Senior Writer & Storyteller

All God's Children International is actively seeking a dedicated individual to serve as our Senior Writer and Storyteller.
 

The Senior Writer and Storyteller serves as the lead narrative architect for All God’s Children International. This role ensures that all high-stakes messaging, across donor segments, campaigns, and platforms, reflects the heart of AGCI’s mission.
 

This is a high-level storytelling role, not a generalist content position. The Senior Writer and Storyteller is a strategic thinker, deeply creative, and unafraid to think outside the box to bring fresh, meaningful perspectives to AGCI’s mission. This role connects deep personal faith and seamlessly integrates biblical principles, Kingdom vision, and spiritual truths into compelling narratives. This role authentically connects God’s calling with the tangible work being done in the lives of children in a way that upholds the dignity and worth of every individual AGCI serves.
 

The Senior Writer and Storyteller works cross-functionally to bring clarity, resonance, and spiritual depth to donor communications, helping others see their place in God’s redemptive story through AGCI’s work.  

ABOUT US

We are the world’s leading child advocacy and trauma disruptor organization. For 30+ years and counting, we have remained relentless in our commitment to stand up for children who need family by working across the continuum of care to dismantle systemic trauma.
 

Today, we are unlocking possibilities for over 123,000 children per year across the globe. Our reach has expanded across 25 countries spanning five continents. We work every day to dismantle the systemic trauma that sits at the heart of the orphan crisis that still affects over 8 million children. Thanks to God’s provision, children facing the darkest realities experience powerful emotional healing every day and learn the hope of the Gospel. Because no child should be alone.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES 

NARRATIVE STRATEGY & MESSAGING DEVELOPMENT

• Develop messaging that reflects AGCI’s Christ-centered identity, integrating spiritual themes of family, healing, redemption, justice, and calling into our storytelling. 
• Lead the development of key messaging frameworks and story arcs for donor segments, including the Trauma Disruptor Coalition (TDC).
• Collaborate with Advancement, Global Communications specialist, and Program Leaders to develop compelling donor offers. 
• Integrate donor and audience insights (quantitative and qualitative) to inform messaging, identify emotional triggers, and refine campaign concepts.
• Ensure stories and campaigns align with the annual content calendar and AGCI’s strategic vision.  
• Translate complex programmatic concepts into spiritually compelling narratives that invite action, generosity, and prayer. 
• Adapt stories for use in different marketing channels such as social media, website, blogs, video, and digital audio. 
• Use donor insights and campaign performance data to refine story emphasis, messaging tone, and offer positioning across channels and segments.
• Shares stories with internal stakeholders that inspire and increase AGCI staff capacity to communicate the heart and mission of AGCI. 
• Monitor storytelling trends, donor values shifts, and next-gen communication styles to keep AGCI’s voice fresh, relevant, and missionally anchored.

HIGH-VALUE WRITING & EDITING 

• Write and edit high-impact materials, including Donor Cases for Support, Appeals, TDC content, President messages, Event and Campaign Scripts, video scripts, and impact reports. 
• Collaborates with the creative team to bring visual stories and content to reality. 
• Refine drafts from internal and external contributors to align tone, structure, and campaign goals. 
• Provides final editorial review on high-stakes content to ensure alignment with AGCI’s voice and mission.
• Supports the Marketing team in the development of marketing materials and digital content. 

CROSS-TEAM COLLABORATION

• Partner with Global Communications Specialist and field teams to translate field stories into donor-ready materials. 
• Work closely with Advancement on donor journeys, appeals, events, and campaign messaging. 
• Participate in campaign ideation from offer development to execution, ensuring message alignment across the lifecycle from insight to impact.
• Support the Director of Marketing in maintaining the tone/voice guide and narrative standards. 
• Provide coaching and feedback to local storytellers to strengthen global story alignment while honoring local voices and ownership.

STORY MANAGEMENT AND PLANNING

• Organizes and maintains a library of stories and content for use by various teams. 
• Participates in story planning with US and Global teams and creates a calendar and timeline for deliverables. 
• Monitors global storytelling channels for organic storytelling opportunities or urgent needs that can be shaped into appeals or offers. 
• Apply content tiering to match the story tone, length, and polish level to its intended channel, audience, and urgency.
• Collaborates with Advancement and the Global Impact team to deliver high-quality stories for external stakeholders such as foundations, grants, and institutional partners. 
• Track content performance (e.g., time on page, video completion rate, engagement) and gather qualitative feedback to refine tone, structure, and messaging over time. 

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES

None

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Additional experience in the following areas is preferred. 

• Experience working cross-culturally or in global nonprofits.
• Familiarity with trauma-informed storytelling and ethical content practices.
• Background in journalism, creative writing, theology, psychology, or humanitarian work.
• Experience developing content for both mass and major donor segments.
• Willing and able to travel internationally as needed. 

EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE
Bachelor’s degree in communications, journalism, international relations, theology, psychology, or a related field and 5 to 8+ years of experience in non-profit communications. Preferred candidates will have experience within the child and family services sector and demonstrate a deep understanding of trauma’s root causes and effects on children, families, and communities.
 

WORKING SKILLS
Candidates must be able to communicate how AGCI’s work disrupts cycles of trauma. On-the-job training, including training in Trust-Based Relational Intervention (TBRI®), will be provided based on the individual's needs and experience.

