Regional Manager- Volunteer Development Team, Lakes- Remote

Regional Manager
- Volunteer Development Team, Great Lakes
- Remote in Michigan

Location:

, United States

Job

Date Posted:
Mar 13, 2026

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Do you love working with people to grow and maximize their gifts? Do you love empowering teams of people to achieve great goals? Do you have a passion for reaching the lost for Christ? Do you want to be part of a team that is working together for great Kingdom impact? We have an opportunity of a lifetime for you!

Samaritans Purse is seeking a Regional Manager
- Volunteer Development Team, Great Lakes to serve with Operation Christmas Child (OCC) over the region. This position is based remotely in Michigan or in office in Xenia, OH. As the Regional Manager
- Volunteer Development Team, you will have the opportunity to identify, cultivate and develop leaders (Area Coordinators) who will in turn establish volunteer teams to carry out the mission and vision of OCC in their communities and churches. Join the team and use your gifts and talents for God's glory!

* Frequent travel (60-75 days annually) in the region and to the Processing Center during peak season (4-6 weeks)

At Samaritans Purse, the Gospel 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 Regional Manager
- Volunteer Development Team, you will have the opportunity to:

• Maintain your personal relationship with Jesus Christ and be an effective witness for Him
• Recruit, select, equip, lead, and develop year-round leader volunteers according to the High Impact model of volunteer ministry
• Lead volunteer teams in a defined geographic area to accomplish goals in the areas of church, community, media, prayer, and the establishment and retention of a collection network
• Ensure volunteer teams are both spiritually healthy and well-equipped with resources to build relationships with local churches, groups, and individual donors
• Coordinate with regional staff and volunteers to create and implement strategic plans and initiatives to accomplish measurable ministry goals
• Potential to serve on the Management Team in an Operation Christmas Child shoebox Processing Center for 4-6 weeks in November and December (could involve temporary relocation during that time)
• Bachelor's Degree from a four-year college or university; five to seven years of experience leading volunteers and teams to meet goals and expectations; or an equivalent combination of education and experience
• Proven experience managing, coaching, and leading volunteer teams to implement and achieve program goals from a Biblical perspective
• Experience working with the local church; interaction with pastors, leaders, and members
• Highly organized, self-starter who takes initiative to reach goals and deadlines; strategic thinker
• Collaborative team player, who enjoys seeing those on their team succeed
• Demonstrated ability to influence others with an optimistic outlook and positive attitude
• Passionate about raising awareness and participation in OCC, and establishing more lifelong donors for OCC and Samaritans Purse
• 12 credit hours of college-level Biblical Studies (required); if not already completed, opportunity to meet and complete requirement is available upon hire.

Remotely based in Michigan or in office in Xenia, OH

Full-Time

Fluency in English

• On-site Medical Clinic (staff and dependents)
• 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 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.

• 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…