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Position Description

To apply for this position please click on the following link: Communication and Recruitment Coordinator

Position Summary:

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The Communication and Recruitment Coordinator serves the Institute for Community Transformation (ICT) to promote the program to potential students and donors through highly effective online presence and communication in accordance with the program mission and goals. This is a position for someone who is zealous for the expansion of the kingdom of God, fully embraces the mission and values of ICT, and understands how to effectively communicate through online platforms.

Essential Roles and Responsibilities:

• In partnership with ICT Directors, develop and implement digital student recruitment and fundraising strategies.
• Create student recruitment and scholarship fund-raising digital content.
• Update ICT website to make it more relevant and compelling to young adults who are potential students and others who are potential scholarship donors.
• Research and identify user questions/needs to optimize key topics and images to increase ICT website visibility.
• Promote content on social networks and monitor engagement (e.g., comments and shares).
• Support students in their own scholarship fundraising efforts.
• Communicate with FV Controller to keep track of funds being raised.
• Manage and customize ICT Learning Management System (LMS) to create a more user-friendly environment within Moodle.
• Train ICT student-leaders in MS Teams and LMS functions.
• Perform related and other duties as assigned to ensure overall health and success of the program.
• Contribute to healthy team culture, workflow, schedules, and performance.
• Completes compliance training as scheduled by Human Resources.
• Attend weekly organization wide staff meeting and any team related meetings as determined necessary by supervisor.
• Agreement with membership in FV as outlined in FV's Core Identity Document
• Participates in fund development in accord with agreed upon goals and objectives.
• Adhere to the Policies and Procedures of the Organization
• Coordinate with instructors to create lecture videos for ICT courses.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Open to wide ranging, Jesus-following spiritual heritages and expressions of spirituality.
• Open to challenging traditional and comfortable spiritual heritages and expressions.
• Working knowledge of graphic design software or visual design tools in the performance of duties.
• Ability to research, analyze, and understand potential students' and donors' interests and needs, and address them using digital content.
• Working knowledge of front-end development web programming language (HTML and CSS).
• Good understanding of MS Teams and ICT's Moodle learning content management system.
• Good understanding of search engine optimization principles.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Proficiency on computers and Microsoft Teams, Microsoft 365, and Microsoft Office.
• Participate in additional work training as deemed appropriate.
• Communicate consistently with leaders (and with project team members as needed), remotely and in person.
• Ability to prioritize tasks and manage deadlines.
• Ethical conduct.

Qualifications:

• Received official acceptance as a member of the FMF religious order.
• Must be able to participate in fundraising for organizational development.
• Strong motivation to move the organizational mission forward.
• Strong alignment with the stated values of the organization.
• Available for organizational development and event travel as needed.
• Completion of at least one-year worth of ICT curriculum with general familiarity with ICT curriculum and program.
• Undergraduate level (AA or BA) education in a relevant area of studies or equivalent required.
• Received official acceptance as a member of the FMF religious order.

Minimum Physical Requirements:

• The duties of this job occasionally require the worker to travel by car, plane, etc. with or without accommodation.
• Must have the ability to type written communication, speak and hear with clarity to facilitate good communication in virtual meetings.

Position Description

To apply for this position please click the following link: Western USA Hub Director

Position Summary:

