Job Description

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Samaritan’s Purse is seeking a Campus Relations Program Specialist to join the Campus Relations team at our locations in Boone, NC or North Wilkesboro, NC. As a Campus Relations Program Specialist, you will develop and execute all aspects of the Samaritan’s Purse and Billy Graham Evangelistic Association (BGEA) internship and apprenticeship programs. This position engages in targeted recruitment efforts to ensure a consistently high-caliber pool of candidates for the program. You will assist with efforts to ensure overall program efficacy, including position creation and formulation; building relationships with hiring managers; screening, interviewing and hiring; performance management; onboarding and debriefing; and events and programming. Domestic travel will be required and occasional International travel. Join the team and use your gifts and talents for the Kingdom!

A day in the life of a Campus Relations Program Specialist:

At Samaritan’s 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 Campus Relations Program Specialist, you will have the opportunity to:

• Maintain your personal relationship with Jesus Christ and be an effective witness for Him
• Assists in the development and execution of the Samaritan’s Purse and Billy Graham Evangelistic Association (BGEA) intern and apprentice programs
• Leads programming strategy for the internship and apprenticeship programs, and ensures professional and spiritual development for interns and apprentices
• Engages in recruitment efforts to ensure a high-caliber pool of candidates for programs through in-person and digital recruitment events and building pools of qualified candidates for hard-to-fill positions
• Participates in training and curriculum strategy by collaborating with the Learning and Development team
• Manages the screening, interviewing, and hiring process for internship and apprenticeship positions. Ensures efficient hiring mechanisms are in place that result in high quality, ministry-aligned hires
• Develops and executes onboarding processes
• Partners with Learning and Development team to train and prepare interns and apprentices during orientation
• Captures and maintains data and relevant metrics to evaluate overall program efficiency, and provides analysis to relevant stakeholders
• Develops and leads programming events for summer interns, focusing on professional and spiritual growth
• Contributes to performance management and feedback efforts
• Collaborates with hiring managers to ensure internship and apprenticeship positions are strategic and substantive
• Ensures high quality and relevant representation of the ministry to college-age students and young professionals. Ensures recruitment efforts are consistently up-to-date and informed by demographic trends
• Assists with the job requisition process through the HRIS
• Follows policies and procedures of Samaritan’s Purse as set forth in the Policy Manual
• Maintains a strong Christian witness to colleagues, vendors, charitable beneficiaries, and the general public
• Attends daily morning devotions and participates in prayer support for the ministry, donors and volunteers
• Other duties may be assigned that are not specifically identified within the content of the job description

Learn more about serving with Samaritan’s Purse. 

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree from a four-year college or university in Human Resources, Marketing, Business, Program Management, Communications, or related field of study
• 3+ years of professional experience (required)
• Knowledge of Human Resource Information Systems (HRIS) (preferred)
• Prior International experience (preferred)
• Demonstrated success in cross-cultural communication and ministry (preferred)
• Working knowledge of candidate recruitment and hiring process
• General knowledge of demographic trends and ability to translate those into recruitment strategy
• Ability to drive results, balancing strategic thinking with tactical application
• Ability to manage complex and competing priorities within fast-paced and changing work environment
• Ability to cultivate relationships at all levels of the organization with focus on internal and external customer service
• Proactively identifies opportunities for program improvement and development
• High level of organizational skills and attention to detail
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, both verbal and written
• Ability to calibrate approach to fit the audience
• Knowledge of Human Resources Information Systems (HRIS) (preferred)
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office software including Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint (required)

Job Location: Boone, NC (International Headquarters) OR North Wilkesboro, NC (2 Headcounts)

Type: Full-Time

Language Requirement: Fluency in English (required)

Travel Expectations: Frequent domestic travel around 25% per year and occasional International travel. Maintaining required travel documents and vaccinations for entry into foreign countries will be necessary.

Benefits

• Onsite 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 2:8-9; 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 God’s 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)