The SIM USA Chief Recruitment Officer (CRO) is responsible for setting the strategic direction for recruitment across the organization and to shepherd the recruitment team to execute the strategic priorities to identify those called to God’s global mission
work. This role includes serving as a strategic advisor on and to the executive leadership team, factoring in objectives and challenges across all departments to inform the recruitment process. The position requires three key strengths.
- Leadership development. The CRO will lead, care, and develop the leaders already in place as well as those identified to become the leaders of the future.
- Delegation. The CRO will demonstrate the capability to delegate tasks properly by empowering their team. Possessing a God-given ability to delegate the right tasks to the right individuals at the appropriate time to benefit the team and the mission of
SIM USA.
- Prioritization. The CRO will identify the right strategies to prioritize for the benefit of mobilizing long-term workers
Key Responsibilities
- Define strategic recruitment priorities to increase the number and diversity of long-term workers entering SIM USA.
- Develop the leaders in the roles of the deputy director of recruitment, director of short-term missions, and the director of mobilization and missionary multiplication through coaching opportunities to enhance their strengths and to overcome weaknesses.
- Empower the recruitment team to simplify their activities down to the critical priorities that will produce long-term workers.
- Manage the Recruitment budget for SIM USA, including appropriate balance of staff, contractors, and vendors to meet project and support goals and support planned software system improvements.
- Working with directors for the development of the recruitment team with an emphasis on coaching each team member to maximize their strengths to help their development.
- Establish and build relationships proactively across departments, sister-organizations, and external vendors.
- Perform administrative tasks required for the position, such as budget management and expense approval.
- Recommend financially responsible staffing levels for SIM USA.
- Support the U.S. director as needed in all recruitment matters.
Work Experience Requirements
- Experience in leadership, management, and strategy. (7yrs or more experience preferred).
- Prefer at least 4 years’ experience serving overseas in a ministry context.
- Demonstrated success in navigating the stakeholders in a missionary’s life. (Churches, partners, supporters, etc.)
- Pastoral experience preferred.
- Project management experience.
- Ability to work with and supervise highly relational staff, churches, and vendors, as well as explain strategies and requirements to executive leadership and understand needs of all staff and constituency worldwide.
- Enjoy a fast-paced, demanding environment, managing multiple people, projects, and requirements simultaneously.
- Experience and ability to work well with executive leadership that has been successfully demonstrated.
- Experience in designing and executing a strategic plan.
- Demonstrate leadership initiative, as well as teamwork.
- Familiarity with missionary issues.
- Proficiency in Office365, Teams, and Zoom
Education Requirements
Bachelor’s degree or higher.
Training Expectations
Child Safety Training
Parameters for Success
- Personal presence that will relate well with SIM personnel, churches, and board members.
- Interpersonal attributes, experience, and gifts that will foster quick credibility.
- Competent with conflict resolution
- Excellent Communication skills (oral and written).
- Willingness and ability to advocate for and among peers.
- Capacity to live with and maintain a high level of confidentiality.
- Possess Emotional Intelligence
- Life-long learner.
- Exceptional model for relationship building.
- Self-motivated.
- Experience with international mission work
Spiritual Qualities
- Evidence of a personal faith and value system that reflects, embraces, and witnesses to the Christ-centered mission of SIM.
- Depth of knowledge and practice of applying appropriate scripture and biblical principles to situations.
- Spiritual gifts, talents and character that align with responsibilities of the role.
- Demonstrate agreement with SIM’s Statement of Faith and core values by signing the SIM Commitment.
- Understanding and appreciation of SIM’s mission and demonstrating our passion (our heartbeat) through communication and excellence
SIM USA Mission Statement
By prayer, we recruit, prepare, and journey with Christians sent by churches as we go and make disciples of Jesus Christ where needed most.
Statement of Faith
Those who serve with SIM are committed to the following essential truths of biblical Christianity.
- GOD: There is one God who exists eternally in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. God is the almighty Creator, Savior, and Judge who governs all things according to His sovereign will and is accomplishing His purposes in creation
and in the Church to His glory.
- THE FATHER: God the Father is the source of all that is good. He initiates creation and redemption, which He accomplishes through His Son and the Holy Spirit.
- GOD'S WRITTEN WORD: The Bible, consisting of the Old and New Testaments, is God’s written Word, revealing for all peoples His character and purposes. It is the final authority in all matters relating to belief and behavior. The Holy Spirit
moved the human authors of the Bible so that what they wrote is inspired, fully reliable, and without error in all it affirms.
- THE HUMAN RACE: Humanity is the climax of God’s earthly creation, bearing His image, designed for relationship with Him, and being the object of His redeeming love. All people have sinned. This results in guilt, death, and alienation from
God as well as the defacing of every aspect of human nature. People are unable to save themselves from sin’s penalty and power and from Satan’s dominion.
- JESUS CHRIST: Jesus Christ, both fully God and fully man, entered history as Savior of the world. He was conceived of the Holy Spirit, born of a virgin, and lived an exemplary, sinless life in perfect submission to the Father and in loving
relationships with others. He died on a cross, rose bodily, and ascended to heaven where He is advocate for His people and is exalted as Lord of all.
- SALVATION: Christ’s sacrificial death, in which He bore the punishment due to sinners, is the only and all-sufficient basis of God’s provision of salvation for all people of every culture and age, expressing His love and satisfying His
justice. By God’s grace the repentant sinner, through trusting alone in the Lord Jesus Christ as Savior, is put right with God, adopted by the Father into His family and receives eternal life.
- THE HOLY SPIRIT: The Holy Spirit makes the work of Christ effective to sinners, giving spiritual life and placing them into the Church. He indwells all believers, empowers them to love, serve, witness and obey God, equips them with gifts,
and transforms them to be increasingly like Christ.
- THE CHURCH: The universal Church is made up of all who have been born of the Spirit. It finds local expression in communities of believers called by God to worship, fellowship, proclaim the gospel and make disciples among all peoples, reflect
God’s character, engage in works of compassion, contend for truth and justice, and celebrate baptism and communion.
- THE SPIRIT WORLD: Angels are personal spirit beings who glorify God and serve Him. Satan is a spiritual being who was created by God but fell through sin. He, along with other evil spirits, is the enemy of God and humanity, has been defeated
by the work of Christ, is subject to God’s authority and faces eternal condemnation.
- THE FUTURE: The Lord Jesus Christ will visibly return to the earth in glory and accomplish the final triumph over evil. God will make everything new. The dead will be raised and judged. Unbelievers will suffer eternal punishment in separation
from God; believers will enter into a life of eternal joy in fellowship with God, glorifying Him forever.
