Hybrid Area Correlation Manager

at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

• Job title: Area Correlation Manager
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior, Lead
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Calgary, Canada

About the role

• Manage area Correlation policy, product planning, and doctrinal/IP/data-privacy oversight for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Responsibilities

• Under the direction of the area presidency, manage all Correlation policies, processes, and procedures established by the First Presidency and Quorum of the Twelve to protect the Church.
• Perform a regulatory Correlation oversight role related to product planning/budgeting, IP, data privacy, visual identity, doctrinal accuracy, and research for all area employees and volunteers involved with publishing and messaging.
• Help the area presidency make strategic decisions about published products, including supervising the opt-in annual planning and budgeting process with all area staff.
• Supervise all product planning, doctrinal review, intellectual property (including visual identity and data privacy) review, and research activities in the area.
• Manage the Area Materials Evaluation Committee who review content for doctrinal accuracy and ensure Doctrinal Evaluation Reviewers are called, set apart, and trained.
• Authority to freeze the publishing budget and stop publishing work if it does not have a certified product plan or align with approved Church policy and procedures.
• Manage all outside contractors and vendors performing research for the area and ensure local research contractors and vendors are properly hired and supervised.
• Ensure area production work is done under certified product plans; that publishing projects define audiences, purposes, goals, and success measures; and that individual deliverables have Publishing Deliverable numbers.
• Support the area presidency in responding to the annual product language survey and prioritize First Presidency/Twelve high-priority products for translation resources.
• Ensure the Church’s research policy is followed, Correlation Research consultation is used as needed, research participants are approved in advance, and appropriate formative/summative research is conducted.
• Ensure all intellectual property assets used are owned by the Church or permissions are obtained; report misuse/infringement; ensure area content identifies as coming from the Church per the Global Visual Style Guide.
• Ensure no information is gathered or stored in violation of Church data privacy policies; report suspected/actual unauthorized access; submit individual data access/erasure requests to the Data Privacy Office; complete regular privacy-risk assessments for area systems.
• Report directly to the area presidency for Correlation functions and represent the area presidency to area staff; the area DTA assists with administrative/operational needs.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or advanced degree or equivalent (preferred)
• Exceptional project management skills
• Managerial and supervision skills
• Strategic planning mindset and experience
• Strong written and oral communication skills
• Outstanding ability to work successfully with others
• Excellent understanding of Church doctrine
• Strong executive presentation abilities
• Ability to learn quickly and pay attention to detail
• 10 or more years of experience in one or, preferably, more of the following fields: project management; supervision of staff/volunteers/contractors/vendors; strategic planning; product planning and budgeting; teaching Church doctrine; intellectual property; organizational branding; data privacy; research (strategic, formative, and/or summative)
• Must be an endowed member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints with a current temple recommend.

Benefits

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