Leader Formation Specialist

Leader Formation Specialist

The Leader Formation Specialist supports the Leader Formation Department in advancing the mission of YFC by helping create, organize, and deliver equipping experiences that foster the numeric, relational, personal, spiritual, and missional growth of leaders across the Movement.

Working under the direction of the Director, Leader Formation, this role collaborates closely with Leader Formation team members and partners across Mission Advancement to coordinate projects, write and revise curriculum, develop and maintain training resources, and help ensure equipping offerings reflect field needs and align with YFC culture and values.

This position requires strong organization, follow-through, and communication skills; the ability to learn and apply established processes; and a team-oriented approach. The Leader Formation Specialist is expected to model YFC's Cultural Attributes:
Christ-centered, enduring humility, relentless trust, courageous faithfulness, joyful camaraderie, and kingdom inspired diversity.

Essential Functions

Support the planning, development, and delivery of Leader Formation training and equipping experiences, including online learning and in-person events.

• Assist with the Cohort menu model (preparation, materials, scheduling, participant support, and follow-up).
• Write, draft, edit, and format curriculum and training content for online learning and in-person equipping experiences, using templates, established standards, and sound adult learning practices.
• Support the development and upkeep of National Leader Conference training content, including slides, handouts, learner guides, and updates as directed.
• Contribute to the creation of new curriculum by organizing learning objectives, shaping lesson flow, developing participant exercises, and ensuring content is practical, biblically grounded, and usable by facilitators in the field.
• Translate existing content, ministry expertise, and team input into clear, engaging curriculum materials, including learner guides, facilitator guides, discussion prompts, activities, and simple eLearning builds in partnership with project leads.
• Coordinate with NSC departments and stakeholders to gather inputs, clarify needs, and support timely delivery of assigned training resources.
• Help create feedback loops (surveys, debrief notes, simple reporting) and track action items for continuous improvement of training experiences.
• Support basic assessment activities to evaluate training effectiveness (attendance, completion, participant feedback) and summarize findings for the team.
• Contribute to opportunities that encourage healthy cultural and spiritual formation for YFC leaders by supporting content, communications, and coordination as assigned.
• Support the preparation and content coordination for NSC gatherings (agenda support, resource prep, stakeholder follow-up) under the direction of the team lead.
• Apply a Design Thinking mindset in daily work, integrating innovation and Christ-centered, human-centered problem-solving into planning, collaboration, and execution.

Spiritual Responsibilities

Because the overriding religious purpose and mission of Youth for Christ USA 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 words and in the practice of faith expression.

YFC Cultural Attributes

Our cultural attributes are not about competency. It is an obedience to the call of Christ on our lives. YFC believes that spiritually healthy adults foster healthy relationships with our kids. We place a heavy commitment and emphasis on developing and equipping a Christ-centered life marked by Enduring Humility, Relentless Trust, Joyful Camaraderie, Courageous Faithfulness and Kingdom Inspired Diversity.

Our leaders are expected to be willing to demonstrate and/or possess the following:

• Ability to humbly serve and honor others even in difficult situations with prayer, consistency, transparency, and resilience. (Enduring Humility).
• Demonstrate proper reliance on God, others, and self through generous giving of time and skills, by collaboratively incorporating others' ideas, welcoming candid input, recognizing others' need for grace and extending forgiveness and empathy.…