POSITION TITLE
Director of Partnerships
LOCATION
Soul City Church
1150 W. Adams St. Chicago, IL 60607
POSITION STRUCTURE
Reports To : Executive Pastor
Category : Full Time
Work Schedule : SU-TH
MINISTRY & PURPOSE
We are a local church with a global mission - leading people into a transforming relationship with Jesus. The heart behind everything we do is to see the soul, the city, and the world transformed by an only God movement.
We aim to partner with the Holy Spirit to create moments that lead to movement, moments to connect, commit, and change. Our church is in a season of audacious vision called Greater Things that includes launching a new church in the Western Suburbs.
The Director of Partnerships at Soul City is a radically relational people mobilizer who longs to see compassion and justice lived out in Chicago and beyond though our local and global partners and church based initiatives.
This leader champions the value of bridge building through vision, education and resources that help our church in their transformation journey.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
Responsibility & Percentage of Time
Develop, maintain and create relationships with partners, organizations and neighbors in the city & Western Suburbs including WorldVision, Breakthrough Urban Ministry, EnLace & Brown Elementary. 25%
Champion bridge building values inside and outside the church through communication and education to help Soul City realize our vision of being a bridge building church that creates longer tables instead of higher fences. 20%
Project manage church wide serving events like the Christmas Store, Gratitude Weekend & Back to School Bash. 20%
Mobilize congregation to serve regularly through various channels including vision casting, internal communication and partnership with ministries inside of Soul City 15%
Recruit, develop, train & care for volunteer team leaders 15%
Lead communication & response efforts for natural disasters & current events 5%
POSITION REQUIREMENTS
COMPETENCIES
- Emotionally Healthy Leader- a love for Jesus that cultivates a deep inner life and is partnered with a lifelong commitment of doing your own emotional work of going beneath the surface to self-awareness, healing, and growth.
- Building Effective Teams-creates strong morale, defines success for the whole, fosters open dialogue, creates a feeling of belonging.
- Managing Vision and Purpose-communicates a compelling and inspired vision or sense of core purpose, talks beyond today, inspires and motivates the entire ministry.
- Strategic Agility-can see beyond today and take the necessary steps in order to get to where we need to go.
- Developing Others-can identify growing leaders and call them into greater levels of service, hold development conversations, awareness of people's goals, is a people builder.
- Managing Through Systems- can work through others without being there, can impact people and results remotely, can design practices, processes and procedures which allow managing from a distance.
EDUCATION
College degree preferred
EXPERIENCE
- Community Development / Community Organizing
- Leading & training volunteers
- Developing sustainable strategies
- Mobilizing people
POSSIBLE SPIRITUAL GIFTS
- Leadership
- Shepherding
- Administration
- Teaching
- Wisdom
- Discernment