Do you enjoy the process of cultivating new relationships? We are looking for a Church Partnerships Manager who is excited by the challenge of sourcing and qualifying large churches and cultivating deep and purposeful relationships with senior leadership. You will have been proven resilient and successful in outside sales and business development, have demonstrated success in managing long sales cycles, are passionate about serving the church, and are determined to see children released from poverty in Jesus’ name.
PLEASE NOTE: This is a remote, US-based position. Only applicants who are currently living in the Northeast will be considered for this position.
What will you do?
Maintain a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. Is a consistent witness for Jesus Christ, maintain a courteous, Christ-like attitude in dealing with people within and outside of Compassion, and faithfully uphold Compassion’s ministry in prayer.
Act as an advocate to raise the awareness of the needs of children. Understands Christ’s mandate to protect children. Commit to and prioritize child protection considerations in all decision-making, tasks and activities across the ministry. Abide by all behavioral expectations in Compassion’s Statement of Commitment to Child Protection and Code of Conduct. Report any concerns of abuse, neglect or exploitation of children through Compassion’s internal reporting process and appropriately support responses to incidents if they occur.
Uphold and engage in Compassion’s core Cultural Behaviors.
Establish and develop new partnerships with senior leadership of large churches, generating sponsorship and revenue in order to meet quarterly and annual quota for a wide variety of ministry needs.
Take ownership for the full sales-cycle including but not limited to lead generation, prospecting, and closing senior leadership of large churches.
Meet and exceed goals by creating new church partnerships that lead to child sponsorship and/or revenue.
Generate leads through cold calling, referrals, and research
Maintain an accurate record of all leads, accounts, and documenting all related activity in CRM. Prepare weekly and monthly reports.
Generate leads and set up appointments to meet in person with senior leaders at large churches to evaluate opportunities for engagement.
Understand the innerworkings of large churches and have a deep desire to grow the Kingdom.
Interact in person with large church pastors and other key decision-makers to foster effective relationships and growth in increased giving potential.
Organize and lead vision and/or short terms vision trips for the purpose of cultivating church relationships.
Report to donor churches on the use of funds through stewardship reports, maintaining strong communication related to project follow-up and a personalized affirmation program for prior gifts and involvement.
Operating within the approved budget, maintain accurate database of accounts, documenting activities and opportunities and following existing process and business rules and requirements. Provide required reports summarizing achievement of assigned objectives in accordance with approved processes.
Represent Compassion, contributing to regional and national meetings and participating as a speaker at events where communication of Compassion’s ministry is required.
What do you bring?
Seven years of outside sales experience
Expert in all aspects of business development with a specialization and proficiency in cold calling and procuring new relationships.
Demonstrated success in achieving weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual quota.
Strong organizational and time-management skills with demonstrated success meeting deadlines and quota in a remote environment
Effective critical thinker with the ability to overcome barriers and obstacles to par.
Familiarity with Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software.
Experience in church ministry.
Ability to travel up to 50% of normal schedule including international travel. Travelers must follow the vaccination rule of each country they travel to. Some countries require the health record to be uploaded to their system to receive a QR code to present when arriving in immigrations.
Why work here?
The mission: Join a team that is motivated to release children from poverty in Jesus’ name.
Our benefits: Receive generous paid time off, 10% contribution to a 403(b) retirement fund on top of your salary, excellent healthcare coverage, free short-term professional counseling, and more.
Spiritual growth: Participate in regular chapel services, prayer groups, and department devotionals.
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