Job Overview

Department: Candidate (Church Partnerships) Reports To: Church Partnerships Coordinator Employment Status: Full-time, Salaried, Exempt Location: Remote within the United States Travel: Approximately 25% travel, including church visits, AIM events, and vision trips.

Position Summary: The Church Partnerships Facilitator is responsible for recruiting, training, and equipping U.S. churches to actively engage in global mission through Africa Inland Mission. This role centers on honoring, serving, and strengthening the local church as God's primary sending body, walking alongside pastors and missions leaders as they send people into cross-cultural mission through AIM. This role helps churches cultivate a missions vision, equip their congregations, and participate in missionary sending through a clear pipeline and strategic partnerships. This role works closely with the mobilization team and candidate department to reinforce the local church's central role in the Great Commission and within AIM.

Job Description

Key Responsibilities:

Church Mobilization & Engagement

• Serve as the primary point of contact for churches new to AIM, prioritizing relational trust, communication and long-term partnership.
• Introduce AIM's vision, values, and framework in ways that align with each church's culture and mission priorities.
• Invite and connect churches to AIM-sponsored events and gatherings
• Conduct church partnership workshops and coaching sessions for pastors and church leaders.
• Develop customized training programs to equip churches to disciple and send missionaries well.
• Plan and lead vision trips for church leaders to deepen understanding and ownership of AIM's work.
• Proactively listen to and learn from church leaders to better serve their sending goals and challenges.
• Encourage healthy, church-led missions structures that emphasize pastoral care, accountability, and long-term commitment.
• Represent AIM to churches in a way that reflects humility, partnership, and a servant-hearted posture.

Missionary Pipeline Development

• Work with churches to identify, disciple, and cultivate potential missionary candidates emerging from their congregations.
• Collaborate with the mobilization team to guide candidates through the mobilization process in partnership with their local church.
• Mobilize churches to actively engage in sending missionaries through AIM.
• Support pastors and missions teams in understanding AIM's candidate pathway, expectations, and timelines.
• Help churches develop intentional processes for mentoring, assessing, and affirming missionary candidates.
• Strengthen communication between churches, candidates, and AIM staff throughout the sending journey.
• Advocate for the local church's voice and involvement at every stage of the candidate process.
• Encourage churches and create resources to remain actively involved in care, prayer, and accountability for those they send.
• Track and evaluate church mobilization progress to identify growth opportunities and barriers.

Resource Development

• Assist the church partnership coordinator in developing resources tailored to churches at varying levels of missions engagement and partnership.
• Create and contribute content for AIM communications, including webinars, podcasts, and newsletters.
• Develop practical tools to support church-based missions mobilization and sending.
• In partnership with churches, lead and develop vision trips that cultivate shared ownership and focused engagement.
• Curate best practices and stories from church partners to strengthen learning across AIM's network.
• Adapt existing AIM resources to better serve the needs of pastors, missions committees, and sending teams.
• Collaborate cross-departmentally to ensure resources reflect AIM's theology, values, and commitment to the local church.
• Evaluate the effectiveness of resources and refine them based on church feedback.
• Equip churches with clear next steps for deepening partnership and sending engagement.

Desired Outcomes:

• Increased number of churches actively engaging in missions mobilization and sending with AIM.
• Growth in the missionary candidates from healthy church partnerships.
• Greater clarity and awareness among U.S. churches of AIM's mission and sending pathways.
• Strengthened, trust-based relationships with churches that result in long-term partnership and faithful missionary sending.

Qualifications

Required

• Committed follower of Jesus Christ, able to affirm Africa Inland Mission's Statement of Faith.
• Active member of a local church.
• Minimum of 3 years of experience in missions mobilization, church partnerships, or para-church ministry.
• Experience serving on church staff or as a lay leader in a local church.
• Demonstrated relational and communication skills with the ability to work collaboratively and independently.

Preferred

• 5 or more years of missions mobilization or church partnership experience.
• Undergraduate degree, graduate seminary degree preferred.
• Experience training or coaching church leaders for missions engagement.
• Cross-cultural or international ministry experience.