Director of Training
Qualifications
- Good communication skills: Candidates should feel confident as they communicate in person, on the phone, and via social media.
- Media Experience: This position requires a strong understanding of how to build a successful training ministry that utilizes the latest media technologies and best practices.
General Duties
- Lead the process of strategic planning for all training programs in the USA and globally, collaborating with the global training team to form a holistic strategy for media and in-person training events.
- Coordinate Horizons International's global missions and discipleship training programs.
- Assist Horizons Leadership in the development and maintenance of strategic alliances with churches and other organizations in Muslim ministry.
- Drive the process of curricula and media development, from strategy to execution to distribution.
Specific Duties
A. Marketing, Promoting, Recruiting, and Strategic Alliances
- Work with the Communications department to create, distribute, and publish materials to promote the training programs.
- Actively mobilize churches and recruit potential trainees in strategic and creative ways.
- Work with Horizons leadership to organize and communicate with ministry contacts.
- Seek out strategic alliances with individuals, churches, educational institutions, and organizations, with the goal of increasing the number of trainees who come to events, as well as finding venues at which Horizons can provide training.
- Recruit training coordinators in various geographic regions globally.
- Recruit and provide faculty for the training events.
B. Training Curriculum/Resources
- Activate and participate in the Curriculum Development Team (CDT) by scheduling its meetings, taking notes, and sharing feedback.
- Oversee development and production of training materials for each event.
- Assist in maintaining the electronic structure for the development and revision of training plan and curriculum.
- Maintain the global training calendar, and update the marketing and communications staff for promotion of events.
C. Training Events
- Determine, with the Leadership Team, each year’s training plan (date, location, etc.)
- Develop a budget for each training event.
- Publish the year’s training program and revise it as necessary.
- Ensure that all training events are promoted (websites, mailings, e-mail, advertising, tables at conferences such as Urbana, ICOM, Cross, Legacy etc.)
- Ensure that all training events are appropriately managed (e.g., logistics, registration, production of materials, sale of books, collection, and reporting of funds).
- Follow-up on attendees after training for future ministry contacts.
D. Current Training Program
- Work with the Leadership Team on enhancing the current internship program by recruiting trainees from churches and mission agencies as well as placing interns and potential staff in the various mission fields in the USA and globally.
- Currently, these are the training events that Horizons has offered since its inception:Engage Muslims with Christ
- Engaging Islam Institute
- Cubs to Lions
- Legacy conference
- Nehemiah Network
- Weekend intensives
- Online Curricula
- Internships