Fresno Madera Area Male Group Site Director Fresno, CA

Youth For Christ partners with group home agencies throughout Fresno and Madera Counties to support, mentor, and share Jesus with high-risk teens.

The Group Life Ministry Staff works in support of the Ministry Director and is responsible to engage and oversee a set number of contracted Group Homes in Fresno with a holistic curriculum, loving relationships with volunteers, and the life-changing message of Jesus. Each site is to be visited twice a week, whether by the Group Life Staff member or a volunteer ministry leader.

Through the growth and equipping of a team of volunteers in weekly one-on-one mentoring relationships, activities, and small groups, this person will provide opportunities for youth to make an informed decision to become a follower of Jesus and join a local church.

• Direct Ministry at Male Group Homes: (60% of time)
  • Facilitating programming and Christ-sharing relationships at a set number of local group homes weekly.
  • Connect students with local church youth ministries to the extent possible.
  • Ensure that ministry programming, one-on-one visits, and events regularly provide kids with the opportunity to make an informed decision to become a lifelong follower of Jesus.
• Growing, Equipping and Caring for a team of volunteers: (25%)
  • Recruiting volunteers (1–2 per home).
  • Communicating, training, and encouraging volunteers.
  • Communicating with and connecting volunteers with YFC.
  • Covering ministry site absences.
• Administration: (15%)
  • Reviewing curriculum for use by the team.
  • Meeting regularly with your supervisor.
  • Developing and fostering mutual partnerships, including group-home managers, administrators, and churches, etc.; coordinating mentoring schedules.
  • Ministry Reporting as requested.
  • Fundraising (see below).
  • YFC engagement for All-Staff Events and Meetings. Staff Meetings are held on Tuesday mornings at 8:30 a.m.

• Maintain a vital and growing personal relationship with Jesus Christ and demonstrate that relationship through a morally upstanding lifestyle that is in keeping with biblical principles. (See Leadership Standards)
• Demonstrate involvement in a local church through regular attendance, relationships with other members, and participation in ministry programs and events.
• Carry out the agreed-upon work schedule, communicating variations in advance.
• Attend staff meetings and retreats unless excused by ED.
• Fulfill ministry fundraising expectations as agreed upon (sending quarterly Support Letters, seeking in‑kind donations, asking for direct ministry support, and participating in every "all‑staff" ministry or fundraising event unless excused by the Executive Director, etc).
• Help maintain a safe and clean physical work environment.

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.

Additionally, YFC employees will have an opportunity to be commissioned or licensed as a minister of the Gospel through the established Youth for Christ process, and/or ordained by an outside body recognized by Youth for Christ USA. As such, the following additional responsibilities of a spiritual nature will apply to this position: perform sacramental functions such as the taking of communion and leading times of corporate prayer, confession and praise, and perform and lead religious ceremonies such as weddings, baptisms and funerals when called upon by…