Head of Department of Technology and Media Job Description
The Head of Department of Technology serves a key role in supporting the work of the gospel across the Gospel Faith Mission International in North America. It is an exciting role with the opportunity to lead growing GOFAMINT NA young, leveraging technology as the backbone for innovation and transformation.
Deadline for applications is Sunday, August 21, 2022.
Role Summary
- Serve as the Head of Department for Technology and Media in GOFAMINT NA.
- Be mentored by the outgoing Head of Department to learn all the aspects of this role.
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Execute the 36-month National Technology and Media Strategic Plan for GOFAMINT NA.
- Provide strategic direction to the national leadership at the National Executive Board (NEB) leadership on leveraging current and new technology to, align with, and support the national leadership’s vision, mission, core values and strategic goals.
- Develop ministry objectives and goals in alignment with the national leadership's vision and goals.
- Develop and implement strategy for organizing and executing technology functions to meet needs and requirements.
- Direct the support of existing technology solutions, and the development and adoption of new technology solutions.
- Lead and empower the national technology team.
Responsibilities
- Research, evaluate, encourage and facilitate the adoption of current and new technologies at the national level such as: communication, administration, finance, and events, etc.
- Support national programs and events: Support all music rehearsals, programs and events hosted nationally to include the National Convention, GIT and GVL Conferences.
- Serve as a member of the Convention Planning Committee as the Technology Lead.
- Lead the execution of national technology projects and services such as evaluating, selecting, and implementing a Church Management System (e.g. Ekklesia e360 ChMS, PushPay, ACS Realm, Subsplash One, etc); evaluating, selecting, and implementing a Learning Management System (e.g. Populi, Google Classroom, etc).
- Help decide and implement cool projects such as GOFAMINT NA App, Pastors’ Portal, and a Volunteer Management System.
- Lead the execution of local assembly-focused projects and services (e.g. church production packages, church website & email systems, and AV consultations)
- Provide national guidance, education, and training to local assemblies and national departments/ministries.
- Engage and manage external vendors for events and projects.
- Recruit and manage out-sourced roles (e.g. hire a team of designers, developers, etc).
- Schedule periodic tech forums with local assembly HODs.
- Develop and document internal processes (you make rules!).
- Develop annual technology budgets (ask for money!).
- Prepare and present an end-of-year departmental report to the NEB.
- Prepare end-of-year departmental revenue and expense reports.
Accountable to
National Overseer and National Executive Board
Term
3 years renewable once.
Time Commitment
Part time: 8-10 hours per week.
Expectations
- Develop meaningful relationships with all stakeholders including other ministry/department leaders and Directors of Technology at local assemblies.
- Communicate and collaborate with various stakeholders such as national Heads of Departments and ministry leaders.
- Consistently care for and pray for the well-being of all department members.
- Actively contribute to the holistic development of all department members.
- Set time apart to pray for the ministry and the work.
Qualifications
- Must be a member of the Gospel Faith Mission International, North America and the local assembly.
- Must be a member of an exemplary character, filled with the Holy Spirit.
- Must have sound financial integrity (1 Samuel 12:1-3; Acts 20:33; 1 Timothy 6:6-10).
- Must demonstrate a high degree of loyalty to the Parent Mission.
- Must be competent across a wide variety of technologies in audiovisual, media communications and IT.
- Should possess ministerial and administrative abilities relevant to his/her office.
- Should possess a high-level, basic understanding of technology being used to meet business objectives.
- Should have related work experience.
Education
Preferred: Bachelor’s or master's degree in an area of Information Technology, science or another relevant field (Individuals currently enrolled in the above degrees will also be considered).
Critical Success Factors
Management
- Ability to hire and manage competent professionals to assist you
- Highly structured and organized
- Project management - Follow-up with individuals on tasks and actions items
- Time management
Leadership
- Understand why and how technology is important to the church
- Ability to build and lead a team of both volunteers and paid personnel
- Ability to learn and teach others
- Willingness and ability to self-learn
Communication
- Stakeholders engagement - Influence others with oral and written communication (emails, meetings, and presentations) for both technical and non-technical audiences
- Writing requirements for technology needs (proposals and needs requirements)
Research and Analytical
- Ability to gather relevant data to evaluate situations and inform risk/benefit decisions
- Ability to apply critical thinking and problem-solving techniques
Experience
Preferred
- Experience leading audiovisual and technology at a local assembly is very much preferred and highly desired.
- Experience leading IT projects across industries and within the church.
- Experience using various project or task management tools.
- Experience using meeting schedulers and communication tools like Calendly and Zoom.
- Hands-on experience with various cloud-based business platforms and applications.
- Experience presenting technical information to business and church leaders.
- Experience using cloud-based productivity suites for collaboration.
- Experience with software, hardware and network technologies.
- Experience with data and statistical analysis, and presentation.