Executive Director (CEO)

Medical Ministry International

Dallas, Texas

Overview

After more than 40 years as Executive Director of Medical Ministry International (MMI), Willie Hunter Jr., is now approaching 70 and the Board has sensed the Lord’s leading that it is time to transition to the next person God has prepared for this role. MMI is a 44-year-old ministry that offers thousands the opportunity to serve Jesus Christ by providing spiritual and physical healthcare to hundreds of thousands of the world’s poor. MMI is seeking a new leader who is passionate about seeing those needs met by growing MMI to even greater effectiveness and impact.

The Organization

Since 1968, Medical Ministry International has worked diligently to meet the need for medical care among the world’s poor with lasting solutions through excellence in medicine, patient care, and integrated health education.

MMI fulfills these ministry efforts by mobilizing volunteers into nearly forty countries on medical mission projects and, over time, establishing effective permanent medical centers in many of those areas. Each year, more than 1,500 people – doctors, dentists, nurses, surgeons, other health care professionals, and people with no medical training at all donate their time to serve on MMI projects. Volunteers come from a variety of Christian traditions and numerous local churches. The diversities represented are blended and unified to provide a significant healing ministry that is Good News to the poor.

MMI teams seek to minister in the name of Jesus and serve the least and the last on the economic scale. Integrated health is the key as MMI meets not only medical, dental, and surgical health needs – but also provides counseling for patients, coaching them through disease prevention, promoting health maintenance, and caring powerfully for the spiritual needs of their souls. The care MMI offers is typically the only healthcare that is available to these patients.

In 2010, MMI served 523,998 patients. And through the work of 1,535 medical volunteers and more than 1,500 in-country volunteers on 67 projects conducted in 23 countries MMI served 71,352 patients. MMI maintains 18 permanent medical centers located in Africa, Europe, Asia, South America, Central America and the Caribbean. In addition to direct patient care, MMI provides educational opportunities including Residency Programs to train national doctors to expand the work of reaching those in need with healing and hope. The Elias Santana Hospital in the Dominican Republic, with its award winning Ophthalmology Residency program under the direction of Dr. Juan Batlle, is a model for new programs starting in other places around the world. Faculty members (including physicians who are graduates of the resident program) volunteer one day each week at the hospital while maintaining successful private practices.

Along with their medical training, residents learn to walk with the Lord and have a special place in their hearts for those in need. The teaching focuses on three components: high academic standards, an emphasis on caring for the poor, and the spiritual aspect of caring for people. Several graduates are now running MMI ‘500 Centers’ and establishing residencies of their own.

All aspects of MMI are supported by a dedicated staff team located in various locations around North America with offices located in Allen, Texas and Stoney Creek, Ontario, Canada. In addition there are warehouses located in Ontario and Pennsylvania. In 2010, the organization’s donations and income totaled almost $4.4 million and an additional $38.4 million was donated in goods and services.

While the current impact of MMI is significant, the organization has a bold vision of expansion such that the ministry will annually care for 100 million of the world’s needy by the year 2050. In light of this bold vision, Medical Ministry International has initiated a search for a new Executive Director (CEO) who will be responsible for giving direction and leadership to this expansion.

The Position

The Executive Director (CEO) of MMI, accountable to the Board of Directors has the responsibility:

• For growing the organization in terms of ministry capacity and effectiveness as well as the ability to raise necessary funding to facilitate this growth. Achieving funding for major projects and new medical centers (typically $1 to $1.5 million each) is the largest part of the Executive Director’s role.
• For being an example as the spiritual, professional and organizational leader.
• For participating in the development and implementation of MMI’s vision and strategic direction.
• For casting the vision so that the organization stays on course and grows in order to maximize its opportunity for Christ, and creating enthusiasm that motivates staff, board members, recruits, donors, and ministry partnering organizations.
• To lead, develop, and mentor the MMI staff, enabling each member to achieve significance in ministry. While presently there is a small staff team, as revenues grow and responsibilities increase, the Executive Director will add new leadership to the team. At present the Executive Director must be hands-on but as the revenues and staff grow the Executive Director will focus on the more strategic aspects of her or his role.
• To oversee the day-to-day operations of the organization including staff recruitment, retention, supervision, training, and the quality of “customer” service.
• o provide leadership and direction for the use of emerging technology.
• To continually enhance and market the MMI image. 
• For overseeing the spirituality, morale, and professionalism of the team members.
• For giving leadership within the organization regarding management style and effectiveness.
• To represent the organization well in the missions, churches, and professional arenas.
• To exemplify a personal balance in time priorities between God, family, personal life and the job.

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