City Life Area Director - Youth For Christ

Position Summary

This person reports to the Executive Director or Chief Ministry Officer as a key part of the ministry leadership team. S/he is primarily responsible for, but not limited to, overseeing ministry in a specific geographical area encompassing multiple ministry sites for the chapter. This includes oversight of ministry sites, shepherding through the supervision of the ministry staff and their leadership development, resourcing the staff as they implement effective ministry, development of future ministry sites, community collaboration and fund development.

The Area Director plays a pivotal role in leading and supporting ministry staff, ensuring ministry sites are healthy and aligned with organizational standards, and fostering a culture of spiritual growth, accountability, and team unity. This position requires a dynamic leader who integrates spiritual maturity, strategic thinking, and relational skills to guide teams and empower ministry effectiveness.

Key Responsibilities

Staff Leadership & Supervision

Spiritual Leadership: Guide staff with discernment and prayer-centered leadership during one-on-one meetings, offering support for personal and spiritual growth.
Responsibility/Accountability: Ensure staff adhere to YFC and STYFC policies, fulfill job roles, and meet performance expectations. Address issues through problem-solving, restoration plans, or disciplinary actions.
Coaching & Development: Conduct regular check-ins and developmental meetings to help staff grow professionally and spiritually.
Team Culture: Foster a positive, unified team environment where members support one another and thrive in joyful camaraderie.
Shepherd’s Heart: Provide care with empathy, emotional intelligence, and a servant-leadership mindset.
Conflict Resolution: Facilitate resolutions between leaders and address situations that may lead to disciplinary actions.
YLP Ministries: Supervise and collaborate with YLP Ministries, including residents in your area.

Site Oversight & Ministry Health

Healthy Sites: Monitor ministry site health by ensuring site directors implement YFC standards.
Site Visits: Conduct site visits at least once per semester to assess and support site performance.
Cross-functional Roles: Adapt to various ministry needs, managing multiple responsibilities and partnering with community organizations.
Volunteer Management: Empower and champion Site Directors to Recruit, train, and retain volunteers, building a strong support system for ministry.
Partnership Development: Build and maintain community relationships, creating partnerships that support ministry goals.
Community Champions Team
- Collaborate with the CCT chairperson to guide the team in achieving the core principles of a CCT. Actively participate in CCT meetings, serving as a vital link between the staff and the CCT to ensure seamless communication and alignment.

Strategic Leadership & Planning

Vision Casting: Inspire teams with a clear vision aligned to YFC’s mission, empowering creativity and innovation.
Goal Setting: Track progress on quarterly priorities and support staff in achieving ministry goals.
Event Coordination: Assist with team event planning and provide leadership in organizing impactful gatherings.

Administrative Oversight

Fundraising: Achieve personal fundraising goals while motivating and supporting team members to secure their funding.
Time Management: Help staff manage workloads, track hours, and develop healthy work rhythms.
Systems & Organization: Create systems and routines to empower team efficiency while maintaining flexibility.
Meetings: Facilitate ministry leadership meetings, team meetings, and one-on-one sessions.

Administrative Tasks

Oversee staff 60-Day Reports.
Ensure monthly updates to Impact & Site Trackers.
Respond to emails effectively and use them for documentation.
Complete annual CPT Reports with the team.

Human Resources Compliance and Best Practices

Compliance & Reporting: Ensure adherence to employment laws, confidentiality policies, and incident reporting guidelines.
Disciplinary Actions & Terminations:
- Implement discipline processes.
- Document performance issues to mitigate legal risks.
- Ensure compliance with termination laws and procedures.
Reporting & Compliance: Handle incident reporting and legal violations effectively.
Confidentiality & Data Protection: Safeguard employee privacy and sensitive data.
Wage & Hour Compliance: Ensure compliance with FLSA (minimum wage, overtime, classifications).
Workplace Harassment & Discrimination: Address and prevent harassment and discrimination through training and policies.
Employment Law & Regulations: Follow anti-discrimination laws and classify employees correctly.
Confidentiality:

· Maintain Confidentiality: Ensure that confidential information about staff, volunteers, or kids is not shared inappropriately.

