SPORTS PROGRAM MANAGER / COACH – GIRLS’ BASKETBALL

About the role

The Sports Program Manager reports to the Executive Director and serves as a key part of the leadership team. S/he will provide a secure and friendly place where Christian athletes will learn and experience the Christian faith, as well as basketball skills. S/he will serve as a mentor and basketball coach and will support an environment where 11–19-year-old girls develop a strong personal faith, with a focus on our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. We seek an individual who can connect with students and interact professionally with adults in the community.

Responsibilities

• Communicate the gospel of Jesus Christ to youth participants through Bible study, relationships, prayer, and talking about relevant topics in light of God’s truth
• Recruit girls for the program
• Conduct practice sessions and drills to improve individual skills
• Plan and organize practices and games, including arranging facilities, equipment, and other resources needed for the team's activities
• Demonstrate basketball skills and techniques
• Aid with strength training and nutrition programs
• Develop and recommend strategies for a successful basketball program
• Ensure all equipment and facilities are maintained
• Organize team activities
• Facilitate and supervise training sessions and workouts
• Establish a written set of aims, goals, objectives, and values for the basketball program
• Comply with child protection policies and procedures and be familiar with first aid
• Create a strict Code of Conduct: Church Ball not Street Ball
• Build relationships with parents, guardians, and churches to promote the program
• Maintain youth and program records in the YFC Hub according to the YFC USA model
• Ministry Health: Develop Christian athletes, while implementing an exemplary basketball program that will effectively and relentlessly pursue victory without sacrificing Christian character
• Ministry Growth: Celebrate what God is doing for and through the program, give youth the opportunity to serve and recruit others, take the ministry to schools, churches, and neighborhoods, partner with like-minded groups to identify individuals to serve as mentors and/or coaches to YFC student athletes
• Donor Development: Participate in fundraising efforts hosted by the organization, build relationships with donors, solicit sponsorship of our basketball program from local businesses and corporations through personal contact, research grant opportunities

Qualifications

• Pursuing a relationship with Jesus Christ
• Embraces the vision, mission and Statement of Faith of YFC
• Understands YFC’s 5 Essentials and leads through this model
• Self-Motivator
• Passionate about seeing lost youth find hope in Jesus
• Involves in and supports a local church by serving, being engaged in the community, and regularly attending
• Sets a godly example for staff, volunteers, and students
• Demonstrates a humble and teachable spirit
• Possesses strong moral character and is of good repute
• Able to work with and communicate professionally with staff, donors, churches, and the public
• Able to lead, motivate, and relate to young people
• Well-spoken in front of youth and adults
• Able to manage and shepherd 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
• Administrative abilities for scheduling, recordkeeping, and working under deadlines of the program, the Chapter, and YFC USA
• Perseverance through opposition and obstacles
• Passes a national background check

Skills

• Knowledge: Solid understanding of basketball
• Leadership skills

Benefits

• Workers’ Compensation Insurance
• Long-Term Disability Insurance

EEO Statement

Youth For Christ (YFC) provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) 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, 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. 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. We will make reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals with known disabilities, unless doing so would result in an undue hardship to the organization.