Staff Opportunities:
Adoption Training Catalyst
Position Summary:
Catalyze people group adoption by helping adopting partners gain a deeper understanding of the people they have chosen to serve. Develop practical orientation resources that build informed, prayerful, and culturally aware responsibility for the adoption of people groups.
Essential Roles and Responsibilities (dependent on skills of applicant and strategic needs of the organization. Could include tasks such as the following):
- Develop an orientation system for the ADOPT program that equips adopting partners with accurate and useful people-group understanding.
- Develop and distribute manuals, orientation tools, briefings, and learning resources.
- Guide adopting partners in understanding the history, identity, language, religion, location, needs, and gospel barriers of their adopted people.
- Help families, churches, and organizations interpret people-group data in ways that strengthen wise prayer and thoughtful action.
- Support the creation and distribution of updated profiles, prayer guides, maps, and orientation resources.
- Provide monthly reports to the Director of Adoption on work activity and progress toward goals.
- Maintain required levels of ministry support through regular time in ministry partnership development.
- Ensure that privacy and security are maintained in conversation and information exchange.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
- Strong written communication and resource-development skills
- Ability to synthesize anthropological, ministry, and people-group information into usable guidance
- Ability to train others in clear and culturally sensitive ways
- Ability to manage onboarding, orientation, and follow-up workflows
- Flexibility and willingness to adapt to new methods of production and presentation
- Ability to manage and meet deadlines
- Proficiency in computing and MS Office suite
- Knowledge of online communication tools and digital resource sharing
- Participate in additional work training as deemed appropriate
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