Assistant Director, Donor Ministries

Description

Is God calling you to ministry?

For over 70 years, The Billy Graham Evangelistic Association (BGEA) has proclaimed the Gospel through its various ministries. Whether you work at our headquarters in Charlotte, North Carolina, the Billy Graham Library in Charlotte, North Carolina, the Billy Graham Training Center at the Cove (BGTC) in Asheville, North Carolina, Blue Ridge Broadcasting (BRB)/ The Light FM in Asheville, North Carolina or a field office abroad, you are part of a team of committed Christians working together to reach people to the ends of the earth with the Gospel.

CHRISTIAN PURPOSE AND EXPECTATIONS:

All employees proclaim the Gospel of Jesus Christ through their employment, and thereby further BGEA’s religious mission.

Ministry Detail – Blue Ridge Broadcasting, operator of The Light FM, shares the hope of Jesus Christ through encouraging music and Bible teaching. Most listeners of The Light FM engage the ministry through BRB’s twelve radio stations. The lead station, 106.9 FM WMIT, has the 12th largest coverage area of any FM station in America, thanks to its transmitter site near the summit of Mt.

Mitchell. Among the larger cities served by The Light FM are Charlotte, Asheville and Winston-Salem, North Carolina;
Greenville and Spartanburg, South Carolina; and Knoxville, Tennessee. The Light FM is also available on The Light FM app and on all popular smart speakers.

Job Summary – The Donor Ministries Department at BRB works to cultivate meaningful, long-term relationships with ministry supporters and to identify, develop, and deepen new relationships with prospective ministry partners. The goal of the department is to grow a strong base of support for decades to come. The department includes a core office staff and a regionally based field team who collectively serve the individuals, families and organizations that support the ministry with their gifts and prayers.

Through special events, personal visits, and mailings, the field team shares the work, impact, and needs of the ministry with existing and prospective ministry partners.

The BRB Assistant Director, Donor Ministries provides leadership, coaching, support and accountability to the field-based donor engagement team. Additionally, this position represents the ministry in assigned regions of the listening area (primarily North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee) and is responsible for developing and stewarding a financial support base for the ministry with those assigned donors.

Ministry Requirements

• Maintains a personal, active relationship with Jesus Christ and is a consistent witness for Jesus Christ.
• Faithfully upholds BGEA in prayer.
• Participates in daily BGEA staff devotions including Bible reading, and leading group prayer as schedule permits.
• Demonstrates behavior aligned with BGEA’s Mission Statement, Statement of Faith, Hallmarks, policies, and expectations.
• Effectively represents Jesus Christ to those within both personal and professional spheres of influence.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Recruit and lead a team of field-based Relationship Associates who effectively shepherd people toward God’s agenda for advancing His Kingdom.
• Create a culture of accountability. Promote relationship building and ownership in each task associated with the Relationship Associates. Encourage innovative solutions and respectful questioning of status-quo, within mission, to effectively serve the ministry’s donors.
• Ensure Relationship Associates are effectively oriented and trained, coached and developed. Ensure effective organizational communication and provide employee-focused development and growth opportunities.
• Collaborate with Relationship Associates to design and implement a donor engagement and relationship management strategy for both individual and business donors, key to which is personal relationship building.
• Collaborate with Relationship Associates and Donor Services Manager to plan and direct events and gatherings for donors.
• Collaborate with Donor Communications Manager to ensure Relationship Associates have accurate, current information and listener testimonials to share with donors.
• Implement donor engagement…