Church Engagement Specialist

This position is fully remote but preference will be given to candidates in the following states: AZ, CA, DE, FL, GA, IL, IN, KS, KY, MA, ME, MI, MN, MO, NJ, OH, PA, TN, TX, VA, WA.

Church Engagement Specialist

CarePortal

Organizational Profile

CarePortal is Care-Sharing technology that drives action for local kids and families in crisis. We believe that through the Church and Community, there can be More Than Enough care for every child, through the power of Care-Sharing and the love of Jesus. Our goal is to scale meaningful connections through the local church, making a lasting impact on the lives of everyone involved. We mobilize robust Care-Sharing Networks and lead with Courage, Humility, and Excellence.

We do this through the local Church and in collaboration with child-serving organizations, businesses, and people who care—that’s where you come in.

Position Summary

The Church Engagement Specialist is responsible for managing a portfolio of churches to ensure they remain active, supported, and growing in their response to children and families in crisis.

This role serves as the primary day-to-day contact for assigned churches, providing ongoing support, guidance, and communication to increase engagement and retention. While Network Development builds relationships in person and drives growth, this role focuses on sustaining and strengthening engagement over time, primarily through virtual communication.

Success in this role is defined by increased participation, responsiveness, and meaningful connection within the assigned portfolio.Network health metrics, scorecards and KPIs will be utilized to help gauge performance, however, success in this role will be measured across all of the responsibilities listed below.

Your Responsibilities Include:

Portfolio Management

• Manage a defined portfolio of churches, providing consistent communication and support
• Monitor activity and proactively engage churches to increase participation
• Reinforce behaviors that lead to sustained engagement and requests met

Church Support

• Maintain strong, trust-based relationships through ongoing communication
• Serve as the primary point of contact for questions, guidance, and support
• Resolve most customer issues directly in a timely and effective manner
• Coordinate with Platform Support for more technical issues when needed

Increased Engagement Rate

• Monitor engagement metrics and identify opportunities to increase usage
• Support churches in setting goals and improving response activity
• Encourage and track meaningful connection stories

Process Consistency & Improvement

• Follow established engagement processes and standards
• Provide feedback to improve engagement tools and playbooks content
• Support efforts to increase efficiency and scalability in engagement
   

Coordination & Alignment

• Receive new churches from Onboarding for engagement support
• Maintain awareness of Network Development activity within assigned markets
• Ensure accurate tracking of communication and activity in CRM
• Support ecosystem balance through participation in Network Leader facilitated strategy meetings to identify, discuss and solve issues and opportunities.  

Request Monitoring & Response Activation

• Support churches through response team development and church leader buy-in to achieve sustainable network impact
• Monitor unmet requests within assigned portfolio and take proactive action to increase responses by engaging churches to encourage timely responses
• Collaborate with other Engagement Specialists to support shared outcomes across markets