Eagle Lake Recruiting Lead

navigators; Colorado Springs (CO); On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

The Navigators seeks an Eagle Lake Recruiting Lead to advance our mission by sourcing and selecting summer staff who exemplify spiritual maturity and leadership. You will travel to campuses and events, build strong partnerships with colleges, churches, and ministry partners, and guide a team to meet staffing goals rooted in mission and values.

You will collaborate with Eagle Lake Camps and Navigators partners to maintain pipelines, analyze recruitment results, and ensure staff align with our

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute a year-round strategy for sourcing exceptional summer staff.
• Build and maintain recruiting relationships with colleges, campus ministries, churches, Navigators ministries, alumni, and other sources of high-potential candidates.
• Travel to campuses, conferences, churches, and events to represent Eagle Lake and build relationships.
• Develop referral strategies that mobilize staff, alumni, and ministry partners to surface candidates.
• Partner with relevant teams on digital marketing to promote summer staff opportunities.

Skills

Teachable

Team-ability

Adaptable

Driven

Resilient

Job description

The Eagle Lake Recruiting Lead shall serve The Navigators and fulfill the responsibilities listed below in the spirit of The Navigators calling, values and purpose: To advance the Gospel of Jesus and His kingdom into the nations through spiritual generations of laborers living and discipling among the lost.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

Summer Staff Sourcing & Recruiting Partnership Responsibilities (40%)

• Develop and execute a year-round strategy for sourcing exceptional summer staff.
• Build and maintain recruiting relationships with colleges, campus ministries, churches, Navigators ministries, alumni, and other sources of high-potential candidates.
• Find creative ways to reach college students outside traditional recruiting channels.
• Recruit for spiritual maturity, leadership potential, cultural contribution, and mission alignment, not simply to fill positions.
• Travel to campuses, conferences, churches, and events to represent Eagle Lake and build relationships.
• Develop referral strategies that mobilize staff, alumni, and ministry partners to surface candidates.
• Partner with relevant teams on digital marketing to promote summer staff opportunities.
• Support all Eagle Lake Camps' programs as needed, stay current on recruiting best practices, and maintain a working knowledge of Eagle Lake's policies, procedures, core values, brand promises, and state requirements.

Candidate Pipeline & Recruiting Analytics Responsibilities (25%)

• Maintain a healthy pipeline of prospective summer staff ahead of annual hiring needs.
• Own lead-generation and application-volume goals by season and source.
• Maintain accurate , current candidate records.
• Develop follow-up strategies that move candidates from interest to application.
• Hand off applicants to the Hiring Manager promptly for a seamless candidate experience.
• Identify high-potential returning staff and alumni to recruit back into future leadership roles.
• Track application volume, conversion rates, source-of-hire, and channel effectiveness.
• Identify which campuses, partnerships, networks, and strategies produce the strongest candidates.
• Use recruiting data and staffing results to refine the strategy.

Team Leadership & Alumni Engagement Responsibilities (25%)

• Provide development opportunities for recruiting team members.
• Lead the recruiting team in carrying out annual recruiting plans.
• Own a year-round strategy for keeping former staff meaningfully connected to Eagle Lake and its mission.
• Create consistent touchpoints for alumni to reconnect, hear what God is doing, and stay involved in the ministry.
• Cultivate key alumni as ambassadors within their campuses, churches, communities, and networks.
• Mobilize alumni as a source of candidates, referrals, recruiting relationships, and advocates.
• Maintain accurate alumni records and strengthen Eagle Lake's ability to communicate with its alumni community.
• Partner with Eagle Lake and Navigators leaders to keep alumni engaged in the broader mission.

Ministry Partner Development Responsibilities (5%)

• Raise and maintain personal ministry support in accordance with organizational requirements.
• Steward donor relationships with integrity and consistent communication.
• Meet annual funding benchmarks toward full personal support.

Additional Responsibilities (5%)

• Participate in Navigators' on-site learning and development events, Cultural Development and Diversity trainings, or other non-Navigator developmental events as appropriate .
• Participate in annual processes, such as the organizational Plan and Progress Review (PPR), Engagement Survey, Reaffirmation of the Navigators Code of Conduct, Calling-Core Values-Vision, Statement of Faith, Driver's Authorization, and other releases as required .
• Read spiritually and culturally developmental books and literature.
• Submit time worked on a weekly basis through the Workday Time Tracking system.
• Other job-related duties as assigned.

CORE COMPETENCIES

• Teachable - capable of being taught; apt and willing to learn and grow
• Team-ability - a team player who understands nothing worth accomplishing can be done alone
• Adaptable - able to adjust behavior and actions according to what the situation requires
• Driven - a desire to grow and push oneself to be better; willingness to take risks
• Resilient - a