Strategic Partnership Specialist

Strategic Partnership Specialist (SPS)

Job Summary

The role of the Strategic Partnership Specialist is to generate leads, promote healthy partnerships, and nurture on-going relationships with Churches and schools.

Key Job Functions

·      Generate partnership leads

·      Relationship building with team and potential partners

·      Support the creation of healthy partnerships utilizing product and service offering of CHC

General Job Functions

·      Embrace, embody, support, and communicate the CHC vision, mission, values and purpose

·      Acquire and maintain organizational knowledge

·      Relate skillfully and sensitively to multiple denominations within a specific region 

·      Knowledge, use, and competency of CRM tool

Required Skills and Experience

·      Bachelor’s degree

·      Ability to articulate effectively, intelligently, credibly, and passionately the story of CHC and the nature of international orphan care, poverty alleviation, and asset-based community development

·      Ability to create, implement, evaluate, and maintain effective lead generating strategies and collateral materials

·      High competency in relationship building and communication

Essential Qualifications

·      Mature Christian faith exhibiting a consistent witness for Jesus Christ 

·      Exceptionally high level of honesty and integrity

·      Passionate commitment to CHC mission and core values supported by a servant’s heart

·      Self-starter, results oriented and tenacious

·      Team orientated

·      Effectively work with multiple teams

·      Excellent relationship skills with demonstrated ability to earn trust and confidence of others

·      Professional demeanor in written and oral communication

·      Organized and efficient in administration and establishing and maintaining team reporting protocol and records

·      Creative and energetic problem solver

·      Comfortable in relating to a wide variety of people and personalities

·      Intelligent listener and good interpersonal communicator

·      Works well under stress and deadline pressures

·      Disciplined with priorities

Desired Qualifications

·      Experience and success working with churches of various denominations

·      Strong corporate aptitude

·      Experience working with people who have access to a large network of Churches

·      Cross-cultural ministry experience

·      Relationships within a network of Churches

Travel – day travel

·      Travel to meetings with Church and school leaders

Advancement Team Culture

·      Dependence on God – our strength, gifting, character, and production is drawn from our relationship with God. Prayer and the fruit of the Spirit saturate our interactions with team members, other CHC staff, and potential partners.

·      Relationship – the ability to form authentic and honest friendships with teammates, other CHC staff members, and potential partners. Relationships are the catalyst to partnership.

·      Grit – the unique blend of passion, perseverance and courage. PA team members are remarkably competitive and totally sold out to the CHC vision, results achievement, swift responses to all inquiries, and resolve in the face of adversity and rejection.

·      Team – we celebrate and fight for each other’s success and come alongside one another in disappointment. We win as a team. Collaboration among PA team members and other CHC departments is essential to achieve our goals.

·      Innovation – creatively find ways to build relationships and create transformative Community-to-Community partnerships.

Every member of the Advancement team is accountable to enthusiastically preserve and build into this culture. We will aggressively resist elements that produce toxicity.

·      Living off center – losing focus from our source. Not having balance of work and rest.

·      Negativity – being negative during dry-seasons, speaking negatively and backbiting against team members, leadership, or other departments is contagious and an unacceptable hindrance to growth.

·      Silos – individualism, lack of open communication, and not working in collaboration with other PA members and other departments destroys the team.

Daily/weekly Responsibilities

·      Meet with partners and in-country points of contact

·      Pursue new partnerships through emails, phone/Zoom calls, and in-person meetings

·      Use of CRM tool

·      Communication with all staff through Slack

Please review HopeChest’s compass to understand and seek alignment with vision, mission, and values.