Volunteer Recruitment Coordinator

Position Summary

The Volunteer Recruitment Coordinator helps Suncoast Youth For Christ recruit volunteers to serve young people across its ministry sites and 180 Houses. This role builds relationships with local churches and community partners, invites people to serve, and connects them with opportunities that match their gifts, interests, and availability. The coordinator works with ministry staff to fill specific volunteer needs and helps new volunteers get started and stay engaged.

Key Responsibilities

• Recruit through churches and community partners. Build relationships with pastors, church leaders, and community organizations. Speak during church services when invited and connect with attendees before and after services to share volunteer opportunities and answer questions.
• Follow up with prospective volunteers. Reach out to people who express interest, help them find a role that fits, and connect them with the appropriate ministry staff member for next steps.
• Fill volunteer gaps. Meet regularly with ministry staff to identify priority openings, understand what each site needs, and focus recruiting efforts on those roles.
• Develop site-specific volunteer role descriptions. Work with ministry staff to write and put into use clear descriptions across ministry models. Define what volunteers will do, when and where they will serve, and what support they can expect at each site or 180 House.
• Support onboarding, training, and retention. Assist ministry staff with welcoming and preparing new volunteers. Help volunteers stay connected and identify opportunities for them to grow in their roles.
• Help lead a focused volunteer growth strategy. Partner with the Chief Ministry Officer to set recruitment priorities and goals, plan outreach, and review progress based on inquiries, placements, and remaining volunteer gaps.

Qualifications

• Strong relationship-building and follow-through skills.
• Comfortable speaking to church groups and starting one-on-one conversations with prospective volunteers.
• Able to organize recruitment efforts across multiple ministry sites and work collaboratively with ministry staff.
• Alignment with the mission of Youth For Christ and a desire to help volunteers serve young people well.
• Experience in volunteer recruitment, church ministry, community outreach, or a related role is preferred.

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. 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).