Protestant Chaplain - Apply by 12/29/25!
The State of Connecticut, Department of Correction (DOC) is expanding our Religious Services Department and hiring multiple Protestant Chaplains who will provide spiritual services to the incarcerated people in Connecticut.
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POSITION HIGHLIGHTS
This position is full-time, following a first shift schedule, 35 hours a week, with a flexible schedule based on program and facility needs, and is entitled to excellent benefits including health and dental.
Candidates selected for this position will be required to attend the 14-week Training Academy in Cheshire, CT.
Additional information will be provided during the hiring process.
As a Chaplain at the DOC, you will work with our various offender populations conducting religious services in our state facilities, including:
Administering rites and sacraments;
Preparing and preaching sermons;
Conferring with visiting clergy;
Counseling individuals and their families;
Collaborating with facility staff on religious concerns that may arise.
Meeting the needs of the department, including providing worship services during Holidays.
This recruitment will be used to fill vacancies throughout correctional facilities across the State. Please refer to the list below:
Bridgeport CC - Bridgeport, CT
Brooklyn CI - Brooklyn, CT
Cheshire CI - Cheshire, CT
Corrigan CC - Uncasville, CT
Cybulski CI - Somers, CT
Garner CI - Newtown, CT
Hartford CC - Hartford, CT
MacDougall-Walker CI - Suffield, CT
Manson Youth Institute - Cheshire, CT
New Haven CC - New Haven, CT
Osborn CI - Somers, CT
Robinson CI - Enfield, CT
York CI - Niantic, CT
ABOUT US
The Connecticut Department of Correction is a diverse agency with a wide variety of employees from Correction Officers, to Educators, to Managers and Skilled Professionals. We value differences that make us stronger as a team and support our mission statement.
The Connecticut Department of Correction (DOC) is the agency responsible for corrections in the U.S. state of Connecticut. The agency operates 13 correctional facilities. It has its headquarters in Wethersfield. The DOC protects public safety by ensuring offenders serve their sentences of imprisonments in facilities that are safe, human, and provide re-entry programming.
The State of Connecticut, Department of Correction is a unified system; all sentenced and un-sentenced offenders are supervised by the DOC. The Department also provides supervision for offenders on parole, community release, and other discretionary release programs.
The Religious Services Unit offers to the inmate population trauma informed presence, pastoral care, spiritual guidance, religious facilitation, and programming that reduces recidivism.
Annually, more than 80,000 hours of ministry time, more than 20,000 worship services and religious programs and more than 50,000 individual and group counseling sessions are provided to offenders by the Chaplaincy staff which is supplemented by numerous religious volunteers from the community.
Qualifications & Requirements
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS - GENERAL EXPERIENCE
Incumbents must possess one of the following:
Graduation from an accredited three (3) year postgraduate theological seminary;
A Master of Divinity degree or its equivalent;
Completion of all formal religious training required by a recognized religious denomination necessary to perform the pastoral role.
AND
One (1) year of pastoral experience or equivalent experience within a recognized religious denomination.
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