Positions

Positions Available

Explore all available roles. All positions in Ethnos except church-planting roles are available to associates.

Payroll Manager

Location: Home Office, Sanford, FL

Purpose: Oversee Ethnos360 Payroll and Benefits Team

Responsibilities:

  • Oversee Ethnos360 Payroll and Benefits team. As well as working with Ethnos360 Finance office and Member Services to ensure compliance with Ethnos360 policy and state and federal regulations.  
  • Assisting Ethnos360 members with payroll questions and payroll change requests.  
  • Responsibilities also include overseeing Workers Comp Compliance, Parsonage allowance, State and Federal Tax regulation, Monthly Payroll, Member benefits, Ministry Support Levels. 
  • Maintaining policy and procedural manuals as well as Ethnos360 online Payroll Hub.  

Requirements

  • Other Requirements
    • Needs to be conscientious, Self-motivated, Attention to Details • Committed to confidentiality • Good communication skills • Ability and willingness to learn new programs and features • Must be Ethnos360 Member

Elementary Teachers

Location: International School

Purpose: Dakar Academy's vision is to produce well-rounded students, prepared for higher-level studies, whose Christian worldview permeates all aspects of their lives. Ethnos360 exists to assist the local church in planting churches among least reached people groups.

Responsibilities: To teach elementary students.

Requirements

  • Other Requirements
    Bachelor's degree and teacher training required. Thorough knowledge of best practices and legal guidelines and willingness to adhere to the school's procedures and policies, excellent organization and communication skills, maintains confidentiality, creative, positive and energetic disposition, a heart for student ministry.

Business System Analyst

Location: Field Office, Highlands

Purpose: To glorify God and assist in establishing mature churches equipped for maturity and multiplication among the least reached people groups by maintaining our ERP-System (NetSuite).

Responsibilities:

  • Support the ongoing customization of 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. 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.

IT System Administrator

Location: Home Office, Sanford, FL

Purpose: This role is responsible for participating in the maintenance and support of all Ethnos360 on-premises systems and infrastructure. Ethnos360 exists to assist the local church in planting mature churches among least reached people groups.

Responsibilities: This role includes the management and maintenance of primary and secondary datacenters and works to handle issues from both the end users and from internal IT requests.  This position reports to the Director of IT Operations.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

  • Identify any problems in the system, anticipate potential issues and repair systems and software when necessary
  • As an escalation point for other teams, resolve issues, fulfill requests that come in through the helpdesk ticketing system
  • Monitors and ensures that systems are running optimally
  • Setting up new users and giving them access to the intranet
  • Managing and maintaining the file servers
  • Operating the firewall for the organization 
  • Monitoring the internet connection for security risks
  • Employing the latest security protocols
  • Monitoring the local area network (LAN) for threats or errors

Requirements

  • Other Requirements
    Preferred having a bachelor's degree in computer science or a related Information Technology field. Experience with Windows Server administration and support. Strong skills in switching and routing, VLAN configuration, firewall configuration. Experience with Office 365 administration and support, VMware, Antivirus software, Backup software, remote management tools and desktop operating systems. Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to effectively communicate with internal and external individuals. Ability to work independently and to carry out assignments to completion within parameters of instruction given, prescribed routines, and standard accepted practices.

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. Ethnos360 exists to assist the local church in planting mature churches among least reached people groups.

Responsibilities:

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. This role reports to the Director of Information Systems or designee. 

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

  • Provide 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 Information Systems 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 
  • Develop and implement new procedures to enhance system maintenance and troubleshooting for the IT department
  • Monitor event logs, audit tools, system messages and alerts to correctly respond and correct problems or issues 
  • Manage setup, configuration, and overall operation of enterprise software applications 
  • Define and assist in the development of reports needed for users of the enterprise software applications
  • Test 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
  • Monitor, complete and close helpdesk tickets assigned to you 
  • Leverage 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. 

Requirements

  • Other Requirements
    Preferred having a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or an Information Technology related field. Strong communication skills that enable effective collaboration between IT and business user teams. Knowledge of and ability to apply principles, theories, and concepts of software engineering in their daily work activities. Must be familiar with Microsoft Office applications. Proficient in creating clear and concise requirements for communication and development.

SQL Database Engineer

Location: Home Office, Sanford, FL

Purpose: This role provides for the maintenance and ongoing development of Ethnos360's Enterprise database structures. Ethnos360 exists to assist the local church in planting churches among least reached people groups.

