SUMMARY

The Grant Manager will lead collaborative efforts which equip and empower clergy to enhance children's ministry across the Covenant Church, supporting churches with resources that enrich children's worship and prayer experiences. This role focuses on creating inclusive and meaningful spiritual environments for all children, including those with disabilities.

• Strengthen worship and prayer practices that reflect how children experience and express their faith.
• Promote inclusivity, ensuring worship practices are accessible to all children of all abilities.
• Integrate the arts (e.g., music, visual arts, drama) to deepen engagement in worship and prayer.
• Facilitate Bible storytelling, helping children actively participate in sharing stories of faith.
• Encourage worship practices that connect faith to the daily lives of children and their families.

This position will build partnerships across mission priorities to equip churches to foster holistic spiritual growth for children, empowering the next generation to engage deeply with their faith.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

• Serve as the strategic leader and custodian of the resources, programs, and efforts deriving from the Lilly Endowment.

• Coordinate coaching, content facilitators and cohort leads.

• Ensure strategies and services provided are responsive to the needs of the local church in town and country, urban and suburban areas.

• Develop, implement, and manage multi-year strategic plan and sustainability strategies for initiative.

• Value and nurture relationships with partners, advocates, and others throughout the ECC network.

• Manage the grant resources with prudent stewardship principles.

• Produce annual report for The Lilly Endowment that encompasses metrics and benchmarks that lead to improvements in operations, strategies, and outcomes as required under the grant agreements

• Recruit and engage constituents in various advisory and service teams to live into the grant programming initiatives.

• Oversee operations and developments to ensure legal, regulatory and mission compliance are maintained.

• Develop mechanisms and tools to monitor, track and measure outcomes and outputs that foster a culture of continued improvement. Be responsible for analyzing all data collected and orchestrating communication to market program activities to participant.

• Other duties as assigned.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

Required: Theological master's degree. A minimum engagement of five (5) years in the Evangelical Covenant Church (ECC) and a minimum of three (3) years of functioning in ministry or leadership positions, including experience in: local church/pastoral ministry, ministry/team leadership.

A knowledge of the ECC pastoral community, as well as a commitment to the mission of the Evangelical Covenant Church.

PERSONAL SKILLS AND CHARACTERISTICS

• Demonstrated ability to embrace a vision and pursue it enthusiastically, a visionary strategist.

• Demonstrated ability to enlist and manage resources

• Intercultural, cross-cultural sensitivity and strength.

• Facilitate group presentations

• Working knowledge of relevant Microsoft and Windows applications. Comfortable with virtual communication tools (including video conferencing, phone conferencing, etc.).

• Adaptability and flexibility in leadership.

• Strong entrepreneurial, organizational, social and communication skills.

• Influential and effective team leader/player.

• Able to work with individuals at all levels of organization.

• Committed to Ethical Guidelines for Covenant Ministers in the ECC.

• Ability to maintain personal life balance.

• Self-starter, able to work well independently.

Compensation details: 35000-35000 Yearly Salary

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