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Procedure Name:Employee Annual Reviews
Scope:Collegiate & US Employees
Revision Date:March 15, 2023
Last Review Date:March 15, 2024

Annual Reviews and New Salaries 

Supervisors, we appreciate the ministry of supervision you provide our employees! Once a year, Reliant employees and supervisors evaluate their jobs and review their performances. After evaluations are completed, Reliant program team leads work together with Supervisors and/or the church or ministry's compensation teams to set updated salaries for the coming year.

As a reminder, here are a few distinctions to our newer Annual Review process:

  • This document will be a shared resource between the Employee and their Supervisor.
  • The Employee will complete their portion and then share this resource with their Supervisor to fill out their section.
    • For Collegiate Program Team only: Pastors, pastor spouses, and local church board members - you will share this with your supervisor and your church personnel committee.
  • Once completed, the Supervisor (or Personnel Committee) will write their name(s) at the bottom of the document and add a comment that says Completed.

Upcoming dates to keep in mind

  • April 5Employee completes the Employee Input section of the Annual Review and shares it with their Supervisor.

    • For Collegiate Program Team only: Pastors, pastor spouses, and board members will share this with their church personnel committee and supervisor.
  • April 30: Supervisors complete the Annual Review.
  • May 1 - June 5: Compensation review conversations between Program Team Leader and local compensation decision-makers.
    • Reliant will send a follow-up email to church leadership once all your evaluations are completed to schedule this time.
  • June 20: Employee compensation updated, and employee notified by email.
  • July 16: Deadline for employees to accept new salaries for August paycheck.

What to do next?

  • Both Employees and Supervisors can review this entire page so that they are ready to complete the Annual Review when it is sent to them.
  • Field Staff, watch your Reliant email inbox for an email with a link to the Annual Review.
  • Supervisors, the employee will notify you when he or she completes the Employee Input portion of the Annual Review, so watch your inbox for that notification. Then, you will fill out the Supervisor Input section. 

Annual Review Instructions


Step-by-step Instructions for Employee
Employee
  1. Find your most current Job Description. You will refer to it as you complete the Employee Input portion of the Annual Review.
    1. If you cannot find your job description or do not believe you have an updated one, be prepared to give your best estimation of your primary roles during your review. Then, work together with your local leadership to submit a new Job Description.
  2. In your Reliant email inbox, find the email with the link to the Annual Review.
  3. Click on the Annual Review Link to make a copy of the Google Sheet. You must be logged into your Reliant Google account before doing so.
  4. Rename the Google Sheet to "2024 Spring Annual Review (Last name, First Name)".
  5. Review the Employee Input tab. You will need to complete all of the boxes highlighted in blue. Once you complete the field, it will no longer be blue.

When complete, use the Share button in the upper right-hand corner and share the document with your Supervisor and any other person completing your Annual Review. (E.g., a Church Personnel Committee)

Step-by-step Instructions for Supervisor
Supervisor

After completing the Supervisor section of the Annual Review, it is strongly recommended that you meet with the Employee and review your assessment and feedback with them.

The Employee will share the Annual Review Google Sheet with you to begin the process, so please watch your inbox for that notification email.

  1. Once you access the Google Sheet, review the Employee Input tab to see how the Employee completed their self-assessment and comments.
  2. Go to the Supervisor Input tab. You will need to complete all of the boxes highlighted in yellow. Once you complete the field, it will no longer be yellow.

When complete, submit the Annual Review by typing your name at the bottom of the document and adding a comment that says Completed.

Historical Updates

Annual Review

The annual review begins with the missionary completing the Missionary Input tab, which allows them to do a self-assessment on their performance of MTD, Ministry Duties, Ministry Skills, and Character. They will also share their accomplishments over the past year and goals for the following year.

The Annual Review should be tailored to the job role. Like the previous version, the Missionary will add five to seven of their most significant ministry duties to the Review. The missionary can also select five ministry skills from a list (or add skills, not on the list) that are most necessary for their role and complete a self-assessment on those skills.

The rating scales have also been changed on the new Annual Review to more simplified language. 

After the Missionary completes their portion, they will share it with their Supervisors and/or other leaders who will complete the Annual Review. The Supervisor should review the Missionary Input tab and then fill out the Supervisor Input tab. The Missionary will be able to see what the Supervisor entered in the Annual Review.

Video Tutorials are available for Missionaries and Supervisors to view before starting their portions of the Annual Review.

Missionary Staff Level Updates

The titles and descriptions for Staff Levels have been updated for 2022. The new levels align closely with the previous levels, but the descriptions focus more on the responsibilities and experience required for the role. The transition to the new staff levels will occur over the next several months.

