Church Engagement Specialist
CarePortal
Organizational ProfileCarePortal is Care-Sharing technology that drives action for local kids and families in crisis. We believe that through the Church and Community, there can be More Than Enough care for every child, through the power of Care-Sharing and the love of Jesus. Our goal is to scale meaningful connections through the local church, making a lasting impact on the lives of everyone involved. We mobilize robust Care-Sharing Networks and lead with Courage, Humility, and Excellence.
We do this through the local Church and in collaboration with child-serving organizations, businesses, and people who care—that’s where you come in.
Position SummaryThe Church Engagement Specialist is responsible for managing a portfolio of churches to ensure they remain active, supported, and growing in their response to children and families in crisis.This role serves as the primary day-to-day contact for assigned churches, providing ongoing support, guidance, and communication to increase engagement and retention. While Network Development builds relationships in person and drives growth, this role focuses on sustaining and strengthening engagement over time, primarily through virtual communication.Success in this role is defined by increased participation, responsiveness, and meaningful connection within the assigned portfolio. Network health metrics, scorecards and KPIs will be utilized to help gauge performance, however, success in this role will be measured across all of the responsibilities listed below.
Your Responsibilities Include:Portfolio Management
- Manage a defined portfolio of churches, providing consistent communication and support
- Monitor activity and proactively engage churches to increase participation
- Reinforce behaviors that lead to sustained engagement and requests met
Church Support
- Maintain strong, trust-based relationships through ongoing communication
- Serve as the primary point of contact for questions, guidance, and support
- Resolve most customer issues directly in a timely and effective manner
- Coordinate with Platform Support for more technical issues when needed
Increased Engagement Rate
- Monitor engagement metrics and identify opportunities to increase usage
- Support churches in setting goals and improving response activity
- Encourage and track meaningful connection stories
Process Consistency & Improvement
- Follow established engagement processes and standards
- Provide feedback to improve engagement tools and playbooks content
- Support efforts to increase efficiency and scalability in engagement
Coordination & Alignment
- Receive new churches from Onboarding for engagement support
- Maintain awareness of Network Development activity within assigned markets
- Ensure accurate tracking of communication and activity in CRM
- Support ecosystem balance through participation in Network Leader facilitated strategy meetings to identify, discuss and solve issues and opportunities.
Request Monitoring & Response Activation
- Support churches through response team development and church leader buy-in to achieve sustainable network impact
- Monitor unmet requests within assigned portfolio and take proactive action to increase responses by engaging churches to encourage timely responses
- Collaborate with other Engagement Specialists to support shared outcomes across markets
- Comfortable engaging and supporting diverse faith communities and denominations
- Strong communication and facilitation skills, with the ability to lead virtual training sessions
- Ability to guide customers through structured processes with clarity and confidence
- High attention to detail and strong follow-through
- Comfort with virtual training environments and technology platforms
- Ability to balance efficiency with a positive, supportive customer experience
- Experience with CRM systems, Microsoft Office, and virtual meeting tools preferred
- Ability to follow defined processes while identifying opportunities for improvement
- Passion for CarePortal’s mission and commitment to Courage, Humility, and Excellence
The above description is not intended to be comprehensive, but rather a focused list of priorities. Success provides the opportunity to not only build a career but also bring much-needed support and care to local children and families in crisis across the United States. Successful candidates, like all CarePortal, LLC employees, are expected to live and work consistent with CarePortal’s vision, mission, and values.
CarePortal, LLC, a subsidiary of the nonprofit organization The Global Orphan Project (GO Project), is Care-Sharing technology that drives action for local kids and families in crisis.
This platform, which brings Christian churches to the point of care for each request made on behalf of children and families, can be used to connect a diverse network of churches, child-serving agencies, businesses, and individuals who care. Learn more at www.careportal.org.
CarePortal, LLC offers a competitive benefits package for full-time positions (30+ hours per week) including health, dental, vision and employer paid life insurance, retirement savings and generous PTO plan and a highly competitive, market-indexed compensation when compared to similar non-profit roles. Compensation is commensurate with relevant skills and experience.
The Global Orphan Project is a 501c3 nonprofit located at 3161 Wyandotte, Kansas City, MO 64111.
CarePortal LLC associates are at-will employees.
www.goproject.org www.careportal.org
Skills Required
- Comfort engaging and supporting diverse faith communities and denominations
- Strong communication and facilitation skills
- Ability to lead virtual training sessions
- Ability to guide customers through structured processes
- High attention to detail and strong follow-through
- Comfort with virtual training environments and technology platforms
- Ability to balance efficiency with a positive, supportive customer experience
- Experience with CRM systems, Microsoft Office, and virtual meeting tools
- Ability to follow defined processes while identifying opportunities for improvement
- Passion for CarePortal's mission and commitment to its values
What We Do
The GO Project is a non-profit organization that helps New York City public school students thrive in the earliest stages of their education through year-round academic, social-emotional, and family support. Students who are behind grade level in literacy and/or math can enroll in GO during K-2nd grades and are able to participate in our high-quality academic intervention and social-emotional and family support year-round through 8th grade.
