Staff Roles at Christian Survivors
Administrators
We have 3 administrators at Christian Survivors, who between them work up to 200 hours a week at CSM, on a voluntary basis. Susannah, Amanda & Emily administrate the day to day running of the forums; are responsible for forum security; oversee each different programme and ministry contained within CSM; organise and oversee finances and donations; & maintain the website.
In addition to these roles, they moderate the forums, working as support & resource staff; & they support and mentor the other staff on our large team. It is the administrative job, also, to accept or reject applications to work within CSM; and to work with new staff members to find the best roles for them to fit into.
Any decision the admin make is based upon many years of experience, & training - and is to be respected – but they very much commit to always being willing to listen to differing opinions, and to spend any time neccesary working out any problems with members.
Senior Staff
The senior staff team works closely alongside the administrators, dealing with conflicts and concerns with individual members, and answering enquiries.
The Support Team
These staff are the key workers on the forums, who, alongside the admin, provide friendship, support, and as safe an environment as possible for the members. Support staff are encouraged to identify the needs of each individual member in the forums they are responsible for, and to attempt to meet those needs as best they can, and are encouraged to regularly pray for members, and for the ministry as a whole. However, please do remember that our staff are all survivors too, and therefore need support themselves!
Several of our support staff are also involved in running our prayer team here at CS; and many of them will also carry out the role of forum and resource workers to some extent - and are responsible (alongside the admin) for keeping the forums safe.
The Resource Team
These staff are responsible for the more practical side of forum life, such as finding or writing resources; work on forum security; creating graphics for the forum & website; newsletter production; & archiving. Much of this work is 'invisible' but highly neccesary, and much appreciated!! Without these staff members, CS could never run as smoothly as it does!
The Small Group Mods
This group of staff work in pairs to lead each of our small groups at CS. Whilst small groups are very much modelled on an all-member-ministry foundation, where each of the group members are committed to supporting their co-members, the mods are there to organise the practical side of things, and to ensure that the groups are kept secure, and running in a positive direction. More than ever, this group of staff have become essential to our work here at CSF, because as the forum grows, the small groups are becoming safe havens in which regular members can form solid, stable, & supportive relationships with one another.
Welcomers
This group of staff work on the message boards, befriending new members; helping new members with forum useage enquiries; and making members feel relaxed and welcome on our boards.
Please note, that no-one will become a member of staff at CS because they ask us, rather, we will ask them because of their actions as a member of this forum! :)
