Church Engagement Specialist

The Global Orphan Project; Kansas City, Northern (MO, KY); Hybrid; USD 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life insurance

Retirement savings

Generous PTO

Job summary

The Global Orphan Project’s CarePortal platform mobilizes local churches to support children in crisis across the United States. The Church Engagement Specialist will manage a defined portfolio of churches, serving as the primary day-to-day contact and driving ongoing engagement and retention mainly through virtual communication.

You will monitor activity, guide churches through established processes, and collaborate with CRM and Platform Support to ensure timely responses and scalable

Qualifications

• Experience engaging diverse faith communities and denominations.
• Strong communication and facilitation skills for virtual training.
• Able to guide customers through structured processes.
• High attention to detail with strong follow-through.
• Comfort with virtual training environments and technology.
• Balance efficiency with a positive customer experience.
• Experience with CRM systems and office tools preferred.
• Follow defined processes while identifying improvements.
• Commitment to CarePortal’s mission and values.

Responsibilities

• Manage a defined portfolio of churches, providing consistent communication and support.
• Monitor activity and proactively engage churches to increase participation.
• Reinforce behaviors that lead to sustained engagement and requests met.
• Maintain strong relationships through ongoing communication with churches.
• Serve as the primary point of contact for questions, guidance, and support.
• Resolve most customer issues directly in a timely manner; coordinate with Platform Support for technical issues.
• Monitor engagement metrics and identify opportunities to increase usage.
• Help churches set goals and improve response activity; encourage meaningful connection stories.
• Follow engagement processes and provide feedback to improve tools and playbooks.
• Receive new churches from Onboarding and stay aware of Network Development activities.
• Ensure accurate CRM tracking and participate in strategy meetings to solve issues.
• Support response team development and drive timely church responses.

Skills

Diverse faith engagement

Communication skills

Facilitation

Process guidance

Attention to detail

Virtual training

CRM experience

Microsoft Office

Customer experience

Mission alignment

Tools

CRM systems

Microsoft Office

Virtual meeting tools

Job description

CarePortal is Care-Sharing technology that drives action for local kids and families in crisis. We believe that through the Church and Community, there can be More Than Enough care for every child, through the power of Care-Sharing and the love of Jesus. Our goal is scale meaningful connections through the local church, making a lasting impact on the lives of everyone involved. We mobilize robust Care-Sharing Networks and lead with Courage, Humility, and Excellence.

We do this through the local Church and in collaboration with child-serving organizations, businesses, and people who care—that’s where you come in.

Position Summary

The Church Engagement Specialist is responsible for managing a portfolio of churches to ensure they remain active, supported, and growing in their response to children and families in crisis.

This role serves as the primary day-to-day contact for assigned churches, providing ongoing support, guidance, and communication to increase engagement and retention. While Network Development builds relationships in person and drives growth, this role focuses on sustaining and strengthening engagement over time, primarily through virtual communication.

Success in this role is defined by increased participation, responsiveness, and meaningful connection within the assigned portfolio.Network health metrics, scorecards and KPIs will be utilized to help gauge performance, however, success in this role will be measured across all of the responsibilities listed below.

Your Responsibilities Include:

• Manage a defined portfolio of churches, providing consistent communication and support
• Monitor activity and proactively engage churches to increase participation
• Reinforce behaviors that lead to sustained engagement and requests met

Church Support

• Maintain strong, trust-based relationships through ongoing communication
• Serve as the primary point of contact for questions, guidance, and support
• Resolve most customer issues directly in a timely and effective manner
• Coordinate with Platform Support for more technical issues when needed

Increased Engagement Rate

• Monitor engagement metrics and identify opportunities to increase usage
• Support churches in setting goals and improving response activity
• Encourage and track meaningful connection stories

Process Consistency & Improvement

• Follow established engagement processes and standards
• Provide feedback to improve engagement tools and playbooks content
• Support efforts to increase efficiency and scalability in engagement
  

Coordination & Alignment

• Receive new churches from Onboarding for engagement support
• Maintain awareness of Network Development activity within assigned markets
• Ensure accurate tracking of communication and activity in CRM
• Supportecosystem balancethrough participation in Network Leader facilitatedstrategy meetingstoidentify, discuss and solve issues and opportunities.

Request Monitoring & Response Activation

• Support churches through response team development and church leader buy-in to achieve sustainable network impact
• Monitor unmet requests within assigned portfolio and take proactive action to increase responses by engaging churches to encourage timely responses
• Collaborate with other Engagement Specialists to support shared outcomes across markets

Qualifications

What You Bring to the Organization:

Experience & Skills

• Comfortable engaging and supporting diverse faith communities and denominations
• Strong communication and facilitation skills, with the ability to lead virtual training sessions
• Ability to guide customers through structured processes with clarity and confidence
• High attention to detail and strong follow-through
• Comfort with virtual training environments and technology platforms
• Ability to balance efficiency with a positive, supportive customer experience
• Experience with CRM systems, Microsoft Office, and virtual meeting tools preferred
• Ability to follow defined processes while identifying opportunities for improvement
• Passion for CarePortal’s mission and commitment to Courage, Humility, and Excellence

The above description is not intended to be comprehensive, but rather a focused list of priorities. Success provides the opportunity to not only build a career but also bring much-needed support and care to local children and families in crisis across the United States. Successful candidates, like all CarePortal, LLC employees, are expected to live and work consistent with CarePortal’s vision, mission, and values.

CarePortal, LLC, a subsidiary of the nonprofit organization The Global Orphan Project (GO Project), is Care-Sharing technology that drives action for local kids and families in crisis.

This platform, which brings Christian churches to the point of care for each request made on behalf of children and families, can be used to connect a diverse network of churches, child-serving agencies, businesses, and individuals who care. Learn more at www.careportal.org .

CarePortal, LLC offers a competitive benefits package for full-time positions (30+ hours per week) including health, dental, vision and employer paid life insurance, retirement savings and generous PTO plan and a highly competitive, market-indexed compensation when compared to similar non-profit roles. Compensation is commensurate with relevant skills and experience.

The Global Orphan Project is a 501c3 nonprofit located at 3161 Wyandotte, Kansas City, MO 64111.

CarePortal LLC associates are at-will employees.