Tours and Visits Specialist I

This entry-level professional specialist exists to provide Compassion visitors with an opportunity to experience the work of Compassion in the field through meeting sponsored children and students, visiting Compassion-assisted projects, and meeting Compassion field staff all of which provide visitors with exposure and learning opportunities that will educate them about Compassion's response to poverty, influence their cross cultural perspective, and motivate them towards child advocacy. This specialist plays a supporting role in shared accountability between GME, GP and GPA to for successful tours and visits. This specialist helps coordinate with the partnership team, facilitating church partners and others to plan logistics, book accommodations, arranges transportation, translators, gift purchase, and schedule activities and child/family home visits, while ensuring effective alignment to Compassion's child protection policy and expectations. Through the shared accountability, trips will be well executed and evaluated. All must be accomplished with specific budget parameters. At this level the incumbent may still be learning and assisting with tours and visits and generally works under the guidance of her or his supervisor or a more experienced specialist or as a team member on larger projects.