Intern Coordinator - Italy
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One Mission Society has a vision of making reproducing disciples of Jesus Christ and equipping them to be transformational in their spheres of influence. In order to accomplish this vision, the Intern Coordinator, working within a Disciple-Making team, will model disciple-making practices with individuals and churches in their geographical area in order to steward the conditions for a disciple-making movement to take place.
The intern coordinator manages all aspects of the intern program in Catania. This includes working with the interns before and while in the country. He/she will also maintain the relationships between Search Party and the sending organizations and look for new organizations with which to partner.
Education and Experience Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience preferred.
- Experience with disciple-making processes a plus.
- Experience working with youth in a ministry setting is preferred but not required.
Skill Requirements
- Demonstrated understanding of spiritual disciplines and scriptural application.
- Ability to network well with partners.
- Ability to work constructively with team members in the area of disciple-making, showing value and respect for team-members.
- Ability to learn local language to an intermediate level.
- Must possess a coachable spirit.
- Presents themselves well and engages in tasks with enthusiasm.
- Weave the compassion of Christ into all tasks.
- Ability to relate to college students and enjoy spending time with them.
- Attention to detail.
- Ability to seek out and maintain relationships with other agencies, churches, and universities.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- Maintain a regular and ever-deepening relationship with Jesus Christ through prayer, reading and study of the scriptures, fasting, and other spiritual disciplines.
- Abide in Christ together with your team including regular times of prayer, fasting, worship, accountability, and other practices.
- Personally engage with and utilize OMS-approved processes to evangelize non-believers and help others to grow in their faith and progress as reproducing disciples of Jesus.
- Work with the Disciple-Making team to plan and execute a disciple-making process in local churches and networks.
- Work with partners to start disciple-making ‘bands’ within the churches, train up leaders, and identify future individuals who can help provide leadership locally in this area.
- Spiritually prepare the church for partnership with Church Development to help the church to reach their local community.
- Give input for developing new strategies and training opportunities in disciple-making.
- Help plan conferences, trainings, and work with stewardship teams.
- Seek out and recommend new resources and processes, passing gathered information to leadership for consideration of broad-based implementation for disciple-making.
- Implement processes for determining which materials undergo translation.
- Work with the Disciple-Making and Church Development teams to develop and maintain and effective process and relationship.
- Assist as needed in other OMS Country Team ministries, where applicable and appropriate.
- Out and manage relationships with churches, sending organizations, and universities through which to recruit interns (2 months - 1 year period).
- Developing/improving intern curriculum and program.
- Lead interns through the pre-field process: pre-field orientation, pre-field training, budgeting, reserving housing and transportation, background checks, etc.
- Oversee interns while in country: training, outreach, fun-days, conflict resolution, etc.
- Maintain intern tracking spreadsheets.
- Must be willing to learn the local language to an intermediate level.
Intern Coordinator - Italy
Work with the interns in Catania!
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