ORGANIZATIONAL CONTEXT: Seed Company is a Vision 2025 organization committed to Bible translation through national translators in creative partnerships. Seed Company seeks to work where it is evident that God is working and where the uniqueness of its vision makes it most feasible for Seed Company to be involved.
VISION: God's Word transforming lives in every language in this generation.
MISSION: To accelerate Scripture translation and impact for people without God's Word through Great Commission partnerships.
VALUES: Honoring God in all we do, valuing individuals and relationships, partnering effectively, encouraging creativity and innovation, and managing for quality results.
SCOPE: This position is responsible for advancing the Seed Company's mission by assisting the illumiNations Group in support of executive level fundraising in various functions and tasks.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:
Serve to coordinate all illumniNations Group caseloads, maintain an understanding of investor relationships, projects and brands to be used for each. Assist with moves management as needed by illumniNations Group team members.
Serve as the point of contact person for the illumiNations Group team, offering assistance with investor communications, technology, logins etc.
Maintain investor account data in SalesForce as appropriate; offer assistance in the designation of gifts with a Restricted Pending Donor Designation allocation
When necessary, ensure all SalesForce, research and project support requests are relayed and managed with the appropriate Investor Services team member through the Support Services form.
Track translation projects and checkouts between other Bible Translation agencies
Assist with specific grants by utilizing research from the Investor Services Analyst to provide quarterly updates and future project proposals, track past gifts and current financial opportunities on past projects
Coordinate with illumiNations hosts to acquire signatures as/when needed.
As a power user in Adobe Pro or InDesign, assist with the review, editing and printing of iNations and Seed Company branded reports, along with caseload representation, as requested by Executive Advocacy team members.
Assist SalesForce Administrator in the allocation of I.Bible and ETEN gifts
Prepare presentations and proposals, supporting documents, and other materials in support of investors meetings.
Process expense reports for some of the illumniNations Group team.
OTHER DUTIES
Attend and participate in a variety of meetings and task force groups as directed and maintain required level of knowledge pertaining to operating procedures, requirements, processes and policies.
Lead and or participate in projects or task force groups which focus on issues having organization wide impact.
Perform or assist with any assignments as required or directed.
SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITY:
This position has no direct supervisory responsibilities.
WORK ENVIRONMENT:
This job operates in a professional office environment and routinely uses standard office equipment such as laptop computers and smartphones.
PHYSICAL DEMANDS:
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk, hear, sit, stand and walk.
TRAVEL:
Travel is required less than 5% annually.
QUALIFICATIONS:
Strong faith in Jesus Christ as Savior; God honoring lifestyle;
Passion for the Word of God and provision of the Word for every people group;
Championing Seed Company's vision, mission, and values;
Requires a Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Communication, or related field; or relevant work experience
Requires up to one to three years of experience in general administration.
Advanced user of Microsoft Office: Word, Excel, Outlook
Strong written communication skills are essential.
Demonstrated experience performing research independently and able to communicate findings verbally or in written format
Experience with customer database software (SalesForce, Sage, Raiser's Edge) is strongly preferred