Field Guides give substantial time to the formation of Halls in their region.
A regional call.
Each Field Guide gives substantial time to a defined geography — typically 15–20 Halls within their region. The work is the formation of those Halls: their directors, their tutors, their connection to the broader network, their fidelity to place.
Coaching, planning, translation.
Field Guides advise Hall directors on formation, governance, partnership, and growth. They carry insight from the broader network into each Hall, and carry local reality back to CHI. They do not run marketing campaigns or day-to-day operations — that sits with Account Managers and Marketing Specialists.
A vocational posture, not a contracted role.
CHI is not hiring Field Guides as staff. We are calling people who can give substantial time to this work as part of their vocation — typically people with financial stability secured elsewhere. While operating revenue and fund-raising supports the Field Office, this revenue grows with the growth of the Halls, and should not be the reason for accepting the role of a Field Guide.
The first phase is the proof.
Field Guides who answer this call are taking on real cost and sacrifice — time, attention, reputation. This is part of what the role requires.
What we look for.
This is not a job posting. It is a call. The criteria below describe the person who answers it well — and who will be served well by it in return.
Vocational and financial stability.
A primary income or financial runway secured outside this role. People without it will not be served well by this work, and neither will the Halls they would serve.
Existing relational credibility.
In a specific region or with a specific network.
A vocational posture.
The willingness to treat the formation of Halls in your region as a genuine calling, with real hours behind it.
The temperament for coaching.
Asking questions, sitting with ambiguity.
Time available.
Typically 10–20 hours per week at maturity, less at start. Part-time but real.
Optional but valued: network or confessional fluency.
A specific tutor network (Circe, Colson, Classical Conversations, CPT, ACCS, Founders Classical, others) or confessional tradition (Catholic, Anglican, Reformed, Orthodox, Baptist, others).
Where Field Guides are needed.
The full network map and current Field Guide coverage is on the Find a Hall page. Every region below needs a Field Guide.
West Texas
Permian Basin
Central Texas
Tennessee Valley
Mid-Atlantic
Southeast Florida
Pacific Northwest
Mountain West
Upper Midwest
Southern Appalachia
Great Plains
New England
Don’t see your region? The form below accepts free-text regional descriptions — describe your territory in your own terms.
From application to placement.
Apply
The form below. Capture-first.
Conversation
30–45 minutes with CHI leadership.
Review
References and credentials.
Placement
Region, Halls, networks discussed.
Onboarding
Training, network introduction, initial Hall assignments.