Youth Development Program Specialist; Riverside

Youth Development Program Specialist (Riverside)

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IGNITE Youth Leadership Program – We are a unique sports and leadership ministry that empowers teams of youth (middle and high school age) to coach, mentor, and walk alongside their younger peers (elementary school age) through sports activities and games. Primarily, soccer is the most popular sport, but we weave other sports, interactive games, and activities (waste basket tennis, chair hockey, scooter ball, etc.)

into our curriculum. Alongside this, we build up that same youth leader team with weekly classes and workshops around prayer and faith, leadership, community engagement, and workforce development.

Unite Health Share Ministries (UHSM) is a nonprofit, faith‑based health sharing ministry that facilitates member‑to‑member health sharing among fellow Christians, serving as a connector to administer medical cost sharing. The UHSM mission is to help Christian families fulfill their God‑given purpose to care for one another and to positively impact our communities. Headquartered in Norfolk, VA, UHSM takes a modern approach to health sharing that prioritizes holistic health and wellbeing and offers simple, fair, and friendly health‑share programs to its members.

The Youth Development Program Specialist will provide direct support to the IGNITE Youth Leadership Program site in Riverside, the respective Site Director, and the IGNITE youth leaders on and during all activities and programs. This includes coordinating, scheduling, and managing after‑school character sports programs and community engagement initiatives; training, recruiting, and selecting teenage youth leaders; community outreach and brand awareness; facilitating faith and leadership workshops (including in‑school initiatives);

and providing a positive, faith‑filled presence to the community. The position also involves familiarizing with the program manual, performing occasional administrative updates, proofreading, data collection, reporting, and working around social media posts, pictures, and content.

• Co‑lead (with Riverside Site Director) on all matters related to the IGNITE Youth Leadership Program, including after‑school sports programs, IYLP team meetings, site goals, recruitment and development of student leaders, disciplinary matters, partner site meetings, collaboration events, workforce field trips, mock sales/interview days, summer team‑building initiatives, and leadership/faith development initiatives.
• Aide in proofreading and ongoing updates of the IGNITE Youth Leadership Program Manual, including Spanish translation, document updates, games, activities, expectation forms, and content cleanup.
• Coordinate, supervise, and implement in‑school IGNITE character and leadership activity classes (IGNITE Club). These are generally held one to two days a week, 30‑45 minutes, Monday‑Thursday during recess or lunch time, at designated Riverside elementary schools. Also cultivate relationships with school administrators, teachers, update curriculum, and research new games and activities.
• Work closely with the Site Director to create or adapt curriculum, engage and encourage students, conduct community outreach and presentations to parents, back‑to‑school events, and youth nights, set program outcome goals, and maintain the IGNITE culture.
• Co‑direct and supervise the IYLP youth leadership team (10‑15 students at Avenue Church) on all after‑school sports programs, including speaking schedule, station assignments, dates, timelines, talking points, equipment set‑up and breakdown, prayer, public speaking, and new game ideas.
• Maintain consistent communication and relationships with all IGNITE Youth Leaders, Site Directors, Fireside Director, Founder, and partner site administrators (Kid Works OC, Avenue Church, and designated RUSD elementary schools).
• Oversee and roll‑out IYLP social media posts: select youth leaders to coach, take photos, upload to social media, communicate with Site Directors, add appropriate tags and subject matter, and consult with…