MINISTRY SITE DIRECTOR
About the role
This position exists to lead and manage Campus Life ministry in Alaska. This includes casting vision, implementing strategy, establishing fruitful and sustainable ministry while maintaining YFC USA's policies for compliance. The Campus Life Ministry Site Director is a position that requires spiritual and organizational leadership skills, the ability to work with and through other people, and strong communication skills. S/he must embrace and build a team that embodies YFC’s Cultural Attributes: Christ-centered, enduring humility, relentless trust, courageous faithfulness, joyful camaraderie, and kingdom inspired diversity. S/he will seek to implement relational ministry actions to develop Authentic Christ-Sharing Relationships with young people within the context of their YFC ministry model.
Responsibilities
- Ministry Team Development (60%): Recruit, train, and develop the YFC local community support team, including a team of at least five (5) people who meet a minimum of 8 times annually and appointing a Chairperson; recruit and Develop YFC Leaders who in turn engage in Authentic Christ Sharing Relationships with lost young people within Anchorage and its communities; help Manage the Direct Affiliate YFC Impact account for monthly and quarterly compliance with all volunteer leader information and ministry site(s) information and data; manage annual budget and monthly expenses; create a strong connection between local churches and the ministry site; provide training materials and ministry site standards for ministry leaders; develop healthy 3 Story teams for each ministry site; establish necessary support and guidelines to ensure healthy and growing ministry at all sites; be an advocate in the community for young people; report progress and ministry updates to YFC.
- Relational Ministry Action Development (30%): Implement YFC 5 Essential Ministry by developing programs, programming materials, meeting with kids, developing partnerships and equipping other leaders in order to meet the goals of the affiliate; manage, facilitate and serve in the Relational Ministry Actions (RMAs); direct the 3 Story Team at their site in accomplishing the standards outlined in the RMAs found in the Knowledge Base; train and evaluate ministry site leaders in the implementation of curriculum materials.
- 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. YFC employees will have an opportunity to be commissioned or licensed as a minister of the Gospel through the established Youth for Christ process, and/or ordained by an outside body recognized by Youth for Christ USA.
Qualifications
- Embraces the vision, mission and Statement of Faith of Youth for Christ
- Participation in YFC’s Blueprint for Leadership
- Understands YFC’s 5 Essentials and leads through this model
- Self-Motivator
- Strong moral character and of good repute
- Connect well with youth
- Well-spoken in front of youth and adults
- Manage a team of diverse volunteers
- Honors and pursues diversity of gifts, cultures and ethnicities
- Excellent oral, written, interpersonal and presentation skills
- Able to prioritize and manage multiple responsibilities
- Good relationship building skills with adults and young people
- Perseverance through opposition and obstacles
Skills
- Embraces the vision, mission and Statement of Faith of Youth for Christ
- Participation in YFC’s Blueprint for Leadership
- Understands YFC’s 5 Essentials and leads through this model
- Self-Motivator
- Strong moral character and of good repute
- Connect well with youth
- Well-spoken in front of youth and adults
- Manage a team of diverse volunteers
- Honors and pursues diversity of gifts, cultures and ethnicities
- Excellent oral, written, interpersonal and presentation skills
- Able to prioritize and manage multiple responsibilities
- Good relationship building skills with adults and young people
- Perseverance through opposition and obstacles
Cultural Attributes
- Christ-centered
- Enduring humility
- Relentless trust
- Courageous faithfulness
- Joyful camaraderie
- Kingdom inspired diversity
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.
Pay
N/A
Schedule
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Benefits
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Equal Opportunity Employer
YFC is classified as an Association of Churches and as such our hiring practices reflect that designation. As a religious nonprofit organization, YFC 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.
Our Commitment to Diversity
We seek to create a workplace that is intentional about Kingdom Inspired Diversity. Our commitment to our employees extends to their opportunities for growth, development, promotion, training and compensation.
Reasonable Accommodation
We will make reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals with known disabilities, unless doing so would result in an undue hardship to the organization.