• Trauma-informed storytelling: Ability to speak to the causes, cycles, and impacts of trauma in a way that honors dignity, invites empathy, and points to restoration through AGCI’s model. 
• Skilled in Donor communications: Skilled in empathy mapping, audience segmentation, and journey mapping to connect storytelling to real supporter behavior.
• Programmatic translation: Proven ability to distill complex, programmatic work – including trauma-focused interventions – into clear, emotionally resonant messaging that connects with donors.   
• Creativity and Innovation: Ability to think outside the box and develop innovative storytelling approaches. 
• Project Management Skills: Ability to manage multiple projects and meet deadlines. 

LANGUAGE SKILLS
Exceptional writing and communications skills are required, including the ability to craft clear, concise, and engaging content that will inspire and engage diverse audiences. Ability to read, analyze, and interpret stories, correspondence, reports, or content from a variety of cultural contexts. Ability to write error-free business correspondence, reports, and presentation materials. Ability to effectively distill and explain complex concepts in a simple, compelling, and trauma-informed way for donors/sponsors, clients, government agencies, vendors, organization partners, and the general public.
 

MATHEMATICAL SKILLS
Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Calculates currency conversion, discounts, and interest, when needed.
 

COMPUTER SKILLS
Job requires advanced basic computer skills, including logging on to systems, word processing, spreadsheet, report writing, project management, presentation creation/editing, database, use of the internet, and communication by e-mail. Proficiency in Microsoft 365, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Teams, and experience with digital communication tools, including content management systems (CMS), social media management platforms, and email marketing software, is required. Experience with collaboration and project management tools (e.g., Asana, Trello) is preferred. 

REASONING ABILITY
Ability to work with and protect extremely confidential files and information, and have the appropriate discernment regarding handling issues of varying complexity and sensitivity. Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions, and can deal with a variety of abstract and concrete variables. Has the discretion to weigh the levity of an issue and pass it along to the appropriate party/leader within the organization, as needed. 

CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS
Must possess a valid driver’s license and be able to supply appropriate documentation/identification to travel authorities when traveling domestically and internationally.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS 

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.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, stand, walk, or hike, use stairways to climb to multiple floors within office buildings, use hands and fingers to keyboard or dial, reach with hands and arms, and see, smell, talk, or hear. The employee must have the ability to lift and/or move up to 50 pounds, especially while traveling. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close and distance vision, the ability to distinguish colors, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus, especially with frequent computer use. Strong physical fitness will be required to be successful in this job. 

WORK ENVIRONMENT
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

The work environment while traveling domestically or internationally could contain several environmental factors, including, but not limited to outdoor weather conditions (extreme hot/cold), work in countries with high incidence of illness/disease or poor living conditions of its inhabitants, political unrest/danger and physical obstacles and/or hazards.
 

The noise level in the office work environment is usually moderate; noise levels in travel to various countries could range from quiet to extremely loud, depending on the varying conditions.

TELEWORK ELIGIBILITY

This position is telework-eligible. AGCI may offer telecommuting and remote work to some employees when it would benefit the organization and the employee. AGCI employees approved for teleworking will be responsible for demonstrating a high standard of work ethic and maintaining the expected quantity and quality of work set forth by their manager. AGCI’s Telecommuting and Remote Work Policy will guide standards and specific eligibility requirements for telework.
 

This position requires the successful completion of an extensive criminal background check. All candidates must be legally eligible to work in the United States without company sponsorship.  All team members at All God's Children International are required to agree to and abide by our Statement of Faith.
 

COMPENSATION

$65,000 - $75,000/year depending on experience.
 

BENEFITS

We offer a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, short & long-term disability, FSA/HSA, PTO, 401k, and 11 paid holidays.

HOW TO APPLY

Please submit your application through our Careers page at https://allgodschildren.org/about-agci/careers/. To apply, submit your resume and cover letter. Your cover letter should speak to your qualifications and interest in this role. Please note that applications without the required materials will not be considered.

OUR STATEMENT OF FAITH

All God’s Children International believes…
 

…the Bible is the sole, inerrant, and infallible Word of God, verbally inspired by Him, and is the only and final authority for the Christian faith and life
 

…that there is one triune God, as revealed in the Bible, eternally existent in the persons of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. These three are one in essence, but distinct in person and function:
 

…God the Father is the first person of the Trinity. As infinite Spirit, He is the source, support, and end of all things. He is the designer of creation, speaker of revelation, the author of redemption, and the sovereign of history.
 

…Jesus Christ is the second person of the Trinity. In His incarnation, He was fully God and fully man. By His virgin birth, sinless life, miracles, vicarious and atoning death through His shed blood, and His bodily resurrection, He became the physical manifestation of the Godhead and Savior to mankind.
 

…the Holy Spirit is the third person of the Trinity. He is the agent of conviction, salvation, indwelling, baptism, sanctification, and illumination of all who are born into God’s family through Jesus Christ.
 

…that any man can receive the free gift of salvation and eternal life through the saving power of the Holy Spirit, by repentance of sin, and by placing personal faith in the person and finished work of Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior.
 

…in the resurrection of both saved and unsaved people. The saved are resurrected into eternal, conscious fellowship with the Lord, and the unsaved are resurrected into eternal separation.
 

…in the spiritual unity of believers through the indwelling power of the Holy Spirit which brings all believers into union with Jesus Christ and with His body, the church.
 

…that the scriptural practices of the church, given by the Lord, are Baptism and Communion.
 

…that God has ordained the local church for the perpetuation of His truth and work in the world.