Ken Starr, the former Baylor University president who was ousted last year amid the school's sexual assault scandal and is best known for investigating the sexual activities of President Bill Clinton, is reportedly being considered to lead the Office of International Religious Freedom in the Trump administration.

Foreign Policy reported Thursday that Starr is on the short list for ambassador-at-large for international religious freedom, a job in the State Department that promotes freedom of religion and monitors religious persecution around the world.

"It's my understanding that it's his job if he wants it," an individual familiar with the process told the magazine.

It was unclear what interest Starr had in emerging from his forced retirement, which he has been using to write a book about his time at Baylor. Starr has called religious liberty, an issue he tried to tackle while at Baylor, one of his "abiding passions."

Starr did not immediately respond to an email request for comment from The Dallas Morning News on Thursday.

In this Sept. 12, 2015, file photo, Baylor President Ken Starr waits to run onto the field before an NCAA college football game in Waco, Texas. (AP)

Other candidates could include Johnnie Moore Jr., the former faith adviser to Ben Carson, and Nina Shea, a human rights lawyer at the Hudson Institute, a conservative think tank, according to Foreign Policy.

Starr served as Baylor's university president from 2010 to 2016, when he was demoted by school regents for mishandling a sexual assault crisis on campus. He later parted ways with the school altogether.

Baylor hired a law firm to investigate its handling of sexual assault in 2015, after two football players were convicted of sexual assault. The law firm, Pepper Hamilton, found widespread problems with how the university responded to sexual violence on campus, including a failure to properly investigate complaints and actions that "could be perceived as victim-blaming."

In addition to Starr, former Baylor football coach Art Briles lost his job and former athletic director Ian McCaw, who now works at Liberty University in Virginia, resigned.

Baylor has said it is reviewing 125 reports of sexual assault or harassment from 2011 to 2015.

School regents estimated last year that 19 football players had been accused of sexual or physical assault since 2011, but a new lawsuit recently alleged that the tally was actually far higher. The suit, based on investigation by lawyers, claimed that 31 football players committed at least 52 "acts of rape" between 2011 and 2014.

Those numbers could not be independently verified, but school officials have said that the Pepper Hamilton investigation was not comprehensive.

Starr, a former judge, appellate lawyer and solicitor general, is a fifth-generation Texan and conservative Christian. He earned a reputation as an aggressive and polarizing figure after his prosecution of Clinton led to the president's impeachment in 1998.

In October, after a "mutually agreed separation" from Baylor, Starr told the student newspaper, The Baylor Lariat, that he was using his free time to focus on his "abiding passions" of education and religious freedom.

"I'm working very hard around the globe on issues of religious liberty for all persons," he said.