Professional Sport Chaplain
Responsibilities:
- Building relationships with coaches, athletes and support staff at the professional level
- Actively sharing your faith within the athletic world
- Leading Bible Studies and engaging in discipleship with athletes and coaches
- Speaking at pre-game chapels
- Training and equipping elite athletes for multiplying ministry
- Organizing and coordinating various programs and outreaches on campus
- Working closely with churches and organizations in the community to ensure opportunity for Christian athletes to use their platform in the community
- Challenging and recruiting athletes to become player representatives, attend conferences and seminars to further enhance and develop their ministry platform
- Working closely with other regional AIA chaplain staff
- Develop ministry donor base that engages in LIFE with AIA
Qualifications:
- A deep, growing, intimate relationship with Jesus Christ
- A genuine desire to see people’s lives changed
- A professional approach and demeanor
- An ability to communicate and actively listen well
- A proactive self-starter with the ability to follow through
- A desire to be involved with athletes and athletic culture
- A desire to be part of and work with a team
- Good organizational and management skills
- A desire to further personal growth and Biblical knowledge
- Flexibility to serve in whatever way God calls you
- Equivalent combination of education and experience
Reporting Relationships:
Reports directly to Professional Division Director
Working Conditions:
Placed on a University Campus