Job description
Location: Dallas, TX - Hybrid
Address: 5405 Shoe Dr, Mesquite, TX 75149
We are seeking a Missions Coordinatorto 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.
The same way we treat our employees is how we treat all applicants – with respect. Buckner is an equal opportunity employer (EEO is the law). You will be treated fairly throughout our recruiting process and without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status in consideration for a career at Buckner.
