Community Information Specialist

 To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. • Provides initial direct contact with the community through the phone, email, or in-person contacts. • Responds to requests from the community for information about available programs and volunteer opportunities. • Assists people in need by making referrals to the appropriate resource within the community. • Helps promote the ministry by participating in public relations efforts. • Assists and supports all donor and volunteer relationships and communications. • Prepares and distributes printed ministry information. • Screens all incoming phone calls, inquiries, visitors, and correspondence, and routes accordingly. • Welcome visitors and donors in a warm and friendly manner and answers any questions. • Receives, sorts and distributes donations to the shelters. • Receive deliveries; sort and distribute incoming mail. • Manages office equipment and supplies. • Maintains the Ministry Office in a clean and professional manner at all times. • Assists the staff in a manner that promotes trust, cooperation, and high levels of performance. • Other duties as assigned by supervisory personnel.  

Qualifications: • Education or equivalent experience: High School diploma required; Associates Degree preferred. • License/Certification: Valid South Carolina Driver’s License. • Excellent communication, interpersonal and organizational skills, with strong attention to detail. • Technologically competent, including working knowledge of Windows and databases. • Able to appropriately handle sensitive information and maintain required confidentiality. • Comfortable multi-tasking and prioritizing tasks without guidance. 

Core Attributes and Expectations: • Christian with a ministry mindset, utilizing the skills, training and experience God has provided. • Highly trustworthy and conscientious – dependable and responsible. • Display a Christ-centered life demonstrated by a willingness to show acceptance and serve others. • Work efficiently, take initiative and manage time to meet ministry needs and other assigned tasks. • Treat clients, employees, donors and volunteers in a kind, respectful, and professional manner.

Religious: • Be Christian by biblical definition, with faith in the Lord Jesus Christ as expressed by a personal testimony and continued Christian conduct. • Agree without reservation with the doctrinal statement of the ministry. • Be an active participant in a protestant church. • Exhibit a genuine concern for the salvation and spiritual welfare of all served by the ministry. • Demonstrate spiritual maturity commensurate with the requirements of your position.

As an evangelical Christian ministry, Greenwood Pathway House values its rights under federal law to hire individuals who share the Christian faith and the ministry's doctrinal beliefs.