Rolling Hills Community Church - Donor Development Director

WHY WE LOVE THIS OPPORTUNITY

What a cool opportunity for the right leader! For someone who loves connecting people to opportunities to be generous and invest in Kingdom work, this role is a legit chance to do what you love every day. Rolling Hills Community Church is growing and expanding, as well as making a global impact through its ministries. They have big plans to grow their reach and will do that through the generous donors and faithful tithers who call this their “Church Home”. Plus – ya’ll! – It’s Franklin, TN – What’s not to love?!

ABOUT THIS ORGANIZATION

Rolling Hills Community Church was launched in the fall of 2002, and throughout the past 20 years, they have watched God grow, bless, and expand the ministry to Nashville and the surrounding area. Pastor Jeff Simmons is the founder, and the only senior pastor Rolling Hills has had in its 20-year existence. He is a passionate and joy-filled leader who has a vision for reaching the world for Christ. He loves people and loves missions.

Rolling Hills Community Church is thriving today! They have an awesome staff culture and have topped the charts in Best Christian Workplaces as well as local employer rankings. The team is multi-talented, super passionate and they know how to work hard and play hard.

This is one church with many locations. Rolling Hills has campuses in Nashville, Nolensville, Columbia, and Franklin, with a current weekly average attendance of 3000 (Easter attendance was 7540), plus a strong Online presence.

At Rolling Hills, it is their Vision, and they believe their calling to train, equip, and develop the next generation of Godly, faithful, and steadfast leaders for the ministry, the marketplace, and the home.

POSITION DESCRIPTION

The Development Director will lead a comprehensive church-wide stewardship plan that focuses on discipling the church body to live out true Biblical stewardship in all aspects of their lives. This includes creating opportunities of discipleship for all partners through a cohesive and highly integrated stewardship development plan. These opportunities include planning and developing financially oriented educational programs, organizing and managing periodic and annual giving campaigns, coaching and developing pastoral staff on generosity conversations, and development of appropriate and effective “stewardship stories” to be used during weekly services.

• Develop on-going relationships with leadership givers through coffees, lunches and meetings at businesses. The goal is to coach, shepherd and even be a chaplain of sorts for generosity leaders in our church.

• Follow-up with generosity leaders before annual year-end campaigns and capital campaigns, securing leader commitments to the campaign.

• Strategically develop deep relationships with high-capacity givers, seeking to meet their unique pastoral and stewardship needs.

• Own the operations, functionality, and growth of the church-wide stewardship ministry.

• Be the champion for Biblical stewardship, constantly evaluating and identifying tools and resources that will communicate the principles of Biblical stewardship as a part of our disciple-making process.

• Promote generosity and help identify legacy giving opportunities among the congregation.

• Develop comprehensive stewardship educational programs that equip partners with healthy financial management insight that is inline with Biblical stewardship.

• Create and manage a volunteer team of confidential financial coaches that counsel partners in personal financial management.

• Lead, organize, and implement church-wide giving campaigns, in partnership with pastoral staff, that consistently delivers funding for long term capital needs.

• Find and promote stewardship and generosity stories within the church to encourage the body.

• Inform pastoral staff on giving trends, church partner communication needs, at-risk or lost partners, and ministry opportunities.

• Coach and equip pastoral staff on effective and appropriate generosity conversations with partners.

• In collaboration with CFO, engage in and help organize and design the on-line giving portal, stock gifting process, receipt of non-cash gifts, and legacy gifts.

• Create and manage unique and intentional communication patterns to partners including communicating to first time givers, large gift givers, lapsed givers, new believers, etc.

WHAT A STRONG CANDIDATE WOULD LOOK LIKE

• Discipleship Focused

• Relationship Building

• Clear Communications

• Strategic/Analytical Thinking

• Creative Problem Solving

• Intelligent Process Design

• Detail Oriented

• Project Planning and Execution

• Volunteer Development

• Compelling Storytelling

• Whole Life Stewardship

• The ideal candidate is a person passionate about the Christian faith, who actively seeks to grow in personal relationship with God, who is committed to the mission and vision of Rolling Hills and who serves out of a sense of call.

• The candidate must currently and continually model sound financial stewardship in all aspects of his/her life and understand and be able to communicate the theological and Biblical truths of stewardship.

• The candidate must be a wise coach and relationship builder with a positive culture that draws high-capacity givers into deep relationships.

• Bachelor’s degree in finance or business or a related study preferred. A Master's degree from an accredited school is preferred. Minimum of five (5) years of experience in a related field.