About The Salvation Army

Mission Statement

The Salvation Army exists to share the love of Jesus Christ, meet human needs and be a transforming influence in the communities of our world.

Vision Statement

We are an innovative partner, mobilized to share hope wherever there is hardship, building communities that are just and know the love of Jesus.

Core Values

The Salvation Army Canada and Bermuda has four core values:

Hope: We give hope through the power of the gospel of Jesus Christ.
Service: We reach out to support others without discrimination.
Dignity: We respect and value each other, recognizing everyone’s worth.
Stewardship: We responsibly manage the resources entrusted to us.

To learn more about the work of The Salvation Army (TSA), check us out at The Salvation Army - About Us.

About the Position

This position provides advice and guidance to both the Territorial Candidates Secretary and Territorial Youth Secretary by researching and identifying trends in the church regarding children, youth, and young adults. This role has a dual purpose, to help define, understand, assess, and cultivate interest in exploring full time ministry within the Salvation Army and write relevant material to support engagement for children, youth and young adults in the Salvation Army as a whole. This role provides support in the areas of research, curriculum development, tools and resource creation for both the Candidates and Youth department.

Research

• Create and engage in relevant quantitative research with respect to trends in the church regarding children. Youth and Young adults, using focus groups around research target groups and one on one interviewing, along with any other relevant methods. This will be done in collaboration with the Territorial Candidates Secretary and the Candidates Department, Territorial Youth Secretary and the CANBDA Youth department.
• Review current research, summarize and create a report.
• Identify areas requiring improvement and provide potential strategies to make those improvements for both the Territorial Candidates Secretary and the Candidates Department, Territorial Youth Secretary and the CANBDA Youth department

Resource Creation

Youth

• Create relevant Bible study material, Deeper orange material (Sunday school)
• Work with curriculum experts to produce new resources and tools to support national resourcing package
• Writing content for monthly leadership training newsletter and video
• Contributing to the development of resource material for annual national event for children and families

Candidates (working in collaboration with the Candidates department)

Assist with the creation of the following resources.

• Advent and Lent studies
• Call and Commitment 2024
• Candidates ARC: resources for different spaces.

Resource material for Website: FAQ’s, history page (old campaigns, good news stories), glossary of terms

• Completion of high school diploma
• Working toward completion of a university degree in research, curriculum development or related field
• Up to one (1) year of related experience
• Experience working on a research project would be considered an asset.

• Attention to detail, problem solving and analytical skills.
• Strong sense of integrity and confidentiality with professional ethics and a balanced sense of fairness and flexibility.
• Respect and understanding of The Salvation Army - its mission, culture, and values
• Able to work in a consultative, diplomatic and tactful manner
• Strong sense of integrity with professional ethics and a balanced sense of fairness and flexibility
• Strong research skills
• Strong written and verbal communication skills - clear and simple to understand
• Effective organizational and time management skills – self-motivated and disciplined self-starter

Hours

This is a full-time contract position: 35 hours/week for 12 weeks.

Other Details

The Salvation Army will provide reasonable accommodation upon request. Please let us know if you have a need for any accommodation.

We thank all applicants and will contact candidates selected for next steps. Internal Applicants, please speak with your manager about your intentions prior to submitting your application.