Family Integration Specialist

Are you a person of compassion? An advocate for justice? Someone who stands up for the rights of the vulnerable and speaks out for the marginalized, the exploited and the forgotten? Do you believe in our calling as Christians to welcome the least of these and love our neighbor?

If you answered ‘yes’, to any of the above, World Relief, and millions of people around the world need you.

At this pivotal moment in time, we are rapidly expanding and growing our team to meet the increasing needs of our world. We are looking for people who want to use their gifts and talents to make a real and tangible difference in our world and the lives of the suffering.

If you’re looking for a purpose-driven career in which you can grow your talents, while also standing up for the rights of the vulnerable, we want you to join us today.

World Relief is a global Christian humanitarian organization whose mission is to boldly engage the world’s greatest crises in partnership with the church. The organization was founded in the aftermath of World War II to respond to the urgent humanitarian needs of war-torn Europe. Since then, for 80 years, across 100 countries, World Relief has partnered with local churches and communities to build a world where families thrive and communities flourish.

Today, organizational programming focuses on humanitarian and disaster response, community strengthening and resilience, and refugee & immigrant services and advocacy.

World Relief Memphis seeks a Family Integration Specialist to engage, equip, and connect volunteers and their families to immigrant families. This is a new position developed as a hands‑on, highly relational coach deeply embedded in the life of the local church and immigrant community, walking alongside volunteers and clients to foster meaningful, cross‑cultural relationships that support the flourishing and belonging of immigrant families, while cultivating mutual respect, cultural humility and transformation.

The Family Engagement Specialist will equip and coach volunteers to build relationships with their immigrant neighbors based on presence and proximity, life and family experiences, and mutual learning to support social integration through reflective and experiential learning opportunities and programming centered around immigrant moms/caregivers and their children. These activities are intentionally designed to enable volunteers to bring along their children as a way in which to deepen social integration and mutual relationships and create spaces for belonging and community among local families.

Hybrid Schedule (80% in office, 20% WFH)

• Speak at and participate in events hosted by the local church network to share about the work of World Relief Memphis through the Family Integration Program
• Collaborate with local churches to explore and develop opportunities for partnership that deepen volunteer and church engagement with the refugee and immigrant community
• Host and participate in fundraising events to support the Family Integration Program and World Relief Memphis
• Connect with volunteer, lay and church leaders through 1:1 meetings and other small group style meetings to engage volunteers in relational immigrant ministry
• Launch and develop a Women of Welcome Memphis chapter with at least 1-2 volunteer leaders
• Coordinates regularly with the Church and Community Engagement Team to ensure alignment with CCE strategies, partnership development and management, and success across its goals
• Develop contextualized awareness and training presentations to share about WRM, its programs and the current landscape of immigration and refugee issues in collaboration with CCE staff