Church Partnerships Manager

About the role

The Church Partnerships Manager leads TEAM’s efforts to cultivate and strengthen strategic relationships with local churches across the United States to advance God’s mission among the nations. This role exists to help churches more fully embrace their calling as sending communities—providing meaningful value, trusted partnership, and clear pathways for global engagement.

Strategy & Leadership

• Develop and implement a comprehensive church partnership strategy that strengthens TEAM’s relationships with local churches and positions TEAM as a trusted missions partner.
• Create systems and best practices for identifying, cultivating, and sustaining strategic church partnerships.
• Lead organizational efforts to strengthen church-centered collaboration and engagement.
• Research emerging missiological trends to better serve churches and inform TEAM’s strategy.

Church Partnerships & Engagement

• Build and maintain relationships with pastors, missions leaders, and church leadership teams.
• Cultivate partnerships characterized by shared vision, mutual investment, and a commitment to sending and sustaining global workers.
• Develop pathways for churches to engage in missions through prayer, sending, disciple-making, leadership development, and global partnerships.
• Maintain a strategic portfolio of key church relationships and partnerships.

Mobilization and Equipping

• Represent TEAM at churches, conferences, universities, seminaries, and missions events.
• Communicate a compelling biblical vision for God’s global mission and the Church’s role in it.
• Equip churches to develop healthy sending cultures and missions strategies.
• Speak, teach, and provide resources on missions, sending, missiology, and global partnerships.

Qualifications of the Role

• Spiritually mature with a growing relationship with Jesus Christ and actively involved in a local church.
• Prior pastoral, church staff, missions, or nonprofit leadership with cross-cultural ministry experience is desirable as is fluency in a second language.
• Highly relational leader experienced in cultivating high-trust relationships and collaborative partnerships, with knowledge across a broad range of local church contexts and missions philosophies, who loves people and inspires others toward greater mission engagement.
• Self-starter with strong organizational leadership, strategic thinking and project management capabilities to execute strategy and accomplish goals independently.
• Skilled communicator—both verbally and in writing who is comfortable speaking publicly and facilitating training sessions or workshops.
• Bachelor’s degree and theological or ministry training preferred.
• Proficient in Microsoft 365 or similar productivity tools and experience with Salesforce or similar CRM systems preferred.

How to apply for this position

Submit your resume, cover letter and application to https://the-evangelical-alliance-mission.apscareerportal.com/. Only candidates with all three documents on file will be considered for the role. In case of technical difficulty uploading your documents to the portal, they may be submitted by email to jobs@team.org.

Disclaimer

This is a remote position.

We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

TEAM’s Mission

Our mission is to partner with the global Church in sending disciples who make disciples and establish missional churches to the glory of God.