Worship

• Plan, conduct, and oversee weekly chapel services and morning prayer services.
• Collaborate with chaplains, students, faculty, staff, and administration to create and conduct chapel services and special services and events, e.g: Convocation, Christmas, Easter, Episcopal School Sunday, Commencement and other special divisional services and events.
• Steward and model our school community’s Epsicopal identity by teaching and living NAES’s four pillars: Worship, Religious Education, Social Justice, & Relationships.
• Promote the spirit of Christ’s love in the school and beyond the school.

Academic Instruction & Leadership

• Maintain the continuing development of the religion curriculum for Primer - Fourth Grades.
• Teach year-long Christian Education classes to Primer - Fourth Grades.
• Attend faculty meetings, all-school events, division events, curriculum meetings, chaplain’s meetings, professional development, etc.
• Attend biennial NAES conference and utilize NAES resources.
• Participate in and support Service Learning experiences.
• Participate in International Baccalaureate Primary Years Programme.

Pastoral Care

• Provide pastoral care for students, families, faculty, and staff of all faiths, including pastoral needs that may develop on weekends, evenings, or early mornings.
• Provide a personal, visible, engaged presence – “see and be seen.”
• Gather and communicate prayer concerns with members of the community.
• Attend Lower School Student Wellness meetings and collaborate accordingly with colleagues in support of students.
• Partner with the Lower School Counselor to care for individual student needs and community needs.
• Attend conferences with administrators, staff, and faculty, as needed, concerning students with social, academic, or personal challenges.
• Address community issues as appropriate: for example, alcohol and drugs, parenting, child abuse, and safety.

Administration

• Collaborate and meet regularly with other division chaplains.
• Meet with Division Head and administrative team on a regular basis.
• Help anchor all institutional decisions and policies in our Epsicopal identity.
• Partner with school administration to strengthen our school’s commitment to inclusion and belonging.
• Other administrative duties including strategic plan, task forces, retreats, Religious LifeCommittee, etc.
• Communicate religious life events and opportunities with CCES community.
• Take an active role in supervisory responsibilities i.e., carpool, lunchroom, student projects, etc.
• Attend student performances, athletic competitions, and parent meetings.
• Report to Senior Chaplain and Head of the Lower School.
• Help care for and keep the Chapel of the Good Shepherd maintained, organized, and orderly to preserve sacred space.

Desired Qualifications

• Ordained Episcopal priest or lay Episcopalian with a Masters of Divinity preferred or equivalent degree.
• Mature and personal faith in Jesus Christ who feel called to Epsicopal school chaplaincy, especially with elementary students.
• Equipped to serve a pluralistic community and who are responsible to everyone, regardless of faith, sex, race, color, national or ethnic origin, and sexual orientation.
• Candidates with classroom teaching experience preferred.
• High energy and a creative spirit, who has pastoral, pedagogical, and liturgical skills.
• Relates well to young people as well as adult faculty and parents.
• Effective in a classroom setting and chapel as well as in pastoral situations within a school environment.
• Qualified, through experience and study, to teach Lower School classes in both the Old Testament and New Testament.
• Maintain and model healthy boundaries in the school community.
• Champion for our Baptismal Covenant, someone who will “strive for justice and peace among all people” and “respect the dignity of every human being.”