Community Engagement Leader - Missions

Southeast Christian Church; Middletown (KY); On-site; USD 52,000 - 68,000; Full time

Job summary

Southeast Christian Church Crestwood Campus is seeking a Community Engagement leader to mobilize and steward opportunities for service in local, national, and global contexts. You will champion missional thinking, create pathways for members to engage, and steward partnerships and resources for campus impact.

The role emphasizes recruiting and developing lay leaders, organizing serve opportunities, and equipping people for ministry and service in alignment with our seven staff values.

Qualifications

• Passion for mobilization, missions and community engagement.
• Experience identifying, recruiting and developing lay leaders.
• Strong organizational and planning abilities.
• Resident of Oldham County, KY or willing to relocate.

Responsibilities

• Mobilize volunteers for local, domestic, and international service.
• Develop pathways for members to engage in missions and service.
• steward partnerships with community and ministry partners.
• lead Unleashed workshops and serve initiatives.
• Promote serving opportunities and call people into action.
• Care for and shepherd volunteers in alignment with church values.

Skills

People skills

Collaboration

Vision-focused

Humility

Education

Undergraduate degree

Job description

The Community Engagement leader acts as the main steward and ambassador of living an Unleashed lifestyle (mobilizing people to serve), for God's glory at the Crestwood Campus. This person champions a missional mindset on campus by creating pathways for members to engage, stewarding partnerships, and helping individuals discern and walk in their God-given calling.

What You Will Be Doing

• 70% Local focus- Within 15 miles of the campus (neighbors, schools, nonprofits, city needs).
  • Engaging with community and missions' partners.
  • Creating serve opportunities.
  • Leading Unleashed workshops.
  • Full Force serve initiatives.
  • Benevolence (10% or less)
• 15% Domestic (United States) - Church plants, disaster relief, trips, domestic trips, and partnerships.
• 15% International - Global missions' trips, missionaries, and global church partnerships.
• Recruit - Promote serving opportunities and call people into an Unleashed life.
• Develop - Equip people for maturity in their faith and in service.
• Mobilize - Send people into local, domestic, and international service.
• Engage Partners - Care for and collaborate with ministry and community partners.
• Steward - Faithfully manage opportunities, people, partnerships, and resources entrusted to the campus.

What We Are Looking For

• People Oriented - great people skills, honors others, stirs collaboration.
• Vision Focused - able to draw the tactical back to the big picture and strategy.
• Humble Listener - you possess a caring disposition, and you listen well.
• Collaborator - the ability to digest and synthesize a diverse group of ideas into a common thread (this will take grit).

Our Requirements

• A passion for mobilization, missions and a desire to engage our community and our church.
• Experience identifying, recruiting and developing lay leaders.
• Strong organizational skills.
• Undergraduate degree required.
• Engaged member of Southeast Christian Church, or willing to become one.
• Resides in Oldham County Kentucky or willing to move if offered the role.
• Exemplifies our seven staff values: Honor, Care, Accountability, Grit, Authenticity, Humility, and Fun.
• Leads by example fulfilling the staff expectations of groups, inviting, serving, worship and giving.
• Agree with the *Statement of Faith, submit to the leadership established by the church, and lives out our church Mantras in tangible ways. https://www.southeastchristian.org/who-we-are#mantras
• Please read our Statement of Faith that is attached below. You will be asked if you agree with our Statement of Faith within the application process.