Job Responsibilities

Areas of Responsibility and Associated Actions

Equip in Evangelism and Missionality

• Establish and implement ongoing, community-based equipping in evangelism among Northway members.
• Provide leadership (alongside Pastor of Training and Sending) to specific training environments focused on missionality in daily life.
• Help foster a culture of missional engagement among Northway members.

Assess, Train, Send, and Support Missionaries and Church Planters

• Assist Pastor of Training and Sending to identify, recruit, and assess prospective missionary candidates and church planters.
• Provide primary leadership to Northway’s Global Missions Cohort designed to equip prospective missionaries.
• Provide leadership to Northway’s Church Planting Cohort alongside Pastor of Training and Sending.
• Coordinate relationships with Church Planting and Sending Organizations as part of Northway’s sending process.
• Supervise advocacy teams dedicated to missionary care.
• Supervise short-term trips dedicated to deepening relationships with national and global partners, to assessing future missionary opportunities, and to equipping indigenous leaders.

Maintain Strategic Partnerships

• Continue partnership relationships with current sending organizations in support of existing missionaries.
• Develop and deepen partnership relationships with current and prospective global partners. 
• Establish (alongside the Pastor of Training and Sending) new partnerships with organizations that reflect Northway’s partnership with the SBC. 
• Collaborate (with the Pastor of Training and Sending) regarding partnerships focused on Church Planting (i.e. SBTC, SEND Network) to bring continuity to church planting and global sending.

Preferred Role Qualifications

• Meets the spiritual qualifications of a deacon/elder in accordance with 1 Tim 3:1-13.
• Seminary training (MA or higher) with an emphasis on missiology and/or pastoral leadership.
• Prior experience as a mid- or long-term missionary or previous work in mobilization or church planting.
• Awareness of and experience with cross-cultural ministry dynamics.
• Skill and gifting in personal evangelism. 
• Upholds a biblical ecclesiology (i.e. healthy church development) as a primary focus for global sending.
• Can engage alternative viewpoints with charity. 
• Creative thinking and strategic problem-solving capability.
• Administrative competency and clear written and verbal communication skills.
• Alignment with Northway’s beliefs, mission, vision, and values.

Areas of Responsibility & Qualifications

Areas of Responsibility:

Administration & Strategy:

• Manage the logistic and administrative needs of the connection ministry.
• Contribute to Sunday setup and execution.
• Support Membership Class planning and execution.
• Assist in strategic planning for calendar events and mapping out semesters.
• Assist in creating clear pathways for people to take to get plugged into Northway.
• Working with the Connections Minister, create resources to support members and volunteers.

Connections Ministry:

• Assist with the membership process.
• Assist with onboarding,equipping, and caring for volunteers.
• Manage and Respond to Connect Cards.
• Develop a culture of hospitality within our alternate worship spaces.
• Lead Connections ministry meetings as needed.

Education & Certification:  

Bachelor’s Degree preferred 

Beneficial Experiences:  

• Ministry experience
• Coordination and administration
• Developing and managing volunteers

Qualifications: 

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with an attention to detail 
• Strong gifts in administration
• Self-starter with the ability to proactively anticipate needs and execute.
• Exceptional interpersonal and relationship building skills.
• Hospitality-driven desire to serve the church body.
• Proactive, well-organized, and detail-oriented

Job Type: Full Time

Hours: 40 per week

Don’t meet every single requirement? At Northway Church, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role, but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.