CRISTA Ministries Careers

Description

• CRISTA MINISTRIES MISSION AND VISION STATEMENTS
  • Mission Statement: To fearlessly declare the Gospel, with Biblical truth and love, leading generations to follow Jesus.
  • Vision Statement: Until All Know Jesus.
  CRISTA MINISTRIES CORE VALUES
  • Christ-Centered: We approach our work by faith, prayerfully believing God will do the miraculous. 
  • Servanthood: We serve our world by meeting needs practically and spiritually.
  • Uncompromising Integrity: We are honest, transparent, and trustworthy – reflecting Jesus in all we do.
  • Holy Stewardship: We honor and maximize the potential of the resources, assets, and people God has entrusted to us.
  • Excellence: We serve with excellence knowing that we represent God in our work, words, and actions. 
  • Unified Team: We are One CRISTA, united in the vision to transform lives with the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

• Leadership 
  • Honor God through effective decision making that is informed by prayer. 
  • Provide leadership throughout CRISTA to increase success of fundraising development throughout the organization. This includes working directly with stakeholders (ministry leaders, board members, executives, and volunteers) to maximize all fund development efforts. 
  • Model and emphasize CRISTA’s values within Resource Advancement and with all interactions internally and externally. 
  • Represent CRISTA Ministries with external constituency groups, including donor, community, governmental and private organizations.  
  • Cultivate relationships with major donors to share CRISTA and her ministries making strategic giving asks. 
  • As part of CRISTA’s senior executive team, attend ministry activities on a regular basis to evaluate each ministry’s effectiveness in serving intended beneficiaries. 
  • Continually assesses Resource Advancement (RA) leadership needs. Identify and execute critical training that is effective and inspiring for improving leadership of RA senior staff in concert with the Human Resources Department. 
  • In partnership with Human Resources, develop and support ongoing leadership development and succession planning programs for each group within RA. 
• Fundraising 
  • Oversee All Fundraising Development 
  • Responsible for ensuring effective fundraising development efforts to meet CRISTA’s yearly donation budget goals for CRISTA and its ministries. This will include: 
    • Design all fundraising development campaigns in collaboration with interested leaders.
    • Mentor ministry leaders, board members, and fundraising development staff.
    • Report financial status and progress monthly.
    • Coordinate fundraising events. 
    • Development and administer budgets.
    • Develop and nurture relationships with current and potential major donors, foundations, supporters and governmental agencies to secure financial support for CRISTA Ministries in accordance with annual goals.
    • Provide leadership and supervision of CRISTA’s planned giving program to secure financial support in accordance with annual goals.
    • Develop and manage training, support, and maintenance for donor software products and systems, including:
      • Salesforce database 
      • Donor research systems
      • Web-based giving 
      • Gift receipts
      • Pledge fulfillment
      • Donor tracking etc.
• Marketing
  • Oversee All CRISTA and Ministry Marketing strategy and execution  
  • Responsible for ensuring effective marketing efforts to meet CRISTA’s yearly sales leads for CRISTA and its ministries. This will include: 
    • Develop and execute marketing strategies for service revenue ministries
    • Lead marketing and brand collaboration with ministry leaders
    • Lead strategic marketing plan development for CRISTSA and service revenue ministries
    • Provide Market research and analysis, translating results into actionable marketing strategies  

• Fiscal Management in partnership with the Chief Financial Officer and Ministry leaders:
• Manage and oversee RA financial and business development strategies to ensure fiscal accountability. 
• Oversee business policy development, administrative guidelines, and processes. 
• Review and analyze financial reports for RA. 
• Support organizational budgeting process within RA. 
• Oversee reporting and monitoring of RA performance metrics 

• Capital Campaigns
  • • Manage and oversee All CRISTA and Ministry Capital Campaigns
    • Responsible for ensuring capital campaigns are designed, executed, delivering results in line with agreed upon targets. This will include:
      • Design and oversee feasibility studies.
      • Design collateral materials for campaigns.
      • Oversee campaign events.
      • Lead gift asks as appropriate for various gift levels.

• Conduct that reflects well on CRISTA Ministries and aligns with its mission, vision, Statement of Faith, Christian Community Representative Commitment (CCC) and core values.

ESSENTIAL QUALIFICATIONS

• Belief that Jesus Christ is Lord and Savior
• Is a committed Christian who is dedicated to continued spiritual growth and development as evidenced through a growing personal walk with God (e.g. daily spiritual rhythms of prayer, fellowship, Bible study, etc).
• Prayerfully seeks God’s will in their own lives and in their ministry at CRISTA.
• Engages our ministry including staff and colleagues through prayer, participation in spiritual practices, leading devotionals and other spiritual practices.
• Affirms, aligns with and supports CRISTA’s Statement of Faith and Christian Community Representative Statement (CCC).
• Conducts themselves in a manner which reflects well on CRISTA Ministries and aligns with its mission, vision, Statement of Faith and Christian Community Representative Commitment (CCC). 
• Demonstrates the values of a CRISTA leader.

• 10 or more years of direct fundraising experience
• 10 or more years of supervising leaders
• 10 or more years of $25 million or greater in fundraising budget responsibility
• Five or more years supervising leaders with multiple levels beneath them.

• Industry Knowledge
  • Has general understanding of the technical functions of the Ministries. 
  • Fully understands the technical functions of operations. 
  • Understands the functional systems and processes of the industry. 
  • Understands the operational and fundraising indicators of success. 
  • Embraces the relevant technologies. 
• Business Acumen understands the key financial measures of success
  • Recognizes and leverages industry information.
  • Identifies business levers to drive overall performance.
  • Fully oversee the development of fundraising strategies.
• Verbal Communication
  • Able to speak clearly and succinctly in a variety of communication settings and styles. 
  • Can get messages across that have the desired effect. 
• Written Communication
  • Able to write clearly and succinctly in a variety of communication settings and styles. 
  • Can get messages across that have the desired effect 
• Technical Learning
  • Picks up on new technical aspects and developments 
  • Focused on learning new skills and knowledge 
  • Good at learning new industry, company, product, or technical knowledge 
  • Does well in technical courses and seminars 
• Service Driven Leadership – Accountable for meeting the needs of the team and those we serve.
  • Customer Focus: Accountable for meeting beneficiary / customer needs 
  • Action Oriented: Leads through example and action 
  • Use of Resources: Stewards resources to accomplish goals 
  • Innovation Management: Creates innovative solutions 
  • Interpersonal Savvy: Emotionally mature 
• Highly Professional Leadership – Accountable for achieving excellence in performance.
  • Drive for Results: Achieves results 
  • Quality of Work Output: Demonstrates excellence in performance 
  • Developing Direct Reports: Develops other leaders 

• Microsoft Office 
• Salesforce or similar CRM databases