Bard College seeks to appoint a vibrant Jewish chaplain who, within the interfaith Chaplaincy of the College, will actively engage in building and sustaining a dynamic, meaningful, and pluralistic Jewish campus community..    This is a full-time exempt, 12 month  per year position reporting to Reverend Mary Grace Williams, Chaplain of the College/Dean of Community Life. The successful candidate will excel at working in a community that is broadly diverse with regard to race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, gender, nationality, sexual orientation and religion.

Bard College's main campus is in Annandale-on-Hudson, NY with 1900 undergraduate students; the campus also features multiple graduate programs.  The 1000 acre campus sits along the Hudson River and offers the Fisher Performing Arts Center, the Hessel Museum of Art, as well as the home of the Bard Prison Initiative, the largest college degree granting prison education program in the U.S.  The Bard Network also includes several Bard High School Early Colleges across the country as well as five international campuses and partnerships.  The Bard Network is complex and demonstrates Bard's priorities well in addition to the College's emphasis on civic engagement. 

Bard College is a private institution working in the public interest. Bard faculty and staff lead their students by example, building upon the existing network of boundary-breaking programs focused on rethinking who can and should be included in this kind of education.
 

ESSENTIAL DUTIES:

The chaplain's work is focused on the pastoral and liturgical care of students, including during the Sabbath and Jewish holidays, and also includes serving the staff, faculty, and alumni of the College. The Jewish chaplain coordinates his or her work with the Episcopal, Buddhist, and Muslim chaplains, as well as with other associates of the Chaplaincy, who serve students of other religious communities and who often collaborate in multi-denominational events. The successful candidate may be invited to teach within the academic curriculum of the College and/or engage in other on-campus activities, depending upon the qualifications and interests of the candidate and the needs of the College.