Responsibilities:

The Database Engineer role is responsible for implementing both data extraction procedures from source systems as well as physical data structures within the information systems team environment. The Database Engineer role is responsible for implementing Business Intelligence data structures to support the organization’s BI efforts. The individual serving in this role works closely with other Information System and IT Operations staff and reports to the Director of Information Systems or designee. 

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

  • Implements data solutions to include prototyping proof of concepts.
  • Implements agreed upon standards and test plans, writing, testing, and debugging modularized code, and implementing a solution that follows efficient design techniques.
  • Creates requested queries on data sets. 
  • Creates stored procedures, functions and triggers as needed. 
  • Creates OLTP/relational tables and views for transaction-oriented applications. 
  • Loads and maintains fact tables as needed. 
  • Loads and maintains aggregate tables as needed. 
  • Loads and maintains dimension tables as needed. 
  • Develops Views/Data Marts for information to be made available to external applications that request it. 
  • Implements security rules/standards. 
  • Responsible to work with the Enterprise Application Data Architect to ensure that database design meets the needs of the organization. 
  • Responsible for outlining the Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) procedures to be built for Ethnos360 data hub.
  • Optimizes database code by analyzing query execution plans. 
  • Implements business rules and/or exception reporting. 
  • Implements data models for report consumption.
  • Assists with other duties as the Director of Information Systems and Enterprise Application Data Architect assigns them. 

Requirements

  • Other Requirements
    Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics or other information Technology related field of study, plus 1-3 years of experience, or an equivalent combination of education training and/or experience. Experience with major enterprise database programs such as Microsoft SQL Server is essential. Experience with ETL tools such as Microsoft SSIS or Power Automate is preferred. Experience with database system applications, stored procedures and data warehousing concepts is preferred.

Middle School Teacher

Location: International School

Purpose: Dakar Academy's vision is to produce well-rounded students, prepared for higher-level studies, whose Christian worldview permeates all aspects of their lives. Ethnos360 exists to assist the local church in planting churches among least reached people groups.

Responsibilities: To teach middle school students.  This person should be able to teach a variety of subjects in order to help students develop their interests, gifts and skills focusing on collaborative group work, critical thinking, and problem solving.

Requirements

  • Other Requirements
    Bachelor's degree and teacher training required. Thorough knowledge of best practices and legal guidelines, and willingness to adhere to the school's procedures and policies, excellent organization and communication skills, maintains confidentiality, creative, positive and energetic disposition, a heart for student ministry.

Secondary Art Teacher

Location: International School

Purpose: To provide an excellent Christ-centered education that equips students to live out a biblical worldview in all areas to the glory of God. Ethnos360 exists to assist the local church in planting churches among least reached people groups.

Responsibilities: To teach art to Secondary Students.

Requirements

  • Other Requirements
    Bachelor's Degree and teacher training required. A State Teacher's Certificate or ACSI Certification is preferred.

Bible Translator

Location: Village

Purpose: To expand the reach of the Gospel by translating the Scriptures into the heart language of a select people group.

Responsibilities: Translate Scripture as part of a church development team.

Requirements

  • Education Requirement
    Ethnos Training

National Missionary Trainer

Location: Missionary Training Center

Purpose: To prepare missionaries for reaching their own people with the Gospel

Responsibilities: After arriving in Asia Pacific missionary trainers will begin and become highly proficient in the language and culture of Asia Pacific. Upon completion of culture and language study, the candidate will join a team at one of the training centers with the goal of teaching preparing missionary candidates for future ministry.

Requirements

  • Education Requirement
    Ethnos Training

Church Planter/Development

Location: Village

Purpose: The goal of a church planting/development team is to present a clear understanding of the message of the Bible and to see New Testament churches established and brought to spiritual maturity through continued teaching, discipleship, and Bible translation.

Responsibilities:

After arriving in Asia Pacific church planters/developers will begin and become highly proficient in the language and culture of Asia Pacific.  After team formation the church planters/developers will move into villages and begin an intense time of culture and language acquisition of the local language while building relationships among the people.  After reaching proficiency in the culture and language, the church planters/developers will write Bible lessons and translate Old Testament portions and the New Testament into the local language.  This takes place while systematically teaching Bible lessons in order to build an understanding of God’s Word.  In most cases the church planting team is involved in literacy training.  The ongoing work of the church planter/developer is to see new believers discipled and develop local church leadership.

In some cases, a national church presence has previously been established in a village setting and we are being requested to come alongside these ministries to assist in the maturation process.  Literacy, lesson development, Bible translation, teaching and other typical church planting/developing ministries still apply to these situations.

Requirements

  • Education Requirement
    Ethnos Training