Director of Team Building and Training - International

Location: Remote  

FT: Full time  

Vision: 

To disrupt the cycle of darkness and despair for all who are behind bars and their families by advancing the Gospel.  

Our Mission:  

To build and equip an alliance of passionate believers who boldly bring the light, life, and love of Jesus to the correctional communities of the world. 

Job Description: 

The Director of Team Building and Training – International serves international teams and Area Directors by coaching, equipping, and developing field leaders and staff. This role strengthens ministry effectiveness by implementing and refining training systems, integrating innovative tools, and fostering strategic partnerships that support Gospel-centered outreach within correctional settings worldwide. 

This leader ensures that international teams are spiritually grounded, strategically aligned, and practically equipped to carry out the mission with excellence and sustainability. 

Duties and Responsibilities: 

Primary 

1. Develop and oversee global training frameworks: Implement and refine comprehensive training systems that equip international teams with best-practice ministry tools for effective Gospel-centered outreach within correctional settings. 
2. Evaluate, innovate, and integrate ministry tools and programs: Research, assess, and incorporate new ministry tools, methodologies, and programs that strengthen chaplaincy work, expand ministry reach, and support innovation across diverse cultural and correctional environments. Build partnerships with organizations that provide training, curriculum and resources and coordinate efforts in the field to maximize development.  
3. Build and maintain strategic development partnerships: Cultivate and coordinate partnerships with training organizations, seminaries, churches, and ministry networks to expand development opportunities and enhance field capacity globally. 
4. Coach and develop Team Leaders through strategic planning: Guide and mentor Team Leaders in implementing strategic plans created with Area Directors, ensuring sustainable ministry growth, clarity of vision, and consistent alignment with GNG’s mission. 
5. Equip staff through spiritual, professional, and leadership development: Provide holistic development resources—spiritually, professionally, and practically—to strengthen staff in character, competence, calling, and key leadership competencies essential to correctional ministry 
6. Guide and support field development processes: Monitor and strengthen the development pathways of assigned teams and countries, ensuring healthy pacing, measurable progress, and alignment with organizational goals and ministry effectiveness. 

Secondary 

1. Assist with fund raising efforts for International Ministry within the U.S. 
2. Participate in organizational conferences, planning meetings, and international initiatives to promote unity and mission alignment. 
3. Support special projects and ministry assignments as requested by senior leadership. 

Professional Qualifications/Experience:  

1. Mature follower of Jesus Christ. 
2. A demonstrated passion for prison ministry and an effective minister and builder of ministry. 
3. Demonstrated experience in leadership building, coaching, or training, preferably in prison ministry. 
4. Proven ability to implement and evaluate tools and training systems for ministry effectiveness. 
5. Strong communication (cross-cultural preferred) and relational skills. 
6. Experience working with international teams or ministry networks. 
7. Strong skills in strategic planning, project management, and organizational leadership. 
8. Willingness and ability to travel - internationally 3-5 times a year for training and support and in the U.S. on occasion to support the work. 

Benefits and Perks  

Employer-Paid Premiums 

• Good News Global covers 100% of employee and family health insurance premiums. 

Generous Paid Time Off 

• Three (3) weeks of paid vacation beginning in year one. 

Retirement Planning 

• 401(k) plan with employer contribution

Founded in 1961, Good News Global is a Christian outreach that provides chaplains, volunteers, counseling, and educational programs to jails and prisons in 21 US states and 24 countries or territories worldwide. Good News believes that each one of the 9.6 million (2.3 million US) people incarcerated in the world today represents a broken life and a family in pain. Yet they also embody amazing opportunities for hope, healing, hearts to be made whole, and lives to be given to Christ. When this happens, the transformational changes that result are carried forward exponentially and experienced eternally.

In the United States over 7.2 million Americans are on probation, in jail or prison, or on parole. That’s approximately 1 in every 32 adults. Most of the people behind bars are not there for life. 95% of the men and women in our jails and prisons right now will be back in society.

Good News Global is a 501(c)(3), nonprofit, tax-exempt organization, fully funded through gifts and donations from businesses, churches, foundations, and individuals committed to seeing lives and families restored and patterns of generational violence broken forever.