Engagement Assistant - Youth For Christ

Position Summary

Position Purpose

The Engagement Assistant plays a vital support role on the Development team, focusing on building strong relationships with donors and volunteers, ensuring the smooth execution of events, and assisting with fundraising and grant management efforts. This role prioritizes key strategies for donor retention and engagement.

This role was designed to provide relief and structure to a growing development department, ensuring that planning, stewardship, and administrative follow-through are centered as we expand our donor base and deepen impact.

The ideal candidate is organized, relational, detail-oriented, and comfortable coordinating both logistics and people.

YFC Cultural Attributes

Our cultural attributes are not about competency. It is an obedience to the call of Christ on our lives. YFC believes that spiritually healthy adults fosters healthy relationships with our kids. We place a heavy commitment and emphasis on developing and equipping a Christ-centered life marked by Enduring Humility, Relentless Trust, Joyful Camaraderie, Courageous Faithfulness and Kingdom Inspired Diversity. Our leaders are expected to 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)

Position Requirements

Essential Job Functions & Duties

Event Planning & Coordination (Approx. 40%)

You will coordinate the planning and logistics for our core events, including:

Two major annual fundraising events
Volunteer appreciation and engagement events (2–3 annually)
Donor touchpoints and cultivation gatherings (breakfasts, small group tours, thank-you receptions)

Specific tasks include:

Creating event timelines, task trackers, and managing run-of-show documents
Coordinating vendors, volunteers, and internal teams
Supporting registration, RSVP tracking, and day-of materials
Assisting with event setup, guest experience, and post-event follow-up
Gathering stories, testimonials, and photos for future use

Development Support & Donor Engagement (Approx. 40%)

You will provide direct support to the Development Director by helping manage donor and fundraising operations behind the scenes, including but not limited to:

Assisting with donor communications, mailings processes
Tracking and preparing donor appreciation materials or gifts
Helping with database updates and ensuring accurate donor records
Supporting donor research
Collaborating with the Strategic Partner Coordinator to coordinate outreach and event promotions

Fundraising & Grant Management Support (Approx. 20%)

In partnership with the Development Director, you’ll help sustain fundraising and grant efforts with operational follow-through, including but not limited to:

Supporting with grant application research
Helping track grant deadlines and assist with application logistics
Gathering attachments, documentation, and progress reports
Assisting with light donor reporting or annual appeals
Organizing campaign and sponsorship data across projects and events

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 a 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.
Assist the Ministry Equipping Team to teach religious truth and facilitate religious observance at training and ministry events.
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.

Knowledge & Skills

Ideal Candidate Will Have:

2+ years of experience in nonprofit, development, fundraising, or administrative roles
Strong organizational and communication skills
Experience planning and coordinating events (small and large)
Familiarity with donor databases, Google Workspace, and Microsoft Office
Comfortable learning new systems and working independently on multiple tasks

You’ll Love This Role If You:

Enjoy being part of a mission-driven team where relationships matter
Thrive on behind-the-scenes work that makes a big impact possible
Are detail-oriented but flexible enough to roll with changing priorities
Take pride in helping things run smoothly and meaningfully for others
Want to grow your skills in nonprofit fundraising, events, and strategy

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.

Benefits

Our comprehensive benefits package includes:

Paid Time Off Program

100 hours Paid PTO (for first year-increases incrementally each year)
13 paid holidays

Health & Welfare Benefits

$200 Annual Mental Health Reimbursement
YFC Paid Workers Compensation

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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