Lutheran Disaster Response Implementation Grant Project Manager

About The Position

Lutheran Disaster Response (LDR), a ministry of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), accompanies communities impacted by disaster through response, recovery, preparedness, and resilience-building efforts in the United States and globally. Grounded in Lutheran theology, LDR works alongside congregations, synods, community organizations, and global partners to share God's hope, healing, and renewal with people whose lives have been disrupted by disaster.

This position serves as the grant program manager for a three-year Lilly Endowment-funded capacity-building initiative focused on strengthening storytelling, engagement, and communication infrastructure related to long-term disaster recovery. This role will coordinate work across Lutheran Disaster Response, Development (Development Communications), Strategic Communications, and external partners to support sustainable donor engagement and ethical storytelling practices connected to disaster recovery ministries.

Requirements

• Minimum of 3–5 years of experience in project management, grant management, communications coordination, nonprofit operations or related work.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education and professional experience required.
• Demonstrated experience managing complex projects with multiple stakeholders, timelines, and deliverables, including budgets, reporting requirements, and competing priorities.
• Experience coordinating communications, storytelling, marketing or engagement initiatives preferred.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and ability to collaborate across teams and organizational functions.
• Experience developing or implementing systems, workflows or operational processes preferred.
• Experience coordinating communications, fundraising, and/or donor engagement work, ideally in a ministry or non-profit setting, preferred.
• Ability to work independently while managing collaborative relationships with internal and external partners.
• Familiarity with ethical storytelling, trauma-informed communications or consent-based content practices preferred.
• Experience working in faith-based, nonprofit or community-based organizations preferred.
• Appreciation for the mission, vision, and values of the ELCA.
• Commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, accessibility, and anti-racism.

Minimum Technical Competency

• Computer knowledge that enables you to operate a Windows Computer and follow basic troubleshooting instructions.
• Software skills to efficiently use computer programs and applications.
• Ability to leverage computer knowledge and software skills to understand new software, follow process, and identify opportunities for improvement.
• Experience using Microsoft Office applications (Word, Excel, Teams, Outlook, etc.) preferred.

Physical

• Regularly required to talk and hear, use hands and fingers to operate a computer and telephone.
• Sitting for long periods of time.
• May be required to lift boxes of materials/resources.

Contact

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