ORGANIZATION SUMMARY:
World Relief is a global Christian humanitarian organization that is fighting for change that lasts, right here in the U.S. and across the globe. We bring sustainable solutions to the world’s greatest problems – disasters, extreme poverty, violence, oppression, and mass displacement. The organization is approximately 75 years old and has worked in over 100 countries around the world since its founding.
In the United States, we come alongside local churches, community organizations and hundreds of individual volunteers to support newly arriving refugee and other immigrant families. Today, we are proud to partner with over 6,000 local churches, and 95,000 volunteers globally to bring hope, healing and transformation to the most vulnerable.
POSITION SUMMARY:
Are you a person of compassion? An advocate for justice? Someone who stands up for the rights of the vulnerable and speaks out for the marginalized, the exploited and the forgotten? Do you believe in our calling as Christians to welcome the least of these and love our neighbor?
If you answered ‘yes’, to any of the above, World Relief, and millions of people around the world need you.
The Church & Community Engagement Manager leads World Relief Durham’s efforts to increase and maintain the support of local churches, volunteers, and donors. This position would lead the Church & Community Engagement (CCE) department in educating church and other community partners about the mission and work of World Relief, communicating the impact of community support to donors and constituents, and growing that impact through communications, events, public speaking, community development, and more. This position is responsible for ensuring World Relief Durham meets its annual fundraising and church/volunteer engagement goals. The position is full time, 40 hours per week, and assumes a role on World Relief Durham’s leadership team.
Role & Responsibilities
- Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Internal
- Provide leadership in creating and executing an annual Church & Community Engagement (CCE) strategic plan to accomplish WRD church mobilization, fundraising, communications, and program development goals.
- Supervise applicable development, volunteer engagement, donations, and advocacy staff toward the achievement of WRD’s annual CCE goals.
- Engage in regular meetings with Executive Director and Development staff to review fundraising goals and clearly establish accountabilities for shared fundraising activities (including prospecting, grant writing, digital communications, print media, and more) and events.
- Develop, in conversation with the Executive Director, quarterly and annual work plans and metrics for the team to measure church partnerships, volunteer engagement, advocacy, fundraising, and overall CCE success.
- Track and update in Dynamics quarterly CCE goals and metrics; track and enter in Dynamics event participation by Executive Director and non-CCE staff; ensure that CCE events are entered in
- Dynamics monthly and quarterly; ensure that in-kind goods and services (IKGS) data are entered and approved in Dynamics monthly and quarterly; and provide backup to advocacy staff for meeting and tracking metrics.
- Provide regular equipping resources and trainings for all WRD staff as they engage with their own congregations and communities about the work of Word Relief.
- Participate consistently in Church Mobilization and CCE Leads Communities of Practice to learn from and engage with peers across World Relief’s U.S. network.
- Participate in other relevant meetings, trainings, and events for CCE staff across the U.S. network.
- Provide prayerful spiritual leadership for the CCE team
- External Understand and communicate the mission and vision of World Relief to a wide range of church, business, governmental, and individual constituencies to reach or exceed annual engagement and fundraising goals.
- Build and regularly maintain WRD’s community engagement networks through personal relationships, public speaking, and delegation to department staff.
- As needed, represent WRD in local church, business, and other associations to develop networks for generating community engagement and fundraising leads.
- Facilitate church engagement relationships by serving as the primary point of contact or delegating primary ownership of each relationship to other department staff depending on the church’s primary area(s) of interest (volunteer engagement, advocacy, giving).
- Ensure consistent and transparent information-sharing and record-keeping across the department to appropriately and proactively manage church relationships.
- Assist in donor engagement as needed in conversation with development staff.
- As needed, assist the Executive Director in the formation and maintenance of advisory councils or other groups strategic to accomplishing mission and garnering financial and relational support.
- Organize and/or support community engagement events that increase WRD’s visibility in the community.
- As needed, serve as backup to department functions held by other staff.
- As directed by the Executive Director, collaborate with Director of Strategic Partnerships and other corporate or regional level World Relief staff on projects, grants, and events that benefit all parties included.
- Equip, educate, and encourage church partners on best practices in serving immigrants through resource creation, teaching, public speaking, and other methods.
- Maintain up-to-date church information and records of church engagement activity in Dynamics and maintain meeting notes in SharePoint.
- Execute communications plan in collaboration with development staff through regular social media posts, monthly newsletter, maintaining WRD website, annual report, blog posts, and stories of impact.
- As needed, facilitate external partnership agreements in consultation with the Executive Director, World Relief’s legal counsel, and program managers.
Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities
- Education: Bachelor’s degree required;
- MDiv or additional relevant education preferred.
