Direct Ministry - Spanish Fort, AL

Position: Direct Ministry I - Spanish Fort, AL
Location: Montrose

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Spiritual Development — "Following Jesus" includes prayer and spiritual disciplines, fellowship, growth and health and church relationships.

Ministry Functions:
Spiritual Development — "Following Jesus" includes prayer and spiritual disciplines, fellowship, growth and health and church relationships.

• Maintain a genuine and sincere commitment to understanding God's Word and the disciplines of personal and corporate prayer.
• Seek out and maintain relationships and disciplines, in the context of active participation in a church community, that lead to a vibrant spiritual life.
• Actively participate in the spiritual life of the Young Life community.
• Lead teams and individuals in spiritual development.
• Develop a yearly personal growth plan that fosters a vibrant spiritual life, including time for solitude, retreat, reflection, prayer and Scripture reading.
• 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 on a regular basis.
• Learn principles of leadership and recruitment and training of new leaders to build a leadership team that reflects the makeup of the community.
• Model excellence in contact work, club, Campaigners and camping to other leaders.
• Attend and be involved with area leadership as assigned.
• Assist in training leaders and committee how to work effectively in teams.
• Train and lead a team in developing 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 principles to develop strategic relationships with key adults in the community, including: principals, pastors, parents, potential committee members and more as assigned by the area director.
• Learn to plan and execute area fundraising events under the direction of an area supervisor.
• Become a respected Young Life steward to the community for both kids and adults.

• Attend committee and adult functions as necessary and assigned.

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 implement a regular outreach meeting with excellence.

• Lead Campaigners meetings with excellence as assigned by the area director.

• 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.

• Research community and school demographics to assess ministry effectiveness and support the area's effort in reaching "Every Kid."

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.

• Set yearly ministry and personal goals and objectives; review them on a regular basis.
• Maintain accurate information on kids, leaders and donors for area records.
• Provide clear, prompt, appropriate and professional communication to everyone involved in ministry.
• Perform other duties as assigned and congruent with gifts, experience and area needs.

Training:
Mission-Wide Training

• Completion of at least two years as a Staff Associate.
• Core Training — phase one to be completed as a Staff Associate
• Full-time staff are expected to complete a Training Timeline experience in non ASC years.

Regional Training

• There is no mission wide regional-level training curriculum.
• Actively engage in training provided by the regional director.

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 five C's.
• Become familiar with area strategy and ministry health as assigned by the area director.
• Must have completed Leadership I and II as a Staff Associate

Education:

• College degree preferred.

Qualifications Required for the Job:

• Must have completed Core Training —Phase One.
• Must have 1 or more clubs
• Experience in direct ministry.
• Proven relational skills with both kids and adults.
• Demonstrated verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to maintain confidentiality.