Actor Trainer – Asia Pacific/ESL (Part-Time)

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Actor Trainer – Asia Pacific/ESL (Part-Time)

Provo, UT, United States (No Local)

To meet the needs of the Church, we seek to build teams that represent the diverse perspectives, broad life experiences and backgrounds of our global Church membership. With that in mind, we encourage all qualified applicants to apply.

Job Description

This position is central to the missionaries’ role to ‘Invite others to come unto Christ by helping them receive the restored gospel through faith in Jesus Christ and His Atonement, repentance, baptism, receiving the gift of the Holy Ghost, and enduring to the end.’ Actor Trainers are lead level individual contributors, responsible for ensuring that in-residence missionaries receive effective teaching opportunities by leading actors, conducting individual and group trainings, and facilitating ongoing improvement and coaching of actor performance. It is expected that an Actor Trainer will assist in overseeing the work of 10-15 actors.

Responsibilities

Reports to manager level in Training Department

• Trains and provides ongoing evaluation and development of actors (75%)
• Provides individual coaching and continuing in-service training of actors through leading weekly meetings
• Provides actors with materials and policy information.
• Observes and evaluates actors.
• Facilitates opportunities for actor improvement according to needs.
• Assists the Manager of Training in training new actors prior to interpretation experience.
• Ensures actors understand and effectively interpreter MTC meetings.
• Leads in establishing updates or new MTC interpretation guidelines.
• Fills in as an actor when needed.
• Leads in advocating for actor effectiveness (10%)
• Evaluates missionary teaching appointment experience.
• Leads actors in providing for the individual needs of missionaries.
• Leads actors in creating an ideal teaching environment.
• Administrative Functions (5%)
• Handles day-to-day supervisory matters, conferring with Manager of Training regarding disciplinary issues.
• Provides timely recommendations for actor merit increases.
• Coordinates with other supervisors regarding common employees/meetings.
• Assists the Manager of Training (10%)
• Reports actor performance to the Manager of Training.
• Assists in interviewing, evaluating candidates’ acting capacities, and making hiring decisions.
• Assists in area training meetings.
• Assists in coordinating training resources.
• Recommendations for actor dismissal
• May be asked to assist in assessing the proficiency level of missionaries, interpreters, and teacher applicants in the target language.
• May take on MTC actor responsibilities to as needs arise
• May include other temporary assigned duties at the MTC (e.g. assisting with Mission Leadership Seminar)

Qualifications

Required:

• 6 months experience as an MTC actor or teacher or 1 year experience with teaching, training, or tutoring in any capacity
• Must be fluent in a non-native language (except for English or ESL area assignment).
• Must have a solid understanding of MTC training principles, demonstrate problem-solving and organizational abilities, and have exceptional training competence.
• Must communicate effectively
• Demonstrates the ability to handle pressure well.
• Must have technology skills to adequately function in the MTC environment.
• Must have exceptional interpersonal and leadership skills.
• Must have a solid understanding of Preach My Gospel
• Demonstrates encouraging attitude, proactivity and self-motivation
• Experience having served as a missionary
• To successfully perform the essential functions of the job, there may be physical requirements which need to be met such as sitting for long periods of time and using monitors/equipment.

Preferred

• 1 year of experience as an MTC actor or teacher

About Us

Church employees find joy and satisfaction in using their unique talents and abilities to further the Lord’s work. From the IT professional who develops an app that sends the gospel message worldwide, to the facilities manager who maintains our buildings— giving Church members places to worship, teach, learn, and receive sacred ordinances—our employees seek innovative ways to share the gospel of Jesus Christ with the world. They are literally working in His kingdom.

Only members of the Church who are worthy of a temple recommend qualify for employment. Apart from this, the Church is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate in its employment decisions on any basis that would violate U.S. or local law.

Qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, national origin, color, gender, pregnancy, marital status, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or other legally protected categories that apply to the Church. The Church will make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with known disabilities.

• Job Identification 374655
• Job Category TR – Training
• Posting Date 04/29/2026, 10:51 PM
• Locations 2005 N 900 E, Provo, UT, 84602, US (No Local)
• Apply Before 05/06/2026, 05:55 AM
• Job Schedule Part time
• Regular or Temporary Temporary
• Worker Type Employee
• Number of Openings 1
• Qualificação de dignidade Must be a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and currently temple worthy.
• Anúncio/Mais informações Please note that this job posting may close at any time without prior notice. Find out more about the many benefits of Church Employment at https://careers.churchofjesuschrist.org.

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