CITY LIFE WEST PAID INTERN

About the role

GOAL: To advance the mission of Central Ohio Youth for Christ, including affiliates and subsidiaries, by working as part of a team to implement YFC’s 5 Essentials and Holistic Community Development Model with excellence among youth in Franklinton, and to grow the abilities and skills to lead effectively in a Christian ministry.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for helping lead outreach to local middle school students.
• Responsible for helping facilitate holistic model programming at City Life Center.
• Responsible to fulfill City Life staff, team, and internship requirements.
• Responsible to fulfill COYFC spiritual responsibilities

• Help Lead Outreach to Middle School Students
• - Help lead In School Mentoring Groups at local middle schools.
• - Connect with Franklinton youth via neighborhood and school based outreach.
• - Lead and organize various sports and educational programs at the City Life Center
• - Help connect youth from sports & outreach to spiritual programming.
• - Serve as a godly role model for youth, engaging them relationally and spiritually.

• Facilitate Spiritual and Holistic Programming
• - Contribute to implementation of Holistic Model Programming, recruit students and assist volunteers, helping students grow in areas of YFC’s Holistic Model.
• - Engage students relationally and spiritually via YFC’s Relational Ministry Actions
• - Become an excellent practitioner and champion of the YFC 5 Essentials, leading a wider volunteer team toward excellence.

• Fulfill City Life Center Team Responsibilities
• - Work with City Life Center team to handle student discipline promptly and safely
• - Diligently and proactively work with team to keep Center clean and operational
• - Regularly participate in City Life internship learning opportunities
• - Attend City Life Center staff team meetings

• Fulfill COYFC Staff Responsibilities
• - Show up ready to work on time and demonstrate a teachable attitude
• - Regularly check and promptly respond to work related e-mail. Fill out timesheet weekly. Assist with data entry and attendance tracking as needed
• - Support Leadership Development training efforts
• - Attend quarterly COYFC Staff meetings and monthly Student Ministry Team meetings (if available)
• - Support Development fundraising efforts by inviting 2 new attendees per year to See the Story tours and/or Be the Story

• Fulfill Middle School School Site Responsibilities
• - Attend all Middle School Camps and overnights as scheduled.
• - Help lead outreach to youth at local middle schools, including in school mentoring groups.
• - Help facilitate and lead middle school small groups.
• - Help coach, facilitate, and amplify the ministry of middle school ministry volunteers.
• - Assist in creation and implementation of games & activities at the City Life Center.

Spiritual Responsibilities

• Articulate and uphold COYFC religious beliefs and practices at work and outside of work.
• Be ready and willing to lead and contribute to distinctly Christian activities such as devotional worship or prayer services.
• Participate and lead regular times of prayer, devotion and worship as a regular aspect of your role within YFC.

Student Ministries

• 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.
• Regularly share the gospel message with students who come into contact with COYFC ministries.

Benefits

• Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, sex, national origin, age, handicap, marital status, or other unlawful discriminatory characteristics.
• Reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals with known disabilities, unless doing so would result in an undue hardship to the organization.