Job Description

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Are you looking for an opportunity to use your communication and promotional expertise to help send the gospel to children and families around the world? Operation Christmas Child (OCC), a ministry of Samaritans Purse, is searching for a Content/Media Specialist to serve at our IHQ in Boone, NC. This role supports national marketing promotions through content development and media relations activities for Operation Christmas Child. Responsibilities include assisting with content management, media partnerships, pitching, national advertising and budget coordination. Come join an amazing team and help be a part of advancing Gods Kingdom to the nations!

A day in the life of a Content/Media Specialist

At Samaritans Purse, the Gospel really is the center of all we do!  We start each day with a time of devotions and spend time praying for each other, our staff and volunteers who serve around the globe. 

In the role of Content/Media Specialist, you will have the opportunity to:

• Maintain your personal relationship with Jesus Christ and be an effective witness for Him
• Support the Operation Christmas Child marketing content sourcing, curation, database management, and distribution across all promotional channels
• Help manage all broadcast production requests. Assists with submitting requests, routing for approvals, and final delivery of assets to appropriate teams
• Assist with content management and coordination for all promotional messaging within Operation Christmas Child processing centers. Help conduct training and equipping for presentation technology
• Support the management and conducting of media pitching and generating media coverage for Operation Christmas Child through digital, print, television, and radio outlets across the nation
• Manage select media partnerships and promotions. Develop strategies to deepen relationships, ensure deliverables, implement promotions, and conduct end-of-season debriefs and affirmations
• Develop and maintain historical outreach and partnership data from internal and external sources to support peak-of-season media pitching, response coordination, and reporting
• Equip and assist with training of media volunteers, seasonal media associates, and new spokespersons as needed. Helps develop pitching materials and online learning content
• Follow policies and procedures of Samaritans Purse as set forth in the Policy Manual
• All other duties as assigned

Learn more about serving with Samaritans Purse.

Qualifications & Experience

• Excellent professional writing and editing skills, specifically press release and content writing
• Demonstrated innovator who loves to create
• Strong communication skills: able to effectively work interdepartmentally, train Associates, interact with customers and vendors
• Detail-oriented and administrative; familiarity with Microsoft Excel and Access
• Able to work with minimal direction; highly adaptable to changing demands
• Bachelor's degree in Communications, Marketing, Public Relations, Journalism, or related field and one (1) to three (3) years professional experience; or equivalent combination of experience and education

Job Location: Boone, NC 

Type:  Full-time

Language Requirement: Fluency in English

Travel Expectations: Less than 5%

Benefits:

• Medical, prescription, dental & vision insurance
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
• Long-term and Short-term disability insurance
• Term Life Insurance
• 401 (k) retirement savings plan
• 10 paid holidays
• 12 vacation days
• 10 sick/personal days

Samaritan's Purse Mission Statement:

Samaritan's Purse is a nondenominational evangelical Christian organization providing spiritual and physical aid to hurting people around the world. Since 1970, Samaritan's Purse has helped meet needs of people who are victims of war, poverty, natural disasters, disease, and famine with the purpose of sharing God's love through His Son, Jesus Christ. The organization serves the Church worldwide to promote the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Samaritan's Purse Statement of Faith:

* We believe the Bible to be the inspired, the only infallible, authoritative Word of God.  (1 Thessalonians 2:13; 2 Timothy 3:15-17)

* We believe that there is one God, eternally existent in three persons:  Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.   (Matthew 28:19; John 10:30; Ephesians 4:4-6)

* We believe in the deity of the Lord Jesus Christ, in His virgin birth, in His sinless life, in His miracles, in His vicarious and atoning death through His shed blood on the cross, in His bodily resurrection, in His ascension to the right hand of the Father, and in His personal return in power and glory.   (Matthew 1:23; John 1:1-4 and 1:29; Acts 1:11 and 2:22-24; Romans 8:34; 1 Corinthians 15:3-4; 2 Corinthians 5:21; Philippians 2:5-11; Hebrews 1:1-4 and 4:15)

* We believe that all men everywhere are lost and face the judgment of God, that Jesus Christ is the only way of salvation, and that for the salvation of lost and sinful man, repentance of sin and faith in Jesus Christ results in regeneration by the Holy Spirit. (Luke 24:46-47; John 14:6; Acts 4:12; Romans 3:23; 2 Corinthians 5:10-11; Ephesians 1:7 and 2:8-9; Titus 3:4-7)

* We believe in the present ministry of the Holy Spirit, whose indwelling enables the Christian to live a godly life.   (John 3:5-8; Acts 1:8 and 4:31; Romans 8:9; 1 Corinthians 2:14; Galatians 5:16-18; Ephesians 6:12; Colossians 2:6-10)

* We believe in the resurrection of both the saved and the lost; the saved unto the resurrection of eternal life and the lost unto the resurrection of damnation and eternal punishment.  (1 Corinthians 15:51-57; Revelation 20:11-15)

* We believe in the spiritual unity of believers in the Lord Jesus Christ and that all true believers are members of His body, the church.  (1 Corinthians 12:12, 27; Ephesians 1:22-23)

* We believe that the ministry of evangelism and discipleship is a responsibility of all followers of Jesus Christ.   (Matthew 28:18-20; Acts 1:8; Romans 10:9-15; 1 Peter 3:15)

* We believe Gods plan for human sexuality is to be expressed only within the context of marriage, that God created man and woman as unique biological persons made to complete each other.  God instituted monogamous marriage between male and female as the foundation of the family and the basic structure of human society.  For this reason, we believe that marriage is exclusively the union of one genetic male and one genetic female.   (Genesis 2:24; Matthew 19:5-6; Mark 10:6-9; Romans 1:26-27; 1 Corinthians 6:9)

* We believe that we must dedicate ourselves to prayer, to the service of our Lord, to His authority over our lives, and to the ministry of evangelism.   (Matthew 9:35-38; 22:37-39, and 28:18-20; Acts 1:8; Romans 10:9-15 and 12:20-21; Galatians 6:10; Colossians 2:6-10; 1 Peter 3:15)

* We believe that human life is sacred from conception to its natural end; and that we must have concern for the physical and spiritual needs of our fellowmen.   (Psalm 139:13; Isaiah 49:1; Jeremiah 1:5; Matthew 22:37-39; Romans 12:20-21; Galatians 6:10)