Missions Coordinator

We are seeking a Missions Coordinator to join our Missions Team. As a Missions Coordinator, you will Shine Hope as you design and deliver high-quality donor, mission, and volunteer experiences across the United States, Latin America, and Africa. Join our team and shine hope in the lives of others! 

What you'll do:

• Create, organize, coordinate and implement donor/mission/volunteer experiences in U.S., Latin America and Africa for a variety of external stakeholders including church groups, donors, organizations and volunteers.
• Understand the goals of each internal and external stakeholder and design travel experiences/ projects that meet those goals while aligning with the Buckner strategy.
• Collaborate with Church Engagement and Development teams to cultivate relationships with donors (churches, businesses, organizations, and individuals).
• Lead groups of donors, including high-net-worth individuals, during mission experiences and trip activities, ensuring a friendly, outgoing, and relational approach.
• Make real-time decisions to best serve trip participants, demonstrating confidence and empowerment.
• Collaborate with Major Gift Team members to understand and meet trip expectations for high-net-worth donors.
• Adapt mission experiences to meet the unique needs of donors based on the type of trip.
• Serve as liaison between mission experience participants and operations staff.
• Create and manage budgets for mission experiences, projects and travel.
• Use project management (PM) techniques and operate the PM system to track all phases of a donor and mission experience.
• Use the CRM system to capture and communicate relevant information.
• Travel as needed to lead mission experiences to international and domestic locations (typically 5+ trips annually. Varies year-to-year).
• Monitor and evaluate trip leaders.
• Liaison to the community; speaks in public on behalf of Buckner.

 What you’ll bring:

• High School Diploma (or G.E.D.)
• A minimum of 3 years prior related work experience required.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Social Work, International Development, International Relations, Public Affairs, Community Development, or a related field preferred.
• Requires experience in diverse and international settings. Latin American experience preferred.
• Requires experience in cultivating donor relationships.
• Requires in-depth knowledge of social development and social change theory and practice.
• Requires proficient ability to speak, read and write English and Spanish.
• Friendly, outgoing, and relational; comfortable engaging and leading diverse donor groups, including high-net-worth individuals.
• Strong organizational skills, with the ability to communicate trip details effectively and promptly.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including polished grammar and clear writing.
• Knowledge of high-net-worth individuals and their needs.
• Requires ability to provide strategic and logistical planning and facilitate meetings. Requires ability to organize complex tasks and plans and to be detail oriented.
• Requires ability to lead others, foster teamwork, relate well to others and meet people with ease.
• Requires ability to speak clearly and make self-understood effectively in face-to-face interactions; articulate with accuracy to speak on the phone; ability to effectively communicate both orally and in writing and speak in front of groups.
• Requires ability to hear and receive verbal instructions, answer phones, and communicate with people in situations with some background noise.
• Requires ability to work under pressure and remain flexible as priorities change. Requires ability to work under minimal supervision; must be self-motivated and able to motivate others; ability to exercise excellent professional judgment.
• Requires ability to relate positively, influentially, and sensitively to a broad spectrum of persons in a variety of multi-tiered relationships and settings to include but not limited to clergy, laity, institutional staff/faculty, various organizations, churches of all sizes, cultural identities, board and council members.
• Requires ability to maintain confidentiality.
• Requires excellence in customer service while representing Buckner both internally and externally. They must be able to establish and maintain effective professional relationships with both constituents and a variety of individuals, groups, and public.
• Proficient working knowledge and ability to accurately and timely operate and perform computer related tasks with specific equipment and software applications required.
• Excellent presentation and influencing skills.
• Requires recognition that the organization is a faith-based organization operating with a commitment to Christian principles.

The above description reflects the details considered necessary to describe the essential functions of the job and should not be construed as a detailed description of all the work requirements that may be performed in the job.