FDC-SENIOR CHAPLAIN-F/C-70023052 -HERNANDO CI, BROOKSVILLE, FL

Requisition No: 849718 

Agency: Department of Corrections

Working Title: FDC-SENIOR CHAPLAIN-F/C-70023052 -HERNANDO CI, BROOKSVILLE, FL

 Pay Plan: Career Service

Position Number: 70023052 

Salary:  $44,290.22 annually 

Posting Closing Date: 04/18/2025 

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***OPEN COMPETITIVE ADVERTISEMENT***

 

Senior Chaplain – F/C – 70023052

 

This advertisement is for a Career Service position located at Hernando 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