Description:

To serve the mission by developing, coordinating and administering an effective and comprehensive ministry to meet the diverse needs of widows, orphans, and children.  To provide leadership to and supervision of staff members and volunteers involved in this ministry.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

Develop and coordinate widows programs of coordinating distribution of firewood, water, eggs, medicine, Bibles, and sharing God’s word.

  • Recruit, train and motivate leaders and teachers for women’s ministries such our health programs.
  • Mentor and disciple widows and orphans of the mission, helping them to grow spiritually.
  • Develop and coordinate programs for single mothers of the mission such as:
    • Parenting
    • Balancing work as a single mother
    • Getting a job that will sustain your family
  • Plan and coordinate special interest classes, such as:
    • Cooking
    • Needlework
    • Crafts
    • Gardening techniques, etc
  • Administer the work of the Department of Women’s Ministries by encouraging teamwork and mutual support, and by providing leadership and nurture to staff members who work in the department.
  • Establish departmental goals and objectives by prioritizing related programs, managing the use of facilities, planning an appropriate budget, delegating tasks and evaluating progress regularly.
  • Coordinate mission trips an receive volunteers on site.
  • Attend monthly evaluation meetings
  • Plan and coordinate children’s program once per month inviting all the kids from San Antonio Chacaya and Tzan Chaj preferably coordinated when we have a mission team.

Requirements:

  • Raising your own support
  • Respect for other cultures and value systems
  • Flexibility in the projects planned
  • Preferred Skills and Abilities:
    • Detail oriented
    • Do excellence in all you do
    • Aptitude for long range planning of projects
    • Farming or gardening background
    • Basic Spanish*
  • Female
  • Debt free

How to Apply:

Please send resume, three references along with a cover letter of no more than 2 pages to admin@lifebuildersinternational.org

Within your letter, please respond to the following:
1.Why is Lifebuilders International’s mission of interest to you?
2.How do your experiences, personal strengths and leadership abilities prepare you for this position?
3.Describe a successful individual or corporate donor fundraising campaign with which you have been involved or provided a leadership role?

No phone calls or emails other than as specified above please

Life Builders International Mission Statement:

We are a nondenominational evangelical Spirit-filled Christian ministry with a holistic focus taking care of their mind, body and soul. We emphasize on providing Spiritual education and nutrition in the Lake Atitlan, literally on the airstrip, where you will be based, as well as we are based in the neighborhood of Santa Fe in Guatemala City next to the airport, where the mission is based. We are very evangelistic and discipleship orientated, sharing about Jesus, but also have educational projects, as well projects for bettering humanity through health and proper nutrition. We are a non-denominational, spirit-filled Christian ministry dedicated to bringing the light of Christ to every corner of Guatemala through programs that feed the spirit, soul, and body.