By CBF Communications
Decatur, Ga.――As the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship continues to seek the best ways to support congregations, it is announcing a new internal leadership position that will be filled by the promotion of its current leader in communications and identity.
Jeff Huett, who has served as CBF’s Associate Coordinator for Identity and Communications since 2013, will become CBF’s Chief Operating Officer.
As Chief Operating Officer, Huett will continue to serve on CBF’s Strategic Collaboration Team that leads the mission and ministry of CBF. Members of that leadership group from departments across the organization include Paul Baxley, Laura Ayala, Shauw Chin Capps, Brian Foreman, Adam Granger, Jennifer Hawks and Kasey Jones.
Huett will work to ensure alignment through coordination across key internal functions to increase efficiency, collaboration and expand the platform functions of CBF. These functions include Finance, Human Resources, Identity and Communications, Information Technology, and Fellowship Events and Experiences.
This new leadership role continues the implementation of CBF’s Toward Bold Faithfulness process.
In 2020, following a year-long process of discovery and response, CBF began restructuring staff teams to meet the most urgent needs of congregations. The most urgent needs include financial strain, navigating change, engaging diversity, vision & identity and difficult conversations.
In addition to a focus on meeting these urgent needs, CBF Global has worked to strengthen collaboration with CBF state and regional organizations. These efforts are being developed by focusing on shared approaches to congregational support and by building infrastructure to reduce duplicated effort in the CBF system. This frees up resources for greater investments to support congregations.
The development of the COO role invests leadership in the building of collaborative infrastructure to strengthen our ability to equip CBF States and Regions alongside continued strengthening of collaboration between CBF Global staff teams.
CBF Executive Coordinator Paul Baxley commented on the vision to support the platform functions of CBF in this new role and Huett’s fitness for this new role.
“Over the past four years, CBF Global has worked to become a platform to support congregational thriving, mission engagement, outreach and growth and a mutual equipping that allows for the Fellowship to learn and growth together,” Baxley said.
“Jeff Huett is uniquely equipped to lead all to the operations functions of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship so that we foster even greater collaboration amongst our staff teams and also with our state and regional organizations,” Baxley said. “Bringing all of these areas of work into higher levels of strategic alignment will allow us to more fully pursue the thriving of congregations and the mission of Jesus in the world.
“For all of his years in leadership at CBF, Jeff has proven his capacity to facilitate close cooperation while also encouraging those who work under his supervision to flourish in their own faithfulness. His colleagues on our strategic collaboration team, and I are grateful that he has accepted this new role.”
Huett expressed excitement and optimism about the role.
“This new role is a natural outgrowth of a positive and responsive culture at CBF that works to connect our greatest gifts and our greatest needs in support of partner congregations while also helping our talented staff flourish as it serves the Fellowship,” Huett said. “We’ll seek to align our operations team in a way that connects the leadership and staff of each of these platform areas so that we all move together.”
Huett will transition fully into the role after the General Assembly in June.
This shift in responsibilities creates a new employment opportunity at CBF–Director of Identity. The Director of Identity will coordinate CBF’s storytelling efforts through the leadership of the identity and communications staff.
For more information, please visit CBF’s employment page.
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The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship is a Christian network that helps people put their faith to practice through ministry efforts, global missions and a broad community of support. The Fellowship’s mission is to serve Christians and churches as they discover and fulfill their God-given mission. Learn more at www.cbf.net.