Chief Operating Officer (COO) & Integrator

To provide strategic leadership and operational oversight that ensures organizational excellence. This role drives financial and administrative stewardship and champions effective systems and processes. Through collaboration with the CEO and leadership team, the role ensures the execution of vision and strategy while serving as the Integrator to align people, priorities, and processes for long-term success.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS & RESPONSIBILITIES

• Organizational leadership: Serve on YFCNIN Leadership team and work with the CEO to ensure organizational impact and operational excellence. Participate in requested board meetings and on assigned board committees. Be accountable for leading toward all set ministry, financial, and operational outcomes.
• Finance, HR, and Administration oversight: Oversee and lead a team of people stewarding the financial, human resources, risk management, and administrative functions of YFCNIN
• Serve as “Integrator” for YFCNIN as outlined by EOS: Organize and lead weekly leadership Level 10 Meetings (L10s) to ensure the team remains focused on priorities, resolves issues, and tracks performance. Monitor and report on key ministry metrics to ensure the organization is meeting its goals, while identifying and addressing organizational challenges to remove obstacles and enable team efficiency. The Integrator will hold team members and departments accountable for results, ensuring clarity around roles, responsibilities, and expectations
• Staff leadership: Lead direct reports in their development as leaders and in their contributions to YFC's mission. Embrace the voice of leadership in the overall YFCNIN team.
• Strategy and vision: Participate in strategic planning, vision casting, and exploration of opportunities
• Strategic plan execution and process implementation: Take lead on the execution of the YFCNIN strategic plan and ensure implementation of processes, standards, and best practices
• Systems creation & management: Ensure that YFCNIN is operating effectively, efficiently, and in a unified manner by choosing, creating, & managing systems
• Ad hoc leadership and operating functions: This is a "buck stops here" role meaning the person in this role will often take the lead on addressing leadership and operational needs, even if previously unknown or undefined

Fundraising Responsibilities

All leaders will be given the opportunity to be involved in the stewardship functions of YFCNIN. These opportunities could include fundraising events, YFC donor contacts, and other opportunities as provided.

Spiritual Responsibilities

Youth for Christ is a Christian faith-based, 501c3 organization that requires all staff to be actively living out their Christian faith and committed to a local church body.

Because the overriding religious purpose and mission of Youth for Christ USA is to communicate and introduce the Gospel of Jesus Christ to young people and their families, and in that regard to make, educate and encourage lifelong disciples of the Lord Jesus Christ, it is very important that you as an employee in the movement of Youth for Christ be recognized as an associate minister of the Gospel.

As an employee and a minister of the Gospel, YFCNIN expects all leaders to:

• Seek God’s guidance & wisdom, through prayer & meditation, for the organization as a whole as well as for specific ministry initiatives.
• Participate & lead regular times of prayer, devotion & worship as a regular aspect of your role within YFCNIN.
• Teach & preach from the Holy Bible at YFC staff meetings, conferences, camps & events.
• Model empathy, humility and care for all people. This includes promoting equity and inclusion in word and in the practice of faith expression.

Additionally, YFCNIN employees will have an opportunity to be commissioned or licensed as a minister of the Gospel through the established YFC process, and/or ordained by an outside body recognized by YFC USA.