Campus Sheldon Area Director

Position Summary

The Campus Life Area Director role requires spiritual and organizational leadership skills, fundraising capability, the ability to work with and through other people, and strong communication skills. The director embraces and builds a team that embodies Lane County YFC's Core Values:
Relational evangelism, Teachability, Follow Through, Healthy Conflict, Balance of work and rest, healthy marriage or singleness, and Team‑centric ministry. The director implements regular relational ministry actions (RMAs) to develop Authentic Christ‑Sharing relationships with young people in the YFC model.

An Area Director is a key part of the leadership team and is primarily responsible for overseeing ministry in a specific geographical area encompassing multiple ministry sites for the chapter. Responsibilities include oversight of ministry sites, shepherding ministry staff and their leadership development, resourcing staff, developing future ministry sites, community collaboration, and fundraising.

• Direct and guide the ministry team in the 5 Essentials and National Ministry best practices
• Manage current ministry staff through individual supervision and regular area staff meetings
• Work collaboratively with any operational Community Support Team to advance ministry in the community
• Develop current ministry sites health and growth
• Regularly evaluate ministry effectiveness while helping sites and site leaders grow
• Volunteer oversight for your area; work with site directors to develop a recruiting, training and retention plan for volunteers and volunteer teams
• Potentially work with other area directors and oversee volunteer intake process
• Build deep community relationships in and around current ministry sites
• Provide ministry resources for trips and events while spearheading events or assisting during these events
• Consistently involved in local ministry with lost teens
• Some administrative functions involved (reporting, scheduling, etc.)

• Work with the Ministry Director in developing vision for ministry expansion in your area
• Assist in laying the foundation for effective ministry in that particular new ministry site
• Assist in the hiring process of staff for each ministry site
• Support and train new ministry staff in community development and ministry in their first year
• Build a strategic community collaboration plan for new sites

• Build a culture of people development within the chapter
• Invest in direct reports’ growth and development
• Aid new ministry staff in their journey through the initial YFC onboarding process
• Participate in the wider movement for your continued personal growth (regionally & nationally)
• Oversight of any internship programs for investing in raising up young leaders
• Be involved in all team‑oriented fundraising efforts
• Win, keep and lift donors
• Walk with the Ministry Director and CST in the process of pursuing significant donors
• Develop local support to assist with current and new ministry sites
• Assist site directors in developing local community involvement

As an associate minister of the Gospel, the director is expected to seek God’s guidance and wisdom through prayer and meditation, participate and lead regular times of prayer, devotion and worship, teach and preach from the Holy Bible at staff meetings, conferences, camps and events, and model empathy, humility and care for all people while promoting equity and inclusion in faith expression.

The director may be commissioned or licensed as a minister of the Gospel through the established Youth for Christ process.

• Humble service and honor others in difficult situations with prayer, consistency, transparency, and resilience (Enduring Humility).
• Proper reliance on God, others, and self, incorporating others’ ideas, welcoming candid input, recognizing others’ need for grace and extending forgiveness and empathy (Relentless Trust).
• Prioritize others’ needs for a missional outcome, characterized by joy, with active listening and problem‑solving skills, while encouraging and empowering fellow believers (Joyful…