Portland East - YoungLives Coordinator

Job Specific Working Conditions

• 10 hours per week for the first 3 months, then up to 20 hours per week based on fundraising goals.
• Personal Support goal of $1,000 per month.

YoungLives Coordinator Summary

• Serves according to mission leadership objectives, policies, and procedures to develop and sustain YoungLives ministries in respective areas.

Spiritual Development

• “Following Jesus” includes prayer and spiritual disciplines, fellowship, growth and health, and church relationships.
• Develops a personal growth plan fostering a vibrant spiritual life, including time for solitude, retreat, reflection, prayer, and a commitment to understanding God’s Word.
• Maintains relationships and disciplines within a church community.
• Participates actively in the spiritual life of the Young Life community.
• Leads teams and individuals in spiritual development.
• Ensures all Young Life ministry in the area is designed and carried out with prayer as a foundation.

Leadership Development

• “Equipping leaders, committees, and staff” includes volunteer care, recruitment, team building, training, supervision, and vision casting.
• Meets regularly with mentors, childcare, and other volunteer leaders.
• Aids in recruiting and training mentors, childcare, and other volunteers to build leadership teams that reflect the community.
• Attends and participates in area leadership as assigned.
• Trains committee, mentors, childcare, and other volunteers on effective teamwork.
• Models excellence in contact work, clubs, Campaigners, and camps.
• Trains and leads a team of mentors, childcare, and other volunteers in developing a yearly ministry strategy.

Resource Development

• “Fueling the ministry” includes events, major donor care, public relations (branding), and TDS team.
• Raises financial support as directed and maintains good donor care practices.
• Communicates ministry updates and progress to personal donor partners.
• Develops strategic relationships with key adults in the community, including principals, pastors, parents, potential committee members, and more as assigned by the area director.
• Becomes a respected Young Life steward to the community for both kids and adults.
• Pairs with respective area director to build a sub-committee for YoungLives.
• Regularly communicates and participates with the local Young Life committee.
• Develops relationships with schools, teen parenting programs, crisis pregnancy centers, and other applicable community organizations.

Direct Ministry

• “Proclaiming and modeling” includes contact work, clubs, Campaigners, and camps.
• Engages actively in all three levels of contact work.
• Ledges a team to plan and implement regular outreach meetings with excellence.
• Ledgers Campaigners meetings with excellence as assigned by the area director.
• Ledges a team to implement a summer and school-season camping strategy for YoungLives.
• Serves on a summer assignment at a Young Life camp each year.
• Serves on a summer assignment at a Young Life property, another Young Life camp, or in another position each summer as directed by supervisor.

Ministry Support

• Taking care of business includes accounting, administration, communication (internal), data management, and strategic plan.
• Adheres to all Young Life policies and procedures and maintains professionalism concerning office hours, dress, conduct, and time management.
• Maintains health and safety policies.
• Manages finances with stewardship, accountability, and transparency using mission-wide applications.
• Maintains accurate information on kids, leaders, and donors for area records.
• Provides clear, prompt, appropriate, and professional communication to everyone involved in ministry.
• Set yearly strategic ministry plans and initiatives to reach every kid; reviews them on a regular basis.
• Performs other duties as assigned and congruent with gifts, experience, and area needs.
• Accepts both short and long-term assignments of projects.