Strategic Events Director - Youth For Christ

Position Summary

Essential Functions

This person reports to the Chief Ministry Officer as a key part of the leadership team. The Strategic Events Director provides visionary and operational leadership for South Texas Youth for Christ’s high-impact events—including camps, retreats, worship nights, and other strategic gatherings. This role is equal parts organizer, team builder, and spiritual leader—turning big-picture ideas into well-executed, Christ-centered experiences that reach young people with the hope of Jesus.

The ideal candidate is a skilled administrator with strong event-planning experience, passionate about building teams, managing details, and empowering volunteers. This leader creates environments where young people can encounter Christ and leaders can thrive in community and mission.

Key Responsibilities

1. Event Strategy, Planning & Execution

Oversee the full planning lifecycle of major STYFC events, including high school & middle school retreats, summer camps, volunteer and staff retreats, worship nights, and other events.
Develop event timelines, checklists, and budgets; ensure execution aligns with STYFC’s mission and youth culture.
Secure venues, manage logistics (transportation, housing, meals, safety protocols), and coordinate post-event follow-up.

2. Team Building & Leadership Coordination

Recruit and organize diverse event teams made up of staff, volunteers, and ministry leaders.
Create and lead planning meetings, provide clear roles, timelines, and expectations.
Equip leaders with the tools and training they need to serve effectively—before, during, and after events.
Foster joyful camaraderie and unity among all event teams.

3. Administrative Excellence

Manage event registration systems, waivers, travel coordination, room assignments, and schedules.
Ensure communication flows clearly between teams, families, and partners, leading up to events.
Maintain documentation, processes, and evaluation tools to improve year-over-year systems and outcomes.

4. Recruitment & Community Engagement

Work with ministry and YLP staff to recruit youth participants, volunteers, and leaders for events.
Build relationships with church partners, schools, and other community organizations to expand reach.
Represent STYFC events at church services, youth groups, school visits, and community gatherings.

5. Communications & Social Media (Event-Specific)

Coordinate with the Communications Team to promote events through engaging social media, email campaigns, flyers, and videos.
Support live content capture and storytelling during events.
Ensure all communications reflect STYFC’s voice, values, and branding.

6. Fundraising & Scholarship Support

Help develop and implement fundraising efforts for event scholarships and operational costs.
Steward relationships with donors and community supporters who are passionate about youth events.
Track and report on scholarship impact and event outcomes.

Key Qualifications

Deep Faith & Spiritual Maturity: Passionate follower of Jesus with a commitment to personal discipleship and relational ministry.
Organizational Excellence: Strong project management skills with the ability to manage multiple moving parts and deadlines.
Team Leadership: Proven ability to recruit, equip, and lead diverse teams with clarity and care.
Administrative Strength: High attention to detail, systems thinker, and able to manage registration, logistics, and scheduling.
Strong Communicator: Comfortable in both written and verbal communication across various audiences (youth, parents, leaders, donors).
Community-Oriented: Naturally relational and passionate about connecting with churches, schools, and families.
Social Media Awareness: Familiar with how to use digital tools to promote and capture the story of events.
Fundraising-Minded: Willing and able to raise support for personal role and contribute to scholarship fundraising.

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

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

Primary and Secondary Steward Responsibilities

Employees may be assigned a Primary Steward of any of the following: Volunteer(s), Donor(s), Vendor(s), Chapter(s), Processes, Standards and Best Practices (PSBPs). 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.

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.

Credentials Required & Preferred Education

(the minimum level of education, experience and certifications acceptable for the position), (the preferred education, experience and certifications acceptable for the position)

Benefits

South Texas Youth for Christ is committed to caring for the well-being of our team. The Strategic Events Director position includes the following benefits:

Medical Insurance
Dental Insurance
Vision Insurance
Short & Long-Term Disability Coverage
Paid Vacation and Sick Time
Paid Holidays

EOE 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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