Internal Communications Specialist

About East-West

The vision of East-West is to glorify God by multiplying followers of Jesus in the spiritually darkest areas of the world. The mission of East-West is to mobilize the Body of Christ to evangelize the lost and equip local believers to multiply disciples and churches among the unreached.

Position Summary

The Internal Communications Strategist will help craft and coordinate all internal communications for East-West’s globally dispersed staff. This includes writing, scheduling, and implementing organization-wide communications of various mediums from various authors and multiple internal global audiences. The Strategist will work with various departments from Operations to Field, including sub-departments, as well as the Executive Leadership Team on special and regular communication. In addition, the Strategist will own certain communication products. The successful Strategist will collaborate with stakeholders to help them envision and execute on internal communications, supporting multiple projects simultaneously with project management capabilities, as well as written and verbal communication skills, recognizing that timely, clear, and effective communication is of critical importance in a growing and dispersed organization.

Position Location: Plano, TX Headquarters

This is a fully support-raised position.

Areas of Responsibility

• Support East-West Operations and Field departments with ongoing and ad hoc communication projects. This includes:

• Regular updates and department requirements
• Collaborate with East-West Marketing to produce recruiting materials
• Schedule and send regular, organization-wide newsletters from departments and leadership
• Assist with LMS content creation
• Assist with other projects and initiatives throughout the year such as all staff conferences, staff prayer gatherings, and staff meetings.

• Oversee and manage the following communications products
  • Global distribution calendar for all internal departments
  • The Compass – East-West online staff portal
    • Manage updates, announcements, and provide general upkeep
  • Harvest Highlights – Monthly newsletter sent to all staff with updates, announcements, and information
    • Create and send Harvest Highlights monthly
• Develop and maintain a network of personal support

Qualifications

• Baptized believer of Jesus Christ and a faithful member of a local church
• Experience working within a marketing/communication function preferred
• Diligence and attention to detail
• Proficient/expert writing and editing skills
• Collaborative and a team player
• Ability to raise and maintain personal support

East-West Employee Culture

Our team members are passionate about Jesus, grace, bold action, and taking the gospel to the spiritually darkest places. We have one consuming passion: to make God known among every nation, every tribe, every tongue, and every people. We strive to uphold the highest standards of behavior, which include integrity, trustworthiness, theological alignment, a healthy work/life balance, care for others, a servant spirit, competency in difficult conversations, a desire to see results, diligence, respect, and humility.

All East-West employees will maintain a firm commitment to East-West’s vision, mission, values, Statement of Faith, and beliefs as well as display a growing and mature faith in Jesus Christ.

Contact

If you have questions about this position or any other stateside or overseas position with East-West, email go@eastwest.org.