<div><strong>The Role</strong></div><div>This role reports to Dan Reed, the Partner, Capital at Praxis. As Director, Community Systems, you will lead a senior strategic role responsible for building and stewarding the systems, data infrastructure, and communications workflows that power Praxis's community at scale. This is not a traditional “operations” role — it is a community architecture role, designed for someone who understands that a healthy ecosystem requires healthy systems.</div><div><br>Praxis cultivates a dense, global network of founders, funders, venture builders, thinkers, and creatives. The Director, Community Systems is responsible for owning the systems and tools that underpin the community’s ability to connect and work on shared projects together, while building the workflows that allow Praxis to be effective and efficient to this end.</div><div><br>The role also owns Praxis’s communications infrastructure, including the systems and tools that ensure the right messages reach the core community at the right time, across relational outreach, personalized invitations, and custom digests. As an organization that is deeply engaged in building, prototyping, and integrating AI-powered solutions, this role will be a key driver of intelligent approaches across community and communications workflows.</div><div><br><strong>The Kind of Person Who Thrives in This Role</strong></div><div><strong>Sees data as relationships</strong></div><div>You understand that data systems are only as good as the human intelligence behind it. You bring genuine curiosity to understanding who is in the community, what they’re working on, and how Praxis can be supportive to their work — and you build systems that make that knowledge accessible and evolving.</div><div><strong>Finds joy in discovering what emerges from complexity</strong></div><div>You get real satisfaction from taking a tangled workflow or a messy database and transforming it into something architecturally beautiful. You can’t help but geek out over an elegant Airtable automation, a precisely segmented communications list, or a perfectly designed introduction framework.</div><div><strong>Thinks in systems, not just tasks</strong></div><div>You naturally see connections between different parts of the organization. When you solve a problem you’re always asking: “should this solution be made repeatable and if so, how?”</div><div><strong>Values being a multiplier</strong></div><div>You understand that your role exists to amplify others’ effectiveness. The best days are when your behind-the-scenes infrastructure allows program teams to seamlessly make a high-impact introduction, send a perfectly timed email, or track a community member from first touchpoint to funded venture.</div><div><strong>Communicates with patience and clarity</strong></div><div>You can explain technical concepts to non-technical people without making them feel foolish. You write clear documentation and enjoy acting as a coach or teacher when rolling out new systems.</div><div><strong>Thinks like a detective</strong></div><div>When something breaks or a community member falls through the cracks, you’re curious rather than frustrated. You enjoy troubleshooting, investigating root causes, and finding elegant solutions that prevent the same gap from appearing twice.</div><div><br><strong>Key Areas of Responsibility</strong></div><div><strong>Community Systems &amp; Data Infrastructure (50%)</strong></div><div><strong>Community Data Architecture &amp; System</strong></div><ul><li>Own and continuously evolve Praxis’s database (Airtable) as the authoritative system of record for community relationships, capturing relationship depth, engagement history, and possible contributions</li><li>Conduct ongoing internal research to identify pain points in community workflows and build project plans for improvements</li><li>Ensure data hygiene across tools and cross-team usability, building toward a shared organizational view of the community</li><li>Identify and oversee technical contractors as needed for system improvements</li></ul><div><br><strong>Engagement Workflow &amp; Community Health</strong></div><ul><li>Design and operate inbound community cultivation workflows — how new members are captured and drawn into formation and activation pathways</li><li>Build and manage engagement cadences that keep the community warm, informed, and connected between major touchpoints</li><li>Develop community health dashboards that give leadership visibility into relationship depth, engagement levels, and ecosystem activity</li><li>Identify and implement AI-driven automation in community workflows; train team members on AI-enabled tools (Claude, Granola, Perplexity)</li></ul><div><br></div><h3><strong>Communications Systems &amp; Infrastructure (25%)</strong></h3><div><strong>Communications Tooling &amp; Infrastructure</strong></div><ul><li>Own and optimize the communications stack — including MixMax and email sequencing tools — enabling consistent, personalized outreach</li><li>Build and maintain segmentation logic and