Description:
The Mission Director’s primary responsibility is to be the Heart of AgapeCare Cradle by putting our mission into practice. This involves recruiting, overseeing, and training Family Advocates who are a group of volunteers working directly with the bereaved families we serve.
The Mission Director role is a paid, part-time, sub-contracted position for a two year term, payable monthly.
Personal Requirements:
- Heart for Jesus and children.
- Passionate about serving families who have lost babies.
- People person.
- Note: being an “extrovert” is not necessarily a requirement, but this job is all about working with people.
- Calm and collected in challenging emotional situations (i.e. grief).
- Compassionate, socially sensitive, and able to work with people of all backgrounds.
- Great organization and management skills. Good delegator.
- Great communication and relationship building skills.
Duties:
- Reports to ACC Executive Director and Board.
- Trained as a FA (if not already) in order to gain experience in the role of a FA.
- Recruit, train, oversee, support, and mentor the FA’s.
- Receive incoming calls and dispatch service calls to FAs based on call rotation.
- MD is in the FA call rotation, but takes no more calls than any other FA.
- Overseeing administrative tasks/errands and extended grief care associated with service calls.
- Maintaining relationships with ACC’s local Partner Organizations.
- Manage inventory of goods, ordering of replacement items, updating family records
Other Notes:
- A more detailed list of responsibilities and duties can be provided and discussed during the interview process.
- Please contact Lissa Nemitz (lissa@agapecarecradle.org)