Church Partnerships Manager

TEAM; Aurora (IL); Remote; USD 40,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

TEAM is seeking a Church Partnerships Manager (remote) to cultivate and strengthen strategic relationships with local churches across the United States, advancing God’s mission among the nations. The role emphasizes partnerships between local churches and TEAM, building trusted collaboration and sustainable engagement.

Key responsibilities include developing church partnership strategies, advocating for a robust sending culture, and raising 100% of the financial support required for salary and

Qualifications

• Spiritually mature with a growing relationship with Jesus Christ and active local church involvement.
• Pastoral, church staff, missions, or nonprofit leadership experience preferred.
• Fluency in a second language is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Articulate a biblical theology of mission and the Church’s role in global purposes.
• Raise 100% of financial support (salary and benefits).
• Develop and implement a comprehensive church partnership strategy nationwide.
• Build and maintain relationships with pastors and church leadership teams.
• Represent TEAM at churches, conferences, and missions events.

Skills

Relational leadership

Cross-cultural ministry

Public speaking

Strategic thinking

Education

Bachelor’s degree, theological or ministry training

Tools

Microsoft 365

Salesforce

Job description

Position Posting: Church Partnerships Manager

Location: Approved Remote Location

Type of Role: Full-time OR Part-time; 100% Support-raised

Date: June 2026

About TEAM: The Evangelical Alliance Mission is a global mission agency that partners with the global church to send disciples that make disciples and establish missional churches to the glory of God. We envision the church transforming our world.

Founded in 1890, TEAM workers serve in a variety of ministry roles including evangelism, church planting, community development, healthcare, education, social justice, missional business, and many other areas of global ministry. TEAM is both an equal opportunity employer and a faith-based religious organization. For this reason, TEAM hires only candidates who wholeheartedly and without reservation agree with and live according to TEAM’s Statement of Faith. TEAM staff thoroughly embrace the purpose, vision, beliefs, and values of TEAM.

About the Role: The Church Partnerships Manager leads TEAM’s efforts to cultivate and strengthen strategic relationships with local churches across the United States to advance God’s mission among the nations. This role exists to help churches more fully embrace their calling as sending communities—providing meaningful value, trusted partnership, and clear pathways for global engagement.

This leader will champion a vision that TEAM is built for the Church—serving as a bridge between the local church and the global Church through healthy collaboration, shared mission, and long-term partnership. The Church Partnerships Manager develops strategies to help churches discover, develop, send, and sustain global workers while ensuring TEAM serves churches with relational excellence and missiological integrity. This role works closely with Mobilization, Personnel, Development and Global Ministry teams to ensure a unified and innovative approach to Greater Global Gospel Impact.

Key Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Articulate a compelling biblical theology of mission and the Church’s role in God’s global purposes.
• Maintain strong alignment with TEAM’s mission, values, and doctrinal commitments.
• Raise 100% of your financial support (salary and benefits)
• Develop and implement a comprehensive church partnership strategy that strengthens TEAM’s relationships with local churches and positions TEAM as a trusted missions partner.
• Create systems and best practices for identifying, cultivating, and sustaining strategic church partnerships.
• Lead organizational efforts to strengthen church-centered collaboration and engagement.
• Research emerging missiological trends to better serve churches and inform TEAM’s strategy.
• Build and maintain relationships with pastors, missions leaders, and church leadership teams.
• Cultivate partnerships characterized by shared vision, mutual investment, and a commitment to sending and sustaining global workers.
• Develop pathways for churches to engage in missions through prayer, sending, disciple-making, leadership development, and global partnerships.
• Maintain a strategic portfolio of key church relationships and partnerships.
• Represent TEAM at churches, conferences, universities, seminaries, and missions events.
• Communicate a compelling biblical vision for God’s global mission and the Church’s role in it.
• Equip churches to develop healthy sending cultures and missions strategies.
• Speak, teach, and provide resources on missions, sending, missiology, and global partnerships.

Qualifications of the Role:

• Spiritually mature with a growing relationship with Jesus Christ and actively involved in a local church.
• Prior pastoral, church staff, missions, or nonprofit leadership with cross-cultural ministry experience is desirable as is fluency in a second language.
• Highly relational leader experienced in cultivating high-trust relationships and collaborative partnerships, with knowledge across a broad range of local church contexts and missions philosophies, who loves people and inspires others toward greater mission engagement.
• Self-starter with strong organizational leadership, strategic thinking and project management capabilities to execute strategy and accomplish goals independently.
• Skilled communicator—both verbally and in writing who is comfortable speaking publicly and facilitating training sessions or workshops.
• Bachelor’s degree and theological or ministry training preferred.
• Proficient in Microsoft 365 or similar productivity tools and experience with Salesforce or similar CRM systems preferred.

Disclaimer: The information in this document indicates the general nature and level of work to be performed. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as totally comprehensive of every job duty, responsibility, or qualification required by an employee assigned to this position. An employee may be required to perform other assignments not listed here.

This is a remote position.