contact management workflows ensuring the right messages reach the right members</li><li>Develop and maintain templates, sequences, and cadences for recurring communications in partnership with initiative leaders</li><li>Monitor integrations between communications tools and the CRM, ensuring outreach activity informs community intelligence</li></ul><div><strong>AI-Powered Communications Workflows</strong></div><ul><li>Identify and implement AI-driven workflows that accelerate communications production — from drafting to personalization to segmentation</li><li>Train team members on AI-enabled tools, reducing administrative friction across program and community teams</li><li>Research and evaluate new communications technologies aligned with organizational budget and mission</li></ul><div><br></div><h3><strong>Project Production &amp; Outcome Facilitation (25%)</strong></h3><div><strong>Connection &amp; Introduction Infrastructure</strong></div><ul><li>Build and operate systems that surface community needs — capital, talent, expertise, design sessions, etc.</li><li>Develop frameworks for how Praxis facilitates high-quality, timely introductions across founders, funders, and builders</li><li>Maintain visibility into active projects and ventures, enabling proactive rather than reactive support</li></ul><div><strong>Outcome Tracking &amp; Ecosystem Reporting</strong></div><ul><li>Build and maintain reporting infrastructure tracking project outcomes, ecosystem activity, and community impact</li><li>Partner with Development Operations on the intersection of community data and fundraising intelligence</li><li>Develop dashboards and reporting rhythms giving leadership a clear picture of ecosystem health and return on community investment</li><li>Serve as systems partner to the Directors of Experiences and Engagement, ensuring event and program data flows into shared community systems</li></ul><div><strong>Critical Near Term Projects</strong></div><ul><li>Immersion in our existing data structures and workflows across all tools and platforms, developing a clear and documented understanding of how information flows through the organization.</li><li>Assess workflows to identify quick-win opportunities for efficiency gains, and translate findings into actionable solutions</li><li>Design and implement improved workflows for how we manage, and deliver communications to our community, including clearer processes, ownership, and tooling.</li></ul><div><strong>Expected Competencies for the Role</strong></div><ul><li>7+ years in technology, operations, or ecosystem development, ideally in a network-centric organization where relationship capital is central to outcomes (philanthropy, venture capital, or impact-oriented ventures)</li><li>Deep expertise designing and maintaining complex databases, including automations, interface design, and data architecture</li><li>Demonstrated experience building communications infrastructure at scale</li><li>Skillfully and comfortably use the Praxis set of digital tools, including Google Suite, Airtable, Slack, Asana, MixMax, Notion, and Dropbox</li><li>Systems thinking mindset with the ability to design workflows that are elegant and resilient</li><li>Experience with building AI-embedded tools from the ground up</li><li>Strong written and verbal communication skills with a service orientation toward internal stakeholders</li><li>Ability to balance multiple priorities across community, communications, and project production</li></ul><div><br><strong>What Success Looks Like</strong></div><div>Success in this role is measured by your ability to be the connective tissue of the Praxis community by reducing friction so dramatically that program teams can focus entirely on mission-critical work while the community feels genuinely known, cared for, and connected. Concretely, you’ll know you’re succeeding when:</div><ul><li>Praxis has a data system that is genuinely trusted as the organizational source of truth for community relationships, with high adoption and clean data across all three initiatives</li><li>Community engagement cadences are running consistently and measurably improving relationship depth and member activation</li><li>The introductions and connections Praxis facilitates are faster, more targeted, and more impactful, with outcomes tracked and visible to leadership</li><li>Communications infrastructure allows program teams to reach the right community members with personalized, timely messages without burdening recipients with communications overload</li><li>AI-powered workflows have demonstrably reduced overhead and increased velocity across community and communications work</li></ul><div><br><strong>Additional Details</strong></div><div><strong>Location:</strong> New York City, NY (Manhattan HQ preferred); remote considered</div><div><strong>Travel:</strong></div><ul><li>15–25 days/year including team meetings and events</li><li>Quarterly team meetings at NYC HQ</li><li>Annual Summit in Napa Valley, CA</li><li>Potentially 1–2 other Praxis events throughout the year</li><li>All travel expenses covered by Praxis</li></ul><div><strong>Reports to:</strong> Partner, Capital</div><div><br><strong>Compensation</strong></div><ul><li>Range: $115,000–$140,000 based on experience and location (HQ-based candidates are paid more).