Director of Strategy & Innovation

Description

Join a company that truly impacts others!

Hope Media Group is a family of media brands, including KSBJ, WayFM, Worship 24/7, Vida Unida, and Hope Nation, along with the God Listens Prayer App and a growing portfolio of streaming stations. Together, we are united by a single mission: to engage people to love Jesus, serve others, and spread Hope. Through radio, digital content, mobile apps, and live events, we connect millions with messages that point to Jesus and inspire everyday impact. If you are passionate about using your gifts to advance the Kingdom through media, we invite you to explore joining our team. 

We are a collaborative, mission-driven organization shaped by values of being Hungry, Others-Oriented, Proactive, and Engaged. We take initiative, follow through, serve one another well, and stay fully invested in the work as we pursue excellence and meaningful impact together. 

Director of Strategy & Innovation

The Director of Strategy & Innovation serves as the operational engine and strategic partner to the Chief Impact Officer. This role ensures the seamless execution of enterprise-level alignment across Content, Technology, and Marketing, translating long-range ministry vision into scalable operational systems and measurable external impact.

Core Responsibilities/Essential Functions:

Operations & Cross-Functional Integration

? Execution Discipline: Establish organizational and execution discipline across teams,

tracking milestones, managing complex priorities, and unblocking cross-functional

projects.

? Executive Liaison: Interface regularly with the Hope Media Group Chief of Staff (CoS)

to align the CIO department’s operational cadences with broader enterprise objectives

and the CEO’s office.

? System Integration: Manage daily cross-functional coordination between Content,

Technology, and Marketing to break down silos and ensure they operate as an integrated

system aligned to audience journeys.

Strategy & Enterprise Alignment

? Outcome Mapping: Partner with the CIO to translate enterprise strategy into clear,

data-informed outcome metrics tied to audience reach, engagement, and spiritual

formation.

? Strategic Growth: Help design and execute initiatives that tilt the center of gravity

toward a digital, multi-platform future across radio, apps, video, and live events.

? Resource Optimization: Assist the CIO in leveraging research, audience insights, and

performance data to inform strategic resource allocation and decision-making.

Innovation & Emerging Media

? Futureproofing: Actively identify, pilot, and scale emerging technologies, frameworks

and media opportunities to expand audience reach and deepen engagement.

? Agile Piloting: Create a structured approach for testing new ideas, allowing HMG to act

as an early adopter of innovative platforms without disrupting core operations.

? Data-Informed Culture: Infuse data analytics capability into growth and

audience-retention strategies across all digital properties.

Formation & Facilitation

? Vision Translation: Translate long-range mission vision into measurable spiritual

formation objectives, ensuring that content strategy advances true ministry formation

rather than just promotional priorities.

? Internal Facilitation: Lead and facilitate internal discussions, cross-functional working

groups, and brainstorming sessions to uncover deep organizational insights and seamlessly translate those internal conversations into highly structured, actionable

plans.

? Change Management: Guide cross-functional teams through change-management

processes, fostering a collaborative, high-performing culture during organizational

transformation.

? Audience Journey Design: Design and facilitate the internal workshops and processes

required to architect the end-to-end audience experience and journeys.

Requirements

Requirements and Qualifications:

Education:

Bachelor’s degree in business, Communications, or related field; or work experience equivalent.

Demonstrated Faith:

• Committed to a personal relationship with Jesus Christ
• Grounded spiritually and biblically literate
• Comfortable praying for co-workers in team meetings, leading spoken prayer, and participating in ministry prayer meetings and Bible studies
• Live Christian principles defined by the ministry’s Statement of Faith & Biblical Beliefs
• Participate in on-air fundraisers and prays for donors as needed
• Passion for leveraging the HMG’s media platforms for evangelism and discipleship
• Exhibit a strong moral character
• Active member of a Bible believing local church

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Enterprise strategic thinking.
• Director-level communication skills.
• Experience leading through change.
• Strong team building and talent development skills.
• High emotional intelligence and collaborative leadership style.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

None

Working Conditions and Environment:

Travel:

Occasional travel for conferences, leadership retreats, and market engagement.

Nights/Weekends/Holidays:

Occasional for conferences or retreats.

Physical Requirements:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Physical Activity may include talking, expressing, or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word. Those activities in which they must convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly. Hearing. Perceiving the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction. Ability to receive detailed information through oral communication, and to make discrimination in sound. Repetitive motion. Substantial movements (motions) of the wrists, hands, and/or fingers including pinching, typing or otherwise working, primarily with fingers rather than the whole hand as in handling.

Light work. Exerting up to 20 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 10 pounds of force frequently, and/or a negligible amount of force constantly moving objects. If the use of arm and/or leg controls requires exertion of forces greater than that for sedentary work and the worker sits most of the time, the job is rated for light work.

The worker is required to have close visual acuity to perform an activity such as preparing and analyzing data and figures; transcribing; viewing a computer terminal; extensive reading.

• Full-Time Benefits Offerings:
• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• Health Savings Account w/employer contribution
• Flexible Savings Accounts
• Company Paid Short Term Disability/Long Term Disability
• EAP (Employee Assistance Program)
• Generous Paid Time Off (PTO)
• Three (3) Paid Mission Days
• Twelve (12) Company-Paid Holidays
• 403B Retirement with Company Match
• Group Life Insurance
• Legal Shield/Identity Theft Protection
• Access to Marketplace Ministry Chaplains 

Third-Party Recruiter Policy:

We are grateful for the interest of those who wish to support our hiring efforts. However, Hope Media Group does not accept unsolicited resumes or candidate referrals from external staffing agencies or search firms. Submissions from third parties will not be considered and may be retained without obligation or payment or fees.