The Associate Chaplain for Muslim Life, under the direction of the University Chaplain & Director of the Wesley Center Department, nurtures the whole lives of Muslim students, serves as a co-advisor for Multi-Faith Alliance (MFA), as well as educates and supports all students, staff and faculty.
Requirements
- Provide spiritual support and care for students, while referring them to Counseling and Health Services when needed.
- Mentor, teach, and support Muslim students exploring a religious vocation and/or graduate studies.
- Facilitate and foster student connections with the local Muslim community for learning and civic engagement opportunities as well as for services and holy days.
- Co-advise the Multi-Faith Alliance (MFA) SALD student organization.
- Mentor the MFA, Muslim Student Association (MSA) Student Lead and MSA Board in planning Muslim celebrations, events and programs.
- Serve as Professional Staff Support under the oversight and in collaboration with the Coordinator of the McVay Youth Partnership.
- Help mentor McVay Student Staff and the youth who are members of the program
- Offer blessings, invocations and benedictions as invited for public events and meals.
- Serve as a religious resource to the Hamline campus to develop interfaith literacy and cooperation.
- Support Muslim staff and faculty.
- Serve as a resource on Islam when invited by faculty to teach a session in classes.
- Share in memorial services for students, faculty, and staff, when a campus-wide memorial is planned.
- Serve as a resource for incidents involving offensive speech or symbols in the residence halls and on campus.
- As a staff member of the OUC, contribute to religious responses to university, local and global crises.
- Attend Wesley Center Department staff meetings and staff retreats.
- Participate in the development, assessment and evaluation of learning outcomes.
- Work with HU Marketing and Communications in the publicity of Muslim programs.
- Participate in Student Affairs general meetings.
- Help plan and participate in end of year events such as Graduation, Honors Day, and the Wesley Center Department End of Year Awards Ceremony and Celebration.
- Collaborate as part of the OUC Staff team in the planning of the Multi-Faith Baccalaureate ceremony, Holy Days calendar, Homecoming events, MFA programming, and MSA programming.
- Provide emergency coverage for students in crisis as requested by the Dean of Students Office when the University Chaplain is on vacation or out of town.
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