GCNavigator

Texas Baptists is a convention of more than 5,300 Baptist churches. Active membership at a church supportive of Texas Baptists is a condition of employment. Texas Baptists makes all employment decisions based on its religious mission, purpose, and beliefs while otherwise complying with all federal, state, and local employment laws. The BGCT is dedicated to fair hiring practices and only relies on lawful exemptions to employment laws to the extent necessary to protect its religious mission, purpose, and beliefs.

The Navigator is a seasoned ministry leader who primarily serves as a relational and spiritual guide who walks alongside church leaders in a prayerful, customized process of discovery, reflection, and action toward greater GC2 faithfulness. The Navigator supports aspects of this process, including promotion, resource development, guide facilitation, follow-up, and contract facilitator coordination. In addition, the Navigator builds and maintains relationships with internal and external constituencies across the Texas Baptists family, including other Navigators, ministry staff, and leaders, as well as pastors, church leaders, and other ministry partners.

The Navigator will be responsible for carrying out the assigned duties within a specific geographical region of the state or other specified boundaries.

NOTE:

These requirements represent minimum levels in order to perform the job on a satisfactory basis. Candidates must have the ability to satisfactorily perform the essential functions of the job.

1. Receive specialized training on the role of Navigator within the GC2 Discovery Process and deploy training to guide regional churches through the process to increase GC2 practice and strengthen churches, ministers, and missions efforts.

2. Provide comprehensive support for the GC2 Discovery Process, including the following:

• Promotion – Promote the GC2 Discovery Process to churches and church leaders
• Resource Development – Work with other ministry staff, teams, and partners to coordinate the creation of resources related to the GC2 Discovery Process
• Facilitation – Serve as a guide to churches and church leaders moving through the spiritual process, including assisting churches in identifying customized and contextualized pathways toward greater GC2 faithfulness
• Follow-up – Follow up with churches and church leaders after they move through the process to provide encouragement, additional resourcing, and further relationship building, including repeating the process in the future
• Contract facilitator coordination – Actively coordinate the identification, recruitment, training, and management of contract facilitators who can carry out the key functions of the Navigator role, guiding additional churches and church leaders through the process

3. Build and maintain relationships with internal and external constituencies across the Texas Baptists family and beyond for the purpose of kingdom collaboration.

• Internal – Closely relate and collaborate with other Navigators, ministry staff, and leadership
• External – Closely relate and collaborate with pastors, church leaders, associational, and other ministry partners

4. Provide occasional church consulting and referrals to other ministries, ministry partners, or contract ministry providers.

5. Receive continuing specialized professional development in areas including the following: church health and growth, church revitalization, coaching, consulting, and counseling.

6. Complete administrative tasks, including but not limited to setting and managing budgets and spending, coding and approving credit card purchases, submitting and approving expense reimbursements, completing performance reviews,…