Job Context Information

The Domestic Mission unit works with Lutheran and ecumenical partners to accompany synods, institutions, agencies, and congregations to bring people to a richer understanding of their baptismal vocational call to serve God’s mission in their setting and in the world. This position is an integral part of the Domestic Mission Leadership team whose focus is to accompany, support and oversee the formation of both lay leaders and rostered minister. ...

Job Context Information

The Domestic Mission unit facilitates the work of synods, congregations and partners in making congregations vital centers for mission and in creating coalitions and networks to promote justice and peace.

Congregational vitality is a top priority of this church and the leadership to support that work is essential. The Director for Leadership and Candidacy helps the church recruit, train and assign the leaders it needs to accomplish its mi...

Job Purpose

The Executive for Administration provides leadership and strategic vision to the churchwide organization and oversees the day-to-day operational functions of the churchwide office. Serves as liaison between the churchwide office and the additional expressions and ministries of the ELCA. This position reports to the presiding bishop.

Job Responsibilities

As Executive for Administration:

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Job Context Information

Information Technology will leverage leading edge technologies to allow the churchwide organization to serve as an efficient communication conduit and collaboration hub throughout the ELCA ecology and the world, while strictly aligning its strategy and operations with the priorities of the organization.

Information Technology will provide technology solutions, services and support to deepen the success of the organization’s programs and...

Job Context Information

The Domestic Mission unit works with Lutheran and ecumenical partners to accompany synods, institutions, agencies, and congregations to bring people to a richer understanding of their baptismal vocational call to serve God’s mission in their setting and in the world. This position is an integral part of the Domestic Mission Leadership team whose focus is to accompany, support and oversee the formation of both lay leaders and rostered ministers ...

Job Context Information

The Domestic Mission Unit facilitates the work of synods, Lutheran and ecumenical partners, affiliated partners and agencies in making congregations vital centers for mission and in creating coalitions and networks to promote justice and peace. It is the Unit’s responsibility to steward the ELCA’s resources to respond to domestic disasters both natural and human caused; to be responsible caretakers of God’s creation; advocate and educate the ch...

Job Context Information

ELCA World Hunger is a ministry of this church working toward a just world where all are fed. Through a cross-unit approach, this position works most closely with the units of Mission Advancement and Domestic Mission.

Mission Advancement is responsible for communicating with constituents and donors, handling marketing and public relations, and directing our current, deferred and major fund appeals in order to most effectively communicat...

Job Context Information

Strategic Communications is a team within the Mission Advancement unit of the ELCA responsible for planning and implementing effective and integrated communications, publications, marketing, public relations, community engagement, digital and video strategies for the ELCA. We are the storytellers of this church across multiple channels.

The Content team within Strategic Communications is responsible for creating a unified storytelling ...

Job Context Information

The Mission Investment Fund’s primary purpose is to support the establishment and growth of ELCA congregations, synods, and affiliated ministries. With over $700 million in assets, MIF fulfills its purpose by providing loans, income-producing investment opportunities and consultative services.

Job Purpose

This position is responsible for the successful delivery and coordination of both business and technology p...

Job Purpose

To provide complex management oversight of the Donor Services team of the ELCA Foundation and serve as primary internal contact for all investors of the Endowment Fund Pooled Trust (Fund A). Assets stewarded by the Foundation total over $850 million on behalf of more than 4,000 donors/investors.

Job Responsibilities

1. Manage a team of two donor services coordinators who work with donors who have establis...

Job Context Information

On behalf of the ELCA, Global Mission stewards relationships with companions around the globe; funds long-term, sustainable health and development projects; responds to international disasters; listens to companion church bodies and supports companion priorities by sending global personnel and through program grants and leadership development opportunities; and receives the gifts of Christian witness from the global church to build our own cap...

POSITION SUMMARY:

This position represents the Domestic Mission (DM) unit in the territory of the Minneapolis Area Synod, and is responsible for engaging synodical leaders, structures and strategies in the formation and development of Congregational Vitality: "Communities of Jesus that nurture life-changing relationships with God, one another and the world," and reflects the purposes, principles and commitments of the synod, DM and the ELCA as a whol...

POSITION SUMMARY:

This position represents the Domestic Mission (DM) unit in the territory of the West Virginia-Western Maryland Synod, and is responsible for engaging synodical leaders, structures, and strategies in the formation and development of Congregational Vitality: "Communities of Jesus that nurture life-changing relationships with God, one another and the world," and reflects the purposes, principles, and commitments of the synod, DM, and t...