Hub Directors provide both spiritual and organizational leadership in FV's life as an order and organization. As such, a primary responsibility is to establish and cultivate FV's life as a community that expresses the catalytic functions of Frontier Ventures across the hub's sphere of influence. The Western USA Hub Director provides "apostolic-servant" leadership and oversight for the activities, personnel, and wider communities of the Hub to ensure progress toward Hub goals that are aligned with the vision, mission, and strategic aims of FV in ways that are consistent with the values, ethos, and spirituality of the Order. The Hub Director will apply a strong relationship with Jesus and an experience in team building and collaboration to provide strategic planning, leadership, and team development to cultivate plans, projects and initiatives to steward FV's resources of finance, expertise and people. The Western Hub Director oversees specific administrative and logistical functions of the FV office, located in Pasadena, CA.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Lead the spiritual formation and community development of the Hub, especially working with FV Formation/Community Lead to multiply CC's and Facilitators.
• Work with FV's Formation and Community Lead to develop and give oversight to the Hub's Contemplative Communities, facilitating/leading a Contemplative Community when needed.
• Recruit and supervise a Hub leadership team to serve Hub development in keeping with a discernment based strategic plan that maintains alignment with the overall vision, mission, and values of Frontier Ventures.
• The Hub Director is committed to discerning, in tandem with other FV leadership, God's guidance for the direction and execution of activities within the Hub's sphere of influence and for the greater FV order.
• Represents FV to other entities and constituencies, including "insiders", "alongsiders", other organizations, local leaders in the body of Christ, and as needed, governmental authorities.
• With and through the Hub leadership and input and assistance from FV Operations and Catalysts and Growth Team , manage the Hub's portfolio of projects to ensure proper planning, resourcing, performance evaluation, and reporting.
• Serve and build a strong team by maintaining a healthy culture and providing regular encouragement, development, resourcing, and feedback to all team members.
• Lead the team in managing workflows, schedules, and performance.
• Plan and facilitate team meetings as needed.
• With FV Operations, develop Hub specific operations as needed
• With FV Operations, monitor and adjust systems and processes to ensure efficiency and up-to-date standards across all aspects of operations.
• With FV Operations, develop and manage financial operations as needed within budgets that come under the Hub and provide timely reporting and financial analysis.
• With FV Operations oversee FV Office functions and details of lease/rental of FV Office in Pasadena, CA
• Participate with FV Operations and other departments to recruit, hire, and train any new staff, including volunteer and contracted staff. With FV Operations, manage and maintain all FV and Hub security protocols as needed for security and crises of individual and organizational scope
• Resolve issues and solve problems within the business, relational, or ministry spheres of the Hub.
• With FV Growth Team, cultivate and correspond with ministry donors.
• With FV Operations identify the need for, and execute approved business, legal, regulatory, governmental, and personnel registrations, where needed.
• Identify and respond to emerging trends within the affinity of the Hub.
• With Growth Team, establish and monitor goals for partner development.
• With Growth Team, provide support and resourcing to direct reports for their commitments to partner development and Commitment to following the FV Core Identity Document.
• Agreement with membership in FV as outlined in FV's Core Identity Document
• Complete compliance training as scheduled by Human Resources.
• Attend weekly organization-wide staff meetings and missiology meetings.
• Attend any team-related training or meetings as determined necessary by the Global Hub Director.
• Adhere to the Policies and Procedures of the Organization

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:·

• Team facilitation towards organizational leadership and decision-making
• Ability to be a member of a leadership team, including following the lead of others.
• Strong cross-cultural relational and communication skillset.
• Ability to lead from alongside.
• High integrity and a strong reputation for personal character.
• Ability to mentor/apprentice others.
• Ability to prioritize tasks and projects to deadlines.
• Holistic integration of spiritual, vocational, and community life.
• Ability to manage the pressure of leadership.
• Strategic thinking.
• Disciplines of execution and delegation.
• Team management and development.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Proficiency on computers and MS Office suite.
• Participate in additional work training as deemed appropriate.
• Communicate consistently with leaders (and with project team members as needed), remotely and in person.
• Ability to prioritize tasks and manage deadlines.
• Ability to supervise other employees.
• Dependable, with the ability to be flexible, and a team builder.
• Open to a wide range of spiritual heritages and expressions of spirituality
• Open to challenging traditional and comfortable spiritual heritages and expressions
• Agrees to FV's Essentials as a member of our order
• Participates in fund development per goals and tasks as agreed with Supervisor.

