Full-Time Director of Indigenous Christian Fellowship (Regina, SK)

PURPOSE:
To lead a contextualized Christian ministry within an urban Indigenous community in Regina. This role involves recruiting and supporting staff and volunteers, providing spiritual and pastoral care, managing finances including fundraising and budgeting, overseeing community programs using Indigenous asset-based development, building relationships with the CRC community and other churches, and assisting with board development.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES include the following:

1. Provide contextualized spiritual/pastoral care for the urban Indigenous community including strong reflection and leadership in contextualization matters.
2. Recruit, train, supervise and support all staff and volunteers.  Determine appropriate levels of staff compensation and benefits.
3. Total financial management, including negotiating leases with third parties, setting up accounts, fundraising, grant proposal writing, and budgeting.
4. Oversee security protocols.
5. Oversee community and ministry programs by utilizing Indigenous asset based community development to design, develop, deliver, monitor, evaluate, and report.
6. Liaise with the CRC community, promoting the urban Indigenous  ministry and building linkages between the CRC and the urban  Indigenous  community.
7. Assist development of board capacity (recruitment of board members, assist with policy development, board training).
8. Develop working relationships with other Christian churches and agencies
9. Other tasks as requested by the Executive Director, Canada of the CRCNA and/or the local board.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES: 

Oversee all staff and volunteers at the ministry centre.

QUALIFICATIONS

The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required:

1.  Able to support the mission, vision, and values of the CRCNA.
2. Mature Christian person, aware and supportive of the mandate, mission and activities of the wholistic contextualized Indigenous ministry of the CRCNA
3. Ability to work independently and to be flexible in terms of hours and assignments.
4. Team and community builder
5. Effective in verbal and written communications
6. Strong cross-cultural skills and insights.
7. Excellent administrative skills
8. Understanding of social, political and economic dynamics facing Indigenous people.
9. Significant experience in community and program development.
10. Theologically informed and able to provide cross-cultural pastoral/spiritual care and leadership.
11. Passionate commitment to building a Christian Indigenous community and its leadership.
12. Effective ecumenical relationship skills and capacities

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

1. Bachelor’s degree, with preference for additional studies.
2. Minimum of three years of cross-cultural ministry experience.  
3. Some volunteer experience is preferred.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

WORK ENVIRONMENT

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.