Three positions are available

Location:

• Kumamoto, Japan

Assignment Includes:

• Co-teach with Japanese teachers in various classes, with a focus on English conversation.
• Prepare lesson plans and teach classes full-time, up to 25 - 30 hours per week.
• Participate in school staff meetings and perform administrative duties associated with the curriculum.
• Plan and p...

Lutheran Global Health Volunteers

Specialties:

• Dentist
• Dental Therapist
• Dental Laboratory Technician

Assignment Includes:

• Work alon...

Lutheran Global Health Volunteers

Locations:

• Padhar Hospital

Assignment Includes:

• Work alongside Indian counterparts to teach English at College of Nursing and/or local community school for primary and secondary students.
• Se...

Global Mission Volunteer

Location:

• Varied, Thailand

Assignment Includes:

• Serve alongside a Thai teacher to teach basic English or other subjects, such as math or science, to K-12 grade students in one of 26 schools of the

Global Mission Volunteer

Location:

• Nasushiobara, Japan

Assignment Includes:

• The Asian Rural Institute (ARI) is an international training center for gra...

Shared Placement Personnel with Metropolitan New York Synod

Location:

• Bukoba, North-Western part of Tanzania

Assignment Includes:

• Teach English, grammar and reading.
• Give monthly and term tests and exams
• Be creative and flexible
• Ready to perform what they are assigned to do.
• Work with the local teachers
• Start a Blog to stay connected with Metropolitan New York Synod

Lutheran Global Health Volunteers

Locations:

• Mohulpahari Christian Hospital, India
  
• Curran Lutheran Hospital, Zorzor, Liberia
• Bunda Designated District Hospital, Tanzania
• Ndolage Lutheran Hospital, Tanz...

Location:

• Hong Kong, Special Administrative Region, China

Assignment Includes:

• Teaching students mostly on Master and Doctoral level
• Mentoring of students
• Advisor to advanced studies students pursuing such as M. Th. and D. Th.
• As the "hub" of the region, teachers in LTS has the possibility of extending teaching students from Mainland China and the South East Asian region...

Location:

• Nairobi, Kenya

Assignment Includes:

The Communications Consultant is responsible for fostering and maintaining relationships with the media, partner organizations, national, and international institutions, governmental officials, staff of the Kenya Evangelical Lutheran Church (KELC) and membership. They are fostering greater awareness about KELC and facilitating opportunities for KELC to increase its visibili...

Location:

• Slovakia and Poland

Assignment Includes:

• Teach in a bilingual junior/senior high school or elementary school. Emphasis is for conversational English teachers but math, science, and geography teachers are needed also. All instruction is in the English language.
• Interpret and implement national and school mandated curriculum through personalized lesson plans
• Prepare students for the en...

Location:

• Juba, South Sudan

Assignment Includes: 

The assignment offers coordination and administration of programs and activities in South Sudan. This will be accomplished in consultation with the Director for East and Southern Africa and the strategic priorities of the Global Mission Unit of the ELCA.

• Coordinate all programs and activities in Juba, South Sudan funded by ELCA synods and congregatio...

Location:

• Iringa, Tanzania

Assignment Includes: 

The Bega Kwa Bega (BKB) Program Coordinator is a long-term (two year) volunteer position based in Iringa, Tanzania that includes a living allowance and in-kind support. The position is a shared placement between the Saint Paul Area Synod (SPAS) and ELCA Global M...

Location:

• La Paz, Bolivia

Assignment Includes:

• Consolidate and formalize the curricular design and organizational design of the Betel Seminar in the Iglesia Evangélica Luterana Boliviana (IELB).
• Organize and lead courses on Theological Education and Ministerial Formation, with emphasis on confessional identity
• Facilitate workshops and dialogues that strengthen the church, congregations, and districts...

Location:

• Pematangsiantar, Indonesia

Assignment Includes:

• Work closely and consult with Indonesian theologians (and beyond) in shaping practical theology curriculum
• Assist with the administration and implementation of practical theology programs, projects and processes
• Teach courses that relate to practical theology, parti...

Location:

• La Paz, Bolivia

Assignment Includes:

• Facilitate the processes of teaching English in the four main skills: listening, reading, speaking and writing, responding to the Iglesia Evangélica Luterana Boliviana (IELB) need to incorporate the training of English as a foreign language in schools.
• Interact in an elementary school (boys and girls 6 to 12 years old), and in a secondary school (adolescen...

