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Critical Need
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Expansion
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Monitor the health of senior staff accounts throughout the ministry and work with managers and staff to ensure that FamilyLife staff are fully-funded, fully engaged in the mission of FL, trained and resourced to allow them to maintain healthy staff accounts and minister undistracted by financial worries. This staff includes RMO staff, PTFS, Interns and STINTERS, volunteers, summer mission students. The role reports to the Mobilization Team Manager. The incumbent oversees the work of the ministry’s MPD Coaches. Stateside and staff serving overseas locations. (In this document, ‘staff’ includes all of these.)
● Team Leader: Provide holistic care to coaches: encouraging/promoting emotional, relational, physical and spiritual health as well as growth and development in the coaching role. Regular meetings with coaches, groups and one on one. Complete the Staff Development Cycle with coaches who report to them. Consult and resource coaches when faced with challenging coaching situations. Recruit new coaches. Celebrate coaches. Empower coaches to lead.
● MPD Coaching Supervisor: Understand the new staff process from acceptance to reporting to assignment. Ensure Pre-NSO coaching happens. Coordinate with applicant liaisons. Ensure all new staff have a coach assigned to them post-NSO. Provide coaching feedback to coaches. Assign coaches to senior staff as needed and available. Ensure interns and PTFS are provided a coach. Help identify a coach to serve as Intern Coaching Coordinator for their geography or ministry. Oversee or delegate responsibilities for summer MPD ReConnect. Maintain “Coaching Trackers”.
● MPD Spokesperson: Speak into the larger organization, geography / ministry on behalf of MPD. Be intentional and focused in building / creating a healthy MPD culture in their sphere of influence. Enter in with geography / ministry leadership on behalf of coaches and staff. Execute tactics which create a healthy MPD culture. Understand the needs of ethnic minority staff and advocate for them within the
geography/ministry.
● MPD Coach, Trainer and Specialist: Commitment to grow, learn, experiment, and be stretched in capacity to lead and shepherd staff. Have a posture towards helping and serving others. Create, collect and organize MPD and coaching resources. Embrace or initiate change in methodology (connections, using tech for MPD, etc). Attend NSO, MPD Refresh Retreat or Cru Orientation Weekend as a trainer as needed and available. (at least once every two years.) Coach staff as needed. Serve as, or assign
Intern Coaching Coordinators. Coach intern coaches as needed.
● Strategic Planning and Execution: Identify and execute 2-3 priorities specific to geography or ministry. (These will be CMO’s).
● Assists FamilyLife Mobilization Team in assessing MPD health of Cru transfer candidates.
● Develop and implement Expectation of Progress (EOP) and Standard of Performance (SOP) for staff in MPD distress who are not making reasonable progress in meeting their goals, and help make and communicate hard decisions when expectations are not met with the approval of MPD Manager and notify the respective P&C Strategic Business Partner when appropriate.
SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES
Supervises MPD Coaches.
Paul Cox
312-560-9061
pcox@familylife.com
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