<ul><li>For all Praxis roles, we are open to candidates who are ‘outside of range’. That is to say, growth-minded applicants at an earlier stage of career and comp, or candidates with experience above the highest end of the job description and compensation range, are welcome &amp; encouraged to apply.</li></ul></li><li>Comprehensive benefits including fully paid health insurance for families</li><li>5% matching 401k</li><li>Flexible vacation policy</li></ul><div><br><strong>Cultural Alignment</strong></div><div>Praxis finds its theological identity most clearly stated in the Lausanne Covenant (1974) and the Cape Town Commitment (2010). All Praxis staff and program participants are asked to affirm The Apostles’ Creed as a statement of their own beliefs. The ideal candidate will demonstrate alignment with the above, as well as our mission to advance redemptive entrepreneurship. We’re seeking a leader who combines operational excellence with a spirit of humility and service, contributing to our vision of building an organization that embodies redemptive principles in all aspects of its work and culture, which includes shared rhythms such as daily team prayer and a company-wide weekly Sabbath, as detailed in our Rule of Life for Redemptive Entrepreneurs (rule.praxislabs.org).</div><div>Praxis is an equal opportunity employer committed to building a diverse and inclusive team. We believe that the work of awakening redemptive imagination is strongest when it draws from the full breadth of God’s people.</div><div><br><strong>About Praxis</strong></div><div>Praxis began in 2011 with a desire to support and equip Christian entrepreneurs and has grown steadily into a 25+ person, NY-centric team advancing the redemptive quests of founders, funders, and innovators motivated by their faith to address the major issues of our time. As a $12M+/year nonprofit with ambitious growth plans, we're expanding our venture-building work globally, organizing around the major issues of our time, and building media and more to activate the redemptive potential of Christians around the world. We see our team as the first carriers of the mission, building an organization that is great to work at, excellent in its craft, and redemptive in its finances as well as its programs.</div>

Director, Community Systems

<div>Is God calling you to ministry?<br><br></div><div>For over 70 years, The Billy Graham Evangelistic Association (BGEA) has proclaimed the Gospel through its various ministries. Whether you work at our headquarters in Charlotte, North Carolina, the Billy Graham Library in Charlotte, North Carolina, the Billy Graham Training Center at the Cove (BGTC) in Asheville, North Carolina, Blue Ridge Broadcasting (BRB) in Asheville, North Carolina or a field office abroad, you are part of a team of committed Christians working together to reach people to the ends of the earth with the Gospel.<br><br></div><div><strong><br>CHRISTIAN PURPOSE AND EXPECTATIONS:<br></strong><br></div><div>All employees proclaim the Gospel of Jesus Christ through their employment, and thereby further BGEA’s religious mission.<br><br></div><div><strong>Department Detail –</strong> The BGEA Information Technology (IT) department consists of the following areas: Operations (networking/routing, servers, storage, security cameras, telephony), Service Desk (end-user hardware and software management/support, event support, general IT assistance), Cybersecurity (threat defense, monitoring/analysis, awareness, and compliance), Enterprise Solutions (application and web development, data visualization, report writing, database management), and Enterprise Solutions Support (Donor/CRM, Financial, HR, and other ERP type solutions support).&nbsp; The IT department furthers the mission of BGEA through supporting, developing, scaling, and securing the assets, infrastructure, and programs required by all areas of the ministry while maintaining and ensuring their availability.<br><br></div><div><strong>Job Summary –</strong> The Senior Database Administrator architects, engineers, secures, automates, and optimizes BGEA’s enterprise data platforms across on-premises and cloud environments. The Senior DBA serves as the technical authority for relational database systems, high availability architecture, disaster recovery, data security, and database lifecycle management.