[Hiring] Mission Staff-Wyldlife Madison County @Young Life

Role Description

Madison County Young Life is seeking a relational, organized, and mission-minded individual to join the team as a Part Time WyldLife Team Leader. The ideal candidate is someone who loves Jesus, enjoys working with middle school students and volunteers, communicates well, and is passionate about helping create welcoming spaces where students feel known and valued. We are looking for a leader of leaders and someone to build relationships with parents and the community. The candidate will be asked to raise personal financial support to supplement the area budget.

• Recruiting, training & supporting volunteer leaders
• Building meaningful relationships with students
• Coordinating and executing a regular schedule of club, campaigners, camp, & contact work with students
• Part of a three-year WyldLife team leader cohort with three zoom calls each year with other staff around the nation
• Team leader of Cazenovia WyldLife program or developing a new WyldLife ministry in the Morrisville-Eaton or Canastota communities
• Part time, approx 10 hours per week

Qualifications

• Proven relational skills with both kids and adults
• Demonstrated verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to maintain confidentiality

Requirements

• Spiritual Development: Following Jesus includes prayer and spiritual disciplines, fellowship, growth and health, and church relationships
• Develop a yearly personal growth plan that fosters a vibrant spiritual life including time for solitude, retreat, reflection, prayer, and a sincere commitment to understanding God’s Word
• Seek and maintain relationships and disciplines in the context of active participation in a church community
• Actively participate in the spiritual life of the Young Life community
• Lead teams and individuals in spiritual development
• Leadership Development: Equipping leaders, committee and staff includes key volunteer care, recruiting, team building and training, supervision, and vision casting
• Meet with your volunteer leaders and area leadership on a regular basis
• Learn to recruit and train new leaders to build a leadership team that reflects the community
• Model excellence in contact work, club, Campaigners, and camping to other leaders
• Assist in training leaders, team leaders, and committee on how to work effectively in teams and develop a yearly ministry strategy
• Resource Development: Fueling the ministry includes events, major donor care, public relations (branding), and TDS team
• Raise financial support as directed and maintain good donor care practices
• Communicate ministry updates and progress to personal donor partners
• Observe and learn to network and develop strategic relationships with key adults in the community
• Assist with camp fundraisers
• Direct Ministry: Proclaiming and modeling includes contact work, club, Campaigners, and camp
• Actively engage in all three levels of contact work
• Lead a team to plan and conduct a new or existing Young Life club and Campaigners/discipleship ministry with excellence
• Lead a team to implement a summer and school-season camping strategy for a ministry
• Serve on a summer assignment at a Young Life camp each year
• Ministry Support: Taking care of business includes accounting, administration, communication (internal), data management, and strategic plan
• Adhere to all Young Life policies and procedures and maintain professionalism concerning office hours, dress, conduct, and time management
• Manage finances with stewardship, accountability, and transparency using the mission-wide applications
• Maintain accurate information on kids, leaders, and donors for area records
• Provide clear, prompt, appropriate, and professional communication to everyone involved in ministry
• Set yearly strategic ministry plan and initiatives to reach every kid; review them on a regular basis
• Perform other duties as assigned and congruent with gifts, experience, and area needs

Benefits

• Missionwide Training: None is required
• RTD training events such as New Staff Training, Winter Training, Focus Conferences, and Young Life University are available on a request basis with approval of the regional director
• Regional Training: There is no mission-wide regional-level training curriculum
• At the regional director’s prerogative, certain regional training events may be required
• Area Training: Actively engage in training provided by area leadership
• Individualized training supervised by the area director designed to develop personal spiritual maturity and enhance personal character
• Individualized program to learn and gain competency in ministry skills (e.g., The 5 C’s)
• Become familiar with area strategy and ministry health as assigned by the area director
• Introduction to personal fundraising principles including familiarity with Basic Elements for Part-time staff