{"id":8720,"date":"2018-10-16T18:16:46","date_gmt":"2018-10-16T18:16:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.brethren.org\/news\/?p=8720"},"modified":"2018-10-18T18:20:19","modified_gmt":"2018-10-18T18:20:19","slug":"church-of-the-brethren-seeks-mission-advancement-advocate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2018\/church-of-the-brethren-seeks-mission-advancement-advocate\/","title":{"rendered":"Church of the Brethren seeks Mission Advancement Advocate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Church of the Brethren is seeking a Mission Advancement Advocate. The full-time, salaried position has a flexible location, but willingness to travel to the General Offices in Elgin, Ill., for meetings is required. <\/p>\n<p>Major responsibilities include strengthening and nurturing the individual and congregational stewardship, direct gift, planned-giving, and enlistment programs of the Church of the Brethren through face-to-face visits with individuals and congregations and individuals. The primary focus will be on positively impacting individual giving in support of denominational ministries.<\/p>\n<p>Applicants should be well-grounded in Church of the Brethren heritage, theology, and polity and able to operate out of that vision; have at least three years of experience in planned\/deferred giving and\/or five years of experience in development-related activities in the not-for-profit sector or comparable experience; be able to interact and relate with individuals and groups; and have basic computer skills. A bachelor&rsquo;s degree or equivalent work experience is required. <\/p>\n<p>Applicants will be reviewed on an ongoing basis until the position is filled. Interested and qualified applicants should send a resume&rsquo; to <a href=\"mailto:COBApply@brethren.org\">COBApply@brethren.org<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Church of the Brethren is seeking a Mission Advancement Advocate. Major responsibilities include strengthening and nurturing the individual and congregational stewardship, direct gift, planned-giving, and enlistment programs of the Church of the Brethren through face-to-face visits with individuals and congregations and individuals. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":8721,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1261,1281,1386,1278],"wf_post_folders":[],"class_list":["post-8720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-general-secretary","tag-jobs","tag-mission-advancement","tag-stewardship"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8720"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8722,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8720\/revisions\/8722"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8720"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=8720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}