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Job Description

This position oversees all aspects of the organization’s external marketing and communication, with primary growth expectations around (1) Recruiting more missionaries for Kingdom impact, and (2) raising unrestricted funding for the organization. The roll establishes an overall marketing and branding plan and coordinates all aspects of marketing the ministry.

Oversight includes the Communitas website, gathering and development of life-change/impact stories from the mission, article publishing, external social media marketing and engagement, marketing purchases, and more. This role will also supervise or manage outsourced media production, to include video production as needed.

Roll is responsible to manage the Communication expense budget. This is a full-time or part-time role, depending on experience and availability, and has the opportunity to grow from part-time to full time at the discretion and desire of the employee and supervisor.

Qualifications

• Strong commitment to the mission, vision and values of Communitas International, and a committed follower of Jesus Christ. Meets elder qualifications of 1 Timothy 3:1-7 and Titus 1:6-9 (gender inclusive)
• Theologically sound and in full agreement with Communitas’ Statement of Faith and positional papers
• Minimum Bachelor’s Degree and preferably a Masters in a related field and/or a demonstrated desire for continued education in the areas of organizational and ministerial leadership
• A self-starter, able to work remotely, and able to handle project management across multiple departments.
• Superior written and oral communication skills, including the ability to write well-constructed, engaging, and grammatically correct blog posts and stories
• Media production experience and ability
• Preferred international missionary or living experience, particularly in a self-support environment
• Must be flexible and able to adjust to a changing work environment and challenges.
• Excellent computer software skills including use of Excel, Word, Skype and Google docs, as well as appropriate design and video-editing software
• A self starter, able to work independently
• Systems thinker who enjoys the challenge of building and implementing a marketing strategy from ground up
• A background check is required

Funding

This position is support-funded. The Marketing Director must be prepared to seek personal donor support for this role. A support plan for this position will be established in consultation with Human Resources.