Partnership Facilitator II at Compassion

Role: Partnership Facilitator II

Organization: Compassion

Key Requirement: Bachelor’s Degree in Project Management, Community Development, or related field

Experience: 2-3 years in a related field

Travel: Up to 50%

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About the Role

This intermediate professional is Compassion’s primary liaison to the local church and is responsible for strengthening local ownership, capacity, and resources of local church partners to minister to children and youth in their own context. As the primary contact, this facilitator is responsible for nurturing relationships with church partners that are characterized by mutual respect, trust, and service that builds up church ministry. He or she is accountable for facilitating partner relationships through the Partner Management core process, for improving achievement of church outcomes, and for bringing a developmental mindset to all other aspects of the partnership. At this career level, the incumbent generally works independently on moderately complex projects or objectives in cooperation with other specialists. He or she may coach other facilitators.

Key Responsibilities

  • Maintains a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. Is a consistent witness for Jesus Christ, maintains a courteous, Christ-like attitude in dealing with people within and outside of Compassion, and faithfully upholds Compassion’s ministry in prayer.
  • Acts as an advocate to raise the awareness of the needs of children. Understands Christ’s mandate to protect children. Commits to and prioritizes child protection considerations in all decision-making, tasks and activities across the ministry. Abides by all behavioral expectations in Compassion’s Statement of Commitment to Child Protection and Code of Conduct. Reports any concerns of abuse, neglect or exploitation of children through Compassion’s internal reporting process and appropriately supports responses to incidents if they occur.
  • Demonstrates a personal commitment to serve, respect, and empower the church according to principles outlined in Compassion’s ministry philosophies.

Church Maturation

  • Strengthens church ownership and capacity through a developmental mindset and the Partnership Management core process.
  • Facilitates partnerships with church partners to collaboratively reflect on youth and church outcomes and plan for how to best grow in capacity and maturity.
  • Facilitates the development and implementation of church owned strategies that build on each church’s strengths to engage participation of parents and caregivers, children and youth in all aspects of the ministry, including program design, local resource mobilization, decision making, etc.

Program Cycle

  • Supports the church partner throughout all phases of the Program Cycle (Needs Assessment, Planning, Implementation, Evaluation).
  • Coordinates Church Facing Team (CFT) support to each church partner.
  • Oversees a cluster of churches while demonstrating responsiveness to the local context and needs of each individual church within the cluster.

Child Protection

  • Facilitates church partner adoption of child protection standards.
  • Supports timely reporting of all child protection allegations through Compassion’s internal reporting processes.

Qualifications

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Project Management, Community Development, Rural & Urban Development or any other related field.

Experience

Two to three years relevant experience working in this or a related field.

Skills

  • Communication skills
  • Planning and budgeting skills
  • Conflict resolution

*Equivalent education, training and/or certification may be substituted for experience and education shown above

Travel Requirements

May be required to travel up to 50% of normal schedule.

How to Apply

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