Director of Church Generosity
Job Summary
Job Description
The Director of Church Generosity is responsible for building relationships with churches, helping them support the YouVersion mission. This role involves understanding the needs of churches and providing resources to equip them. Responsibilities include developing strategic plans, inviting churches to join financially, managing relationships, creating personalized proposals, collaborating with other teams, and supporting partnership initiatives. The role also involves equipping churches to use YouVersion features, planning gratitude strategies, and evaluating campaign impact. The Director will also be providing support, resources and follow-up for churches as needed.
Must have:
- Build relationships and strategies with new churches
- Develop and implement a strategic plan to steward churches
- Effective at multi-tasking and time management
- Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills
- Effective at process and organizational management
Good to have:
- Ideate, research, and plan unique, creative ways to invite new churches
- Work with the Donor Relations Team to build relationship management processes
Perks:
- Paid parental leave, including maternity, paternity, and adoption leave.
- Generous employer-paid leave for the use of vacation, sick time, and other qualifying reasons.
- Innovative and comprehensive Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance
- Life insurance policy provided for all staff members at 2x annual salary at no cost.
- Short-Term and Long-Term disability is covered at 100% for full-time qualified staff members.
- Comprehensive wellness and mental health benefits
- Generous 401(k) retirement plan
- $160 annually in development dollars
- Casual dress and work environment
6 skills required
Job Details
The Director of Church Generosity is primarily responsible for building and strengthening relationships with churches at scale, helping them understand how they can support the YouVersion mission of reaching the world with God’s Word. This role understands the focuses, rhythms, and needs of churches, and provides vision and resources to equip churches to champion YouVersion within their communities. The Director of Church Generosity will collaborate with their team leader to cast vision, provide direction, and lead ministry efforts that help reach people for Christ.
YouVersion was created by the local church in 2007 and remains a ministry of Life.Church today. At Life.Church, our mission is to lead people to become fully devoted followers of Christ. Our team is committed to reaching people worldwide through innovative technology. And YouVersion is one of the ways we get to do that. Life.Church is a multi-site Christian church meeting in the United States and globally at Life.Church Online.
We wholeheartedly believe a daily rhythm of seeking intimacy with God has the power to transform lives. That’s why YouVersion creates biblically based experiences that encourage and challenge people to seek God. We hope everyone in our community is on an active journey to become who God made them to be, abiding in Him and drawing closer every day.
What You’ll Do
- Build relationships and strategies with new churches
- Develop and implement a strategic plan to steward churches at all levels
- Ideate, research, and plan unique, creative ways to invite new churches to join the YouVersion mission financially
- Work with the Donor Relations Team to build relationship management processes at scale
- Create personalized proposals that invite churches to invest in the vision, and adjust messaging as needed
- Collaborate with other teams to continually refine and improve donor onboarding and engagement processes
- Support partnership initiatives through meetings, events, relationships, and moments of momentum
- Champion YouVersion features that benefit churches and help equip churches to use them
- Plan the strategy for showing ongoing gratitude to churches for their investment
- Keep partner churches well-informed about the impact of their generosity with stories, data, encouragement, results, and celebration
- Equip partner ministries to share their impact forward with their own sphere of influence, providing talking points, stories, visual assets, milestones, and data that helps them tell the story of their involvement
- Gather stories of impact from churches and their communities of impact to share externally and internally with Life.Church and YouVersion
- Foster community, belonging, and alignment among the church partners rallied around the vision of YouVersion
- Evaluate impact of campaigns and initiatives, and present data to leadership
- Serve with events or initiatives that support the entire team, including occasional travel and hosting of guests
- Encourage and educate churches on how to leverage YouVersion apps and new features for use in their churches
- Provide support, resources, and follow-up for churches as needed
Skills Needed to Succeed
- Ability to self-motivate, make independent decisions, and solve problems with innovation
- Effective at multi-tasking and time management to meet strict deadlines while remaining flexible and open to change
- Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills to maintain and foster partnerships
- Effective at process and organizational management to coordinate, structure, and provide vision to projects
- Maintain flexibility and initiate processes and projects while exemplifying a high level of customer service
- Bachelor’s degree preferred
- 5-7 years of related work experience
Benefits We Offer
・ Paid parental leave, including maternity, paternity, and adoption leave.
・ Generous employer-paid leave for the use of vacation, sick time, and other qualifying reasons.
・ Innovative and comprehensive Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance that provides team members with useful resources and savings to navigate their holistic health.
・ Life insurance policy provided for all staff members at 2x annual salary at no cost. Additional life insurance coverage is available to purchase.
・ Short-Term and Long-Term disability is covered at 100% for full-time qualified staff members.
・ Comprehensive wellness and mental health benefits allow staff to proactively invest in their physical and emotional health.
・ Generous 401(k) retirement plan allowing a team member to have up to 12.5% (including employee contribution, employer match, and employer discretionary contribution) contributed into their account in their first year. It doesn’t stop there—the more years on staff, the greater the investment!
・ $160 annually in development dollars for team members to invest in their professional growth.
・ Casual dress and work environment.
Our Beliefs, Culture, and Commitment to Diversity
At Life.Church, every staff member, and intern is a minister and is expected to engage in the church's ministry fully. We consider ministry readiness and an individual’s capacity to represent Life.Church’s beliefs as a minister during the selection process for all staff and intern positions. An essential function within every position held by a staff member or intern at Life.Church is to uphold and represent the beliefs of Life.Church. Learn more about what we believe at Life.Church.
While we unite around our mission, we know unity doesn’t mean uniformity. Our calling is too great, and our mission is too important not to be intentional about strengthening our team through diversity. We know that diverse perspectives in race, ethnicity, background, age, and gender are essential to reaching the world for Christ. To learn more about how we strengthen our team through diversity, visit our careers page.
All data collected in our application process, from resume collection to application questions, is used for recruitment purposes only.
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