Job Description

Get Involved!

Get Involved!

Do you love working with students? Do you enjoy leading both people and process? Samaritans Purse is looking for a Student Partnerships and Ministries Manager to serve with Operation Christmas Child in Boone, NC or Charlotte, NC.  We are looking for someone with a passion for serving and encouraging the next generation through their expertise in student relations, all for the sake of the Gospel.  Join the team and use your gifts and talents to help gospel opportunity shoe boxes reach children across the world! 

A day in the life of a Student Partnership and Ministries Manager 

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 Student Partnership and Ministries Manager, you will have the opportunity to: 

• Maintain your personal relationship with Jesus Christ and be an effective witness for Him
• Develop and guide Operation Christmas Child Student Relations Team to grow national partnerships with student organizations to increase multiple projects of the ministry
• Oversee Student Relations team to research, plan and propose a list of like-minded, strategic potential partners with plans to pitch and secure new shoebox-generating and promotional partnership agreements annually
• Lead staff to further develop and deepen volunteer teams related to student relations. Lead team to support field staff and volunteers with effective student relations training and equipping for hundreds of Student Relations Volunteers to engage past participating and prospective student group partners
• Create and maintain strategies, support, resources, contacts, and training to assist field staff in the area of student relations at the regional level, and to support grassroots volunteer efforts
• Direct the collaboration of student engagement with other Samaritan's Purse departments Campus Relations, U.S Disaster Relief, etc. 
• Travel to student-related conferences and events to represent and promote Operation Christmas Child and for quality assurance of optimizing paid sponsorships, affirming and holding accountable vendors to advertising opportunity
• Manage and oversee the Student Relations budget 
• Support Student Relations team to communicate and coordinate effectively with field staff and local volunteers when engaging activity on local, regional, and national levels. Fully vet all partnerships and activities requiring volunteer response and ensure that they are supportable by field staff and volunteers
• All other duties as assigned

Learn more about serving with Samaritans Purse. 

Qualifications & Experience: 

• Bachelors degree (B.A.) from four-year college or university; and two to four years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience 
• Attention to detail and ability to multi-task
• Previous working experience with student population
• Comfortable with public speaking to large groups
• 12 credit hours of college-level Biblical Studies 

Location: Boone, NC or Charlotte, NC

Type:  Full-Time

Language Requirement: Fluency in English (required)

Travel Expectations: 75 nights annually

Benefits:

• On-site Medical Clinic (staff and dependents) 
• Medical, prescription, dental & vision insurance
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
• Long-term and Short-term disability insurance
• Paid Family Medical Leave 
• Term Life Insurance
• 401(k) retirement savings plan
• 10 paid holidays
• 12 vacation/personal days
• 10 sick 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 2:89; 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 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, 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.
• We believe that God wonderfully and immutably creates each person biological male or female. These two distinct but complementary sexes together reflect the image and likeness of God. Rejection of ones biological sex is a rejection of Gods merciful design and creative order.  Genesis 1:26-27;1 Corinthians 6:9; Deuteronomy 22:5