Missionary Staff Level Transition

The staff level for U.S.-based, career missionaries will automatically convert from the current levels to the new level names:

Previous Level NameNew Level Name
Missionary Staff 1Level 1
Missionary Staff 2Level 2
Missionary Staff 3Level 3
Pastor 1 / Minister / Field Manager / Church PlanterLevel 4
Pastor 2 / Minister / Field ManagerLevel 5
Pastor 3 / Minister / Field Manager / DirectorLevel 6

The salary ranges will also transfer over. (E.g., Missionary Staff 2 range will be the same as the Level 2 range for 2022.)

Supervisors, as part of the Annual Review, you will be asked if you would like to update the Staff Level for the Employee. Please make sure that you take some time to review the new Staff Levels and follow the instructions on the Annual Review for notifying Reliant that you'd like to make a change. Please get in touch with your Program Team (What Program Team Am I On?) if you have any questions. 

Job Description Template

If you do not have an updated Job Description that you have shared with Reliant, please go to Job Descriptions to submit a new one. While it is not mandatory to update your Job Description during the Annual Review season, it may make sense to do it now as you will be asked to refer to your Job Description as part of the Employee Input stage of the Review.

Questions?

 Kathy Zellinger

Email: kathy.zellinger@reliant.org

Phone: 407-502-0995

Title: Collegiate Program Liaison

Department: Collegiate Program Team

 Becca Isaak

Email: becca.isaak@reliant.org

Phone: 407-743-0076

Title: US Liaison

Department: U.S. Churches & Ministries Team

 

24 Comments

  1. Unknown User (ed.courtney@reliant.org), can you review this for editing. Can you also move it in to Missionary Policies for now.

    Thanks, MIke 

  2. Unknown User (ed.courtney@reliant.org)

    Mike Swann I edited this, but we should probably wait to put it in Missionary Policies until the new form is ready to link to. I'll make a note to update this page once the new form is completed and approved.

  3. Unknown User (ed.courtney@reliant.org)

    I set it up on a Solomon page but haven't gotten any feedback on it.

    Performance Evaluation

     

  4. Unknown User (ed.courtney@reliant.org)

    Mike Swann Tonya Bartels This page is now published in the field manual. Just let me know if you see anything to change.

  5. Tonya Bartels, this should be updated for Spring 2017

  6. user-1a794

    Mike Swann - where can i find the dates for spring 2017? 

  7. Hmm... Not sure. Here are this year's dates though (Just put in the deadlines, but you may need to change some of the verbiage

    • Now-Nov. 1: Complete the evaluation of your Reliant Missionaries and share with Cori.CrawfordVanOss@reliant.org. 

      • Nov. 15 Grace Dedlines
    • Nov 1 (Nov. 15th is grace deadline): Deadline for Reliant to receive your evaluation.
    • November: The Compensation decision makers from your church will get an email to schedule a time with Mike Swann
    • December 15: Compensation Notices go out to missionaries.
    • January 15: Deadline for missionaries to accept new salaries
  8. Spring Dates are above I think

  9. user-1a794

    subject line for initial emails: 

    It's Time for Fall Evaluations and New Salaries

     

  10. Unknown User (ed.courtney@reliant.org)

    user-1a794 Mike Swann user-a88de For the MTD question (we now ask two questions instead of one), for scoring purposes, I had the two questions averaged together so that it didn't throw off our total scoring system that we're using. I can change that if you'd like.

  11. agustina.karpiuk@reliant.org, yes, the board has approved 3%for next year (2018)
  12. CJ Whiteand user-af632. We don't actually use this email, but I did start with some initial dates for annual reviews here. I'll work more on this tomorrow.

  13. Unable to render {include} The included page could not be found.
    What is this "unable to render..." section? Mike Swann Kathy Zellinger
  14. Amber Blais it was probably b/c Mike Swann changed the name of page of the excerpt for KZ and he'll need to re-excerpt it.

  15. I just updated it so it is ready for user-af632to approve

  16. user-ca312

    Caleb Hayworth- so the top section says spring evaluations and not fall. do you want me to update that?

  17. user-ca312

    Sarah Swann- not sure if you are the reviewer for this page, since you created it. I noticed that this page said Spring vs Fall Evaluation, so I updated it. Can you please publish it? Thank you.

  18. user-ca312 once you hit reviewed (which is looks like you did)  it will automatically send an email who will go to the space designer who will then publish it. (smile) 

  19. Mike SwannCJ White - I updated this page with all the changes. Let me know what you think. I can also put the content that is under the horizontal line on another page. But I thought it might be helpful to be found with one click (rather than going to a bunch of pages).

  20. (Missionary Job Description Process)
    Caleb Hayworth this is the new link for this page: Job Descriptions