Adult Discipleship Coordinating Assistant

Have you often felt like you wanted your work to have meaning? Every day, Resurrection staff members are doing work that matters with people who care. Resurrection’s purpose since its conception in 1990 is to “build a Christian community where non-religious and nominally religious people are becoming deeply committed Christians.” Join our team and see how your contributions move the needle in transforming the World. 

Resurrection has an opening for a Coordinating Assistant for our Adult Discipleship team! The position is full-time, non-exempt and is located at the Leawood campus at 13720 Roe Ave. Please see below for a full job description. 

Job Summary  

The Coordinating Assistant provides administrative support for the Lead Director of Adult Discipleship and helps manage daily operations for the AD ministry across all locations. This position is also a member of the church-wide Administrative Professional team, which provides for the development of administrative professionals across the organization with focus on skills, cross-training, use of technological tools and cross-divisional collaboration. 

Essential Responsibilities and Expectations: 

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. 

Position-Specific 

• Professionally represent the supported staff team, including serving as an initial point of contact with inquiring congregants, answering questions and routing phone calls. 
• Maintain calendars for the Director and ministry team.
• Adult Discipleships liaison with the RXP division for all events.   Completing support requests, providing content for newsletters and general correspondence needed to maintain open communication with RXP. Following up and tracking information as well. 
• Provide administrative oversight for projects and events such as making bulk room reservations, creating sign-up links, using Canva to create sign up links when needed. Assisting with set up when requested by the Lead Director.     
• Oversee travel arrangements for supported staff team members, including transportation, lodging, expense reimbursement.
• Support the oversight of the team budgets and expense tracking, including purchasing, expense reimbursements, contractual arrangements, and budget planning.  
• Provide administrative support, when directed, to assist other parts of the Division and Church.
• Other duties, as assigned.

Churchwide 

• Follow Jesus and engage in the “five essential practices” of the Christian life: worship, study, serve, give, and share.
• Support the church’s purpose of “building a Christian community where non-religious and nominally religious people become deeply committed Christians.”
• Exemplify the church’s values and support its theological direction as a United Methodist Church.

Competencies

• Activating - proactively takes on new challenges and opportunities with energy and urgency. 
• Collaborating – shares knowledge, builds partnerships and promotes a culture of thinking from the users’ perspective while working across divisions to meet shared goals and objectives. 
• Communicating – develops and delivers clear communications (verbal and written) that meet the unique needs of different audiences. 
• Focusing on Details – pays attention to important details, avoiding errors and fine- tuning the results for maximum impact. 
• Following Processes – gets work done as effectively and efficiently as possible by following optimal processes.  
• Navigating the Organization – maneuvers through organizational hurdles by understanding the church’s divisions and departments and their functions.  

Qualifications 

• Proficient in database management and Microsoft Office Suite.
• Canva, Concur, SendGrid, Learning Stream and Website updates.