What are the responsibilities and job description for the FamilySearch Business Development & Integration Manager, on-site, full-time position at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints?
Job Description
The Integration Manager will help lead FamilySearch’s growing collaboration with academia, especially with the Church Educational System and it’s entities BYU, BYU Pathway Worldwide, BYU Idaho, BYU Hawaii, Ensign College, Seminaries and Institutes. These collaborative efforts are core to a strategic effort to help accelerate family history technology development and opportunities for student learning and careers. This role is responsible for building relationships with university administrators, identifying joint projects and collaborating with deans, associate deans, professors and students in project execution. At BYU, this role is also responsible for accelerating student engagement in temple and family history experiences by managing existing student projects, interns, and creating additional opportunities for interdisciplinary research collaboration as well as new student-led projects. Successful outcomes include:
Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in Business, Management, or a related field and 10 years of experience or a Master's degree and· 8 years of leadership experience in business development, higher education or related non-profit field. Experience in the technology field is a plus.
Church employees find joy and satisfaction in using their unique talents and abilities to further the Lord’s work. From the IT professional who develops an app that sends the gospel message worldwide, to the facilities manager who maintains our buildings— giving Church members places to worship, teach, learn, and receive sacred ordinances—our employees seek innovative ways to share the gospel of Jesus Christ with the world. They are literally working in His kingdom.
Only members of the Church who are worthy of a temple recommend qualify for employment. Apart from this, the Church is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate in its employment decisions on any basis that would violate U.S. or local law.
Qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, national origin, color, gender, pregnancy, marital status, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or other legally protected categories that apply to the Church. The Church will make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with known disabilities.
The Integration Manager will help lead FamilySearch’s growing collaboration with academia, especially with the Church Educational System and it’s entities BYU, BYU Pathway Worldwide, BYU Idaho, BYU Hawaii, Ensign College, Seminaries and Institutes. These collaborative efforts are core to a strategic effort to help accelerate family history technology development and opportunities for student learning and careers. This role is responsible for building relationships with university administrators, identifying joint projects and collaborating with deans, associate deans, professors and students in project execution. At BYU, this role is also responsible for accelerating student engagement in temple and family history experiences by managing existing student projects, interns, and creating additional opportunities for interdisciplinary research collaboration as well as new student-led projects. Successful outcomes include:
- Helping the rising generation receive the promised blessings of temple and family history, including power, protection and identity. This includes helping every student become competent and confident with family history in their personal life or in their professional pursuits.
- Increasing awareness of and engagement in uplifting and inspiring family history experiences for all BYU and BYU-I students.
- More BYU departments/professors/students collaborating with FamilySearch on research and innovation to accelerate building family history technologies and family trees and helping all of God’s children feel a deeper sense of connection.
- Integration and collaboration with all CES entities. This includes being on the BYU Provo campus 1-3 days a week for regular in-person meetings.
- Relationship building, strategic leadership, and coordination with faculty, staff and administrators from these schools, Seminaries & Institutes and additional academic institutions.
- Creating a strategy for FamilySearch’s collaboration with academia that achieves organizational goals.
- Manage team of interns across multiple academic disciplines to help create and mentor student/class/lab initiatives. This includes recruiting, training, mentoring the interns, setting up and project managing work projects.
- Lead team towards broader strategic goals, as well as short, semester-based projects.
- Leading successful collaborative projects that translate to product and process improvements at FamilySearch and within the Church Educational System.
- Manage multiple university class projects, lab projects, on-campus internships, family history-related events. This includes defining scope of work, mentoring, final analysis and implementation strategy.
Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in Business, Management, or a related field and 10 years of experience or a Master's degree and· 8 years of leadership experience in business development, higher education or related non-profit field. Experience in the technology field is a plus.
- Exceptional business development track record.
- Strong leadership, strategic thinking, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
- Understands academic environments, and how to work with many different departments.
- Ability to build relationships and connect across different areas of expertise.
- Proven ability to manage teams, budgets, and large-scale projects.
- Excellent communication, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills.
- Experience working in education and writing grant proposals and reports.
- Excellent project/program management skills.
- Ability to adapt to a fast-paced, evolving environment.
- Strong emotional intelligence and ability to motivate teams.
- Entrepreneurial spirit.
- Is intellectually curious and learns quickly; someone who loves to learn and usually looks at things a little differently than those around them.
- Is eager to roll up their sleeves to get the work done.
- Has a track record to prove they are great at solving complex business problems.
- Has strong influencing skills and thinks strategically about how to move people to action.
- Is a dynamic communicator; someone who can communicate in a simple, structured, and compelling way when speaking, writing and using PowerPoint.
- Has a high business IQ; able to quickly understand the fundamentals of a business or function to uncover areas of opportunity.
Church employees find joy and satisfaction in using their unique talents and abilities to further the Lord’s work. From the IT professional who develops an app that sends the gospel message worldwide, to the facilities manager who maintains our buildings— giving Church members places to worship, teach, learn, and receive sacred ordinances—our employees seek innovative ways to share the gospel of Jesus Christ with the world. They are literally working in His kingdom.
Only members of the Church who are worthy of a temple recommend qualify for employment. Apart from this, the Church is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate in its employment decisions on any basis that would violate U.S. or local law.
Qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, national origin, color, gender, pregnancy, marital status, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or other legally protected categories that apply to the Church. The Church will make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with known disabilities.
