Professor of Practice, Assistant or Associate Professor of Chaplaincy and Pastoral Care

Job title: Professor of Practice, Assistant or Associate Professor of Chaplaincy and Pastoral Care

About the Role Denver Seminary invites applications for a faculty position in Chaplaincy and Pastoral Care for either Assistant/Associate Professor or Professor of Practice. The role emphasizes teaching graduate courses, mentoring students, and contributing to program development, governance, and mission-driven institutional renewal. The position reports to the Academic Dean and works under the program director to shape course assignments and program-related responsibilities.

What You'll Do

• Teach graduate-level courses with priority in Chaplaincy, Pastoral Care and Counseling.
• Share administrative duties for the department, e.g., CPE site placement and identification of supervisors, recruitment and support of adjunct faculty, meeting with prospective students and support of enrolled students, etc.
• Mentor students holistically—academically, professionally, and spiritually—toward resurrection-animated courage for institutional ministry, theological wisdom for navigating institutional complexity, and the character to bear faithful witness in secular spaces.
• Integrate faith and professional practice in a way that prepares students for employment and real-world impact.
• Serve the Seminary community through committee work, accreditation support, and collaborative engagement in institutional renewal, participate in governance structures that support seminary-wide flourishing, and contribute to strategic positioning of Denver Seminary as a seminary of the future.
• Participate in Convocation, Commencement, monthly faculty meetings and forums, and other responsibilities and duties expected of all faculty members of Denver Seminary and as outlined in the Faculty Handbook.
• If tenure-track, contribute to the body of literature and professional presentations for chaplaincy and pastoral care substantive, scholarly work appropriate for applied disciplines and as described in the Faculty Handbook.
• Other duties as assigned by the Academic Dean.

What We're Looking For

• Committed personal relationship with Jesus Christ and a lifestyle consistent with the Seminary’s Community Values and Behavioral Commitments.
• Agreement to abide by the Faculty Handbook and all Seminary policies and procedures.
• Endorsement held by a Department of Defense recognized endorsing body.
• Ministry experience as an Active Duty/Reserve military chaplain.
• Professional experience and certifications in chaplaincy, pastoral counseling, and/or pastoral care.
• Sees Pastoral Counseling as a spiritual, emotional, and embodied practice (e.g., marriage and family, military regulations and protocols, ethics and morality, and modalities such as brief, crisis, stabilization, and disaster counseling).
• Graduate-level teaching experience in academic settings and/or within military institutional systems.
• Demonstrated administrative capacity and experience.
• Cross-cultural experience.
• Active membership and participation in the Military Chaplains Association and Association of Professional Chaplains or other certification entity; membership in at least one of these organizations is desired.
• Demonstrate understanding of military and veterans’ organizations (e.g., VA, MOA, DAV, VFW, etc.).
• Education/Training: Relevant terminal degree for Assistant/Associate Professor; desired but not required for Professor of Practice; Academic/Professional Military Education; formal Masters-level theological training; Military Chaplain Candidate experience desired; CPE desired.

Nice to Have

• Military Chaplain Candidate experience
• CPE experience

Compensation & Benefits

• Salary ranges: Assistant: $60,970 to $74,883; Associate: $76,190 to $84,655 USD per year