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Do you share our unswerving passion for serving God’s mission in the Arab world as the gospel is shared in word and deed among Muslim people? Are you a strategic thinker with experience in articulating a vision and developing plans to see the vision established? Have you been gifted in communication and honed your public speaking skills to motivate listeners to action?
AWM-Pioneers is looking for a National Director who will have responsibility for giving a strategic and visionary lead to the organisation as it mobilises the UK Church to join in God’s mission among Arabic-speaking Muslims wherever they are in the world.
About us
AWM-Pioneers is a Christ-centred organisation serving around 90 long-term Christian workers involved in cross-cultural ministry.
These workers are supported by a hard-working and gifted team based either in the Loughborough office or remotely working from the UK in areas of: recruitment and training, communication and support raising assistance, sending church partnerships, finance and administration support and ongoing member care.
About the role
For this full-time role, you will:
- Have a love for the Lord and His work among Muslims of the Arab world.
- Have a strong biblical grounding, and wholeheartedly embrace our doctrinal statement, values, aims and goals.
- Be a strategic thinker with the ability to articulate your vision clearly and develop plans for implementation.
- Be an inspirational communicator with recognised public speaking skills.
- Be able to ensure there remains a strong relational connection between AWM-Pioneers and field teams, area leaders, international leaders and other sending offices in the Pioneers family.
- Be willing and able to travel as required throughout the UK, Arab world and internationally to fulfil the role.
- Have a proven track record in financial acumen and be familiar with profit/non-for-profit organisational operations.
- Have a relational approach to leadership, with interpersonal skills, self-awareness, the ability to motivate people and a track record of team building.
- Report to the UK Council (board of trustees) providing information, keeping them informed on strategic matters and enabling their governance function of the charity to be fulfilled and ensuring our duty of care, legal obligations and organisational policies are followed.
- Participate with the daily prayer meeting and monthly prayer days.
In order to perform this role, it is essential that the post holder is in full sympathy with the aims and goals of AWM. It is an occupational requirement that he/she must be a committed Christian [able to agree with the organisation’s statement of faith] and able to fully participate in spiritual activities whilst carrying out the responsibilities of National Director.
Application deadline
The application deadline is Friday 29 November 5pm (GMT).
Recruitment details
Shortlisting is currently scheduled for mid-December onwards with interviews being held in mid-January 2020.
Subject to screening, references and other HR/legal requirements the successful candidate is expected to start as soon as possible, ideally from February 2020.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
You’ll need creativity, drive and enthusiasm to motivate people to donate funds and to come up with new fundraising ideas. These ideas can be the more traditional methods of fundraising such as bazaars, sponsored walks etc or the more modern methods such as crowdfunding using the internet as a means. Excellent organisational skills will help you to plan successful events.
As a charity fundraiser you will work to increase the amount of donations made to DA and of course our ongoing campaigs to help alleviate the suffering in Syria and Yemen. You’ll do this by contacting potential donors and coming up with new ideas to raise money. If you’ve got excellent communication skills and love the idea of supporting a charity, this could be a meaningful and highly rewarding career that offers what you’re looking for. Some of the duties you would be expected to fulfil :
- Writing - Securing Bids from local council, wards, local & national charities
- Organising events - at least 1 a month which could include treks, mountain climbs, etc in consultation with supervisor
- Publishing of Marketing material both electronic and physical during periods of particular campaigns especially during (but by no means restricted to) Ramadhan - Rabeea al-Awwal - Qurbani – Winter period - times of international disasters.
- Teaming & Coordinating with local partners to bring about local fundraisers
- Building a pool of volunteers for your charity this could include students from the Adult Courses, Madrassah and Tarbiyah Course in DA.
- Organising a roadshow which will visit various cities for fundraising for ventures with scholars from Syria based in Turkey.
- Corporate fundraising – arranging company sponsorship or setting up schemes for staff and customers to donate
- Major donor fundraising – looking for individuals that may have an interest in your charity and wish to donate a large sum of money
- Legacy fundraising – helping people to leave an amount of money to your charity in their will
- Events – organising events like charity dinners, concerts or sports events
- Make contact with individuals or companies who may be interested in donating to your charity
- Research, develop and plan new fundraising strategies
- Organise fundraising events such as fashion shows, charity auctions or fun runs
- Manage door-to-door and street collections
- Recruit, train and inspire volunteers
- Keep records of fundraising activities and money raised
- Manage the running of online campaigns via Facebook and other online mediums
- Control budgets and meet targets for the amount of money raised
- Report your performance to the director of Darul Arqam by submitting a monthly questionnaire.
- Give talks about your charity to the public and write reports and press releases