Team Leader / Church Planter-Senegal

The Team Leader is essential to the ministry. This role will work to expand the vision of churches and individuals within their network, with the goal of planting multiplying churches. Team Leaders will be intricately involved with outreach, mobilization, supervision, team building, training, and networking.

Are you a mature Christian with strong leadership and interpersonal skills? Do you have a desire to share Christ in response to the work of grace in your own life? We are looking for a leader who will help mobilize and then oversee a holistic church planting team for a new ministry in Senegal.
As a leader, you will engage in the beginning stages of developing this new ministry. This role needs a wise, humble, experienced, disciplined, and intentional learner.

Team Leaders need to have a collaborative leadership style. As they shape and develop the team and local network, they will discover and utilize the skills, gifts, talents, and abilities of those they lead, which will contribute to increased team effectiveness as they work together to plant multiplying churches in unreached communities. Cross-cultural experience is beneficial, along with a passion for reaching the lost. 

Ideal Team Leader competencies include:  

• Mature Christian: Evidence Christ-like character and leadership competency. A humble spirit and a listening heart are essential.
• Theological Training: Formal training is beneficial but not required.
• Mobilization: Ability to mobilize and train new workers.  
• Administrative and Logistical Support: Ability to develop and coordinate ministry and training schedules, provide written updates and reports, communicate with area leaders, manage team finances, etc.
• Team Building: Excellent interpersonal, listening, shepherding, coaching, and assessment skills. 
• Training and Development: Strong facilitation skills to provide training for the local team.
• 3-5 years’ experience or training in a leadership role and in ministry.

Team Leaders will:

• Provide oversight of the team: supporting workers through shepherding and team-building activities.
• Administration: Provide operational and contingency planning, budgeting, coordination of ministry schedules, annual evaluations, etc.  
• Outreach: Utilization of CPM strategies to impact the assigned unreached community, training and leading the team to expand outreach efforts, planting multiplying churches, and tracking the spiritual progress of the community.   
• Ministry: Create church planting and multiplication strategies and manage the flow of day-to-day ministry.