Work history and your headline

Work history is the Work history card on the Profile tab. It matters more than most cards: the public profile leads with one of your roles as the headline under your name, and your organization affiliations read from it. See the headline rendered at the top of what visitors see on your profile.

Select Add a role to open the Add role window.

Linked or manual organization

The first thing the window asks is Organization type:

Homeward organization — you search the directory and pick the organization, then choose a Campus from its campus network (or At large). Linking is worth the extra step: the organization name on your public profile links to that organization’s page, and your affiliation with it is recognized elsewhere on the platform. The organization is locked once a linked role has been saved.
Manual organization — you type the Organization name and choose a Country and Location. Use this when the organization is not on Homeward.

The shared fields

Both paths then ask for the same fields:

Role type — required. The choices are Missionary or Pastor; Ministry Director or Executive; Administrator or Clerical Worker; Teacher; Humanitarian Worker; Children’s Ministry Worker; Chef; Media or Arts Worker; Musician or Singer.
Role or title — required. It stays disabled until you pick a role type, and is capitalized for you when you leave the field.
Start date — required. Dates cannot be in the future.
End date — optional. Leave it empty while you still hold the role; an empty end date is what marks a role as current.
People group served — optional, for example “secular youth”.
Ministry region — optional, a general area such as a province or region. For workers in sensitive places this is the only location shown publicly. See Serving in sensitive places.
Ministry Focus — required, up to 3. The helper reads: “What program areas does your work support? Only include program areas where you spend at least 10% of your time.”
Description — required, up to 500 characters with a live counter.

Select Save. Dates are validated against each other — the end date must be on or after the start date, and neither may be in the future.

How your headline is chosen

You do not pick your headline freely. Homeward derives it:

A role you hold now always wins. It is badged Shown as your headline in the card list.
Use as headline only appears — and only works — for someone who holds no current role.
When every role has ended, the headline stays but is prefixed Former, and the role card reads Shown as your headline, tagged Former.

The public headline reads “ at ”, and the organization half links to that organization’s page when it has a public profile.

Reordering and removing

Arrow buttons on each role card move it up or down, which is the order the public page lists them in. Remove deletes the role immediately.