POSITION SUMMARY:

Are you a person of compassion? An advocate for justice? Someone who stands up for the rights of the vulnerable and speaks out for the marginalized, the exploited and the forgotten? Do you believe in our calling as Christians to welcome the least of these and love our neighbor?

If you answered ‘yes’, to any of the above, World Relief, and millions of people around the world need you.

World Relief is seeking an innovative, collaborator with talent in producing helpful structures and tools to improve, expand, and resource World Relief’s Good Neighbor Team program.

Compensation: $50,000-$55,000 DOE

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

World Relief is seeking an innovative, collaborator with talent in producing helpful structures and tools to improve, expand, and resource World Relief’s Good Neighbor Team (GNT) program. The GNT program, which partners churches and community groups with refugees, asylees, humanitarian parolees, and other newcomers, is expanding to meet the needs of our time and is integral to World Reliefs mission in the US. This position will play an important role in developing and deploying resources, as well as convening and providing coaching to GNT-focused field office staff.

ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Continue the development of a Good Neighbor Team Community of Practice via regular group meetings, MS Teams, and other collaborative efforts
• Work with a cross-departmental agile team to produce resources that will improve the quality and efficiency of the GNT Program
• Works with the Church and Community Engagement Training Team to provide ideas, content, and feedback on the creation of GNT-focused training materials
• Serve as a resource sharer, and coach to field staff who are engaged with Good Neighbor Teams
• Provides assistance with the training and onboarding of new GNT-focused staff
• Provide general GNT Program coordination, implementation, and evaluation (including metrics)
• Manage national GNT focused grants and collaborate with field staff on meeting grant deliverables
• Work across departments and with field offices to expand World Relief's geographical presence through Good Neighbor Teams
• Maintain up-to-date self-education about resettlement and integration programs and stay informed on best practices
• Engage in regular cross-departmental meetings, as necessary, to provide and receive program updates in furtherance of program excellence
• Participate in field office visits to provide support, encouragement, and assessment
• As requested, represent WR at internal and external conferences, meetings, committees and working groups with WR colleagues, national Resettlement Agencies, federal partners and other stakeholders
• Performs other related duties and projects as requested

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & ABILITIES:

• Relevant experience on understanding of a local resettlement affiliate or a national office of a resettlement agency preferred
• Expertise in team-based ministry preferred
• Fluent in Microsoft Office 365 software
• Cross-cultural experience preferred
• Able to do up to 15% domestic travel

REQUIREMENTS:

• Mature and personal Christian faith
• Committed to the mission, vision, and values of World Relief
• Desire to serve and empower the Church to impact vulnerable communities
• Able to affirm and/or acknowledge World Reliefs Core Beliefs, Statement of Faith, Christian Identity and National Evangelicals For the Health of The Nation document
• Able to work in agile, cross-departmental teams
• History of involvement with volunteerism
• Strong verbal and written skills
• Ability to prioritize, multi-task and organize in a fast paced and fluid environment

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to have ordinary ambulatory skills sufficient to visit other locations
• The ability to stand, walk, stoop, kneel, crouch, and manipulate (lift, carry, move) light to medium weights of 10-15 pounds
• Requires good hand-eye coordination, arm, hand and finger dexterity, including ability to grasp, and visual acuity to use a keyboard, operate equipment and read application information
• The employee frequently is required to sit, reach with hands and arms, talk and hear

WORK ENVIRONMENT:

• General office setting
• Great lengths of time working on computer, reading from computer screen, entering information, standing at copier or fax machine, and some time on the phone or in skype meetings may be required
• Year-end archiving activities involve repeated lifting and bending
• Physical, emotional and intellectual demands
• Equipment used: Employee computer (desktop or laptop), printer, and copier
• All of the above duties and responsibilities are essential job functions subject to reasonable accommodation. All job requirements listed indicate the minimum level of knowledge, skills and/or ability deemed necessary to perform the job proficiently. This job description is not to be construed as an exhaustive statement of duties, responsibilities or requirements. Individuals may be required to perform any other job-related instructions as requested by their supervisor, subject to reasonable accommodation. This position description is not all-inclusive and is always under review.

World Relief offers a competitive benefits package (25 hours + per week):

World Relief contributes to monthly premiums:

• Medical
• Dental

Additional Benefits:

• Offer 16 Paid Holidays!
• Vision
• Offer Paid Sick and Vacation Leave
• Paid Maternity & Paternity Leave
• Parental Leave
• FSAs: Medical & Dependent Care, & Commuter Funding
• Supplemental Life Insurance (employee, spouse, and children)

World Relief pays 100% for eligible employees:

• Group Term Life (employee, spouse, and children)
• Long Term & Short-term Disability
• Accidental Death and Dismemberment (AD&D)
• Long Distant Travel Insurance
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

World Relief - Retirement:

• 401K & Roth
• WR matches up to 4%, then an additional quarter percent up to 10%
• Eligibility: Full Time is eligible after 3 months of employment. Part time is eligible after 1000 hours in a year

World Relief Discounts (Immediately Eligible):

• Verizon
• Pet Insurance through Nationwide
• Home and Auto insurance through Liberty Mutual

We are proud to be an EEO/AA employer M/F/D/V. We maintain a drug-free workplace and perform pre-employment substance abuse testing.

For World Relief staff, strong commitment to the mission, vision, and values of World Relief is essential, and Christian faith is a prerequisite for employment, based upon United States federal guidelines provided in Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Legal Background in the United States

World Relief is both an equal opportunity employer and a faith-based religious organization. This means that we conduct hiring without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, citizenship, age, sex, marital status, parental status, membership in any labor organization, political ideology, or disability of an otherwise qualified individual. The status of World Relief as an equal opportunity employer does not prevent the organization from hiring staff based on their religious beliefs, so that all staff share the same religious commitment.

Pursuant to the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Section 702 (42 U.S.C. 2000e 1(a) World Relief has the right to, and does, hire only candidates who agree with World Relief’s Statement of Faith.