Director of Strategy, Innovation, and Digital Tools

Job Description

Job Description

Description : Summary

The Director of Strategy, Innovation, and Digital Tools plays a specialized role in advancing the Evangelical Covenant Church’s planting efforts by translating vision into actionable strategies, building digital systems that support church planting, and fostering innovation that aligns with the mission and values of the Covenant. Working cross-functionally with internal stakeholders and external partners, the director ensures that key digital infrastructure aligns with ECC's long-term innovation goals and empowers church planting leaders across conferences.

Essential Functions

Strategy

• Collaborate with the Church Planting Team to develop and implement a movemental plan for healthy church multiplication.
• Help translate strategic direction into regional planning tools, goals, and metrics.
• Provide analytical and organizational support to regional leaders and conference teams as they contextualize and execute planting strategies.
• Track progress toward strategic goals and create systems to report outcomes to ECC leadership and partners.

Innovation

Digital Tools

The Director of Strategy, Innovation, and Digital Tools plays a specialized role in advancing the Evangelical Covenant Church’s planting efforts by translating vision into actionable strategies, building digital systems that support church planting, and fostering innovation that aligns with the mission and values of the Covenant. Working cross-functionally with internal stakeholders and external partners, the director ensures that key digital infrastructure aligns with ECC's long-term innovation g and empowers church planting leaders across conferences.

Requirements :

Education and Experience

Required : A minimum of five (5) years within the Evangelical Covenant Church (ECC) and at least 8 years of ministry experience reflecting : church planting, local church and conference level activity. A minimum of 30 hours worked per week.

Preferred : Master’s Level or Comparable. Ordained within the ECC or open to pursuing Ordination

Skills

Environmental Conditions

Must be able to work in remote locations with corresponding applications and connections, in accordance with personnel policies. Occasional domestic travel (~50%). Must be versatile and able to work for prolonged segments sitting / standing and on a computer. Must engage frequently with office tools and equipment, such as : computer, copier, phone, printers, etc. Must be able to occasionally lift or move items, less than 35lbs.