Director of Global Missions

About the role

The Director of Global Missions ensures the seamless execution of Christ Covenant’s church-shaped missions vision. This role focuses on operational leadership, strategic communications, partner engagement, conference execution, and logistical oversight. The ideal candidate is a highly organized, relationally strong, and administratively gifted leader who thrives in both execution and strategic thinking.

What you’ll do

Operational Leadership & Execution

• Direct and execute key missions initiatives such as RTW Trips, the Missions Intensive, Lunch & Learns, and leader trainings, ensuring alignment with the church’s strategic goals.
• Develop and maintain efficient systems for logistics, budgeting, and resource management.
• Lead special projects, providing bandwidth for Mission Pastor’s strategic vision focus.
• Supervise and develop the Missions Associate, ensuring smooth day-to-day operations
• Oversee and manage Christ Covenant’s missions budget in alignment with the strategic vision of the Pastor of Missions.

Partner Engagement & Investment Management

• Serve as a primary liaison for global mission partners, ensuring strong relationships, accountability, and impact evaluation.
• Collaborate with Pastor of Missions for all budget considerations, financial requests, and create proposals
• Oversee Mission Associate for the execution of all financial transactions.
• Maintain our partner care strategy alongside Christ Covenant’s Counseling Ministry, including financial investment tracking, prayer support, leader training, and regular check-ins.
• Oversee reporting structures in concert with Missions Associate to assess partner effectiveness and alignment with church missions convictions.

Missions Conference & Event Oversight

• Overall oversight & execution of RTW conference.
• Work with Missions Associate to coordinate logistics, speakers, marketing, and volunteer teams to ensure excellence in execution.
• Alongside the Pastor of Missions helps develop programming that aligns with the church’s vision for global missions.

Team Leadership & Development

• Work closely with the Local Outreach Director, Training & Development Director, and five apprentices to align efforts.
• Provide direct oversight and coaching for the Missions Associate
• Assist in organizing the deployment pathway of future missionaries and church planters through training initiatives. Work closely with the Pastor of Missions & Director of Training & Development on our Sending pipeline.

Qualifications

• College degree is preferred.
• Experience in personal, one-on-one discipleship experience is highly preferred. Also preferred is experience serving in a local church or ministry setting.
• Strong administrative and operational leadership skills.
• Proven experience in missions, partner care, or large-scale event planning.Strategic thinker who can execute vision with excellence.
• Skilled in communication, storytelling, and mobilization.
• Highly relational, with strong pastoral and leadership instincts.
• Ability to travel internationally and manage cross-cultural relationships.
• Passion for local and global missions, with theological alignment to an ecclesiocentric missions philosophy.

Ideal Candidate Profile

• A “second-chair leader” who thrives in an executive support role.
• A builder of systems and strategies that amplify the lead pastor’s influence.
• A detail-oriented planner who excels at managing people, projects, and budgets.
• A leader who can engage the congregation and partners with clarity and passion.

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