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Position Description

Position Summary:

The HR Member Lifecycle Coordinator serves as the primary point of contact to assist New Members through the various stages of membership with Frontier Ventures. He/She will handle the coordination of the membership process including Onboarding, Training and Development, Formation and Hub Interaction by connecting members with respective department leaders. The HR-MLC will assist the department in specialized administrative tasks related to the onboarding of all new Members of Frontier Ventures to ensure an efficient onboarding and membership process for new hires. Serves as the lead for all candidates and hiring managers during the recruitment and onboarding process.

• Facilitates the discernment process alongside member candidates
• Commitment to following the rhythms of life outlined in Frontier Ventures' Core Identity document
• Works with hiring managers to gain approval for new position requisitions.
• Works with Hiring and HR Manager to create job descriptions for positions within Frontier Ventures.
• Post approved jobs to the Frontier Ventures website
• Prescreens applicants with a discerning posture and sends qualified applicants to hiring managers
• Serves as the onboarding coach for membership, connecting potential staff with various departments throughout the membership and onboarding process.
• Maintains communication with Hub Directors to anticipate potential hires within different HUB regions.
• Works closely with the Formation Lead, to connect staff into contemplative communities and other related formation spaces.
• Communicates with supervisors and new members to assist in connecting the member with the proper department for staff development and/training needs.
• Serves as the HR point of contact for all questions related to onboarding for new hires and hiring managers.
• Manages the ADP Recruitment and Onboarding platform for new staff, assigning tasks as necessary to various departments, team members and candidates.
• Coordinates onboarding of new staff including Membership Invitations/Offer Letters, background checks, new hire paperwork, creation of personnel files in ADP.
• Assists with the ongoing maintenance of physical and electronic HR personnel files.
• Provides support in all other special HR initiatives and projects as needed.
• Completes compliance training as scheduled by Human Resources
• Attend weekly organization wide staff meetings and any team related meetings as determined necessary by supervisor
• Performs other related duties as necessary or assigned
• Adhere to the Policies and Procedures of the Organization

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Excellent interpersonal relational skills
• Excellent organizational skills and attention to details
• Ability to maintain confidential information
• Two years of administrative assistant or related experience preferred
• Prior HR Experience preferred
• Strong motivation to live into the rhythms of life of the FV community and move the organizational mission forward
• Alignment with the stated values of the organization
• Open to wide ranging spiritual heritages and expressions of spirituality
• Open to challenging traditional and comfortable spiritual heritages and expressions
• Positive, self-starting, and solutions-oriented approach
• Proficient in MS Office and intermediate working knowledge of virtual collaboration tools for video conferencing, and asynchronous communication

Qualifications:

• Minimum High School Diploma or equivalent
• Two years of administrative assistant or related experience preferred
• Prior HR experience preferred
• Must be able to travel to the Pasadena office weekly for HR tasks, projects and file maintenance.
• Received official acceptance as a member of the FMF religious order
• Must be able to participate in fundraising for organizational development
• Available for organizational development and event travel as needed.

Minimum Physical Requirements:

• The duties of this job frequently require the worker to operate within a standard office work environment.
• Must have the ability to type written communication, speak and hear with clarity to facilitate good communication in virtual meetings.
• Must be able to lift up to 25 pounds
• Must be able to carry small load of supplies (no larger than 50 pounds) for setting up staff events
• Ability to travel domestically and internationally

Salary- $17.00-$21.00 hourly/ Non-Exempt

To Apply please click on the following link Frontier Ventures Career Center

Position Description

Development is one stream in FV's financial model, which also includes income from a quasi-endowment and from alternative funding models such as fees for service, sales of goods and products, etc. The fundamental ethos of FV's approach to development is to deepen the partnership experience each partner has with FV. While the Growth Team Director will participate with others in the shaping of strategies for the non-development related streams in FV's financial model, she or he serves as the primary lead for planning, directing, and implementing a comprehensive partner development, marketing, external communications, and brand management strategy for organizational fundraising and partner cultivation.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Passionate about FV's vision and mission and values and strategies
• CRM experience, Virtuous preferred
• 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 a wide range of 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.
• Must be able to lift up to 25 pounds of files.
• Must be able to carry small loads of supplies (no larger than 50 pounds) for setting up staff events.
• Must have the ability to type written communication, speak and hear with clarity to facilitate effective communication in virtual meetings.
• Ability to travel domestically and internationally.

Salary Range: $62,000.-$102,000./ Exempt

To apply for this position please click on the Following link: Frontier Ventures Career Center

Key Qualifications

• College diploma preferred.
• Previous leadership experience.
• Prior experience in Development.
• Prior experience in personal support raising preferred.
• Ability to travel domestically and internationally.
• Received official acceptance as a member of the FV religious order.
• Must be able to raise funds through ministry partner development for the organization.
• Preference towards workers with previous ministry experience.

