Job Description
This position is central to the missionaries' role to 'Invite others to come unto Christ by helping them receive the restored gospel through faith in Jesus Christ and His Atonement, repentance, baptism, receiving the gift of the Holy Ghost, and enduring to the end.' Mission Finding Developers are lead support level, individual contributors. This role supports the Finding Support Center and the Worldwide Finding Team by creating technology-based solutions, analyzing data, supporting content creation, onboarding technology tools worldwide, and developing insights to support the strategic goals of the Missionary Department.
Responsibilities
- Reports to supervisor level in the Finding Support Center
- Creates technology-based solutions to optimize the production of advertising campaigns by the Finding -Support Center, ensuring the ads are high-quality, align with the Church's values and goals, and are culturally relevant and resonate with diverse audiences
- Follows industry grade software development design standards and takes responsibility for code written.
- Analyzes advertising, key indicator, and routing reports in Tableau to determine opportunities for worldwide finding improvement
- Synthesizes complex information into clear takeaways and recommendations using qualitative and quantitative methods
- Shares feedback from missions with product managers and developers
- Assists in global rollout of technology solutions
- Develops spreadsheets and processes to measure the outputs, outcomes, and impact of the Finding Support Center
- Facilitates systems ideation, development and implementation.
- Troubleshoots technology issues as they arise
- Assists in ongoing training and development of Mission Finding Specialists and Supervisors
- Use programming languages to develop technology solutions within the Microsoft platform
- May include additional tasks as assigned by supervisor
- May include other temporary assigned duties at the MTC (e.g. assisting with Mission Leadership Seminar)
Qualifications
- Returned missionary
- Six months as a Mission Finding Specialist or one year of social media marketing experience or similar experience
- Experience with data-driven decision making
- Experience utilizing social media for missionary work
- Ability to plan time effectively to both independently manage and collaborate on multiple projects and clients simultaneously
- Experience with training
- Exceptional interpersonal and leadership skills
- Experience with data processing software (such as Python, APIs, Tableau, R, Javascript (Google Appscript), etc.)
- Experience with PowerPoint
- Excellent communication skills (written, virtual, and verbal)
- Self-starter, innovative, always learning
- Must be proactive, organized, and detail-oriented
- To successfully perform the essential functions of the job, there may be physical requirements which need to be met such as sitting for long periods of time and using monitors/equipment
Preferred:
- Previous or current Finding Support Center experience
- Understanding of best practices for direct response marketing
- Experience as a mission social media leader or referral secretary
- Experience with Microsoft Azure Functions and Power Automate
- Experience in software development
- Experience in technology-based solutions
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