Young Leader Story Capture Initiative, Summer Intern

The Regional Story Capture Summer Intern provides essential support to the Marketing and Development Teams by traveling to key regions where Youth For Christ (YFC) has a strong ministry presence and capturing compelling stories of young leaders (ages 19–27). Through video, photography, writing, and social media, this role ensures that impactful, high-quality content is created and delivered to support organizational storytelling, donor engagement, and future ministry growth.

While not solely responsible for final distribution, the intern plays a critical role in gathering, shaping, and delivering content that reflects the mission and impact of YFC. This position serves as both a creative storyteller and a field representative of the ministry, helping to inspire engagement from peers, prospective leaders, and supporters.

Essential Functions

Story Capture & Content Creation: 

• Travel to three assigned regions to document stories of young leaders through video, interviews, photography, blogging, and social media content. 

Narrative Development: 

• Conduct interviews and gather firsthand experiences to develop authentic, compelling stories aligned with YFC’s mission and voice. 

Content Submission & Collaboration: 

• Organize and submit captured content to the Marketing Team in a timely manner, ensuring quality, clarity, and usability for campaigns and future initiatives. 

Digital Engagement: 

• Contribute to real-time storytelling through vlogging and social media to increase visibility and engagement with younger audiences. 

Brand Representation: 

• Serve as a positive and professional ambassador of YFC while interacting with staff, young leaders, and community stakeholders. 

Project & Time Management: 

• Independently manage travel schedules, deadlines, and deliverables across multiple locations. 
• Additional Responsibilities: 
• Perform other creative or administrative duties as assigned to support marketing and storytelling efforts. 
• Apply a Design Thinking mindset in daily work, integrating innovation and Christ-centered, human-centered problem-solving into planning, collaboration, and execution. 

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 words 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 foster 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 possess the following: 

• Ability to humbly serve and honor others even in difficult situations with prayer, consistency, transparency, and resilience. (Enduring Humility). 
• Demonstrate 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). 
• Prioritize others’ needs for a missional outcome, characterized by joy, with active listening and problem-solving skills, while encouraging and empowering fellow believers. (Joyful Camaraderie). 
• Trust God with new approaches and changes, and communicate needs and limits with emotional intelligence*, while seeking confidence and wisdom in Christ. (Courageous Faithfulness) 
• Seek and foster authentic Christ-Centered relationships with people of various backgrounds and an inviting environment and empower 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).

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 fundraising events, recruiting personal circle of influence/YFC donor contacts, sending letters, handwritten notes, personal calls, and personally ministering to donor contacts.