ADVERT FOR PART TIME CHAPLAIN
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.
· Experience: 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.
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.
Candidates should submit the application letter, Curriculum Vitae, Certified copies of Academic/Professional Ceritificates and three (3) names of referees, two (2) of whom must be professionally acquainted with the applicant to:
The Registrar
Kapasa Makasa University
P O Box 480195
CHINSALI
Phone: 0975093144
Email: jobs@kmu.ac.zm
Closing Date for receipt of applications
23rd March, 2026.