Church Partnership Manager - 2025289
Towson, MD
Home Office – Advancement /
Regular, Full-time /
Remote
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.
At this pivotal moment in time, we are rapidly expanding and growing our team to meet the increasing needs of our world. We are looking for people who want to use their gifts and talents to make a real and tangible difference in our world and the lives of the suffering.
If you’re looking for a purpose-driven career in which you can grow your talents, while also standing up for the rights of the vulnerable, we want you to join us today.
ORGANIZATION SUMMARY
World Relief is a global Christian humanitarian organization whose mission is to boldly engage the world’s greatest crises in partnership with the church. The organization was founded in the aftermath of World War II to respond to the urgent humanitarian needs of war-torn Europe. Since then, for 80 years, across 100 countries, World Relief has partnered with local churches and communities to build a world where families thrive and communities flourish.
Today, organizational programming focuses on humanitarian and disaster response, community strengthening and resilience, and refugee & immigrant services and advocacy.
This position is reliant upon funding and may be subject to modification or termination based on resource availability.
POSITION SUMMARY:
World Relief seeks a Church Partnership Specialist. This role leads the development of messaging frameworks, training curricula, and volunteer mobilization strategies to help local offices build and deepen meaningful relationships with churches. As a key connector between national strategy and local implementation, the Church Partnership Specialist supports field staff through peer learning cohorts and collaborative training. They also represent church engagement priorities in broader organizational planning efforts. The ideal candidate will implement a national church strategy that guides churches from initial interest to mid-level and deep partnership across U.S. offices, strengthening the Church’s role in transformative community impact
ROLE & RESPONSIBILITIES:
- This role is responsible for supervising others and includes responsibilities consistent with supervising employees, including but not limited to monitoring daily work activities, tracking and approving timesheets including approving time off, monitoring performance including entering goals, progress check-ins, and weekly or bi-weekly check-ins, documenting performance concerns, entering staff promotions, transitions, and separations in HRIS within required time frame. Managers at World Relief are also considered spiritual leaders and are expected to lead staff in a manner consistent with our Christian values, including but not limited to praying with staff, leading devotionals, and fostering a Christian environment in interactions with staff throughout World Relief.
- Lead the creation of US Programs messaging frameworks for church engagement
- Collaborate with USO Marketing and Development leads to align messaging, campaigns, events, and donor strategy with church engagement efforts to drive shared outcomes in revenue generation and program engagement.
- Reflect a deep passion for the church that drives forward momentum through messaging strategies and stakeholder engagement
- Represent church engagement strategy within broader organizational planning
- Collaborate with Advancement Team to develop and implement a scalable engagement strategy that moves churches from initial interest to mid-level and depth partnerships across US Offices.
- Work closely with the National Director of Church Partnerships, Church Product Development Manager, and church focused SPD's to assure coordination and synergy of effort with local offices.
- Ensure integration of national church strategy with local office and SPD church partnership pitching and development.
- Strategize, collaborate, and drive use of key church products for USOs
- Understand and leverage church leadership systems in order to promote and pitch church products and implement programs, processes and pitches that will support our local offices in engaging the church and building fruitful partnerships.
- Assure excellent collaboration and coordination with our US programs teams, especially the Community & Volunteer Engagement Team.
- Maximize US Programs training, tools, and systems that support localized outreach and volunteer engagement.
- Create/modify/utilize scalable engagement models for local offices to mobilize communities and faith-based organizations.
- Integrate volunteer training and tools into church partnership pathways
- Local Office Equipping and Coaching
- Build trust among stakeholders and shape church engagement strategy across our network of offices for sustained growth
- Oversee Church Engagement Officer in supporting church focused field staff’s onboarding and training through cohorts and peer learning.
- Provide thought leadership to local offices regarding shared systems for tracking engagement, managing relationships, and reporting impact.
- Ensure church engagement data is collected and analyzed for impact storytelling and continual improvement.
- Support the launch of new national campaigns and fundraising initiatives, as well as resource-sharing platforms, or collaborative initiatives to advance the mission.
Strategy and Messaging
Church Fundraising and Partnership Development
Volunteer Engagement and Mobilization
Church Innovation, Growth, and Thought Leadership
JOB 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
- Personal embodiment and thought leadership in integral mission
- Multi-cultural leadership experience required
- 5 years’ experience in church partnership development and program management
- Ability to professionally handle sensitive situations with tact and confidentiality.
- Experience in partnership development
- Self-starter; good follow-through; ability to work independently and in a team environment.
- Proven oral and written communication skills.
- Computer proficiency, including Microsoft Office 365 suite, databases and report generation
- M.Div, or equivalent vocational experience
- Some possible domestic travel required (15%)
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- Understanding of denominations and local churches across Evangelical spectrum
- Experience working in refugee and immigrant ministry
- Experience serving in a local church – as a staff or volunteer
- Demonstrated acumen in designing and facilitating conversations and group-learning
- Ability to lead and connect vision to strategy to implementation to metrics
- Leadership experience in program development and management
$80,000 - $96,000 a year
World Relief offers a competitive benefits package and employee discount program for full-time and part-time employees.
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.
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Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
We are proud to be an EEO/AA employer M/F/D/V. We maintain a drug-free workplace and perform pre-employment substance abuse testing.
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.
