Community Ministries Director

2 months ago


Dartmouth, Canada The Salvation Army Full time

The Community Ministries Director provides holistic leadership to community outreach, programing, and ministries in accordance with Salvation Army mission, vision, and values. The director will be responsible for the delivery of services, implementation of various strategies, fundraising efforts and community collaboration and partnership. The incumbent will also be responsible for providing executive administrative support for the management of staff, volunteers, programs, and property within the Community & Family Services department, while upholding and modelling the ethics and values of The Salvation Army.

This is a permanent full-time position. Schedule may vary according to requirements of responsibilities - some weekend and evening work will be required. Regular (mostly local) travel is required.

**KEY RESPONSIBILITIES**:
**Program Development, Delivery and Evaluation**
- Interacts with community partners and resources to provide services to individuals associated with the ministry.
- Develops, implements, maintains, and evaluates programs relevant to the ministry unit body and community.
- Engages in ongoing planning to ensure programming reflects client needs as these may evolve in our changing socioeconomic climate.
- Assesses relevant demographics to identify new, innovative programming needs and formulates/submits proposals for divisional and territorial approvals.
- Ensures fundraising objectives for the community are consistently met through careful planning, organization, and appropriate networking within the community.
- Networks with non-Salvation Army government and community social assistance and service providers to coordinate resources for the benefit of clients.
- Ensures that staff are trained to perform their duties in all program areas and that the programs operate according to their purpose and the mission of The Salvation Army.
- Coordinates with funders for ongoing support of the programs and ensure service delivery.
- Ensures that the Gospel of Jesus Christ is exemplified in the performance of all job responsibilities and through personal example.
- Prays with and shares the message of the Gospel of Jesus Christ with clients, staff and volunteers, endeavoring to assimilate them into the Body of Christ, as appropriate (including linking clients to the church family and church programs where possible).

**Administration**
- Ensures the efficient processing of contracts, agreements, and other legal documents requiring execution by Governing Council members are forwarded to Divisional Headquarters Business Office for signature and processing.
- Makes effective recommendations on the hiring, orientation, training, work performance evaluations based on the PEAC model, recognition, discipline, and termination in concert with Territorial standards; submits and acts on incident reports; deals with complaints.
- Provides visibility for The Salvation Army within the community through public relations, etc.
- Contributes to the development of policies and procedures for Community Ministries programs in consultation with the Pastors/Corps Officers.
- Ensures the protection of extremely confidential and sensitive employee, client, and/or program files.
- Ensures databases are maintained, e.g., employee/volunteer information, contact lists, inventory.
- Builds a volunteer base of up to 100 for assistance to ensure community partnerships and networks are developed.
- Ensures the delivery and maximum effectiveness of Christmas Hamper/Kettles program.

**Emergency and Disaster Services**
- Recruits and arranges training for individuals who can help with local disaster management, assist with provincial disasters.
- Be on-call and available to attend disasters as and when required.

CRITICAL RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT

Governance Boards and Councils: The incumbent may participate as a regular member of Community Councils when a partnership becomes necessary.

Internal: DHQ team, Corps Officers, MU staff members.
External: Local Emergency Measures Organization, Social Services (government and non-Government).

MANAGERIAL/TECHNICAL LEADERSHIP RESPONSIBILITY:

- Reports directly to the Pastors/Corps Officers
- Direct reports for this position would be permanent and seasonal employees as well as a large volunteer base.

FINANCIAL AND MATERIALS MANAGEMENT:

- Creates department budgets and submits to leadership team for approval.
- Responsible for ensuring programs comply with established budget.
- Responsible for safekeeping of all donations both financial and material, including the safekeeping of revenue generated through the thrift store.

WORKING CONDITIONS:

- The incumbent works in generally agreeable conditions, which is mostly clean and comfortable; with the following exceptions: occasionally dealing with angry/upset individuals and verbal abuse.
- The incumbent works on-call with flexible hours.
- The incumbent is required to travel up to 25% of the time.

**The above responsibilities must be



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