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. Revenue share exists and flows from the Halls a Field Guide serves, but it lags Hall maturity and should not be the reason a person takes this on.
The first phase is the proof.
Field Guides who answer this call in the early years are taking on real cost — time, attention, reputation — before the revenue model has matured. Many will redirect their share back into the region: scholarships, Hall seed funding, local formation projects. This is part of what the role asks. CHI is honest about it.
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. This is not optional. People without it will not be served well by this work, and neither will the Halls they would serve.
Twenty-plus years of vocational depth.
In education, ministry, classical formation, or related fields.
Existing relational credibility.
In a specific region or with a specific network.
A vocational posture.
The willingness to give substantial time to the formation of Halls in your region as a calling, not as a transaction.
The temperament for coaching.
Asking questions, sitting with ambiguity — more than for managing or driving execution.
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). These are matching attributes, not coverage axes — Field Guides are regional first.
Where Field Guides are needed.
The full network map and current Field Guide coverage is on the Find a Hall page. Below is a snapshot of regions where the call is most active.
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.
Begin the conversation.
Capture first. The harder questions about region, networks, and fit come later in conversation.