Financial Secretary - Youth For Christ

Position Summary

Duties Include

Deposits and Receipting of Donations
Account Payables
Payroll and Tax Reporting
Income/Expense Statements
Coordinate Annual Review
Manage Online Giving
Health Insurance Add and Deletes
Receptionist Duties When Not Covered By Other Staff

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

Knowledge & Skills

Administrative/Executive Assistant experience required.
Work with confidential and sensitive information in a professional manner.
Must keep detailed records at all times and develop a highly efficient electronic and paper filing system.
Must be comfortable learning and utilizing YFC's Salesforce CRM technology on a daily basis.
Work on any special projects as requested with the ability to prioritize and reprioritize.
Relationally driven with natural ability to grow and maintain relationships with significant and influential individuals both internally and externally.
Strong attention to detail, ability to problem solve, focus and analyze situations and data in the face of conflicting priorities and multiple demands while meeting deadlines and maintaining accuracy.
Ability to listen well, follow directions and work collaboratively with colleagues across many departments and ministries.
Self-initiated ability to analyze and improve on operations.
Must be comfortable with a high frequency of electronic communication.
Must have intermediate/advanced typing and computer skills including: Outlook, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and general internet knowledge.

Credentials Required & Preferred Education

Associates degree
Proficient in Microsoft Suite
Minimum 1 year of experience working in an office environment

Fundraising Responsibilities

The position requires raising 50% of your support by building a "support team" with the help of our staff. (This will be a work in progress over the next year. There are matching funds to help new staff get started.)

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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