<br><br></div><div>Ministry Requirements<br><br></div><ul><li>Maintains a personal, active relationship with Jesus Christ and is a consistent witness for Jesus Christ</li><li>Faithfully upholds BGEA in prayer</li><li>Participates in daily BGEA staff devotions including Bible reading, and leading group prayer as schedule permits</li><li>Demonstrates behavior aligned with BGEA’s Mission Statement, Statement of Faith, Hallmarks, policies, and expectations</li><li>Effectively represents Jesus Christ to those within both personal and professional spheres of influence</li></ul><div><br>Essential Duties and Responsibilities<br><br></div><ul><li>Architects, deploys, and manages relational database platforms including Microsoft SQL Server and MySQL across on-premises, hybrid, and cloud-hosted environments</li><li>Leads complex database migrations, version upgrades, and platform modernization efforts</li><li>Creates necessary ODBC, SSRS, etc. connections and assists IT development teams with connections to new instances.</li><li>Designs and enforces database performance standards including indexing strategy, query optimization,</li><li>Develops and maintains a multi-year enterprise database roadmap including capacity planning, lifecycle management,</li><li>Implements proactive performance monitoring, observability, and automated alerting using enterprise monitoring platforms.</li><li>Partners with development teams to review schema design, data models, and deployment pipelines to ensure scalability, maintainability, and performance.</li><li>Monitors and maintains security of BGEA databases by considering access requests and granting specific, appropriate permission to users</li><li>Monitors database activity and performance utilizing pertinent ministry-provided database analysis tools</li><li>Designs and tests enterprise-grade High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR) strategies including Always On Availability Groups, replication, failover clustering, and geo-redundant backup strategies. Conducts regular failover and restoration testing.</li><li>Ensures timely, efficient database restoration in the event of system failure</li><li>Assists in daily Information Technology (IT) operations including, but not limited to diagnosis of problems and completing regularly scheduled activities</li><li>Automates operational database tasks using PowerShell, T-SQL, Infrastructure-as-Code, and configuration management tooling to reduce manual intervention and improve reliability.</li><li>Serves as advisor to management regarding technical direction</li><li>Reviews ministry technology requests or database requirements making recommendations and developing quotes where needed.</li><li>Provides architectural oversight for third-party and SaaS integrations, ensuring secure and performant data exchange patterns (APIs, replication, ETL).</li></ul><div><br>Marginal Duties and Responsibilities<br><br></div><ul><li>Researches and evaluates emerging database technologies, automation tooling, and data platform innovations. Provides benchmark data and strategic recommendations.</li><li>Other duties as assigned</li></ul><div><br>Job Specifications<br><br></div><div><strong><br>Skills and Knowledge<br></strong><br></div><ul><li>Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field OR 10+ years of enterprise database engineering experience.</li><li>Minimum of 8 years’ experience working within an MS SQL environment, with a strong command of MS T-SQL language</li><li>Proven proficiency within current supported versions of MySQL and MSSQL</li><li>Proven ability to understand and work with database analysis tools such as SSMS, SQL Diagnostic Manager, PMM, etc</li><li>Proficiency in working with automation frameworks (PowerShell, Terraform, Ansible, etc.)</li><li>Solid understanding of HA and DR architecture for enterprise database systems</li><li>Proven ability and desire to support and monitor IT software and hardware standard compliancy</li><li>Proven knowledge of client/server architecture</li><li>Strong initiative with ability to work independently relative to assigned priorities</li><li>Strong relational, verbal, and written communications skills, with ability to understandably communicate the “large picture” to a wide range of audiences</li><li>Good comprehension and listening skills, with ability to resolve business challenges</li><li>Proven understanding of MS Office and Windows OS</li></ul><div><strong><br>Physical/Mental Demands<br></strong><br></div><ul><li>Ability to maintain confidentiality</li><li>Flexibility and initiative to adapt to changing circumstances</li><li>Willingness to remain accessible by cell phone/pager</li><li>Strong ability to see projects through to completion</li><li>Ability to deal simultaneously with multiple tasks and projects</li><li>Ability to work productively despite frequent interruptions</li><li>Ability and desire to contribute substantially in a progressive IT environment</li><li>Excellent organizational ability to effectively prioritize tasks</li><li>Consistently high level of integrity and professionalism</li></ul><div><strong><br>Working Conditions<br></strong><br></div><ul><li>Conventional office and IT environment</li></ul><div><br>Mission Statement<br><br></div><div>Continuing the lifelong work of Billy Graham, the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association exists to support and extend the evangelistic calling and ministry of Franklin Graham by proclaiming the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ to all we can by every effective means available to us and by equipping the church and others to do the same.</div>

