FDC-SENIOR CHAPLAIN-F/C-70038925-LOWELL CI, OCALA, FL

Requisition No: 850188 

Agency: Department of Corrections

Working Title: FDC-SENIOR CHAPLAIN-F/C-70038925-LOWELL CI, OCALA, FL

 Pay Plan: Career Service

Position Number: 70038925 

Salary:  $44,290.22 annually 

Posting Closing Date: 04/22/2025 

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***OPEN COMPETITIVE ADVERTISEMENT***

Senior Chaplain – F/C – 70038925

This advertisement is for a Career Service position located at Lowell Correctional Institution in the Chaplaincy Department.

Salary Rate: $44,290.22 annually

SALARY WILL BE APPLIED IN ACCORDANCE WITH PAY POLICY. THE SELECTED CANDIDATE WILL BE APPOINTED AT THE ABOVE LISTED APPOINTMENT RATE.

SPECIFIC DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Provide training and guidance to all chaplaincy staff and volunteers, ensuring an inclusive approach that respects and accommodates diverse religious, cultural, and personal beliefs. Training must be conducted impartially, without discrimination based on race, ethnicity, religion, gender, or other protected characteristics, in accordance with applicable laws and department policies.
• Plans, develop, schedule, and supervise a comprehensive Chaplaincy Services Program that provides for the spiritual needs of the inmate population. This includes scheduled worship opportunities for inmates, a religious education program, and special events as needed.
• Provides pastoral care to inmates in the form of personal interviews in the chapel office, confinement areas and medical infirmary, and provides information to meet the personal, interpersonal, and spiritual needs of inmates during periods of adjustment and during times of personal and family crisis, such as death, critical illness, and other emergencies.
• Performs routine administrative functions such as scheduling daily inmate callouts, preparing, and distributing volunteer participation memos before activities involving volunteers, processing inmate marriage requests, responding to grievances and completing assigned reports such as the DC88and inmate attendance report.
• Recruit, train and supervise citizen volunteers to work with the Chapel program and maintain an accurate and up to date volunteer file for each volunteer.
• Provides for inmate observation of holy days of obligation by making arrangements as requested and according to the Annual Religious Holy Day memo.
• Tours compounds weekly or more if as needed, visiting all inmate housing, recreation, dining, and work areas.
• Provides religious orientation for new inmates.
• Keep Assistant Warden, Correctional Officer Colonel and Chaplaincy Service Specialist informed of all programs and activities currently in progress or planned for the near future. 
• Discusses upcoming programs with various department heads to acquaint them with the programs and secure their cooperation as needed.
• Administers the budget for the Chaplaincy department. Prepares and coordinates operating procedures regarding religious activities and programs at the institution.
• Ensures that the Chaplaincy department is in compliance with A.C.A. and management review standards with all the proper documentation.
• Comply with all applicable rules, policies and procedures related to security and inmate discipline.

BENEFITS:

• Paid vacation, sick leave, and holidays.
• Comprehensive health insurance and life insurance with accidental death and dismemberment benefits.
• Supplemental Dental, Vision, Life, Disability and Hospitalization insurance.
• Tuition-Free college courses.
• Retirement Plans with the Florida Retirement System:
  • Pension Plan (Traditional Retirement Pension Plan)
  • Investment Plan (401(K)-Type Retirement Plan)
  • Deferred Retirement Option Program (Drop)
  • Deferred Compensation
  • Recently Retired? Beginning July 1, 2024, there is no longer a reemployment limitation; beginning with the 7th calendar month from the member's distribution date, there are no restrictions on working for an FRS employer. You will not be required to repay any prior distributions, and you may continue receiving distributions from the Investment Plan or Pension Plan without interruption.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

Please note, when submitting a college/university degree, if selected for this position official transcripts will be required.

• Must be willing and able to train and support chaplaincy staff and volunteers without bias, ensuring an inclusive and legally compliant approach that accommodates diverse religious, cultural, and personal beliefs.
• Must possess a bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university with major course of study in theology, religion, education, or one of the social or behavioral sciences or four years of professional experience as a clergyperson.
• Must possess an ordination or formal investment with ministerial or priestly authority by an ecclesiastical body is.
• Must possess a current written approbation and endorsement from the appropriate official of the ecclesiastical body.

Support of knowledge, skills, and abilities should be demonstrated on the application, in the education, in the work experience, in the work sample, in the interview and/or during reference checks.

If you are interested in this position and meet the above indicated qualification and have the desired education, knowledge, and experience, please submit a State of Florida Application and resume through the People First system. If you experience problems applying on-line, please call the People First Service Center at 1-877-562-7287.

Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM EST on the closing date.

The State of Florida is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Affirmative Action Employer, and does not tolerate discrimination or violence in the workplace.

Candidates requiring a reasonable accommodation, as defined by the Americans with Disabilities Act, must notify the agency hiring authority and/or People First Service Center (1-866-663-4735). Notification to the hiring authority must be made in advance to allow sufficient time to provide the accommodation.

The State of Florida supports a Drug-Free workplace. All employees are subject to reasonable suspicion drug testing in accordance with Section 112.0455, F.S., Drug-Free Workplace Act.

VETERANS’ PREFERENCE.  Pursuant to Chapter 295, Florida Statutes, candidates eligible for Veterans’ Preference will receive preference in employment for Career Service vacancies and are encouraged to apply.  Certain service members may be eligible to receive waivers for postsecondary educational requirements.  Candidates claiming Veterans’ Preference must attach supporting documentation with each submission that includes character of service (for example, DD Form 214 Member Copy #4) along with any other documentation as required by Rule 55A-7, Florida Administrative Code.  Veterans’ Preference documentation requirements are available by clicking here.  All documentation is due by the close of the vacancy announcement.