Location:

• Sogamoso, Colombia

Assignment Includes:

• Facilitate the processes of teaching English in the four main skills: listening, reading, speaking and writing, responding to the Iglesia Evangélica Luterana de Colombia (IELCO) need to incorporate the training of English as a foreign language in schools.
• Interact in an elementary school (boys and girls 6 to 12 years old), and in a secondary school (adolescent...

Location:

• Kingston, Jamaica

Assignment Includes:

• Teach in the Undergraduate and Post-Graduate Programs
• Serve as academic advisor to students
• Serve as chief pastor to students, especially those who identify as Lutheran
• Serve on faculty sub-committees, such as the academic sub-committee, Community Affairs, etc.
• Produce academic papers to share in the College's writing, research and pu...

Location:

• Pematangsiantar, Indonesia

Assignment Includes:

• Assign incoming students to the appropriate English class(es) according to their levels of proficiency
• Create lesson plans and teach classes at various levels
• Assist with guidance on theological research and writing
• Provide tutorials for students (particularly international students) with special needs in English enhancement<...

Location:

• Hong Kong with possibilities in Malaysia, Thailand, or Taiwan 
• Work areas are China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Malaysia and Singapore; and beyond as assigned

Assignment Includes:

• Steward ELCA’s relationships with companion churches and partners in Chinese language areas of Asia. Geographic and subject areas of responsibility may extend beyond this at a later stage. 
• Extend theological ed...

Global Mission Volunteer

Location:

• Managua, Nicaragua - Inter-Ecclesial Center of Theological and Social Studies (CIEETS)

Assignment Includes:

• Give classes in ei...

Location:

• São Leopoldo, Brazil

Assignment Includes:

• Teach in the Undergraduate and Post-Graduate Programs
• Research and publish in books and qualified periodicals in conformity with the institutional policies and those of CAPES
• Collaboration in the institutional management including, but not limited to: committees, councils, leadership positions, projects, and internationalization
• Pa...

Location:

• São Leopoldo, Brazil

Assignment Includes:

• Teach in the Undergraduate and Post-Graduate Programs
• Research and publish in books and qualified periodicals in conformity with the institutional policies and those of CAPES
• Collaboration in the institutional management including, but not limited to: committees, councils, leadership positions, projects, and internationalization
• Pa...

Location:

• Pematangsiantar, Indonesia

Assignment Includes:

• Work closely and consult with Indonesian theologians (and beyond) in shaping Lutheran identity programs, projects, and processes.
• Assist with the administration and implementation of Lutheran identity programs, projects and processes.
• Teach courses that relate to Lut...

Location:

• Bogotá, Colombia

Assignment Includes:

• Facilitate workshops and dialogues that support the church and congregations in community organizing processes
• Areas of focus for workshops and dialogues include:
• Peacebuilding, capacity-building to prevent and resolve violent conflicts and build a sustainable peace involving the church, civil society and other relevant stakeholders,...

Lutheran Global Health Volunteers

Specialties:

• Internal
• Anesthesiology
• Critical/Emergency Care
• ENT
• Surgery
• OB/GYN
• Pediatrics
• Radiology

Assignment Includes:

• Work alongside local counterparts in providing medical and surgical care to patients.
• Assist medical staff as necessary to improve skills and enhance the care of patients ...

Lutheran Global Health Volunteers

Specialties:

• Nursing Education
• Critical/Emergency Care
• Outpatient
• Medical Wards

Assignment Includes:

• Assist nursing department to improve skills and enhance the care of patients throughout the hospital and ...

Lutheran Global Health Volunteers

Specialties:

• Biomedical Equipment Engineer
• Laboratory Technician

Assignment Includes:

• Training and management of laboratory services within the hospital.
• Assist laboratory department to improve skills and enhance the care of pat...

Global Mission Volunteer

Locations and Specialties:

• Cairo, Egypt - Christian History or Christian-Muslim Encounters
• West Beirut, Lebanon - Old Testament
• Pematangsiantar, Indonesia - Missiology and Practical Theology
• Lae, Papua New Guinea - Church History, Dogmatics/Theology, Bible
• Chennai, India - Chu...

Global Mission Volunteer

Location:

• Klaipeda, Lithuania

Assignment Includes:

• Serve as a teacher at the Lithuanian Christian College. Possible needs include English, business, economics, history, philosophy, sociology, psychology or German.
• Serve as staff at the Lithuanian Christian Coll...

Global Mission Volunteer

Location:

• Mt. Hagen, Papua New Guinea
• San Salvador, El Salvador

Assignment Includes:

• Mt. Hagen, Papua New Guinea: Serve as an English teacher at a school for training lay church workers.
• San Salvador, El Salvador: Provide English language ...