Positions Available
Explore all available roles. All positions in Ethnos except church-planting roles are available to associates.
Middle School Teacher
Location: Missionary Children's School
Purpose: To expand the reach of the gospel in Brazil by teaching missionary children. Small class sizes at this school along the Amazon make it a great way to invest in children and expand the reach of the gospel.
Responsibilities: Teach a variety of subjects for Grades 7 and 8
Requirements
- Education Requirement
4 Year Degree
Boarding Home Parents
Location: Missionary Children's School
Purpose: To care for boarding students. The purpose of the school is to assist the church planting effort among unreached people in Brazil by teaching missionary children at a remote school located along a major river.
Responsibilities: To provide a caring nurturing environment for boarding students.
Requirements
- Other Requirements
Solid growing relationship with the Lord. Display good parenting skills and have a genuine concern for the well being of the children under their care. Are approachable and have a sense of humor.
IT Tech & Web Design
Location: City
Purpose: The purpose of Ethnos360 is to assist the local church in planting mature churches among least reached people groups.
Responsibilities: Seeking to meet the computer needs of the field office and church planters in West Africa through personal expertise and through discipleship equipping someone from a local church or community).
Requirements
- Education Requirement
Ethnos Training
Computer Software Consultant
Purpose: To provide software support to church planting teams. The purpose of Ethnos360 is to assist the local church to plant mature churches among least reached people groups.
Responsibilities: Installation and management of software. Also, providing consultation when operational issues arise.
Requirements
- Education Requirement
Job Specific Training - Other Requirements
Knowledgeable in such programs as Paratext, Translator's Workplace, CLAware, the literacy program, and other programs that are essential to the church planting efforts.
Lawyer
Location: Home Office, Sanford, FL
Purpose: To represent Ethnos360 internationally.
Responsibilities: This person in this position would serve as the General Counsel for Ethnos360 and must be experienced in non-profit law.
Requirements
- Education Requirement
Doctorate
Educational Special Services Teacher
Location: Numonohi Christian Academy, Highlands
Purpose: The purpose of NCA is to glorify God and to assist in the establishing and development of mature tribal churches throughout PNG by supporting parents in providing a Christ-centered education for their children.
Responsibilities:
To teach, equip, and support students who have learning differences.
Requirements
- Other Requirements
• Bachelor's Degree and NILD Training • NILD certification and experience preferred.
Dental Hygienist
Location: Field Office
Purpose: Dental hygiene maintenance and oral health promotion.
Responsibilities:
- Dental hygiene maintenance
- Taking dental x rays
- Dental public health promotion
- Staff training
Requirements
- Other Requirements
A hygienist license is required.
Training Team Mentor
Location: Missionary Training Center, Missouri
Purpose: not listed
Responsibilities:
1. Weekly training team meetings with students.
2. Required monthly mentor meetings.
3. Team member weekly planning meetings with their other team mentors.
4. Informal time with students in your group.
Requirements
- Education Requirement
Ethnos Training - Other Requirements
1. A desire and ability to mentor/disciple 2. Growing relationship with the Lord, pursuing growth in their walk with Him. 3. Skilled and intentional in building relationships with students with generational and cultural differences. 4. Willingness and ability to discuss and apply biblical principles to sensitive areas of life with students 5. Ability to empathize with the purpose of moving forward in their relationship with Christ. 6. Ability to help students connect present situations to their future ministry context. 7. Ability to facilitate small group discussion along with active listening skills. 8. Ability to work well on a team. 9. Displays a learner's attitude
Staff Writer/Editor - Ethnos360 Home Office
Location: Home Office, Sanford, FL
Purpose: To communicate both the purpose and the mission of Ethnos360 and to express what God is doing around the world in missions through writing.
Responsibilities:
1. Research and write for the Ethnos360 magazine and other venues as assigned by the managing editor.
2. Acquire photos for stories.
3. Write in a manner consistent with the tone and approach in use by Communications.
4. Edit copy and participate in collaborative editing processes.
5. Proofread products.
Requirements
- Other Requirements
1. Must have a good grasp of the English language, spelling and grammar rules, as well as have a willingness to learn and follow both the Associated Press Stylebook (AP) and the Ethnos360 Style Manual. 2. Must be able to write compelling stories. 3. Must be a team player. 4. No degree or training is necessary. However, a degree in English, journalism, communications, marketing or a related field may be beneficial. Continuing education in related fields is a plus. 5. Experience in writing or editing in a professional capacity is a plus.
