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About the Role
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 ensures churches feel served and equipped. The role aims to help churches activate people and equip pastors to lead congregations that practice generosity, courage, and care for their neighbors.
Responsibilities
- Develop the vision and strategy for engaging and reaching local church leaders, networks, and denominations.
- Build and steward trusted relationships with senior pastors and church teams.
- Help churches host the Praxis Course well and integrate it into congregational life.
- Lead the development and improvement of the Church Activation Toolkit.
- Help run the Pastor Cohort program.
- Contribute to Activate, the annual gathering for pastors, lay leaders, and culture-makers.
- Lead a growing church engagement team.
Requirements
- Meaningful experience within the local church, ideally on staff as Senior Pastor or in close partnership with pastors.
- Trusted by senior leaders, carrying humility, warmth, and discretion.
- Ability to hold theological depth and practical excellence.
- Comfortable serving churches across a range of traditions.
- Entrepreneurial builder capable of early-stage work and team growth.
- Organized, follows through, and turns learnings into resources.
- Shares Praxis’s conviction that Christians are called to be redemptive culture-makers.
- Practices redemptive principles in work and treatment of others.
- Alignment with The Lausanne Covenant (1974) and The Cape Town Commitment (2010).
- Affirms The Apostles’ Creed.
Skills
- Strategy development
- Relationship building
- Team leadership
- Resource development
- Program management
- Communication
Location
- New York City preferred
- Remote considered for highly experienced candidate
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Director level
Salary/Compensations
- $120K to $155K based on experience and location
Benefits
- Fully paid health insurance for families
- 5% matching 401k
- Flexible vacation policy
- All travel expenses covered
About the Company
- Praxis began in 2011 to support and equip Christian entrepreneurs.
- Grown into a 30+ person, NY-centric team advancing the redemptive imagination and action of founders, funders, and innovators motivated by faith.
- A $15M+/year nonprofit with ambitious growth plans.
- Expanding venture-building work globally, organizing around major issues, and building media.
- Aims to build an organization that is great to work at, excellent in its craft, and redemptive in its finances and programs.
- Finds theological identity in The Lausanne Covenant (1974) and The Cape Town Commitment (2010).
- Emphasizes redemptive principles in all aspects of work and culture, including shared rhythms like daily team prayer and a company-wide weekly Sabbath.