Church Partnership Manager - 2025289

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 SUMMARYWorld 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.

Strategy and Messaging
• 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   

Church Fundraising and Partnership Development 
• 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.   

Volunteer Engagement and Mobilization 
• 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 o