WORK BASE: Thai-Myanmar border (Mae Sariang & Mae Hong Son)
Role Overview
The Church Partnership Facilitator serves as Compassion’s primary liaison to local churches. This role focuses on strengthening church ownership, capacity, and resources to minister to children and youth in their communities. The facilitator builds respectful and trusting relationships, supports church-led strategies, and guides churches through the Partner Management process. This position works independently on moderately complex projects and may coach other facilitators.
Key Responsibilities
Relationship Building
- Develop strong, collaborative relationships with pastors, church leaders, and project staff.
- Foster mutual respect, trust, and service in all interactions.
- Resolve conflicts with the goal of restoring healthy relationships.
Church Development
- Support churches in reflecting on ministry outcomes and planning for growth.
- Facilitate development of church-owned strategies that engage parents, caregivers, children, and youth.
- Coordinate with other team members to help churches engage key influencers in children's lives.
Program Cycle Support
- Assist churches in assessing needs, planning, implementing, and evaluating child and youth programs.
- Support churches in creating annual plans and budgets.
- Encourage inclusive participation in program design and decision-making.
Team Coordination
- Lead coordination of Church-Facing Team (CFT) support based on each church’s maturity and context.
- Customize facilitation workplans and document support provided.
- Contribute insights to help the team understand church needs and challenges.
Cluster Collaboration
- Oversee a cluster of churches, promoting collaboration and shared learning.
- Facilitate cluster-level activities and resource sharing.
- Strengthen ministry impact through peer-to-peer support and community engagement.
Child Protection
- Support churches in adopting and implementing child protection standards.
- Ensure timely reporting of child protection concerns and coordinate follow-up actions.
- Connect churches with internal and external resources to promote safe environments.
Strategic Partnership Management
- Deliver on Compassion’s commitments to churches and program outcomes.
- Coordinate with cross-functional teams to ensure quality and completion of deliverables.
- May participate in partnership selection and provide expertise to other staff.
Cultural Expectations
You are accountable for supporting, upholding, and engaging in Compassion’s core Cultural Behaviors in all internal and external communication and relationships. These behaviors reflect our commitment to humility, respect, integrity, and service.
Qualifications
- A committed member of a local church with a passion for serving churches and children’s ministry.
- Preferably has experience working with NGOs/INGOs along the Thai-Myanmar border.
- Strong understanding of the Thai-Myanmar border context, church settings, and community issues.
- Preferably a resident of Mae Sariang or Mae Hong Son province.
- Excellent facilitation, communication, interpersonal, and team-building skills.
- Fluent in Karen and Thai, conversant in English, and knowledge of Burmese is a plus.
- Willing to travel 50% of the time
* Please submit your resume or CV in English.
What We Do
Compassion International is a Christian child development ministry aimed at releasing children from spiritual, economic, social and physical poverty in Jesus’ name.
We are church-based: Compassion believes the Church is God’s chosen instrument to bring hope to a hurting world.
We believe the strategic placement of local churches makes them best suited to address the holistic needs of the children in their communities. And only they can effectively deliver the Jesus-based teaching and whole-life care that children in poverty deserve. Compassion partners with 8,000+ churches in 25 countries around the world to deliver our holistic child development program.
We are child-focused: Compassion’s ministry is focused on the individual child and his/her development. We offer this assistance irrespective of caste, creed, class or religion. At Compassion, we believe entire communities will feel the positive impact of our presence because what happens in the life of a child ripples throughout his or her environment.
We are Christ-centered: Jesus is the core of our ministry and his life and teachings shape our programs. They reflect the spiritual commitments of our staff. And they guide how we love people, respect communities and cooperate with nations.
We are committed to integrity: We hold ourselves to the highest professional and biblical principles in all aspects of our ministry and maintain the highest industry standards for our allocation of funds.
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