Churches in Renewal Operations Manager

Renovaré

About The Position

Founded by Richard J. Foster in 1988, Renovaré (Latin: to renew) advocates, resources, and models fullness of life with God. Our mission is beautifully simple: to help people become more like Jesus. As a new and adaptive way of fulfilling this mission, Renovaré launched the Churches in Renewal initiative in 2024 to support and connect churches that want to prioritize spiritual formation as the organizing principle of their congregational life. This initiative aims to ground, engage, and unite congregations in spiritual renewal—understanding it and experiencing it—so that they can be a radiant embodiment of Jesus Christ in their communities. Here's what we're building: It’s common for a church to stall out in the shallows of discipleship, for pastors and leaders to feel lonely or stuck, for local congregations—even those with a solid grounding and clear mission—to become divided or distracted by secondary things. It happens to the best. What these churches and pastors and leaders need isn’t a new program or a perfect five-year plan. They need real ties to other Christians who gently call one another back to Jesus, their First Love, and remind one another why local church is worth the work. They need a human connection to the capital-C Church that transcends denomination and renews Kingdom imagination. They need a forum where they can ask hard questions, hear wise perspectives, and discern Spirit-led strategies in the company of peers and mentors. Over the next 3 years we want to create spiritual formation ecosystems in 5-8 hub cities across the United States—places like Atlanta, Denver, Kansas City, Seattle, and beyond—where clusters of churches from diverse denominations, ethnicities, and socioeconomic contexts come together for renewal. Simultaneously, we're launching a national Church Network connecting 200+ congregations who want to learn how we Jesus do our church, and together normalize the counterculture way of life with God. We have a strategic vision. We have rich relationships with churches and partners who are invested. We have a proven curriculum and theological depth. What we're missing is the operational backbone—the invisible infrastructure that makes all of this scale sustainably. This is where you come in. We need a builder and sequencer: someone who thinks like an air traffic controller. Someone who can see ten planes in the air simultaneously and knows exactly where each one is, where it's going, and how to keep them from colliding. Someone who builds systems and workflows that make everyone else's efforts flow smoothly—even when they're not in the room.

Requirements

5+ years managing operations, strategic implementation, or multi-project coordination
CRM/database management experience (Airtable, Salesforce, HubSpot, or similar)
Event planning at scale (50+ participants, multi-site logistics)
Grant administration and funder reporting
Distributed team coordination and volunteer care systems
Technology platform mastery with quick learning curve for new tools
Ministry or nonprofit context experience

Responsibilities

Manage spiritual formation cohorts in 1-2 cities per year (30-50 participants per city)
Oversee multi-city event logistics (monthly meetings, gatherings, retreats, experiential learning)
Coordinate local volunteer teams (program coordinators, church mentors, facilitators)
Design quality assurance systems ensuring consistent excellence across different cultural contexts
Manage membership lifecycle for 75+ member churches (registrations, annual renewals, engagement tracking)
Set up technology platforms (member portal, databases, online forums, payment systems)
Coordinate logistics in sync with virtual program delivery (bi-monthly roundtables, quarterly workshops, book clubs, small groups formation)
Build member communication infrastructure and support systems
Design scalable operational frameworks that work across multiple hub cities
Project manage 10+ concurrent initiatives at different developmental stages
Track multi-stream budgets and coordinate expense reporting
Create operational playbooks that enable volunteers and contractors to play a meaningful role with minimal oversight
Support various stakeholders with content briefs and promotional timelines
Document institutional learning and program adaptations
Synthesize operational data into strategic intelligence for decision-making
Manage evaluation protocols between learning communities and Duke Leadership Education partnership
Coordinate quarterly reporting for Lilly Endowment grant