Job Openings
Executive Director
The Rest Stop Ministries Board of Directors is actively seeking a passionate, motivated, qualified, and divinely called candidate with strong Christian values to lead our ministry. Dr. Rondy Smith, our Founder and Executive Director, has decided to retire after leading this work since 2011.
Rest Stop Ministries, Inc. is a not-for-profit, Christian faith-based organization in the Lebanon, TN area whose mission is to comprehensively restore female survivors and stop the oppression of sex trafficking and sexual exploitation. Rest Stop stands for RESTORE SURVIVORS and STOP OPPRESSION.
The three program pillars that best describe our ministry are:
• Residential Restoration: a long-term healing-housing community that is evidence-informed, trauma-focused, holistic & comprehensive. Safe housing and a therapeutic community are the first steps to healing.
• Good Hope Farms: Hope Enterprise & Workforce Empowerment – a concurrent opportunity to gain job readiness and paid hands-on job skills training to achieve the economic independence that ends cycles of exploitation.
• Alumni Aftercare: a full year of transitional services to ensure successful outcomes, and a support community for life.
If you are interested in this opportunity to help survivors become thrivers, then we invite you to apply. Every applicant will be given careful consideration.
Job Summary: In partnership with the Board of Directors, the Executive Director will lead the organization to keep its mission, vision, values, and strategies focused and communicated to staff, clients, funders, volunteers, and the community. The effectiveness of the position is measured by the extent to which the agency’s operational and strategic goals are achieved.
Reports To: Board of Directors
Responsibilities Include:
- Assess the needs/wants of clients, funders and all key partners/ stakeholders; use such data in strategic and operational planning
- Maintain a cost-effective mix of quality programs and services, working as appropriate with other community agencies; build delivery systems and deliver services
- Market services to clients; market service opportunities and results to funders, community partners, and volunteers
- Build and maintain relationships with clients, funders, volunteers, and the community-at-large; position and market the organization in the marketplace
- Create organization structures, build efficient systems for getting work done that meet best practices, standards and legal requirements; continuously improve the organization’s functioning
- Be accountable and provide focus for our organizational impact, as defined by our Theory of Change
- Select, train, develop, supervise, evaluate and reward/recognize staff and volunteers
- Plan for, maintain, and make efficient use of facilities, equipment, and supplies
- Work with the Board to develop a diversified, adequate funding base
- Explore creative pathways for funding the mission (i.e. Board member involvement, new and existing donor development, grants, and other sources)
- Create and maintain a 12-month operating budget and 3-year forecast
- Work with the Board to develop policies to guide the work of the organization; administer approved policies
- Develop evaluation systems, evaluate results, and report results to the Board and other stakeholders regularly
- Ensure compliance with applicable standards and requirements, to include legal, industry, policy, and ethical standards and requirements
- Build and ensure positive organizational culture, morale, and internal and external reputation
Preferred Qualifications:
- Relevant education or experience, with at least 5 years of senior management experience; track record of effectively leading and regionally and/or nationally scaling a performance- and outcomes-based organization and staff; ability to point to specific examples of having developed and operationalized strategies that have taken an organization to the next stage of growth
- Preferred 3-5 years’ experience in anti-human trafficking or related field of trauma-informed human services; Residential Community experience a plus
- Unwavering commitment to quality programs and data-driven program evaluation
- Excellence in organizational management with the ability to coach staff, manage, and develop high-performance teams, set and achieve strategic objectives, and manage a budget
- Past success working with a Board of Directors with the ability to cultivate existing board member relationships
- Strong marketing, public relations, and fundraising experience with the ability to engage a wide range of stakeholders and cultures
- Grant writing skill is highly desirable
- Strong written and verbal communication skills; a persuasive and passionate communicator with excellent interpersonal and multidisciplinary project skills
- Action-oriented, entrepreneurial, adaptable, and innovative approach to business planning
- Ability to work effectively in collaboration with diverse groups of people
- Passion, idealism, integrity, positive attitude, mission-driven, and self-directed
- Willing to embrace and exemplify our core values and statement of faith
- Have a heart and a passion for seeing the broken restored
- Good moral character
Benefits: Rest Stop Ministries offers a generous PTO policy, a Healthcare Reimbursement Arrangement (HRA), eight paid holidays, and a cell phone stipend.
Salary: $65,000 – $72,000 commensurate with experience
Interested parties should email a cover letter and resume to Ken Glaus, President of the Board of Directors, [email protected]
Contract Respite Care Coach (PRN)
The Contract Respite Care Coach (PRN) provides direct evening and overnight coaching and support for the residents of Rest Stop Ministries. This is a unique “coaching” role whereby a balance of Authority and Agape Love is practiced effectively enough to maintain genuine relationship while keeping the appropriate level of authority in the home. While an orientation is provided to familiarize the contractor with our operations, the contractor brings their own maturity, responsibility, and relationship-building skills to the role. This position is a temporary contract position, scheduled as needed, and accepted when available.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Through servant-leadership and role-model example:
- Set the tone for a loving, caring community of support and growth; be available and approachable to residents for support and assistance while in the home
- Confident to handle role of authority within a loving community of support and mutual respect
- Utilize de-escalation, crisis intervention or conflict resolution skills as needed in crisis situations
- Ability to work alone
- Ability to facilitate domestic tasks like meal preparation/cleanup, assist residents with personal needs, and generally be a supportive presence in a home environment
- Facilitate the medication process for residents according to the RSM Medication Management Policy & Procedure
- Provide resident transportation, using RSM vehicles (if 25+ years of age), to local meetings and/or appointments
Qualifications:
Due to the sensitive nature of our work with female survivors of sex trafficking, this position is only open to females.
Experience/education in social work, counseling, residential programs or related a plus
- Mature, responsible female with a vibrant Christian witness
- Must have a heart and a passion for seeing the broken restored, and a desire to serve women in recovery from trafficking, trauma, substance abuse
- Ability to work independently with strong sense of focus, task-oriented, nonjudgmental, open personal
qualities, clear sense of boundaries - Ability to respond to crisis and/or escalated behavior calmly and with confidence
- Ability to work as a team
- Ability to maintain confidentiality as required by law, professional codes of ethics, and in the best interest of survivors
- Able to provide own transportation; and proof of liability insurance; ability and willingness to transport passengers in agency vehicle (if 25+ years of age)
- Available to work in Lebanon, Tennessee from the hours of 5:00 pm – 9:00 am one to two nights per week on occasion (ability to sleep from approximately 11:00pm to 6:00 am)
Additional Requirements:
- Available to attend an 8-hour orientation session on-site prior to contract finalization
- A background check is required
- Valid driver’s license, state-required driver’s insurance, and access to reliable personal transportation
NOTE: Survivors must be 5 years post incident/experience with trafficking, must have therapeutically dealt with their past, and maintained sobriety from addictive substances for at least 2 years to qualify for this contract position.
Work Hours:
This is an hourly, contract (1099) position. Hours may vary depending on shift accepted – it is typically one or
more 16-hour overnight shifts, but some shifts may be offered that are longer hours. Shift may be on a weeknight or weekend. During shift hours, private sleeping quarters are provided in the residential house. There may be occasional times of interrupted sleep if a resident requires support during the night.
Interested applicants should email a cover letter and resume to Randy Woicik, Director of Property & Program Operations, at [email protected].
