It’s fun to work in a company where people truly believe in what they’re doing! We’re committed to bringing passion and customer focus to the business.
Please note: While assigned hours are generally consistent from week to week, there are no guaranteed minimal hours and positional needs will vary depending on Chaplain availability and client requirements. This role is part‑time (2–6 hours per week) in Warroad, MN.
Position Summary
Chaplains are the frontline staff fulfilling the mission and Christian ministry of MCHAP, using their gifts and talents to serve company employees and their immediate families.
Essential Functions and Responsibilities
- Serve as a messenger and conveyor of faith, mission, and purpose.
- Interact with companies, employees, and the community in a manner that exhibits character through personal and spiritual disciplines.
- Ministry
- Make regular visits to company worksites (usually weekly) to interact with employees and build relationships of trust and friendship motivated by Christian faith.
- Visit employees or immediate family members wherever care can be expressed and help given: hospitals, nursing homes, funeral homes, family residences, or other sites.
- Provide confidential pastoral discussions for problem issues, including family matters, divorce, serious illness, care of aging parents, death and grief recovery, parenting, financial situations, budgeting, and other life issues related to financial stress or personal issues.
- Provide referral service and act as coordinator for specialized assistance to employees and/or immediate family members with specific needs.
- Assist in the planning, conduct, or attendance at funerals for employees or immediate family members, including follow‑up support and encouragement to immediate family members during the grief period.
- Make jail visits to employees and immediate family members.
- Work with companies to serve notifications of death and serious injuries to families and other employees, encouraging those impacted by various tragedies.
- Provide post‑termination care for laid‑off or terminated employees to foster a smooth transition to another work environment.
- Facilitate, but not lead, spiritual enrichment activities, as an employee‑sponsored and led activity will usually be more fruitful than a chaplain‑led event.
- Provide literature and other resources to assist company employees with life issues, as appropriate or requested.
- Represent companies to clients/customers where it would be appropriate for ministry services involved (i.e., serious illness, accidents, traumatic events, and funerals).
- Participate in new employee orientation to explain the Employee Care Service and the role of the Chaplain Team.
- With Executive Director of Operations permission, respond 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.
Requirements
- Ability to work as a member of an interdisciplinary group and in an interfaith setting; acceptance of different lifestyles, cultures, beliefs, and values.
- Skills to effectively listen and interact with clients, employees, and their families; skills to deliver community presentations; skills to deal with family members and staff under stressful circumstances; high regard for the dignity and worth of clients, employees, and their families; ability to cope with stressful situations and document accurately according to standards.
- Spiritual maturity and commitment to a Christian lifestyle and to MCHAP’s ministry values; fundamental understanding of the Holy Bible and its proper application; attestation of a saving faith in Jesus Christ and active participation in a biblically based church.
- 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; ability to make administrative and procedural decisions and judgments on sensitive, confidential issues.
- Demonstrated excellent oral and written communication skills to communicate and interact effectively with leadership, colleagues, employees, and families; emotional stability to cope with human suffering, emergencies, and other stresses.
- Demonstrated skill in analyzing information to define and follow up on problems or objectives; ability to identify solutions and solve problems; ability to interpret policy and procedures related to the position and keep others informed.
- Demonstrated computer proficiency using Google Suites, Microsoft Office, or other equivalent software, internet, email messaging, and web‑based software applications; ability to understand and learn new technology programs.
- Must have an active state driver’s license and state minimum auto insurance (for the state(s) where servicing clients).
Conditions of Employment
Must pass a pre‑employment background check.
Work Environment
This is a remote position in the field; the work environment depends on the client’s worksite and may include manufacturing, hospitals, office buildings, and funeral homes with varying temperatures, noise, and light exposure.
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