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Job Description

The NYPD is seeking a qualified, experienced candidate to fill the role of Chief Chaplain. The Chief Chaplain oversees the Department’s Chaplains Unit, which provides spiritual guidance to members of the service and their families. In addition, the Unit also officiates at various Department functions and visits hospitalized members of the service, and/or members recovering with serious injuries or illnesses at home. The Chief Chaplain provides essential spiritual, emotional, and ethical support to officers, staff, and their families. The position involves both administrative and frontline duties in a high-stress environment.

Key Responsibilities: The Chief Chaplain is a deeply involved spiritual mentor and ethicist who has these key responsibilities:

- Pastoral Care and Counseling: Offering confidential, non-judgmental spiritual and personal counseling for a diverse workforce, regardless of their religious beliefs or lack thereof.

- Crisis Response: Responding to critical incidents such as line-of-duty deaths, officer-involved shootings, suicides, and other traumatic events to support emotional and spiritual recovery.

- Death Notifications: Accompanying officers to make death notifications to next of kin, providing immediate comfort and support to grieving families.

- Officer Wellness: Promoting overall well-being, including offering training on stress management, burnout, and ethical decision-making.

- Ceremonial Duties: Performing invocations, benedictions, funerals, memorial services, and leading prayers at official department events like graduations and award ceremonies.

- Liaison and Outreach: Serving as a bridge between the police department and various community faith leaders and groups.

- Ministry of Presence: Building trust and rapport by being consistently available, which often includes going on patrol ride-alongs and visiting officers in police facilities, hospitals, or their homes if they are sick or injured.

- Advising Leadership: Offering guidance to the Chief of Police or Sheriff on matters of a religious or moral nature that may impact department operations or community relations.

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Qualifications

Ecclesiastical endorsement by the official endorsing agency of the candidate's faith or denomination, and by the Committee on Chaplaincies.

Additional Information

The City of New York is an inclusive equal opportunity employer committed to recruiting and retaining a diverse workforce and providing a work environment that is free from discrimination and harassment based upon any legally protected status or protected characteristic, including but not limited to an individual's sex, race, color, ethnicity, national origin, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, veteran status, gender identity, or pregnancy.

Salary Min: $ 31.43

Salary Max: $ 44.69