JJM Ministry Site Director

The JJM Ministry Site Director is a position that requires spiritual and organizational leadership skills, the ability to work with and through other people, and strong communication skills. The Site Director must embrace and build a team that embodies YFC’s Cultural Attributes: Christ-centered, enduring humility, relentless trust, courageous faithfulness, joyful camaraderie, and kingdom inspired diversity. The Site Director will seek to implement relational ministry actions to develop Authentic Christ-Sharing Relationships with young people within the context of their YFC ministry model. 

Ministry Team Development (60%) 

• Recruit, train, and maintain volunteer ministry leader team in accordance with the processes found in the Knowledge Base 
• Create a strong connection between local churches and the ministry site 
• Provide training materials and ministry site standards for ministry leaders  
• Develop healthy 3 Story teams for each ministry site 
• Establish necessary support and guidelines to ensure healthy and growing ministry at all sites 
• Be an advocate in the community for young people  
• Report progress and ministry updates to YFC 

Relational Ministry Action Development (30%) 

• The Ministry Site Director will be responsible for managing, facilitating and serving in the Relational Ministry Actions (RMAs) 
• Lead the 3 Story Team at their site in accomplishing the standards outlined in the RMAs found in the Knowledge Base 
• Establish and develop programming materials 
• Train and evaluate ministry site leaders in the implementation of curriculum materials 

Primary and Secondary Steward Responsibilities

Employees may be assigned as a Primary Steward of any of the following:

• Volunteer(s)
• Donor(s)
• Vendor(s)
• Chapter(s)
• Process, Standard and Best Practices (PSBPs)

Specific assignments for the Primary Steward will be listed in the Task List.

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. 

Spiritual Responsibilities

Because the overriding religious purpose and mission of Youth for Christ 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.  

Additionally, 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.

Fundraising Responsibilities

All YFC employees are expected to regularly and actively participate in faithful activities that advance the stewardship functions of YFC. 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.  

Budget Responsibilities

A Budget Manager is responsible to align all financial resources to the YFC/USA strategic plan in accordance with the delegation and direction of the Division Head. The Budget Manager is responsible for coding, approval and financial decision-making for their assigned Division, Department and/or Action Plan budget. When a budget is overfunded or underfunded, the Budget Manager is responsible to course correct though the MCCR process.