[Hiring] Director of Church Engagement @Praxis

Role Description

Praxis is hiring a Director of Church Engagement to lead its work with local churches and universities. This person helps churches use the Praxis Course and related resources well, builds trusted friendships with senior pastors, and makes sure churches feel served and equipped rather than sold to. They lead a growing team and are responsible for whether churches move from first interest to actively hosting, to a lasting habit of forming their people in the Redemptive Way. The posture is one of service to the church and its pastors, in the spirit of helping the church do what only the church can do.

This role exists to serve, equip, and enable the local church and its senior pastor. The Director of Church Engagement is the person who carries Praxis’s relationship with churches:

• Understanding what pastors are trying to build
• Removing friction
• Helping each church use Praxis resources in a way that fits its own community and calling

The aim is not to grow Praxis, but to help churches activate people and to help pastors lead congregations that practice generosity, courage, and care for their neighbors over the long haul.

While Praxis is known and respected amongst local church leadership, it is a newer entrant to church-facing work. This role includes a healthy, servant-hearted invitation in the early years:

• Helping churches discover the Course and other formational experiences
• Encouraging them to decide to host it

What Success Looks Like

If this role is working, Praxis, through the Course and additional resources, is deployed as the vocational version of Alpha. We will see more people formed, through more churches, more often. We will track our progress by asking a few simple questions:

• How many churches are actively engaged with Praxis resources?
• What share of each congregation is taking part?
• How often do churches run the Course again after their first time?
• How is the fruit and faithful action of those encountering Praxis ideas, stories, and resources changing over time?

Leading indicators we will watch include:

• Churches where the senior pastor is personally engaged
• Churches where a staff member owns the work day to day
• The rate at which churches return to host again
• Churches that clearly understand what Praxis offers and why
• Stories and case studies that show formation taking root

Key Areas of Responsibility

• Church Engagement Strategy: Develop the vision and strategy for how we will engage and reach local church leaders, networks, and denominations.
• Pastor & Church Relationships: Build and steward trusted relationships with senior pastors and church teams.
• Church Activation & Formation: Help churches host the Praxis Course well and guide them in weaving it into the rhythms of congregational life.
• Pastor Cohort & Activate: Cast vision and help run the Pastor Cohort.
• Team Leadership: Lead a growing church engagement team.

Qualifications

• You love the local church and have spent meaningful time inside it, ideally on staff as Senior Pastor or in close partnership with pastors.
• You are trusted by senior leaders, and you carry yourself with humility, warmth, and discretion.
• You can hold theological depth and practical excellence at the same time.
• You are comfortable serving churches across a range of traditions.
• You are an entrepreneurial builder who is happy to do the early, unglamorous work of standing something up.
• You are organized, follow through, and turn what you learn into resources that help the next church.
• You share Praxis’s conviction that Christians are called to be redemptive culture-makers.
• You practice what we preach, being redemptive exemplars on our team.

Requirements

• Location: New York City preferred. Remote will be considered for a highly experienced candidate.
• Travel: Quarterly team meetings, Annual Praxis Summit, and additional travel as needed.
• Reports to: Managing Partner, Media, Brand and Product.
• Range: $120K to $155K based on experience and location.
• Comprehensive benefits including fully paid health insurance for families, 5% matching 401k, and flexible vacation policy.

Cultural Alignment

Praxis finds its theological identity most clearly stated in the Lausanne Covenant (1974) and the Cape Town Commitment (2010). All Praxis staff and program participants are asked to affirm The Apostles’ Creed as a statement of their own beliefs. The ideal candidate will demonstrate alignment with the above, as well as our mission to advance redemptive entrepreneurship.