Church Mobilization Strategist

We are seeking a Church Mobilization Strategist to join our team and play a vital role in advancing the global mission. 

The Church Mobilization Strategist serves as a key representative, fostering strategic partnerships with a designated portfolio of churches within a specified geographic territory. As the primary point of contact, this role facilitates collaborative relationships between the organization and its church partners, driving missional engagement and discipleship initiatives. With a focus on delivering exceptional service, the Church Mobilization Strategist seeks to maximize opportunities for collective impact, ultimately contributing to the deployment of missionary teams and the establishment of thriving churches among unreached populations, all for the purpose of advancing God's glory.

Compensation: $74-85K annually
Location: REMOTE- ideally located in Tennessee or Kentucky

Territory: Appalachian Region + North Region

Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain strategic relationships with missions leaders within a designated territory, ensuring a high level of engagement and collaboration with a portfolio of churches.
• Deliver exceptional customer service and communication, fostering increased awareness and participation in international missions among constituents.
• Conduct ongoing needs assessments, monitoring, and validation to ensure a deep understanding of customer requirements and preferences.
• Travel extensively throughout the designated territory to attend church meetings, partner-led events, and organizational events, facilitating strong relationships and driving missional outcomes.
• Manage comprehensive communication strategies for the assigned caseload of churches and partners, including planning and executing travel itineraries, maintaining accurate data within the Customer Relationship Management (CRM) tool, and facilitating inter-team collaboration through formal and informal channels.
• Pursue ongoing professional development and training to enhance expertise and stay abreast of industry trends and best practices.
• Conduct research and analysis on industry and denominational trends, identifying potential challenges and opportunities that may impact the caseload of constituents and supporting partners.
• Develop and implement solutions to navigate these challenges and promote increased missions activity, investing in the creation of training resources, tools, and programs that drive church missions engagement.
• Collaborate with internal teams to design and deliver cross-training initiatives, enhancing organizational engagement and driving results-oriented outcomes.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree and seminary training (MDiv or MRE) or equivalent missionary experience
• At least 8 years’ experience serving as a missionary and/or leading a church staff to mobilize missions
• Must possess advanced written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to effectively articulate complex ideas and perspectives to diverse audiences, including senior leaders across the Southern Baptist Convention.
• Experience with develop creative solutions that meet the needs of multiple stakeholders and fostering collaborative relationships and build trust with key partners.
• Possess a deep understanding of mission and proven ability to be able to inspire and equip through verbal, visual, and written communication.
• Effectively communicate with key audiences and internal IMB leadership, comfortable with presenting to large audiences.
• IMB & SBC experience and/or knowledge
• Ability to prioritize and negotiate using tested relational and key/strategic account business models
• High initiative as a self-starter and ability to multitask and prioritize in high pressure environment.
• Strong administrative, organizational, communication skills to develop and maintain effective work processes, relational networks, implementation of strategies, offsite teamwork and follow through with commitments
• Experience with CRM (customer relationship management) tool (preferred)
• Ability to travel at least 30% of time

Benefits and Perks:

• Medical insurance with choice of 3 plans, dental, vision, HSA and FSA benefit plans (and more!)

• Short- and long-term disability and basic lif