Assistant Director, Key Partners

Location:

North Wilkesboro, NC, United States
Job
Date Posted:
Dec 4, 2025

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Samaritan's Purse is seeking an Assistant Director, Key Partners to join our team in North Wilkesboro, NC
. You can be a part of a highly professional North American Disaster Relief team. In this role, you will provide leadership and strategic direction for the organization's key partnership programs, including the Team Patriot, NADR Student Partnerships, and NADR Church Partnerships. This role develops and strengthens strategies that deepen engagement, expand participation, and build sustainable relationships across all three partner networks.

The Assistant Director will invest in people, foster mission alignment, and ensure that each partnership area operates with excellence and collaboration in support of the organization's broader disaster relief mission. Come and use your gifts daily to advance the Gospel!

A day in the life of an Assistant Director, Key Partners:

At Samaritan's Purse, the Gospel really is the center of all we do! We start each day with a time of devotions and spend time praying for each other, our staff and volunteers who serve around the globe.

In the role of Assistant Director, Key Partners
, you will have the opportunity to:

• Maintain your personal relationship with Jesus Christ and be an effective witness for Him.
• Provide leadership, guidance, and supervision to the Team Patriot, Student Partnerships, and Church Partnerships teams, ensuring alignment with organizational strategy and mission.
• Develop and implement strategic plans to strengthen engagement and growth within each partnership area.
• Establish performance goals, monitor progress, and support team development through coaching, mentoring, and accountability.
• Collaborate with the Director to assess partnership effectiveness, identify opportunities for innovation, and ensure consistency across all partnership programs.
• Oversee program operations, budgets, and reporting to ensure efficient use of resources and compliance with organizational standards.
• Foster relationships with key external partners, stakeholders, and networks to enhance collaboration and mutual impact.
• Coordinate cross-departmental efforts to ensure partnerships are effectively integrated into broader organizational initiatives.
• Provide regular updates and information sharing across the NADR field staff team through routine meetings.
• Bachelor's degree (B.A.) from a four-year college or university and five (5) to ten (10) years of related experience; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• General knowledge of Excel and Word, and ability to learn in-house specialized computer applications
• Strong ability to build and maintain an effective management and leadership team
• Strong ability to work well under pressure in difficult situations with limited resources
• Strong ability to take ownership of issues/problems and drive to resolution
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills (resourceful and creative with solutions)
• Highly effective communication skills (written and verbal) and public speaking skills
• High degree of diplomacy and discretion
• Ability to adapt quickly to changing conditions
• Twelve credit hours of college-level Biblical Studies preferred, not required

Job Location: North Wilkesboro, NC

Type: Full-time

Language Requirement: Fluency in English

• Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
• Long-term and Short-term disability insurance
• Paid Family Medical Leave
• Term Life Insurance
• 401(k) retirement savings plan
• 10 paid holidays
• 12 vacation/personal days

Samaritan's Purse Mission Statement:

Samaritan's Purse is a nondenominational evangelical Christian organization providing spiritual and physical aid to hurting people around the world. Since 1970, Samaritan's Purse has helped meet needs of people who are victims of war, poverty, natural disasters, disease, and famine with the purpose of sharing God's love through His Son, Jesus Christ. The organization serves the Church worldwide to promote the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Samaritan's Purse Statement of Faith:

* We believe the Bible to be the inspired, the only infallible, authoritative Word of God. (1 Thessalonians 2:13; 2 Timothy 3:15-17)

* We believe that there is one God, eternally existent in three persons:
Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. (Matthew 28:19; John 10:30; Ephesians 4:4-6)

* We believe in the deity of the Lord Jesus Christ, in His virgin birth, in His sinless life, in His miracles, in His vicarious and atoning death through His shed blood on the cross, in His bodily resurrection, in His ascension to the right hand of the Father, and in His personal return in power and glory. (Matthew 1:23;
John 1:1-4 and 1:29;
Acts 1:11 and 2:22-24; Romans 8:34; 1 Corinthians 15:3-4; 2 Corinthians 5:21; Philippians 2:5-11; Hebrews 1:1-4 and 4:15)

* We believe that all men everywhere are lost and face the judgment of God, that Jesus Christ is the only way of salvation, and that for the salvation of lost and sinful man, repentance of sin and…