Assistant Chaplain (Interfaith, Environmental & Digital) Advert
Good morning,
I’m writing today with details of a new Assistant Chaplain’s job here in St Andrews which has just been advertised. There has been a recognition in the University that Sam, the honorary team, our secretaries and I have been a supportive presence during the two years of the pandemic, not least through online pastoral care, worship and Companionship emails and blogposts. And so I’m delighted that our request for a further Assistant Chaplain has been accepted, to broaden and deepen the Chaplaincy’s service to students, staff and others. This is a new post in addition to Sam’s and mine.
We’d really love the news to get out there of this new role. Please forward this to anyone you think could be interested – or even consider it yourself.
Here are the details:
Assistant Chaplain (Interfaith, Environmental & Digital)
Salary: £34,304 – £40,927 per annum pro rata
Part time, 18.125 hours per week
Start: 1 September 2022 or as soon as possible thereafter
The University of St Andrews Chaplaincy supports the experience of students, staff and others, enhancing University life, through the provision of meaningful and beautiful worship, sensitive pastoral care, ecumenical and interfaith encounter, support for international students and more.
This is a new and exciting opportunity within the Chaplaincy team, for a 0.5 FTE Assistant Chaplain with specific responsibility for Interfaith, Environmental and Digital Engagement. This new Assistant Chaplain could be from any faith or philosophy of life but will be in sympathy with the Chaplaincy’s ethos, of respect for different faiths, cultures and traditions.
The successful candidate will develop our support for students and staff in exploring interfaith engagement, in participating fully in University-wide Diversity initiatives, in expanding and improving our digital provision, in deepening our environmental commitments and in liaising with others in the University over creating and maintaining a Garden for Reflection. The post-holder will not have regular responsibility for worship, but will be able to support the existing Chaplain’s and Assistant Chaplain’s provision of pastoral care for students and staff.
The Assistant Chaplain for Interfaith, Environmental and Digital engagement will be a graduate with experience in a religion or belief setting and of pastoral care, ideally with university or chaplaincy experience, or other experience working with students.
The expected start date is 1 September 2022 or as soon as possible thereafter.
Further information and informal enquiries may be directed to the Chaplain, Revd Dr Donald MacEwan, email: [email protected], Tel: 01334 462865.
Applications are particularly welcome from under-represented faiths and philosophies of life in the Chaplaincy team, people from the Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) community, and other protected characteristics who are under-represented in professional posts at the University.
This post will be primarily based in the Chaplaincy building in the historic heart of St Andrews.
Closing Date: 12 May 2022
Interview Date: 20 June 2022 (if possible)
See https://www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/1444/0/342070/889/assistant-chaplain-interfaith-environmental-and-digital-ad2490sb for the full advertisement, and links to further particulars, and to make an application.
Yours,
Donald.