Description:

Salt Lake City Young Life is looking for a full-time area director to join our current Area Director in ministry. If you are looking to grow God’s kingdom, this is the place to do it! The opportunity for growth is great. A strong team of staff, committee members, and volunteers are ready and excited to continue reaching more kids and expanding to more schools in the Salt Lake Valley.

Ministry Snapshot

• Metropolitan area consists of 125 middle schoolers and high schoolers.
• One WyldLife Ministry
• One Young Life Ministry
• One College Ministry || University of Utah
• Healthy Local Committee
• Three Current Staff

Responsibilities:

Area Director responsibilities include the following. This role will be shared in Salt Lake City, and both area directors will share in the responsibilities.

Spiritual Life

• Has a relationship with Jesus Christ and is actively growing in ways outside of the Young Life ministry.
• 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.
• Actively engaged in a local church.
• Adheres to Young Life’s policies for staff people.

Staff Care

• Hire, supervise, and train staff.
• Lead staff meetings.
• Care for the staff team and promote a healthy staff culture.

Leader Care and Development

• Prayerfully manage a group of dedicated volunteers as they love people in the name of Jesus.
• Work closely with Board Chair to maintain board/area health and fill positions.
• Develop a community of leaders who love one another and are growing in spiritual depth.
• Recruit adult leaders, young adults, and college-aged students.
• Helps plan and execute programmatic events including Bible studies, outreach-related activities, leader meetings, and committee meetings. These are often night-time meetings.

Direct Ministry

• Participate in dynamic direct ministry with kids (WyldLife and Young Life)
• Execute a camp strategy that maximizes students' opportunities to respond and react to the Christian faith. Includes weeklong summer camping and weekend camping trips throughout the year as scheduled.
• Oversee the current direct ministry while creating a plan to open specialty ministries (Capernaum, YoungLives, etc.) and ministry in schools not yet reached.
• Support the Young Life College Director and ministry.
• Oversee camp logistics to ensure a safe, fun, and smooth camping experience.
• Grasp the idea of “relational ministry” and earning the privilege to be heard in the community.

Fundraising (Personal and Locally)

• Provide leadership to the volunteer adult committee partnering to raise the local area budget as well as maintain the budget with stewardship capability.
• Help to develop and execute a financial strategy to achieve budgetary goals.
• Execute a personal fundraising plan.
• Create and manages area budget and donations via CashFlow.
• Partner with the committee and staff to execute large fundraising events such as one large banquet, year-end campaign, and one golf tournament.
• Work closely with the board member who oversees donor care.

Strategy and Community Engagement

• Cast vision for the area’s continued growth. Prayerfully work hard in reaching the next school in a healthy way.
• Able to inspire and cast vision, inviting new volunteer committee members and leaders into the ministry while giving them ownership and helping them to develop as leaders.
• Able to strategize alongside staff and regional director to grow ministry within Salt Lake City.
• Be the “Chief Asker, Communicator, and Storyteller.” Create a communication plan for the area to reach new and current parents, students, leaders, school administration, and committees.
• Develops relationships with churches and create community support.
• Communicates effectively (email, social media, website, and face-to-face) within the ministry as well as community-wide.

Qualifications:

• A call to reach adolescents with the Gospel.
• Proven leadership skills.
• Spiritual maturity and growing faith.
• Strong initiative and vision.
• Experience in raising money and managing budgets.
• Experience in supervision and development of people.
• Proven relational skills with both students and adults.
• Must be a self-starter/initiator.
• Must be able to lead in a developing area.
• Eager to learn and grow - teachable.
• Passionate about the Lord and teenagers.
• Willingness to participate in many night/weekend events.
• Creativity in making events, meetings, and gatherings fun.
• College degree preferred.
• Young Life experience (staff or volunteer) preferred.

Benefits:

• Medical, dental and vision coverage (at no cost to you).
• Paid vacation and sick leave.
• 401(k) matching plan (up to four percent).
• Health club benefit.
• And more!

Notes:

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How To Apply:

Submit an online application, including resume and cover letter