This is not just a job opportunity, this is an opportunity to transform lives!

Summary

Bible League International serves the under-resourced Church with Bibles and training to transform lives worldwide through God’s Word! Our team is excited about God’s calling on our ministry and serves Him in His mission for the world, with commitment and joy. We hope you will consider His leading in using your God-given gifts and abilities to help fulfill the Great Commission in serving at Bible League International! For more information about Bible League International, visit https://www.bibleleague.org/. Also take a moment and view our careers video to learn more about our culture through our staff at Bible League.

The Deputy Regional Director of Latin America works under the leadership of the Regional Director of Latin America, assisting in representing BLI to ministry partners, providing strategic support, and enhancing engagement with God’s Word across the region. The role emphasizes collaboration, operational oversight, and nurturing healthy partnerships to increase ministry impact through learning, spiritual growth, and effective communication.

Duties

1. Partner Relationships:

• • Support the Regional Director in ensuring that BLI’s core values (Prayer, Calling, Service, Unity, Integrity, and Vision) guide BLI’s relationships with our ministry partners.
  • Assist in building and maintaining trust-base relationship with ministry partners across the region.
  • Follow up with partners on communications from the Regional Director on relevant updates regarding BLI’s focus and direction.
  • Together with the Regional Director Build relationships between different partners within the region with the aim of collaboration, learning, and development.
  • Ensure that relevant partner knowledge is recorded and shared in BLI’s CRM (Insightly) system.

2. Strategic Leadership:

• • Assist in implementing BLI’s strategic and agile project planning cycle with partners every three months. This cycle includes exploring ministry opportunities and challenges, discussing action steps, discussing budget allocations with the partner, and agreeing on objectives, timelines, and evaluation metrics.
  • Share leadership with the Regional Director to facilitate strategic dialogue with ministry partners that design Scripture engagement programs using BLI’s Ministry Model for the intended audiences of the under-resourced church in the partner’s regions.
  • Provide support for leadership initiatives that prioritizes listening and learning from the Lord, our partners, each other, and the under-resourced church to respond creatively to adaptive challenges.
  • Communicate with various BLI teams and ensure that learning is shared openly and appropriately across the organization to foster greater service to our partners and the audiences they serve.
  • In collaboration with the Regional Director of LAM lead efforts to help the partner understand and embrace BLI’s culture through an engaging experience of BLI’s partner handbook. Ensure that strategic conversations with partners follow appreciative inquiry principles so strategic decisions are based positively on opportunities, strengths, and available resources.
  • Identify areas of training, education, or partnership development opportunities and communicate these to the Regional Director.

3. Program/Impact Evaluation:

• • Share leadership with the Regional Director biannual evaluation of projects to learn and make appropriate decisions with the partner to expand, pivot, or retire projects. This evaluation will be informed and facilitated by appropriate key performance indicators and other metrics.
  • Review financial, impact, and other reports with partners to ensure that evaluation conversations are well informed by strong data and information provided by Partner Services/Finance.
  • Focus partner and project evaluations on learning and growth rather than remediation. Appreciative Inquiry method.
  • Lead a robust field review process to collect and share meaningful feedback on BLI’s products, training, and services from partners and their intended audiences.

4. Organizational Coordination/Collaboration:

• • Collaborate with the Regional Director and Global Finance team to determine budget allocations and constraints for ministry projects.
  • Ensure all project decisions are appropriately recorded in BLI’s agile project management system.
  • Communicate to the Regional Director resource needs for future potential projects, including training, Scripture engagement products, or other requirements.

5. Regional and overseas travel as required up to 20% of overall time.
6. Performs additional duties as assigned by the Regional Director.

Organizational Relationships

Reports to: Regional Director of Latin America
Works collaboratively with: Regional Director of LAM, VP of Ministry Partnerships, Director of Ministry Partnership Operations.

Qualifications

1. Must be a Christian, having a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. Must also agree with our statement of faith and conduct his/herself in a Christ-like manner.
2. Must have 5 to 8 years of experience in a strategic leadership role (leading a diverse team toward common goals).
3. Must possess intercultural leadership and management experience, with the capacity for building effective cross-cultural relationships that facilitate goal accomplishment.
4. Must have permanent resident status in the country of residency.
5. Must be willing and available to undertake regional and overseas travel.

Standards of Performance

1. Provide a servant-hearted approach to leadership that consistently values, supports, encourages, and empowers colleagues and ministry partners while demonstrating a humble reliance upon God.
2. Comply with established organizational rules, policies, and guidelines.
3. Perform duties efficiently and responsibly.
4. Manage time to maximize effectiveness and productivity.
5. Demonstrate a consistent attitude of cooperation and cultural sensitivity.

In day-to-day responsibilities, this position will carry out Bible League International’s core values which are:

• Prayer – Our relationship with Jesus Christ.
• Calling – God’s call into His work.
• Service – Serving God and others.
• Unity – Working together in unity.
• Integrity – In line with God’s Word in word and deed.
• Vision – A Christ-centered hope and perspective.

Performance Evaluations

You will meet with your manager quarterly in alignment with our fiscal year to discuss your accomplishments and priorities.

Bible League International offers employees a comprehensive benefits package which includes medical, dental, vision, Paid Time Off, Holiday pay, Short and Long Term Disability, Life Insurance, a generous 401k plan, an Employee Assistance Program, Tuition Reimbursement, and more. As a part of our Statement of Faith, BLI champions the training and professional development of our employees. We are also Public Service Loan Forgiveness qualifying public service employer. If you want to learn more about this exciting role or if you would like to apply, please visit our application site here.

We consider applicants for all positions without regard to race, color, gender, national origin, age, disability, marital or veteran status, or any other legally protected status. Bible League International is a nonprofit, non-denominational, faith-based organization. Pursuant to the Civil Rights Act Section 702, the Bible League has the right to hire only candidates who agree with Bible League’s Statement of Faith and profess Jesus Christ as their personal Lord and Savior.