Director of Curriculum
Dynamic Church Planting International (DCPI) is looking for a full-time, support-raised Director of Curriculum to assess DCPI's current training curriculum and innovate to implement better hands-on activities, space for cultural contextualization of examples, and engagement for adult learners from various cultures. This leader will take into consideration what is working on the field and the needs of church planters and work with our Training Team to develop training curriculum for in-person training, online training, and webinar training platforms. This leader's goal is to look into the details of what we are teaching, so that we can be sure that we are producing the most effective church planters and church planting movement leaders possible for God's Kingdom worldwide.
About DCPI
DCPI is a non-profit (501c3) organization based in Oceanside, California, with partners and staff working throughout the world. We train Christian leaders on every inhabited continent of the world to plant churches in their communities, in their languages. Because we primarily focus on supporting national leaders, we have seen God bring His Church to communities we could never reach in languages we could never speak. He has given us a vision to plant FIVE MILLION churches worldwide. We currently have trained over 500,000 leaders, who have planted over 1.3 million churches worldwide! We are growing and invite you to be a part of this God-sized adventure!
What it’s like to work at DCPI
Our team is made up of adventurous, fully-devoted disciples of Christ, who love starting new things, meeting new people, engaging cultures, and helping global leaders plant dynamic churches throughout the world! We are adaptable, persistent, generally autonomous individuals, who work together in unity. We come from a variety of Christian denominations, and we support the planting of churches that believe in Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior. We respect fresh ideas, and we love providing coaching and growth opportunities for those who are ready for more! We are fun and playful, and we’re passionate about reaching the world! We would love to make a place for you within our team!
RESPONSIBILITIES:
Evaluate current training tracks to ensure that each track has appropriate hands-on activities to facilitate effective learning for diverse adult learners.
Evaluate examples within training and work with world zone leaders to allow for contextualization of examples relevant to their world zones.
Work with Training Team to evaluate what is working on the field and add it to our training curriculum.
Develop content or adjust content specifically for in-person training, online training, and webinar training.
Support Director of Orality in development of additional storytelling versions of our training tracks.
Regularly review and revise our training tracks within The DCPI System to ensure that we have all of the tracks necessary to equip leaders for every season of church planting.
Analyze output formats to ensure that delivery of curriculum is as effective and available to various learning styles, as desired, considering potentially publishing books, videos, etc.
Collaborate with the Training Department, and World Zones to continually assess the effectiveness of current training materials.
Potentially facilitate the creation of future tracks of training for DCPI.
Work with Director of Materials & Translations to ensure that curriculum improvements get translated and distributed to their world zones and trainers.
SKILLS
Futuristic thinking
Team player, committed to working across departments to develop an fantastic product
Course development/lesson planning, Online curriculum development
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Optional: Experience with church planting and/or church planting movements
Ability to use or learn a variety of digital platforms
PRODUCTS:
DCPI's Training Tracks
New & revised tracks of DCPI training
COUNTERPARTS:
Work with online training team to develop and adapt content (resources and scripts) for our learning management system.
Work with DCPI Materials & Translations Department to design, translate, and catalog all newly released improvements/changes/formats.
Manage and collaborate with other content creators or task forces that are writing DCPI training tracks, etc.
Work with international staff to learn how we can best contextualize and apply our training curriculum to their contexts.
Work with staff and volunteers to review and edit new content.
Work with Communications team to spread the word about new training tracks to our leaders worldwide.
AUTHORITY:
Revision of current training materials and tracks
Collect relationships and input with DCPI World Zone Leaders to facilitate feedback loops for our training curriculum.
Create course content for new tracks of training
Recruit church planting specialists to author or co-author new tracks of training
Recruit staff and volunteers to assist with transcribing, reviewing, and editing new content
ACCOUNTABILITY:
Reports directly to Director of Training
LOCATION
This position is located in Oceanside, California or remote.
COMPENSATION
This position is full-time, high-capacity volunteer or support raised.
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