Key Responsibilities

• As a member of the FVLT, the Director fosters FV’s spiritual depth, relational health, organizational clarity, and strategic alignment.
• With FV’s Lead Team and other FV leadership, cultivates a culture of partner development throughout FV: staff, projects, and organizational development.
• Works closely with FVLT to plan, organize, and direct strategic fundraising; including appropriate partner cultivation, especially major partners, major gifts, planned giving, events, capital and project campaigns, and grants-writing. 
• Embraces, enhances, and communicates FV’s ethos of generosity and fundraising, as captured in the Growth Team Guiding Document.
• Communicates the mission and vision of the organization in ways that provide theological and missiological justification for generosity.
• Works with HR and others to provide resources for staff in their development efforts, in staff and project focused development, and with selected staff, major partner (growth partner) cultivation.
• Develops and maintains strong systems for fund development seasons, campaigns, partner-relationships, and partner acquisition. 
• Strategizes and coordinates plans with appropriate staff for meeting prospective partners and supporters on a regular basis to establish strong relationships and ongoing communication, including determination of which partners the Growth Team Director meets with personally.
• Grow a major gifts program including identification, cultivation, and solicitation of major donors with a priority on strong, mutual relationships as members of the body of Christ
• Oversee grant seeking, including research, proposal writing, and reporting requirements. 
• Create and build a planned giving program with a focus on deferred gifts such as bequest expectancies. 
• Direct the annual fund program, including mailings and annual campaigns. 
• Coordinate fundraising special events. 
• Conduct research, to identify prospective partners from a variety of constituencies. 
• Oversee fundraising database, tracking systems, and reporting. 
• Supervises the Growth Team: Communications, CRM, Recruitment, others as determined.
• Build and maintain gift recognition programs that reflect the spiritual and stewardship values of the organization.
• Appear and speak publicly on behalf of the organization. 
• Hire and train Growth Team Staff, as needed.
• Draft, with support, the annual budget for the Growth Team office .
• Consult in the management of FV’s brand relative to fundraising stakeholders and public interface (e.g., web site content, supporting materials, specific program sites) 
• Develop and manage the annual communications calendar for donation-related content including social media, email updates, direct mailings, etc. 
• 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.
• Participates in fund development to reach specific goal as agreed with Supervisor.
• Embraces and fulfills the expectations of membership in FV as outlined in the Core Identity document.

Position Description

The Communications Director will work closely with the Growth Team Director and the Growth Team to lead FV in the maximization of internal and external communication channels, and the implementation of FV's CRM as one of FV's strategies to engage partners in deeper connection to FV.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Expert knowledge in Mailchimp or similar email marketing/communication software
• Knowledge in social media management software
• Clear vision for FV communication platforms
• Conceptual design thinking
• Experience with CRMs and willingness to learn
• Strong written and verbal communication skillset
• High level of accuracy and detail orientation
• Positive, self-starting, and solutions-oriented approach
• Strong verbal and written English communication skills
• Proficient in MS Office and a general working knowledge of virtual collaboration tools for video conferencing, project management, and asynchronous communication

Minimum Physical Requirements:

• The duties of this job frequently require the worker to operate within a standard office work environment.
• Must have the ability to type written communication, speak and hear with clarity to facilitate good communication in virtual meetings.
• Must be able to lift up to 25 pounds
• Ability to travel domestically and internationally

Key Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Communication or related field, preferred
• Received official acceptance as a member of the FMF religious order 
• Must be able to participate in fundraising for organizational development
• Available for organizational development and event travel as needed.

Key Responsibilities

• With the Growth Team Director and Growth Team develop FV’s development, communications, and marketing strategies
• Build and Supervise an FV Communications Team in keeping with FV’s strategic planning
• Draft and edit FV blog posts (weekly)
• Draft and edit FV quarterly newsletter (print and/or digital)
• Serve as a content creator/editor for new FV website
• Plan, facilitate webinar(s) for engaging external constituents
• Assist in developing and implementing feedback loops with external audiences and partners.
• Contribute to upgraded FV utilization of Virtuous CRM
• Internal communication effectiveness in Yammer, posts to the Hive, and inter-departmental communications
• Glean communications content from various FV offerings such as Staff Meetings, Monday Missiology meetings, Conferences, events, etc.
• Completes compliance training as scheduled by Human Resources
• Attend weekly organization wide staff meetings and any team related meetings as determined necessary by supervisor
• Performs other related duties as necessary or assigned
• 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

Position Description

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.