Lead. Inspire. Transform Lives.
Are you passionate about seeing lives changed by Jesus? Do you have a heart for teenagers and a calling to build Christ-centered community? This part-time role might be your next step in living out your purpose.
Picture this:
You’re mentoring a team of volunteers who look to you for guidance and inspiration. You’re partnering with local churches and leaders to unify the Body of Christ in reaching the next generation. You’re stepping into schools, neighborhoods, and coffee shops—wherever young people are—and building real, authentic relationships that point them to hope.
This isn’t just a job. It’s a mission. It’s an opportunity to lead with boldness, grow in your faith, and shape a culture of belonging and transformation for teens who are hungry for meaning.
As a Ministry Site Director, you will:
- Provide spiritual and organizational leadership to a local youth ministry site
- Recruit, train, and empower a team of volunteers who live out YFC’s mission
- Build strong partnerships with churches and community leaders
- Guide your team to develop Authentic Christ-Sharing Relationships with youth
- Embody and model YFC’s Cultural Attributes:
- Christ-centered
- Enduring humility
- Relentless trust
- Courageous faithfulness
- Joyful camaraderie
- Kingdom-inspired diversity
This role is perfect for someone who:
- Is a natural encourager and leader of people
- Feels called to disciple youth in creative and relational ways
- Thrives in a team-driven, faith-filled ministry environment
- Desires to make a big impact in a focused amount of time
- Join us and help write stories of redemption, joy, and transformation—one teen at a time.
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
- Embraces the vision, mission and Statement of Faith of YFC
- Participation in YFC’s Blueprint for Leadership
- Understands YFC’s 5 Essentials and leads through this model
- Self-Motivator
- Strong moral character and of good repute
- Connect well with youth
- Well-spoken in front of youth and adults
- Manage a team of diverse volunteers
- Honors and pursues diversity of gifts, cultures and ethnicities
- Excellent oral, written, interpersonal and presentation skills
- Able to prioritize and manage multiple responsibilities
- Good relationship building skills with adults and young people
- Perseverance through opposition and obstacles
Credentials Required & Preferred Education
- High School Diploma or GED
- Youth Ministry Experience as Volunteer or Staff
Fundraising Responsibilities
All YFC Lincoln Area 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.
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.