Director of City Impact Integration

Position Summary

The Director of City Impact Integration will play a key leadership role during the transition as City Impact and Youth for Christ come together in a unified mission. This position will serve as a relational bridge between the legacy of City Impact and the future vision of the merged ministry. The Director will help communicate the heart, history, and impact of City Impact while casting a clear and compelling vision for how the mission will expand and strengthen through integration with Youth for Christ.

In this role, the Director will focus primarily on strengthening relationships with key donors, partners, and community supporters. Through personal meetings, storytelling, and thoughtful communication, the Director will help ensure that supporters understand and embrace the vision of the combined ministry. The Director of City Impact Integration will work closely with leadership to introduce key partners to the broader mission of Youth for Christ, helping ensure continuity of trust, financial support, and shared commitment as the organizations move forward together. The role will also provide operational support during the transition, helping ensure continuity in office systems, processes, and key administrative functions so that the integration of the two organizations is smooth and well-coordinated. Their familiarity with existing systems and practices will help maintain stability while new structures and workflows are implemented.

Essential Functions

Relationship Development

Leads the advancement of Gospel ministry by meeting meet face to face with 100 engaged partners of YFC and City Impact to share the compelling vision of the combined ministry. This will be a team effort as at least one member from each of the original entities will be in these meetings.
Communicate clearly to the community about how the combined ministry with further advance the improvement of the community immediately around City Impact as well as the entire city through YFC's integrated ministries.
Develop, Implement and Launch a $3m capital campaign to pay off and improve the City Impact Center as well as fund a surge of ministry to the neighborhood along with the Community Engagement Team.
Develop relationships through faithful, personalized touchpoints with current and potential giving partners interested in funding City Impact's long time work in the community.
With the Community Engagement team plan and Implement a Vision Dinner in the Fall for the Christian Community to catch the vision for reaching the neighborhood for Christ.
Along with the Executive Director join the Lifestyle Giving Cohort to implement a strategy of long term estate giving.
Utilizes tools and platforms to prepare and send ministry updates to giving partner base in the form of monthly letters, emails, etc.
Collects ministry update content from staff, volunteers and kids (i.e. quotes, stories, images, footage) on an ongoing basis to customize monthly or quarterly communications.
Implements special communication projects, as assigned

Program Leadership

Ensure that programs which are in place continue to reach the youth and children involved.
Actively look for and participate in methods to improve those programs and see more involvement. --

Spiritual Responsibilities

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

MUST be a current director at City Impact.
Be comfortable in a public facing role
Possess the maturity and ability to interact with all types of people
Enjoy developing relationships with people over time
Be detail-oriented and committed to tracking every conversation in your database
Value and appreciate the power of stories
Strong verbal and written communication skills
Excited about learning new things
Ability to organize and plan events
Enjoy networking in your city
Work independently and accomplish required tasks

Must be 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 and fosters authentic Christ-Centered relationships with people of various backgrounds and an inviting environment and empowers historically marginalized groups and indigenous populations (within the local context), through active listening, inclusion, advocacy of those who are vulnerable and respect of others’ experiences. (Kingdom Inspired Diversity).

Credentials Required & Preferred Education

Bachelor’s degree preferred
Some event planning and management experience. Must be open to meeting new people and provide a positive interaction for them

Benefits

Continued Salary and Compensation Package at the Current Level as Per Agreement with City Impact

Paid Vacation and Sick

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.

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