World Race Squad Mentor

About the Role

The World Race Squad Mentor will lead a collaborative leadership team to guide the spiritual formation of World Race participants across all phases of the trip cycle: training camp, launch, and field. They provide day-to-day field support to disciple the squad from personal brokenness to abandonment to spiritual dependence upon the Lord through teachings, one-on-one mentorship, prayer, and ministering to the squad’s field leadership.

Responsibilities

• Take ownership of the quality of the World Race experience for their squad.
• Establish and maintain World Race core values beginning at training camp and continuing throughout the discipleship journey:
  • Seeking and hearing God’s voice and moving in obedience
  • Setting the captives free
  • Praying for the sick
  • Living a life of radical faith as evidenced by the establishment of the Kingdom
• Oversee the spiritual health of participants by leading them through a discipleship journey:
  • Pursue intentional relationships with participants through personal conversations via email, voice, video, and live interactions to spiritually support, encourage, and call out spiritual gifts.
  • Cultivate an understanding of each participant’s personal journey, helping them express fears, problems, and areas of discouragement.
  • Provide pastoral mentorship consistent with Adventures in Missions’ values and beliefs.
  • Pray with participants.
• Serve as the lead trainer for the squad and leaders during training camp:
  • Help facilitate training sessions.
  • Provide daily direction to the squad.
  • Lead instructional breakout sessions to prepare World Racers for life and ministry in the field.
• Recruit a team of Alumni Squad Leaders to provide leadership to squads on the field under the direction and supervision of the Squad Mentor.
• Train, equip, and empower Squad Leaders (SQLs) and Team Leaders (TLs) to lead World Race squads and teams in alignment with the program’s values to preserve and perpetuate its ethos:
  • Provide direction and oversight for the training of raised-up squad leaders.
  • Serve alumni and raised-up squad leaders in a discipling capacity while they are leading on the field.
• Develop a team of ministry partners to complete the fundraising goal, ministering to partners through prayer and teaching biblical truths (I Corinthians 9:14, Philippians 4:17).
• Administrative tasks:
  • Serve the squad leadership team by ensuring information is distributed to coaches and SQLs.
  • Work with the leadership team to schedule, manage, facilitate, and lead squad debriefs.
  • Collaborate as part of a cross-functional team (logistical and administrative staff) to achieve goals such as:
    • Revenue attainment (support coaching) and control of field costs
    • Ministry host development
    • Participant safety
    • Reporting

Requirements

• World Race Alumni Squad Leader experience required.
• Professing Christian with an established record of high Christian character, integrity, servant leadership, maturity, and a positive attitude:
  • Character and Integrity: Strong Christian moral principles, trustworthy, honest, fair, and displays the Fruit of the Spirit in both word and action.
  • Servant Leadership: Leads with humility, prioritizing the needs of others and improving those they serve.
  • Maturity: Strong spiritually, responding appropriately to every situation with respect.
  • Positive Attitude: Willing to do their best with what is asked of them.
• Demonstrates emotional and spiritual health that manifests in authority, confidence, and the ability to lead others into the same.
• Evidence of discipleship fruit in their life.
• Understands and embraces the core values, culture, and ministry of Adventures in Missions, with a passion to propel its future.
• Desire and skills (written, verbal, and interpersonal) to work in a collaborative, intergenerational environment with coaches, SQLs, and AIM leaders that values participant leadership.
• Able to influence a broad range of people and drive them toward common goals in Training, Launch, and Debrief environments.
• Flexibility to meet shifting needs and willingness to work flexible hours; committed to doing “whatever it takes.”