· Incident Reporting Protocol: When an incident is reported, refrain from discussing specific names or details with others on the team. Such matters should only be shared with your supervisor or within the leadership team as necessary. Beyond that, it is crucial to respect confidentiality and handle these situations with discretion.

· Empower Others to Uphold Confidentiality: Lead by example and encourage staff, volunteers, and peers to prioritize confidentiality in their conversations and actions. Reinforce the importance of discretion and guide others to follow appropriate protocols in handling sensitive information.

Other duties as assigned. 

Key Qualifications

Spiritual Maturity: Demonstrates an authentic, passionate relationship with Jesus and integrates faith into leadership.
Empathy & Emotional Intelligence: Sensitive to staff needs while balancing accountability and morale.
Strategic Thinking: Skilled in planning, prioritizing, and developing systems for team efficiency.
Organizational Skills: Effectively manages schedules, priorities, and administrative tasks.
Communication Excellence: Communicates clearly, professionally, and adaptively in writing and speech.
Fundraising Capability: Fully funded and able to coach others to meet fundraising goals.
Humility & Integrity: Approachable, teachable, and committed to servant leadership. Character that consistently displays high biblical, moral, and ethical fiber.

Spiritual Responsibilities

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 life-long 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 of Youth for Christ and an associate minister of the Gospel, YFC expects all employees to:

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.

Position Requirements

Knowledge & Skills

Willing to demonstrate and/or possesses the following:

Ability to humbly serve and honor others even in difficult situations with prayer, consistency, transparency, and resilience. (Enduring Humility).
Demonstrates proper reliance on God, others, and self through generous giving of time and skills, by collaboratively incorporating others’ ideas, welcoming candid input, recognizing others’ need for grace and extending forgiveness and empathy. (Relentless Trust).
Prioritizes others’ needs for a missional outcome, characterized by joy, with active listening and problem-solving skills, while encouraging and empowering fellow believers. (Joyful Camaraderie).
Trusts God with new approaches and changes, and communicates needs and limits with emotional intelligence, while seeking confidence and wisdom in Christ. (Courageous Faithfulness)
Seeks authentic Christ-Centered relationships with people of various backgrounds, fosters an inviting environment and empowers historically marginalized groups and indigenous populations (within the local context), through active listening, inclusion, advocacy for those who are vulnerable and respect of others’ experiences. (Kingdom Inspired Diversity).

Primary and Secondary Steward Responsibilities

Employees may be assigned a Primary Steward of any of the following: Volunteer(s), Donor(s), Vendor(s), Chapter(s), Processes, Standards and Best Practices (PSBPs). All Employees are assigned the role of Secondary Steward, which plays a supporting role to the Primary Steward to serve a chapter in a specific way, for a specific timeframe as determined by the Primary Steward. Secondary Stewards can be assigned to focus on specific management issues like YFC compliance, legal, risk, strategic planning, fund development coaching, staff development coaching, new ministry site development, process stewardship or a variety of other equipping roles.

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.

Credentials Required & Preferred Education

A bachelor’s degree in a relevant field is preferred; however, significant ministry experience and demonstrated leadership ability will be considered in place of formal education.

Physical Requirements

Ability to communicate orally with customers, vendors, management, and other co-workers is crucial. Regular use of the telephone and e-mail for communication is essential. Sitting for extended periods is common. Hearing and vision within normal ranges is essential for normal conversations, to receive ordinary information, and to prepare or inspect documents.

Activities require the ability to remain in a stationary position 50% of the time, occasionally move about inside the office to access files or office equipment, operate a computer and other office productivity machinery, such as a calculator, hand held devices, copy machine, and computer printer.

No heavy lifting is expected, though occasional exertion of up to 50 lbs. of force may be required. Good manual dexterity required for the use of computers, mobile devices, and other productivity technologies.

The job is performed indoors in a traditional office setting. Extended periods of sitting and extensive work at a computer and phone are normal.

Benefits

Medical

Dental

Vision

Short/Long Term Disability

Vacation and Sick Time

Paid Holidays

EOE Statement

YFC is classified as an Association of Churches and as such our hiring practices reflect that designation. As a religious nonprofit organization, Youth For Christ 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.

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