RELIGIOUS SERVICES ADMINISTRATOR

Full-time employees will enjoy a competitive benefits package with options for you and your family.

Benefits

• Paid Time Off
• Paid Holidays
• 401(k) Matching
• Health Insurance
• Vision Insurance
• Life Insurance
• Health Savings Account
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Employee Discount
• Reduced Tuition Rates
• Disability Insurance
• Employee Assistance Program
• 401(k)
• Pet Insurance
• Dental Insurance
• Paid Training
• Flexible Spending Account

About the Role

GEO provides complementary, turnkey solutions for numerous government partners worldwide across a spectrum of diversified correctional and community reentry services. We believe that work is more than a place you go to every day. It is about being inspired and motivated to achieve extraordinary things. At GEO, we believe in the three pillars of employee wellbeing: physical, emotional, and financial.

Responsibilities

• Provides spiritual and pastoral care to all detainees and facilitates their opportunity to pursue their individual religious beliefs and practices in accordance with current law, federal regulations, and the CBDC Standards.
• Facilitates, schedules, and coordinates all religious and volunteer programs to accommodate the diverse religious and spiritual needs of all detainees.
• Serves as the facility’s subject matter expert concerning religious practices.
• Provides pastoral care regarding individual spiritual and personal support, assists in emergency notifications, helps bring resolution to crisis situations involving detainees, staff, or their families, responds to identified needs of detainees, and advocates for the religious rights of detainees.
• Administers all requests for Religious Beliefs.
• Visits living areas and those hospitalized on a regular basis.
• Provides regular and personal religious leadership at worship and prayer gatherings.
• Establishes working relationships with local clergy and coordinates their contributions to the facility's religious program.
• Provides assistance to local clergy in understanding detainee-related problems.
• Oversees all religious services and meetings, and manages all resources fairly and equitably.
• Provides and updates religious programs for presentation to newly arrived detainees.
• Collaborates with the facility’s compliance team in documenting ongoing compliance with the religious practices component of the facility.
• Collaborates with all departments for ongoing socialization of detainees.
• Plans, directs, and coordinates all aspects of religious programs and volunteer services, including selection, approval, and training of both lay and clergy volunteers.
• Develops and facilitates training programs and materials for staff on new and/or unfamiliar issues of detainee religious beliefs and practices.
• Provides appropriate training for staff (both lay and clergy volunteers) concerning cultural, social, and religious diversity.
• Raises awareness and sensitivity to differences of all faiths represented by the detainee population.
• Represents the facility’s Religious Services Program in appropriate public forums.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Is an ordained clergy or member of ecclesiastically recognized religious institutes. In lieu of professional ordination credentials, adequate documentation of the applicant's recognized religious and ministerial roles in their respective faith communities is required.
• Three (3) years’ experience providing pastoral education.
• A complete and thorough knowledge of all recognized religions as well as their basic tenets and worship requirements.
• Knowledge of basic security procedures in a detention setting and the skill to implement/maintain these procedures within the religious program.
• Knowledge of existing facility’s, relevant Policy and Procedure Standards of the American Correctional Association, and other guidelines that govern religious programming.
• Skill in implementing and monitoring compliance with policy directives/guidelines.
• Skill in interpersonal communication with staff, detainees, and volunteers within the facility setting as well as outside agencies and organizations.
• Knowledge of fiscal management procedures.
• Demonstrated management ability to provide a religious services program that ensures fair and equitable services for all religious.
• Skill in interviewing and counseling (individual/group).
• Ability to work with computers and the necessary software typically used by the department.