Mobilization Intern

Mobilization Intern 

You’re Invited to Join God’s Global Mission

At Wycliffe Bible Translators, your work is more than just a job. As a mobilization intern, you’ll play a vital role in advancing Wycliffe’s mission by supporting the organization’s strategy to fill strategic roles essential for Bible translation efforts. This position focuses on creating a positive and seamless service journey for all leads, including prospects, candidates and internal staff engaging in assignment discovery processes. The Mobilization Intern engages with leads through a variety of systems and communication tools to identify and communicate with potential candidates. Additionally, this role involves other administrative and operational responsibilities conducive to recruiting, sourcing, assessment, selection, placement and mobilizing of current and future workforce. 

You’ll partner with Global Workforce Services (GWS) leadership and other team members to: 

• facilitate functions within the Workforce Mobilization workgroup 
• actively participate in GWS team engagements to optimize team culture, cohesion, performance and outcomes

Overview of Global Workforce Services (GWS) - Workforce Mobilization 

At Wycliffe USA, we collaborate with the global church to attract, retain, resource, and support a diverse workforce dedicated to advancing Bible translation — including staff, volunteers, interns and contractors. Essential to achieving our strategic objectives and operational excellence, is our focus in sourcing, coaching, candidating and strategic placement of the existing and future workforce. We desire to collaborate with our partners in the global Bible translation movement by placing existing and new staff in strategic roles so that more people may gain access to God’s Word in their own languages and be transformed. 

At the heart of this assignment is our dedication to placing existing and new staff in strategic roles, advancing the Bible Translation movement. We’ll boldly innovate ways to fill current gaps and effectively source and encourage prospecting staff to become deeply rooted in God’s mission. As a strategic partner, we actively listen, collaboratively discern and creatively resource our partners' workforce needs. Success hinges on efficient, excellent, and simplified tasks that increase relational capital and maximize impact. Together with the Senior Director of Workforce Mobilization, this workgroup will enable new ways to engage and mobilize staff while leveraging existing resources and technological innovations. Workforce Mobilization is called to drive operational excellence, continuously improve processes to enhance the

placement of every individual of the workforce, and ensure practices are in compliance with HR best practices, organizational and governmental guidelines. 

Responsibilities

You’ll make an impact as you:

• Faithfully and regularly pray for the ongoing work of Bible translation and for people from around the world to experience transformation.
• Act as an organizational representative presenting the global ministry of Wycliffe and encouraging interested individuals, organizations and churches to participate in the work of Bible translation. 
• Live out the conviction that “work flows through relationship” by passionately “loving God and loving people” through word and deed. Promote team and organizational culture standards, ensuring high customer service standards.
• Collaborate on departmental initiatives to provide a best-in-class experience for Wycliffe USA future and existing staff. Assist with cross-functional team responsibilities, tactical teams/departmental initiatives. 
• Represent the GWS team in meetings, projects, workshops, and partnership efforts, as assigned.
• Work alongside the manager and other team members, to:
• Provide excellent customer service by responding to inquiries received via various communication channels and mediums. 
• Partner with departments on recruitment and engagement strategies, including outreach to colleges and churches. 
• Assist in developing onboarding processes.
• Provide support on administrative and operational tasks related to the mobilization of staff.
• Actively participate in virtual or on-site mobilization activities, as requested. 
• Other duties as assigned by the Senior Director/Director of Workforce Mobilization, Mobilization Generalists, Mobilization Manager and Vice President of Global Workforce Services.

Minimum Skill Sets 

The requirements listed below represent the knowledge, skill, and/or ability necessary to perform each duty satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the following essential functions:

• Spiritual Bona Fide Occupational Qualification (BFOQ): Demonstrates desire and ability to support corporate Biblical and religious goals and participate in regular work-related spiritual activities without reservation as evidenced by your active participation and willingness to pray with and for others; be a consistent witness for Jesus Christ, maintaining a courteous, Christ-like attitude in all verbal and written, internal and external professional communications.
• Relationship Building: Establishes, sustains, and fosters professional contacts to build, enhance, and connect networks for connecting people to Bible Translation and serving the community. Easy to approach and talk to. Puts others at ease, being sensitive to and patient with the interpersonal anxieties of others and a good listener. 
• Client Focus: Ability to provide service excellence to internal and/or external clients. Looks for ways to add value beyond clients' immediate requests and anticipates needs and concerns. Explores and addresses the unidentified, underlying and long-term client needs. Enhances client service delivery systems and processes. 
• Information Management/Confidentiality: Handles confidential information responsibly to maintain trust of internal and external customers. Maintains communications and information confidentially as per applicable laws, ethical guidelines, and instructions. 
• Attention to Detail: Works in a conscientious, consistent and thorough manner. Demonstrates concern for thoroughness and accuracy, verifying that work has been done according to procedures and standards. 
• Communication/Interpersonal Skills: Good verbal and written communication skills with ability to edit own work for spelling and grammar. Solid interpersonal skills in relating to people at all levels and diverse backgrounds. Ability to participate in meetings. 
• Adaptability: Adapts to changes in the work environment (including diverse individuals or groups), changes approach or method to best fit the situation, able to deal with frequent change, delays, or unexpected events. 
• Job Knowledge: Demonstrate desire/skills at using tools, researching, and constant learning related to job description and administrative and recruiting best practices. 
• Technical Skills: 
  • Basic skills in programs such as Google Workspace (Mail, Calendar, Sheets, Docs, Drive,Slides, etc.), Microsoft Office Suite (Word and Excel), Workday HCM and video conferencing software such as Zoom. Ability to conduct internet research and learn new software as needed. 
  • Skilled in using social media to promote organizational initiatives, programs, and events effectively.

