ORGANIZATION SUMMARYWorld Relief is a global Christian humanitarian organization whose mission is to boldly engage the world’s greatest crises in partnership with the church. The organization was founded in the aftermath of World War II to respond to the urgent humanitarian needs of war-torn Europe. Since then, for 80 years, across 100 countries, World Relief has partnered with local churches and communities to build a world where families thrive and communities flourish.Today, organizational programming focuses on humanitarian and disaster response, community strengthening and resilience, and refugee & immigrant services and advocacy.This position is reliant upon funding and may be subject to modification or termination based on resource availability.POSITION SUMMARYWorld Relief is seeking a high-capacity fundraising, and marketing or communications leader who can lead and work effectively across departments, build trust among stakeholders of all levels and shape an advancement strategy across our network of offices for sustained growth. This senior level leader will guide a national team dedicated to building competency in these areas.ROLE & RESPONSIBILITIESThis position requires a deep passion for the work of responding to the global displacement crises and a longing for the refugee and other vulnerable immigrant communities in the U.S. to flourish as God intended. At its core, this position, and its team, is centered on developing and leading a team that supports World Relief’s 16 U.S. Field Offices in exceeding fundraising goals by improving brand awareness, forging new partnership with churches and other community actors, and increasing community-based fundraising. We are seeking a high-capacity fundraising, and marketing or communications leader who can lead and work effectively across departments, build trust among stakeholders of all levels and shape an advancement strategy across our network of offices for sustained growth. This senior level leader will guide a national team dedicated to building competency in these areas. The ideal candidate will develop and refine systems and processes that each office can utilize to build community and church partnerships, acquire and retain donors and coordinate fundraising campaigns that continue to exceed revenue goals. He or she will also launch new initiatives to share resources and knowledge that will help move the whole network forward in our mission and vision. This position will work remotely under the supervision and support of the Chief Advancement Officer and in close collaboration with national development and marketing teams. This position will also have a secondary reporting relationship to the SVP of US programs and have functional alignment with, and membership on, the US programs leadership team, in order to assure excellent collaboration and coordination with our US programs teams.SUCCESS MEASURES:Total revenue raised locally across World Relief’s network of US offices% of offices experiencing revenue growth annually, and % of offices achieving annual fundraising targets% growth of church partners engaging with our fundraising products •Lead indicators pertaining to execution of World Relief’s sales processAbility to create a healthy, high-engagement culture among the team he/she leads, and the ability to maintain effective collaborative realtionships cross-functionallyESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:Strategic Leadership and Vision This role will lead, mentor and grow a high-performance team that will drive revenue results towards financial targets and move our national office network forward in its advancement strategy with the church, individual donors and the local community.○ Create systems and processes that enable local office input into national strategy, and local office implemention of the strategy○ Negotiate on local offices’ behalf within national strategy developmentCapacity Building & Training○ Oversee the U.S. Advancement department’s ability to execute local offices external engagement training, coaching, and toolkit use for donor relations, communications, and partnerships○ Inspire and build office collaboration through vision casting and galvanizing communication○ Promote knowledge-sharing through webinars, templates, playbooks, and peer learning cohortsMessaging & Brand Management○ Ensure brand consistency and voice is implemented from a national to local strategy○ Prioritize brand resource needs in collaboration with stakeholders, and ensure timely execution.○ Ensure alignment of messaging across all digital and offline platformsFundraising & Partnership Development○ Lead a dual growth strategy focused on maximizing regional office fundraising effectiveness and elevating fundraising competency and progress in mid-sized and small offices.○ Identify and enable processes that ensure local offices can identify, cultivate, and retain high-value donors and partners in partnership with the national fundraising team.○ Launch initiatives to grow top-of-funnel, recurring giving and donor lifetime value○ Create/modify/utitlize scalable engagement models for local offices to mobilize volunteers to expand their engagement through givingCollaboration and coordination with US Programs, Advocacy, and Advancement Departments○ Collaborate with all key stakeholders to maximize contributions and competencies towards achieving our US office advancement goals.○ Provide a unifying influence toward balancing departmental and organizational prioritiesStrengthen and expand our network of local church and community partners○ Reflect a deep passion for the church that drives forward momentum○ Understand and leverage church leadership systems in order to increase church partnerships with our local officesData, Systems, and Process Development○ Establish shared systems for tracking engagement, managing relationships, and reporting impact.○ Optimize workflows and resources to drive efficiency and scale.Collaborate with development and marketing to launch external engagement initiatives○ Launch new national campaigns, resource-sharing platforms, or collaborative initiatives to advance the mission.○ Pilot creative engagement or fundraising approaches with high replication potentialThis role is responsible for supervising others and includes responsibilities consistent with supervising employees, including but not limited to monitoring daily work activities, tracking and approving timesheets including approving time off, monitoring performance including entering goals, progress check-ins, and weekly or bi-weekly check-ins, documenting performance concerns, entering staff promotions, transitions, and separations in HRIS within required time frame. Managers at World Relief are also considered spiritual leaders and are expected to lead staff in a manner consistent with our Christian values, including but not limited to praying with staff, leading devotionals, and fostering a Christian environment in interactions with staff throughout World Relief.
