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Duties and Responsibilities
- Visit docked or underway commercial vessels to provide pastoral care and crisis response,
averaging 3 days in the field per week, with balance of time at SCI’s Center for Maritime
Education (CME)
- Provide Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM) and Applied Suicide Intervention Skills
Training (ASIST) interventions as core tools for mariner pastoral care, once trained in these
skills
- Mentor chaplain interns, field education students, and river chaplain associates
- Strengthen ongoing ministry protocols with other SCI chaplains, including emergency oncall coverage, travel to accident/ fatality sites, and disaster planning with maritime officials
- Represent SCI at maritime industry events, including networking, dinner invocations, boat
christenings, company captains' meetings, and presentations on SCI's ministry
- Liaise with SCI's Christmas at Sea program leader regarding mariner holiday gift packages
- Serve as resource to SCI's development team to expand SCI's presence in the river
maritime community
- Attend SCI Houston maritime training events to engage mariners and support SCI
colleagues on issues of spiritual resilience and mariner health promotion
- Conform with all safety and security protocols required by the U.S. Coast Guard,
transportation company policies, and SCI
Requirements
- Ordination in the Episcopal Church or other mainline denomination is desired. Clinical
Pastoral Education, military, maritime, or hospital chaplaincy is helpful, as is work
experience in the maritime industry
- The ability to frequently travel and work hours necessary to cover pastoral crises and other
assignments, including occasional overnights and weekends
- Valid, clean driver's license
- Possession of a U.S. Transportation Worker Identity Credential (TWIC) card, or the ability to
obtain one
- The ability to embark or disembark boats in varied weather conditions and lift and carry
packages up to 50lbs
SCI Chaplains are required to abide by the International Christian Maritime Association (ICMA)
Code of Conduct:
- Show an unconditional love to the mariner as a human being, created in the image of God,
and a sincere respect for his or her personal values and beliefs
- Fight prejudice, intolerance, and injustice of any kind