Education & Experience

• Currently enrolled in or a recent graduate of a bachelor’s program in human resources, business administration, nonprofit management, ministry or a related field.
• Nonprofit, ministry or recruiting work experience is preferred. 
• Familiarity with diverse staff types and ministry service is beneficial. 

Spiritual and Personal Commitments

As a religious organization and employer, Wycliffe is permitted to and does make employment decisions on the basis of religion, biblical standards and our religious beliefs. You’ll be asked to:

• Demonstrate a personal commitment to Jesus Christ, as evidenced by your personal testimony.
• Identify with and participate in a church and proactively seek to grow your faith in Christ.
• Establish and maintain a team of prayer partners who will support you in your season of ministry at Wycliffe (minimum 3-5 partners).
• Actively participate in corporate prayer and devotional times.
• Maintain an exemplary standard of biblical ethics, behavior and conduct within Wycliffe and in your public and private life outside of Wycliffe. 
• Agree to abide by Wycliffe’s ethics, behavior and conduct standards at all times.
• Demonstrate Christ-like maturity in all interactions as displayed by good judgment based on biblical values and principles.
• Actively incorporate your faith in Christ, as well as Wycliffe’s beliefs and core values in all aspects of your daily work. 
• Guided by your faith in Christ, demonstrate these core competencies in daily work and interactions:
  • Faithful in following Christ - (John 8:31-32): Follow Christ faithfully, allowing Scripture to guide decisions and growing in relationship with God and his people.
  • Intentional in collaboration - (Romans 12, 1 Cor. 3:5-9): Collaborate intentionally to accomplish work goals, demonstrating a commitment to cross-departmental and inter-organizational teamwork.
  • Agile in learning - (Pro. 1:5, 2 Tim. 2:15): Demonstrate a dedication to personal and professional growth by actively using development resources and fostering a culture that values continuous learning, individually and collectively.
  • Growing in stewardship - (1 Cor. 4:2, 1 Peter. 4:10): Participate in God’s work, stewarding God’s resources responsibly and demonstrating trust that he will accomplish his goals.
  • Serving with humility - (Eph. 4:2, Col. 3:12): Care for people, growing in relational maturity, exhibiting steadfastness, embracing diverse perspectives and fostering positive cross-cultural relationships.

Compensation

The hiring range for this position is $18.00 -$20.00. Actual pay rate may be higher based on various factors such as qualifications, skills and experience, required training, licensure and/or certifications, budget, and allocation, if applicable. Additionally, the range for this position is based upon and considers Wycliffe’s non-profit ministry environment.

About Wycliffe Bible Translators

For over 80 years Wycliffe Bible Translators, Inc. has been committed to ensuring that people “from every nation, tribe, people and language” (Revelation 7:9) have access to God’s Word in a language and format they can clearly understand. We believe that accurate, clear, and natural translations of the Bible in accessible formats lead to people entering into life-transforming relationships with God. 

Wycliffe is a catalyst in the global Bible translation movement, engaging with thousands of partners around the world to collaboratively carry out this work. 

Wycliffe’s vision is for people from every language to understand the Bible and be transformed. Our mission is to serve with the global body of Christ to advance Bible translation, and work together so people can encounter God through his word. 

Wycliffe is a distinctly Christian community where you can flourish by using your God-given talents and abilities to serve and support the ministry of Bible translation. Your employment with Wycliffe is not merely a vocation, it is responding and making a commitment to actively participate in what He’s doing around the world. Your faith, prayers, skills and experiences are foundational to contributing and witnessing God’s Word impacting people around the world. This is a once-in-eternity opportunity!

We believe the Bible is the inspired Word of God, and is completely trustworthy, speaking with supreme authority in all matters of belief and practice. Wycliffe’s beliefs and core values can be found here. An exemplary standard of ethics, behavior and conduct that reflects biblical principles are lived-out by all staff. As an active partner in fulfilling the Great Commission, Wycliffe staff embrace and adhere to Wycliffe’s beliefs and core values, all of which are essential to Wycliffe fulfilling its Bible translation mission.

Prayer undergirds Bible translation and is foundational to Wycliffe’s work culture. Our work atmosphere provides numerous opportunities, individually and corporately, to actively live out your faith in Jesus Christ as you work heartily as to the Lord.

Let’s translate hope together. 

Come use your God-given gifts and contribute to what God is doing around the world through Bible translation!