Apprenticeship Program

Samaritan's Purse International; Boone (NC); On-site; USD 38,000 - 52,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Full-time salary with benefits

Job summary

Samaritan’s Purse International offers apprenticeships that kick-start a career through hands-on learning from field experts. Apprentices will quickly build professional networks while honing technical skills and collaborating on ministry-wide projects.

After training, apprentices will be placed on a career track and earn a full-time salary with benefits. Programs include leadership in operations, finance, security, and field-based programming to prepare for impactful service wherever assigned.

Qualifications

• An ideal candidate will demonstrate a calling to ministry and long-term interest in Samaritan’s Purse.
• Ability to problem solve and drive results.
• Humility to do whatever task is required.
• Ability to work under pressure in high-demand environments.

Responsibilities

• Develop and practice fundamental skills of managing long-term relief programming through program proposal development, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation.
• Mentor and support in the Operations: regional manager duties, mobilizing churches for shoebox gifts and donations, representing the ministry at events, and leading a regional processing center.
• Support field-based programming through procurement, vendor vetting and management, logistics, base management, asset management and warehousing.
• Assist in budgeting, cash flow, financial statements, audits, payroll, and policy-compliant transactions.
• Research, develop and maintain contextualized international security assessments and recommendations.

Skills

Calling to ministry

Problem solving

Humility

Work under pressure

Job description

Apprenticeships kick-start a career through hands-on learning from an expert in their field.

Apprentices will have the chance to quickly build their professional network while honing their technical skills. After training, apprentices will both collaborate in and spearhead ministry wide projects.

Apprenticeship opportunities equip professionals forfuture leadership within Samaritan’s Purse.

Through presentations from top executives, simulations, and projects, apprentices will grow in the competencies that define a professional at Samaritan’s Purse and will gain the knowledge and tools they need to serve effectively wherever they are assigned.

• Programs: Develop and practice fundamental skills of managing long-term relief programming through program proposal development, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation.
• Operation Christmas Child: Support volunteer teams by being mentored in the core responsibilities of a regional manager, actively assisting in day-to-day ministry tasks such as mobilizing churches to generate shoebox gifts and donations, assisting in representing the ministry at community events, and serving in a leadership role at a regional processing center.
• Operations: Support field-based programming through procurement, vendor vetting and management, logistics, base management, asset management, and warehousing.
• Finance: Practice accounting disciplines in a field-based context through reviewing and managing annual program budgets, ensuring cash flow and transactions are processed according to policy, preparing financial statements and projections, overseeing staff payroll, and supporting audits.
• Security: Research, develop, implement, and maintain contextualized international security assessments and recommendations based on political, geographic, and cultural variables.

Once selected, apprentices will earn a full-time salary with benefits and be placed on a career track based on previous work experience, academic background, and natural aptitude.

An ideal candidate will demonstrate:

• A sense of calling to the ministry and long-term interest in the work ofSamaritan’sPurse
• Ability to problem solve and drive results
• Humility to do whatever task is required
• Ability to work under pressure and perform well in high-demand, high-volume work environments

And I heard the voice of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?” Then I said, “Here I am! Send me.”