Part-Time Corporate Chaplain: Field Care & Support

Marketplace Chaplains; United States; Remote; USD 28,000 - 41,000; Part time

Job summary

Marketplace Chaplains is seeking a Part-Time Chaplain to serve employees and their families at client sites in the Binghamton/Waverly/Elmira, NY area. This remote-field role requires weekly visits and strong pastoral care delivered with professionalism and discretion.

You will build trusted relationships, provide confidential conversations, and connect employees with compassionate support during life events, workplace transitions, and personal challenges.

Qualifications

• Has ability to work as member of interdisciplinary group and in an interfaith setting.
• Skills to effectively listen and interact with clients, employees, and their families.
• Spiritual maturity and commitment to a Christian lifestyle and to MCHAPs Ministry values.
• Demonstrated ability to interact professionally with diplomacy, patience, and courtesy with diverse groups; ability to establish and maintain effective and cooperative working relationships while providing exceptional customer service.
• Demonstrated excellent oral and written communication skills to communicate and interact effectively with leadership, colleagues, employees, and families.
• Demonstrated skill in analyzing information to define and follow up on problems or objectives.
• Demonstrated skill in interpreting policy and procedures related to the position and keeping others informed.
• Demonstrated computer proficiency using Google Suites, Microsoft Office, or other equivalent software, internet, email messaging, and web-based software applications.
• Must have active state driver's license and state minimum auto insurance (state(s) where servicing clients).

Responsibilities

• Serves as a messenger and conveyor of faith, mission, and purpose.
• Interacts with companies, their employees, and the community in a manner that exhibits character through personal and spiritual disciplines.
• Makes regular visits to company worksites (usually weekly) to interact with employees and build relationships of trust and friendship motivated by Christian faith.
• Visits employees or immediate family members wherever care can be expressed and help given: hospitals, nursing homes, funeral homes, family residences, or other sites.
• May provide confidential pastoral discussions for problem issues of employees and their immediate family members including, but not limited to family matters, divorce, serious illness, care of aging parents, death and grief recovery, parenting, financial situations that may include debt discussions, budgeting, and other life issues related to financial stress, as well as any other personal issues. Provides referral service and acts as coordinator for specialized assistance to employees and/or immediate family members with specific needs.
• May assist in the planning, conduct or attend funerals for employees or immediate family members, including follow-up support and encouragement to immediate family members during the grief period.
• May make jail visits to employees and immediate family members.
• Works with companies to serve notifications of death and serious injuries to families and other employees, encouraging those impacted by various tragedies.
• May provide post-termination care for laid-off or terminated employees in order to foster a smooth transition to another work environment.
• May facilitate, but not lead, spiritual enrichment activities, as an employee-sponsored and led activity will usually be more fruitful than a chaplain led event.
• Provides, as appropriate/requested, literature and other resources to assist company employees with life issues.
• Represents companies to clients/customers where it would be appropriate to ministry services involved (i.e., serious illness, accidents, traumatic events, and funerals).
• Participates in new employee orientation to explain the Employee Care Service and the role of the Chaplain Team.
• With Executive Director of Operations (EDO) permission, responds positively and assertively to other duties and services requested by executive leadership of companies, within the scope of the Letter of Agreement between MCHAP Chaplains and the company.

Skills

Interdisciplinary collaboration

Active listening

Public speaking

Spiritual maturity

Diplomacy

Communication

Job description

Marketplace Chaplains is seeking a Part-Time Chaplain to serve employees and their families at client sites in the Binghamton/Waverly/Elmira, NY area. This remote-field role requires weekly visits and strong pastoral care delivered with professionalism and discretion.

You will build trusted relationships, provide confidential conversations, and connect employees with compassionate support during life events, workplace transitions, and personal challenges.