Senior Database Administrator

<div><strong>Get Involved!<br></strong><br></div><div>Samaritan's Purse is seeking a <strong>Manager, Technology &amp; Data</strong> to join our <strong>U.S Rebuild</strong> team in <strong>North Wilkesboro, NC</strong>. As a <strong>Manager, Technology &amp; Data</strong>, you will be responsible for building and leading information technology and data strategies for U.S. Rebuild and managing a team focused on implementing those strategies in partnership with Samaritans Purse IT and other internal and external resources. You will proactively explore new and emerging technologies, data sources, partnerships, and other solutions to support the needs of the department and the vision of U.S. Rebuild and Samaritans Purse leadership. You will serve as primary liaison and lead collaborative efforts between U.S. Rebuild and related teams (business systems, data enablement, reporting) in IT and other departments.</div><div>&nbsp;&nbsp;</div><div><strong>A day in the life of a Manager, Technology &amp; Data:</strong></div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>At Samaritan's Purse, the Gospel really is the center of all we do!&nbsp; We start each day with a time of devotions and spend time praying for each other, our staff and volunteers who serve around the globe.&nbsp;</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>In the role of <strong>Manager, Technology &amp; Data,</strong> you will have the opportunity to:</div><ul><li>Maintain your personal relationship with Jesus Christ and be an effective witness for Him</li><li>Lead the U.S. Rebuild IT &amp; Data Systems team in supporting U.S. Rebuild through IT project management, technical support (at all levels) of custom and third-party applications, geospatial technology and analysis, data visualization and analysis, and other innovative solutions.</li><li>Liaise with Information Technology department to secure necessary IT resources for U.S. Rebuild initiatives, and assign U.S. Rebuild resources to support projects as required.</li><li>Lead, collaborate, and synchronize with IT and other business leads within the ministry to build alignment on business systems, data, and reporting.</li><li>Identify opportunities to support data-informed decision making at all levels of U.S Rebuild, and assign resources in partnership with the U.S. Rebuild leadership to acquire, interpret, model, and present relevant data to the correct audiences.</li><li>Lead and maintain regular and open communication with U.S. Rebuild staff in order to monitor the effectiveness of ministry and department systems, identify system issues and technology gaps, and analyze potential opportunities.</li><li>Advise senior U.S. Rebuild leadership on software, hardware, and related needs and opportunities in cooperation with the IT department, and evaluate new and emerging solutions that support the work of U.S. Rebuild and the mission of Samaritans Purse.</li><li>Collaborate alongside the U.S. Rebuild Training Program Manager and other stakeholders to plan and implement change management and training strategies for department technology rollouts, and manages hypercare/ongoing customer support.</li><li>Support teams across U.S. Rebuild and the broader ministry with special projects and assignments as needed.</li><li>All other duties as assigned</li></ul><div>&nbsp;</div><div><strong>Qualifications &amp; Experience</strong>:</div><ul><li>Bachelors degree in Information Technology, Data Management, or closely related discipline and five (5) to seven (7) years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience in Information Technology or Data Management.</li><li>Knowledge of information technology, project management, and Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) best practices</li><li>Familiarity with Agile project management framework</li><li>Experience with software vetting, implementations, troubleshooting, and maintenance</li><li>Ability to recognize problems, develop and evaluate data, determine solutions, and make logical recommendations</li><li>General knowledge of data management and data analysis principles</li><li>Ability to coach and mentor others</li><li>12 credit hours of college-level Biblical Studies (required); if not already completed, opportunity to meet and complete the requirement is available upon hire</li></ul><div>&nbsp;</div><div><strong>Job Location:</strong> North Wilkesboro, NC</div><div><strong>Type:</strong> Full-time</div><div><strong>Language Requirement:</strong> Fluency in English (required)</div><div><br></div><div><strong>Benefits:</strong></div><ul><li>Medical, prescription, dental &amp; vision insurance</li><li>Flexible Spending Account (FSA)</li><li>Long-term and Short-term disability insurance</li><li>Paid Family Medical Leave</li><li>Term Life Insurance</li><li>401(k) retirement savings plan</li><li>10 paid holidays</li><li>12 vacation/personal days</li><li>10 sick days</li></ul>

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