Business Support Specialist I (Temporary)

Compassion is looking for a Business Support Specialist I (Temporary) to serve as a member of a multi-functional support team. This Specialist will contribute to overall team goals and processes while specializing in areas of support for various leaders/teams and events within Global Program. Working closely with the business support team to serve the leaders/teams and remove administrative burdens from those leaders' responsibilities. This specialist will help manage all logistics for events relating to THRIVE domestically. This may require occasionally working closely with our international team members for visa processing, hotels and transportation.

Please note: this is a part-time, temporary position from November 9 - February 28, 2027. Typically 15-hours per week, with event weeks up to 32 hours.

• Maintains a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. Is a consistent witness for Jesus Christ, maintains a courteous, Christ-like attitude in dealing with people within and outside of Compassion, and faithfully upholds Compassion’s ministry in prayer.
• Acts as an advocate to raise the awareness of the needs of children. Understands Christ’s mandate to protect children. Commits to and prioritizes child protection considerations in all decision-making, tasks and activities across the ministry. Abides by all behavioral expectations in Compassion’s Statement of Commitment to Child Protection and Code of Conduct. Reports any concerns of abuse, neglect or exploitation of children through Compassion’s internal reporting process and appropriately supports responses to incidents if they occur.
• Assists leaders within Global Program with all administrative tasks, including calendaring, meeting planning, event coordination and culture building.
• Assists with review of business processes to identify activities required to address the issues, including process steps and impact assessment to increase productivity and efficiency. Prepares supporting documentation such as presentations, future state maps, and business requirements.
• Assists with preparing and tracks expenditures and variances to keep the leaders in budget. Informs management of variances and corrective recommendations.
• May support department specific duties sometimes related to other job subfamilies such as, data analysis, basic procurement, small and large team events, basic accounting, simple facilities requests, and/or program development.
• Gathers simple business data such as project costs or process metrics, displays the information for presentation and analysis. Helps to keep assigned projects progressing toward established goals and deadlines.
• Prepares and relays communications concerning business operations and outcomes to appropriate audiences. Further, supports change integration across the scope of own assigned projects. Encourages change adoption across common audiences as needed.
• Helps train and advise stakeholders on processes and guidelines related to the group or program projects.
• Assists in the development of effective metrics for ministry operations and maintains data/metrics, dashboards, tools, and artifacts to provide up-to-date status of group projects, processes, and initiatives.

• Experience planning and executing events.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Suite.
• Bachelor's Degree in related field or experience in Administrative Assistant work.

*Equivalent education, training and/or certification may be substituted for experience and education shown above

• The mission: Join a team that is motivated to release children from poverty in Jesus’ name.
• Spiritual growth: Participate in regular chapel services, prayer groups, and department devotionals.