CAMPUS LIFE DIRECTOR

About the role

The Campus Life Director role is a position that requires spiritual maturity, relational leadership skills, and the ability to build meaningful connections with high school students and faculty within Staten Island.

This role will provide weekly pastoral presence through youth services, mentoring, discipleship, leadership development, and family engagement while helping young people grow spiritually, develop strong character, and pursue healthy future pathways through Authentic Christ-Sharing Relationships.

Essential Functions

• Youth Discipleship & Coaching (40%) · Lead and facilitate weekly clubs at 3 campuses including biblical teaching, prayer, worship, and fellowship · Build Authentic Christ-Sharing Relationships with young people connected to the clubs · Provide consistent mentorship, discipleship, spiritual guidance, and pastoral support to youth and staff · Encourage spiritual growth, healthy decision making, leadership development, and Christ-centered identity formation · Create a welcoming and spiritually healthy environment for all participants
• Relational Ministry Action Development (25%) · Develop and implement engaging discipleship, mentoring, and leadership development programming · Help connect young people to educational opportunities, college readiness resources, and post–high school pathways · Maintain consistent weekly ministry presence and relationship building within the schools · Assist in identifying opportunities for outreach, youth engagement, and family and/or school support · Support the implementation of YFC’s 3Story® model and relational ministry philosophy · Apply a Design Thinking mindset in daily work, integrating innovation and Christ-centered, human-centered problem-solving into planning, collaboration, and execution.
• Ministry Partner & Volunteer Engagement (20%) · Work alongside YFC NYC leadership, ministry partners, and school staff to strengthen professional and ministerial relationships · Support, encourage, and help coordinate volunteers serving within the ministry · Communicate ministry updates, testimonies, needs, and opportunities with leadership and ministry partners · Help cultivate relationships with churches, community leaders, and families connected to the ministry
• Ministry Administration & Reporting (10%) · Maintain accurate ministry records, attendance, and weekly ministry reporting through YFC systems · Assist with ministry scheduling, program coordination, and communication efforts · Steward ministry resources responsibly and remain within approved ministry budgets
• Personal & Spiritual Development (5%) · Maintain a healthy and growing personal relationship with Jesus Christ through prayer, Bible study, and Christian community · Participate in YFC trainings, staff meetings, and spiritual development opportunities · Meet regularly with supervisor for encouragement, accountability, and ministry development discussions

Spiritual Responsibilities

Because the overriding religious purpose and mission of Youth for Christ USA is to communicate and introduce the Gospel of Jesus Christ to young people and their families, and in that regard to make, educate and encourage life-long disciples of the Lord Jesus Christ, it is very important that you as an employee in the movement of Youth for Christ be recognized as an associate minister of the Gospel.

As an employee of Youth for Christ and an associate minister of the Gospel, YFC expects all employees to:

• Seek God’s guidance and wisdom, through prayer and meditation, for the organization as a whole, as well as for specific ministry initiatives.
• Participate and lead regular times of prayer, devotion and worship as a regular aspect of your role within YFC.
• Teach and preach from the Holy Bible at YFC staff meetings, conferences, camps and events.
• Model empathy, humility and care for all people. This includes promoting equity and inclusion in words and in the practice of faith expression.

Fundraising Responsibilities

All YFC employees are expected to regularly and actively participate in faithful activities that advance the stewardship functions of YFC/USA. These activities will include—but are not limited to—extending invitations to fundraising events, recruiting personal circle of influence/YFC donor contacts, sending letters, handwritten notes, personal calls, and personally ministering to donor contacts.

Budget Responsibilities

A Budget Manager is responsible for aligning all financial resources to the YFC/USA strategic plan in accordance with the delegation and direction of the Division Head. The Budget Manager is responsible for coding, approval, and financial decision-making for their assigned Division, Department and/or Action Plan budget. When a budget is overfunded or underfunded, the Budget Manager is responsible for course correcting through the MCCR process.

Keep spending within the parameters of the monthly City Life Budget, and submit all expense reports for reimbursement at the end of every month.

Knowledge & Skills

• A growing follower of Christ
• Involved in & supporting a local church by serving, being engaged in the community and regularly attending
• Sets a godly example for staff, volunteers and students in one’s personal life
• Demonstrates a humble and teachable spirit
• Commitment to meet regularly with a group or specific person for accountability
• Passionate about the mission and vision of YFC
• Willingness to submit and minister within the guidelines of YFC
• Submit to an extensive background and reference check
• 3 or more years of direct ministry experience
• Participate fully in the life of the staff, board and volunteers
• Can effectively build and lead teams of people
• Able to shepherd individual leaders
• Skilled in problem solving

Education

• (the minimum level of education, experience and certifications acceptable for the position)
• (the preferred education, experience and certifications acceptable for the position)

Health & Welfare Benefits

• Vacation time
• Sick Time
• 12 paid holidays
• Paid week off between Christmas and New Years
• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• Supplemental Accident
• YFC Contribution to Health Savings Account (HSA): $800 Single / $1,000 Family
• Must be enrolled in an eligible plan and amounts are prorated based on hire date.
• Up to 3% 403(b) match upon hire, up to 5% with tenure.
• Access to EAP services
• Short-term Disability, Long-Term Disability, and Life/AD&D

EEO Statement

Youth For Christ (YFC) provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, sex, national origin, age, handicap, marital status, or other unlawful discriminatory characteristics in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws.

YFC is classified as an Association of Churches, and as such, our hiring practices reflect that designation. As a religious nonprofit organization, Youth For Christ incorporates within each leader role the requirement to model, teach, share, and live the faith. The relationship between YFC’s mission and each of its leaders is its lifeblood, and as such, does at all times and in all instances reserve the right to make employment decisions based upon a person’s religious beliefs, personal character and lifestyle consistent with our understanding of the Bible or with our overall goals and requirements for Christian ministry.