuit Restorative Justice Initiative (JRJI) is seeking a Retreat Coordinator with a missionary spirit and a desire to accompany people impacted by incarceration.

This position combines prison ministry, retreat coordination, relationship-building, correspondence, community accompaniment, and program record keeping. The Retreat Coordinator will help organize and participate in retreats inside California correctional institutions, as well as retreats and gatherings in the community with formerly incarcerated JRJI alumni and families impacted by incarceration.

The Retreat Coordinator will work closely with JRJI’s team, prison chaplains, CDCR staff, volunteers, incarcerated retreat leaders, alumni, and families.

We are looking for someone who understands that this is more than an administrative position. Our work requires a willingness to travel, enter correctional institutions, build relationships across different communities, and accompany incarcerated men and women, alumni, and families through faith, reflection, and Ignatian spirituality.

• Coordinate JRJI retreats and ongoing programming inside California correctional institutions.
• Work with prison chaplains, CDCR staff, volunteers, and incarcerated retreat leaders to coordinate retreat logistics.
• Prepare retreat schedules, materials, participant lists, clearances, travel arrangements, and other logistics.
• Travel regularly to correctional institutions throughout California and actively participate in retreats and prison visits.
• Learn and follow CDCR policies, procedures, security requirements, and protocols related to volunteers and prison ministry.
• Support JRJI’s executive and retreat teams before, during, and after retreats.
• Help maintain relationships with chaplains, institutional staff, volunteers, and retreat participants.

• Participate in and help coordinate retreats, days of reflection, gatherings, and other programs outside of correctional institutions for JRJI alumni and families impacted by incarceration.
• Help create opportunities for formerly incarcerated retreat participants to remain connected to JRJI’s community after release.
• Assist with retreat preparation, hospitality, materials, communication, and follow-up for community-based retreats and gatherings.
• Build and maintain meaningful relationships with JRJI alumni and families as part of the organization’s ongoing ministry of accompaniment.

• Help maintain JRJI’s correspondence ministry with incarcerated retreat participants.
• Read and respond to reflections and letters from men and women inside correctional institutions with care, compassion, and appropriate pastoral boundaries.
• Provide continued spiritual accompaniment and encouragement between retreats and prison visits.
• Coordinate the sending and receiving of letters, spiritual reflections, retreat materials, and other approved correspondence.
• Maintain appropriate records and follow CDCR and institutional policies regarding correspondence with incarcerated individuals.
• Help ensure that relationships developed during retreats continue through meaningful and consistent accompaniment.
• Maintain accurate records of retreats, prison visits, community retreats, alumni and family programming, and participant engagement.
• Track information such as retreat dates, institutions and communities served, number of participants, volunteer participation, program activities, and other relevant program data.
• Maintain organized records of program accomplishments, outcomes, participant reflections,…