JOB PURPOSE

To provide spiritual guidance and support within the academic community, offering a compassionate presence for students, faculty, and staff from diverse religious backgrounds. To play a multifaceted role that encompasses counseling, pastoral care, and facilitating religious services and ceremonies.

1. Educational Requirements

• Grade twelve (12) or Form five (5) with five credits or better
• Bachelor's Degree in Theology, Religious Studies, Philosophy, or Psychology or a relevant field.
• Master’s Degree an added advantage (Master’s in Theological Studies).
• Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE): This is a specialized form of training that involves supervised encounters with people in crisis.

2. Essential Skills & Competencies

• Interfaith Fluency: The ability to provide spiritual support to students and staff of all faiths or no faith.
• Ability to provide care to students and staff from diverse religious and non-religious backgrounds.
• Crisis Intervention: Supporting students through grief, loss, or mental health challenges.
• Conflict Mediation: Acting as a neutral party in campus-wide discussions or personal disputes.
• Administrative Skills: Organizing campus-wide, multi-faith prayer rooms, and holiday observances.
• Providing spiritual and emotional support to students, faculty, and staff.
• Leading worship services, organizing interfaith events, and offering pastoral counseling.
• Providing bereavement support and ethical guidance.

Note

Only short-listed and successful candidates will be contacted.

• Providing spiritual and emotional support to students, faculty, and staff.
• Leading worship services, organizing interfaith events, and offering pastoral counseling.
• Providing bereavement support and ethical guidance.
• Crisis Intervention: Supporting students through grief, loss, or mental health challenges.
• Conflict Mediation: Acting as a neutral party in campus-wide discussions or personal disputes.
• Administrative Skills: Organizing campus-wide, multi-faith prayer rooms, and holiday observances.

• Interfaith Fluency: The ability to provide spiritual support to students and staff of all faiths or no faith.
• Ability to provide care to students and staff from diverse religious and non-religious backgrounds.
• Crisis Intervention
• Conflict Mediation
• Administrative Skills

• Grade twelve (12) or Form five (5) with five credits or better
• Bachelor's Degree in Theology, Religious Studies, Philosophy, or Psychology or a relevant field.
• Master’s Degree an added advantage (Master’s in Theological Studies).
• Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE)
• Previous experience in chaplaincy, pastoral counseling, or campus ministry is strongly preferred.
• Board Certification: Professional certification from organizations
• Ecclesiastical Endorsement: Must be officially recognized and "endorsed" by specific faith or denomination.