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CAMPUS LIFE SHELDON AREA DIRECTOR

Youth For Christ USA Inc. · Eugene, OR · 1 mo ago
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About the role

The Campus Life Area Director role is a position that requires spiritual and organizational leadership skills, fundraising capability, the ability to work with and through other people, and strong communication skills. S/he must embrace and build a team that embodies Lane County YFC's Core Values: Relational evangelism, Teachability, Follow Through, Healthy Conflict, Balance of work and rest, healthy marriage or singleness, and Team centric ministry. S/he will seek to implement regular relational ministry actions (RMA's) to develop Authentic Christ-Sharing relationships with young people in the context of the YFC model.

Responsibilities

  • Direct and guide the ministry team in your area through the 5 Essentials and National Ministry best practices

  • Manage current ministry staff team through individual supervision and regular area staff meetings

  • Work collaboratively with any operational Community Support Team (CST) to advance ministry in the community

  • Develop current ministry sites health and growth

  • Regularly evaluate ministry effectiveness while helping sites and site leaders grow

  • Volunteer oversight for your area; work with site directors to develop a recruiting, training and retention plan for volunteers and volunteer teams

  • Potentially work with other area directors and oversee volunteer intake process

  • Build deep community relationships in and around current ministry sites

  • Provide ministry resources for trips and events while spearheading events or assist during these events

  • Consistently involved in local ministry with lost teens

  • Some administrative functions involved (reporting, scheduling, etc.)

Growth

  • Work with the Ministry Director in developing vision for ministry expansion in your area

  • Assist in laying the foundation for effective ministry in that particular new ministry site

  • Assist in the hiring process of staff for each ministry site

  • Support and train new ministry staff in community development and ministry in their first year

  • Build a strategic community collaboration plan for new sites

Leadership Development

  • Build a culture of people development within the chapter

  • Invest in direct reports’ growth and development

  • Aid new ministry staff in their journey through the initial YFC onboarding process

  • Participate in the wider movement for your continued personal growth (regionally & nationally)

  • Oversight of any internship programs for investment in raising up young leaders

Donor Development

  • Be involved in all team-oriented fundraising efforts

  • Win, keep and lift donors

  • Walk with the Ministry Director and CST in the process of pursuing significant donors

  • Develop local support to assist with current and new ministry sites

  • Assist site directors in developing local community involvement

Spiritual Responsibilities

  • 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 word and in the practice of faith expression

Knowledge & Skills

  • Ability to humbly serve and honor others even in difficult situations with prayer, consistency, transparency, and resilience. (Enduring Humility)

  • Demonstrates proper reliance on God, others, and self through generous giving of time and skills, by collaboratively incorporating others’ ideas, welcoming candid input, recognizing others’ need for grace and extending forgiveness and empathy. (Relentless Trust)

  • Prioritizes others’ needs for a missional outcome, characterized by joy, with active listening and problem-solving skills, while encouraging and empowering fellow believers. (Joyful Camaraderie)

  • Trusts God with new approaches and changes, and communicates needs and limits with emotional intelligence, while seeking confidence and wisdom in Christ. (Courageous Faithfulness)

  • Seeks authentic Christ-Centered relationships with people of various backgrounds, fosters an inviting environment and empowers historically marginalized groups and indigenous populations (within the local context), through active listening, inclusion, advocacy for those who are vulnerable and respect of others’ experiences. (Kingdom Inspired Diversity)

Steward Responsibilities

  • Employees may be assigned a Primary Steward of any of the following: Volunteer(s), Donor(s), Vendor(s), Chapter(s), Processes, Standards and Best Practices (PSBPs).

  • All Employees are assigned the role of Secondary Steward, which plays a supporting role to the Primary Steward to serve a chapter in a specific way, for a specific timeframe as determined by the Primary Steward. Secondary Stewards can be assigned to focus on specific management issues like YFC compliance, legal, risk, strategic planning, fund development coaching, staff development coaching, new ministry site development, process stewardship or a variety of other equipping roles.

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 fund raising events, recruiting personal circle of influence/YFC donor contacts, sending letters, handwritten notes, personal calls, and personally ministering to donor contacts.

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