Qualifications:·

• Active, transformative relationship with Jesus.
• Consistent lifestyle appropriate to a follower of Jesus
• Regular, habitual spiritual practices.
• Ability to travel domestically or internationally.
• 5+ years of spiritual and operational leadership.
• Experience in global ministry and the affinity focus of the Hub.
• Demonstrated success in managing and developing healthy teams.
• Received official acceptance as a member of the FMF religious order.
• Participates in fund development in accord with agreed upon goals and objectives

Minimum Physical Requirements:·

• The duties of this job frequently require the worker to sit for extended periods of time.
• The duties of this job at times require travel by bus, car, train, or air with or without accommodation.
• Must be able to carry small loads of supplies.
• Must have the ability to type written communication, speak and hear with clarity to facilitate effective communication in virtual meetings.

Position Description

To apply for this position please click the following link: Missiology Catalyst

The Missiology Catalyst serves to promote missiological reflection and engagement within the Frontier Ventures (FV) and William Carey International University (WCIU) movements and beyond. Connect and engage the worldwide frontier mission community to cultivate and catalyze collaborative efforts for: learning; sharing of information, vision, and strategies; advancement of effective collaborative efforts; stimulation of new thinking and study of current effective and relevant ministries to catalyze Movements to Jesus. To engage and include a broad range of involvement including people from non-majority "voices" such as but not limited to women, younger individuals, people from the Global South. Effectively work with Frontier Ventures and William Carey University to involve target audiences in the discussion and sharing of the results of findings.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Proficiency on computers and MS Office suite
• Participate in additional work training as deemed appropriate
• Communicate consistently with leaders (and with project team members as needed), remotely and in person
• Ability to prioritize tasks and manage deadlines
• Ethical conduct
• Ability to supervise other employees
• Dependable, with the ability to be flexible, and a team builder
• Open to wide-ranging spiritual heritages and expressions of spirituality
• Open to challenging traditional and comfortable spiritual heritages and expressions

Minimum Physical Requirements

• The duties of this job frequently require the worker to sit for extended periods of time.
• The duties of this job occasionally require the worker to travel by car, plane, etc with or without accommodation.
• Must have the ability to type written communication, speak and hear with clarity to facilitate good communication in virtual meetings.

Key Qualifications

• PhD related to mission preferred.
• Previous leadership and management experience preferred.
• Received official acceptance as a member of the FMF religious order.
• Must be able to raise funds through ministry partner development for the organization.
• Available for ministry partner development and organizational event travel as needed.
• Preference towards workers with previous ministry experience.

Key Responsibilities

• Facilitate internal missiological discussion and learning via Monday Huddles and Friday Missiology sessions.
• Catalyze more diversity in our missiological voice: younger people, women, global south, etc.
• Utilize accepted fundamental FV missiological documents to effectively guide and integrate missiological efforts across FV/WCIU.
• Help FV/WCIU find processes or ways to become a more intentional "missio-hermeneutical" community using various forms of communication such as but not limited to blogs, Teams calls, etc.
• Work with all FV/WCIU ministries such as publications, Winter Launch Lab, Communications and others in order to coordinate and integrate our missiological voice internally and externally.
• Create and develop avenues of missiological interaction and collaboration between FV’s various Catalysts and regional Hubs, in order to promote missiological clarity and unity.
• Manage and facilitate relationships between Associates and their duties.
• Manage work within budget and ensure department is working within budget.
• Build healthy team culture
• Manage team workflow, schedules, and performance
• Hire and train new staff
• Develop team and team members
• Maintain required levels of ministry support through regular time in ministry partner development
• Commitment to following the outlined Frontier Mission Fellowship Essentials
• Adhere to the Policies and Procedures of the Organization
• Provide support and resourcing to direct reports for their commitments to ministry partner development and the FMF Essentials
• Completes compliance training as scheduled by Human Resources.
• Attend weekly organization wide staff meeting and any team related meetings as determined necessary by supervisor.
• Perform related and other duties as assigned.