Business System Analyst
Location: Field Office, Highlands
Purpose: Our mission is to reach the unreached, plant and nurture churches that continually glorify God, and empower national leaders to do the same (Matthew 28:18-20). NTM PNG support missionaries are an essential part of the team that serves church planting families.
Responsibilities:
- Support the ongoing maintenance and customization of our ERP-System NetSuite as a member of our Business Office. Gather and analyze requirements from different support teams (supply, aviation, accounting) and configure our ERP system based on their needs.
- Provide first and second level support for our ERP key users.
- Administrate roles and permissions, customize reports.
- Help our IT team to connect external applications and to implement workflows across our organization.
- Willingness to help in other areas of the Business Office if needed.
- Begin your ministry in PNG with culture and language training.
Requirements
- Other Requirements
• Bachelor’s degree in IT or Business Administration or equivalent training/experience. • Patience and willingness to learn NetSuite and to understand our support processes. • Maintain a growing relationship with Christ and a willingness to work with a diverse team.
Enterprise Applications Administrator
Location: Home Office, Sanford, FL
Purpose: This role is responsible for working with both business users and with the IT department to define system requirements, configure, and provide continuing support of Ethnos360 enterprise applications. Ethnos360 exists to assist the local church in planting mature churches among least reached people groups.
Responsibilities:
It is the responsibility of the individual in this role to provide services outlined in this job description. This role reports to the Director of Information Systems.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Services as a system administrator for one or more application environments leveraged by distributed users.
- Overseas administrative functions including user maintenance, modification of features and functionality, generation of reports and dashboards, creation of new fields and other routine tasks.
- Works to provide for automations of tasks within the applications.
- Manages projects for the enterprise applications between the end-user team and the IT team.
- Responsible for ensuring the performance and reliability of installed enterprise applications.
- Monitors and maintains performance metrics for system features, recommends, and takes corrective/preventive actions
- Performs configuration, change management and testing activities as required.
- Consults users on technology changes that will impact work processes.
- Responsibility to define ongoing user requirements for enterprise applications.
- Establish, document and manage security access, profiles, licenses and procedures for enterprise software applications. Create and assign new users to required security groups and provide/setup additional security permissions and groups as needed. Disable and remove security access and groups for individuals who should no longer access specific information in the software applications.
Requirements
- Other Requirements
It is preferred that the qualified applicant have a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, or related Information technology field. Must have strong written and verbal communication skills that enable collaboration between It and business user teams. Must be familiar with Microsoft applications. Must be proficient in creating clear and concise requirements for communication and development of enterprise applications.
Enterprise Application Developer
Location: Home Office, Sanford, FL
Purpose: This role provides for the development and support of Ethnos360 enterprise systems. This role serves to develop solutions that the organization needs either through applications/services that Ethnos360 has provided by vendors or through homegrown solution development. Ethnos360 exists to assist the local church in planting mature churches among least reached people groups.
Responsibilities:
- Provides maintenance and support of current and future enterprise software applications
- Performs or works with software vendors to install upgrades, new versions, or new features to enterprise software applications
- Works with departments to analyze needs, and then strategically plan for enhancements, upgrades, replacements, purchases, and/or additional tools to improve the service that the IT Applications team provides
- Leverages a software development lifecycle approach for software projects by planning, managing and executing projects using project management best practices
- Works with departments to ensure continued and expanded use of the enterprise software applications, including implementation and coordination of training
- Implements new tools and writes new routines to assist the IT Applications team with monitoring and troubleshooting applications and data issues.
- Monitors event logs, audit tools, system messages and alerts to correctly respond and correct problems or issues
- Manages setup, configuration, and overall operation of enterprise software applications
- Defines and assists in the development of reports needed for users of the enterprise software applications
- Tests all implemented updated and corrections, and assists in the testing of the total program, documenting, in standardized terminology, all procedures used
- Develops integrations between software applications to allow for the synchronization of data to allow business processes of the organization to function appropriately
- Monitors, completes and closes assigned helpdesk tickets
- Leverages technical, business, and financial acumen to interact and communicate effectively with a variety of groups and individuals including IT, Personnel, Advancement, Finance, department heads, software vendors, etc.
- Participates in team meetings as required
- Stays up to date with best practices
- Participates in training and staff development activities
- Maintains confidentiality of highly sensitive information
- Performs other related duties required by the IT Applications Director
Requirements
- Other Requirements
• Must have a degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or an Information Technology related field, A+ certification, or equivalent work experience Preferred Qualification/Certifications:• JSON • XML and XML Schema • JavaScript • Python • PowerShell • HTML and CSS • C (C++, C#) • Microsoft Power Platform (a plus) • Project Management Professional (PMP) • SCRUM Certification