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Employment changes should be thoughtfully and prayerfully made. If the missionary is considering employment changes that are being influence by Covid-19, fear, anxiety, etc. Then those changes should be discerned, prayed over, and discussed with their supervisor and when appropriate the Program Team Leader.

Coach

For the missionary in Initial MTD, the Coach is often the first person to hear the missionary's thoughts.  Or the coach may be first to bump into absences, or performance issues. Ultimately, changes in employment choices need to be approved, perhaps guided by the local supervisor and/or the Program Leader. 

As coach, you still may wish to You can help the missionary process what potential changes they are considering by asking questions. However this is not an area for you to give advice in.  Do not give employment advice. The missionary needs to discuss any potential employment changes with their supervisor. If the changes are more drastic, are related to Covid-19, or have a concern attached such as good questions.  When adjustments are made due to growth in the MTD fund, or due to having less funds than expected, you see the numbers and may wish to help the fund-raiser project their situation in future months.   When the fund-raiser is incrementally increasing his or her salary based on pre-set strategy, feel free to support that progress. 

However if a fund-raiser starts creating a new strategy due to unexpected circumstances, or fear, the coach's role is to engage the Program team and / or the local supervisor. When a missionary starts asking "is Reliant ok with this?" then the Program team leader must be included in the communication about that decisioncoach's role needs to include "let's find out" and engage those who decide if it's ok.  Most often the coach needs to reach out to the Liaison or Vertical leader to ensure they are engaging with the missionary. The missionary also needs to discuss any potential employment changes with their supervisor.

Supervisor

Should be in conversation with the missionary about the MTD efforts and any potential employment changes the missionary wants to make. Most often the missionary is close to the supervisor, and the MTD coach can encourage good interaction between missionary and supervisor.  

Program

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Teams 

The Program Team Leaders are Mike Swann- Collegiate/ GCM churches, CJ White- US churches and ministries, Cori Crawford Van Oss- International, Matt Elkins- Fixed TermElkins Fixed term/100 UPG.

The program teams are responsible to guide HR changes and missionary notifications. Each vertical has unique processing systems with employment services. 

They should be included in conversation on any missionary employment changes that are more drastic, are related to Covid-19, or have a concern attached such as "is Reliant ok with this?"

Paperwork

Not all but most Many employment changes require a ministry change form to be filled out. You For the US and Collegiate verticals you can find that here. For international  contact international@reliant.org. 

Employment Guidelines

We always want to the employment status on record to accurately reflect what the fund-raiser is doing.   Yes, this may be approximate and vary slightly week to week.  However, we never record someone as half-time, when they are in fact working full-time.  This would put Reliant at risk because there are laws (and legal cases) that require us to pay a worker according to the amount of work they do.  The variable that any worker can tap into is the adjustment of salary.  

If you are seeking further clarity in a particular situation you have, please email MTD@reliant.org.

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