JJM MINISTRY SITE DIRECTOR

Youth For Christ USA Inc.; Pearland (TX); On-site; USD 30,000 - 50,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

403(b) Retirement Plan

Paid Holidays

July Sabbatical

Job summary

Youth For Christ USA Inc. is seeking a Ministry Site Director in Pearland, Texas. The role requires a leader to recruit and train volunteers, develop community partnerships, and ensure effective ministry programming. Candidates should possess strong leadership and communication skills, a Bachelor’s Degree, and a commitment to Youth For Christ’s mission. This position includes responsibilities in managing budgets and fundraising.

Benefits include participation in a 403(b) retirement plan, paid holidays, and a sabbatical. This is a part-time role dedicated to serving the community and fostering spiritual growth among youth.

Qualifications

• Knowledge and skills in Youth for Christ’s Cultural Attributes.
• Self-motivator with strong moral character.
• Ability to prioritize and manage multiple responsibilities.

Responsibilities

• Recruit and train volunteer ministry leaders.
• Lead and implement relational ministry actions.
• Manage fundraising activities and budget responsibilities.

Skills

Leadership skills

Communication skills

Ability to connect well with youth

Team management

Strong moral character

Excellent interpersonal skills

Education

Bachelor’s Degree

Three years of ministry experience

Job description

Position Summary

The JJM Ministry Site Director is a position that requires spiritual and organizational leadership skills, the ability to work with and through other people, and strong communication skills. The Site Director must embrace and build a team that embodies YFC’s Cultural Attributes: Christ-centered, enduring humility, relentless trust, courageous faithfulness, joyful camaraderie, and kingdom inspired diversity. The Site Director will seek to implement relational ministry actions to develop Authentic Christ-Sharing Relationships with young people within the context of their YFC ministry model.

Ministry Team Development (60%)

• Recruit, train, and maintain volunteer ministry leader team in accordance with the processes found in the Knowledge Base
• Create a strong connection between local churches and the ministry site
• Provide training materials and ministry site standards for ministry leaders
• Develop healthy 3 Story teams for each ministry site
• Establish necessary support and guidelines to ensure healthy and growing ministry at all sites
• Be an advocate in the community for young people
• Report progress and ministry updates to YFC

Relational Ministry Action Development (30%)

• The Ministry Site Director will be responsible for managing, facilitating and serving in the Relational Ministry Actions (RMAs)
• Lead the 3 Story Team at their site in accomplishing the standards outlined in the RMAs found in the Knowledge Base
• Establish and develop programming materials
• Train and evaluate ministry site leaders in the implementation of curriculum materials

Primary And Secondary Steward Responsibilities

Employees may be assigned as Primary Steward of any of the following:

• Volunteer(s)
• Donor(s)
• Vendor(s)
• Chapter(s)
• Process, Standard 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.

Spiritual Responsibilities

Because the overriding religious purpose and mission of Youth for Christ 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.

Fundraising Responsibilities

All YFC employees are expected to regularly and actively participate in faithful activities that advance the stewardship functions of YFC. 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.

Budget Responsibilities

A Budget Manager is responsible to align all financial resources to the YFC/USA strategic plan in accordance with the delegation and direction of the Division Head. The Budget Manager is responsible for coding, approval and financial decision‑making for their assigned Division, Department and/or Action Plan budget. When a budget is overfunded or underfunded, the Budget Manager is responsible to course correct through the MCCR process.

Position Requirements

Knowledge & Skills

• Knowledge and demonstrated skills in each of Youth for Christ’s Cultural Attributes (Christ-Centered, Kingdom Inspired Diversity, Joyful Camaraderie, Relentless Trust, Enduring Humility and Courageous Faithfulness)
• Embraces the vision, mission and Statement of Faith of Youth for Christ
• 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

• Bachelor’s Degree
• Three years of ministry experience

Benefits

Employee Benefits: As a Part-time employee of Youth for Christ Houston, you are eligible to participate in a number of Company-sponsored benefits.

• 403(b) Retirement Plan
• July Sabbatical
• 12 Paid Holidays and a Paid Week off at Christmas

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.