- Minimum of 4 years of full time management experience or equivalent
- Minimum 2 year full time congregational ministry experience or similar
- Ability to provide leadership, problem solve, create and implement new programs
- Experience with Microsoft Dynamics CRM preferred
- Strong writing and public speaking skills
- Ability to work on a team; ability to work independently
- Ability to handle dozens of church & community partnerships in concert
- Familiarity with refugee resettlement in the U.S. preferred
- Immigrant background candidates strongly encouraged to apply
Requirements
- Mature and personal Christian faith
- Committed to the mission, vision, and values of World Relief
- Desire to serve and empower the Church to impact vulnerable communities
- Able to affirm and/or acknowledge World Reliefs Core Beliefs, Statement of Faith, Christian Identity and National Evangelicals For the Health of The Nation document
- Ability to connect with ethnically diverse churches and communities in the Triangle.
- Experience interacting with diverse populations
- Ability to clearly share World Relief’s vision, mission, and values in theologically astute and culturally sensitive ways across Christian denominations and in secular or interfaith contexts
- Strong administration and organizational skills
- Willingness to work on nights and weekends as needed for events
- Valid Driver’s license and regular access to personal vehicle
World Relief offers a competitive benefits package (25 hours + per week):
- Medical, Dental, Vision
- Offer 16 company Paid Holidays + 4 additional Personal days per year!
- Paid Sick and Vacation Time
- Paid Parental Leave (12 weeks for qualified employees)
- FSAs: Medical & Dependent Care, & Commuter Funding
- Supplemental Life Insurance (employee, spouse, and children)
- Critical Illness, Hospital Indemnity, and Accident insurance policies
- Legal Shield Insurance
World Relief pays 100% for eligible employees:
- Group Term Life (employee, spouse, and children)
- Long Term & Short-term Disability
- Accidental Death and Dismemberment (AD&D)
- Long Distance Travel Insurance
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
World Relief - Retirement:
- 401K & Roth
- WR matches up to 4%, then an additional quarter percent up to 10%
- Eligibility: Full Time (40 hours per week) is eligible after 3 months of employment. Part time is eligible after 1000 hours in a year.
World Relief Discounts (Immediately Eligible):
- Verizon
- Pet Insurance through Nationwide
- Home and Auto insurance through Liberty Mutual
- Working Advantage Discount Program
- Active & Fit Gym Membership
World Relief is honored to be recognized with the Gold-level Cigna Healthy Workforce Designation for exceeding the core components of our well-being program including leadership and culture, program foundations and execution, and whole person health.
PHYSICAL DEMANDS:
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
·While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to have ordinary ambulatory skills sufficient to visit other locations
·The ability to stand, walk, stoop, kneel, crouch, and manipulate (lift, carry, move) light to medium weights of 10-15 pounds.
·Requires good hand-eye coordination, arm, hand and finger dexterity, including ability to grasp, and visual acuity to use a keyboard, operate equipment and read application information.
·The employee frequently is required to sit, reach with hands and arms, talk and hear.
WORK ENVIRONMENT:
·General office setting. World Relief also offers hybrid and remote schedules for limited positions.
·Great lengths of time working on computer, reading from computer screen, entering information, standing at copier or fax machine, and some time on the phone or in virtual meetings may be required.
·Year-end archiving activities involve repeated lifting and bending.
·Physical, emotional and intellectual demands
·Equipment used: Employee computer (desktop or laptop), printer, and copier.
·All of the above duties and responsibilities are essential job functions subject to reasonable accommodation. All job requirements listed indicate the minimum level of knowledge, skills and/or ability deemed necessary to perform the job proficiently. This job description is not to be construed as an exhaustive statement of duties, responsibilities or requirements. Individuals may be required to perform any other job-related instructions as requested by their supervisor, subject to reasonable accommodation. This position description is not all-inclusive and is always under review.
We are proud to be an EEO/AA employer M/F/D/V.
For World Relief staff, strong commitment to the mission, vision, and values of World Relief is essential, and Christian faith is a prerequisite for employment, based upon United States federal guidelines provided in Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Legal Background in the United States
World Relief is both an equal opportunity employer and a faith-based religious organization. World Relief strictly prohibits and does not tolerate unlawful discrimination against employees on the basis of person’s race, color, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state, or local law, which does not conflict with the protections afforded World Relief as a faith-based employer.
In addition, physical or mental limitations will not be a factor in the application of World Relief’s employment policies or employee practices, except for those situations in which occupational requirement make consideration of such factors necessary.
Pursuant to the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Section 702 (42 U.S.C. 2000e 1(a) World Relief has the right to, and does, hire only candidates who agree with World Relief’s Statement of Faith.
