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Job Information
Loving Shepherd International Services and Foundation, Inc Project and Partner Development Coordinator in Bluffton, Indiana
Title:Project and Partner Development Coordinator
Reports to:Director of Domestic Operations
Collaboration: This position will closely collaborate with the Director of New Initiatives on the Major Donor work.
LSM Staff Qualifications:
- Be a committed follower of Jesus, seeking to be conformed to His image in both personal and professional life.
- Agree with LSMs Statement of Faith, Mission, Vision and Core Values.
- Be committed to faithful intercession on behalf of vulnerable children and LSM.
- Fit well within LSMs team-first culture.
Additional Qualifications:
- Possess excellent communication skills both written and verbal, including the ability to listen to donors well.
- Be eager to communicate the ministrys vision and needs and graciously call people to financially invest in LSM.
- View fundraising as relational rather than transactional.
- Be a self-starter who works well autonomously and maintains high energy and motivation.
- Be willing to travel up to several times per month.
Job Responsibilities:
- Make particular effort to effectively continue LSMs current relationships with Major Donors (i.e., businesses and individuals whom the LORD has blessed with significant resources).
- Develop new relationships with individuals, businesses, and churches who may be interested in engaging prayerfully and financially with LSM.
- Make particular effort to reach out to businesses and individuals who are outside the Apostolic Christian denomination.
- Maintain and deepen the newly developed relationships with the goal of seeing them prayerfully and financially invest in LSM and develop as a follower of Jesus.
- Graciously ask individuals, businesses and/or churches to engage with LSM prayerfully and financially.
- Take an active mobilization approach to the local community and geographic location.
- Work closely with the other mobilization staff to reach annual organization-wide fundraising goals that have been set by management.
- Communicate clearly and consistently with supervisors and co-workers about work being performed, relationships being developed, and plans for future efforts.
- As new staff members are added or the department expands, be willing to mentor less experienced staff.
- Recognizing that it is ultimately God who stirs the heart to give, fulfill all tasks with humility respect, and patience - trusting that God will provide.