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Outreach Coordinator
Job Description
Status: Part-time (20 hours/week), Non-exempt
Reports To: Executive Pastor
Salary Review: Annually by Executive Team
POSITION OBJECTIVE
The Outreach Coordinator assists the congregation in reaching out to serve others by overseeing local and global service, building strategic partnerships, organizing community outreach events, and empowering members to use their gifts to serve their neighbors.
TASKS & RESPONSIBILITIES
• Build strategic partnerships with local and global mission organizations such as CROSS Services, Mobile Hope, Open Doors for Youth, Sharing and Caring Hands, Mission Jamaica, Lutheran Disaster Response, and Lutheran World Relief.
• Organize community outreach events such as Serve Sunday, Peace Fest, Community Corn Feed, and Rockin’ Rogers Days.
• Coordinate local service opportunities such as free community meals, school supply drive, Christmas giving campaigns, and Minnesota FoodShare collection.
• Coordinate global service opportunities such as global mission trips, regional mission trips, missionary support, and disaster relief.
• Empower members to use their gifts to serve their neighbors by recruiting, equipping, scheduling and caring for outreach volunteers.
• Collaborate with ministry leaders and staff to develop and maintain an annual ministry program events calendar.
• Track ministry program and event timelines to ensure deadlines are met and monitor achievement of activities.
• Attend weekly staff meetings, retreats and events as needed.
• Write timely correspondence for weekly worship bulletin, email newsletter, quarterly
newsletter and website.
QUALIFICATIONS
• Energetic, self-directed, adaptable and motivated.
• Well organized with excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Positive attitude and an enthusiasm for church life.
• Ability to work some Sundays and Mondays before, during, and after worship.
• Work effectively with the congregation, staff and lay leaders.
• Understand and maintain confidential information as it pertains to members and visitors of Word of Peace.
• Demonstrate competence in making decisions.
• Demonstrate proficiency in interpersonal relationships and communication.
• A passion to connect God’s people with their gifts.
• A passion to meet and recruit many people.
• Knowledge of recruiting and training volunteers.
• Understands recruitment techniques for attracting volunteers.
• Knowledge of computer programs, including Excel, Word, Publisher and Outlook.
• Ability to be flexible with work hours that include working evenings and weekends as required.
• Support the mission, vision, and theology of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA).
• Support Word of Peace’s mission-based church philosophy.
• Work as team player.
About Word of Peace Lutheran Church:
Our staff are dedicated to partnering with and equipping parents and volunteers with faith formation opportunities and tools, and building relationships that further faith development. We are a vibrant suburban congregation of approximately 3,000 members, with 500 children enrolled in Sunday school and 425 students enrolled in confirmation, utilizing over 250 volunteers.
For more information about Word of Peace, visit www.wordofpeace.org.