Regional Director
Young Life
Date: 9 hours ago
City: East London, Eastern Cape
Contract type: Full time

Essential Duties
Spiritual Development — “Following Jesus” includes prayer and spiritual disciplines, fellowship, growth and health and church relationships.
Qualifications
Education
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Spiritual Development — “Following Jesus” includes prayer and spiritual disciplines, fellowship, growth and health and church relationships.
- Develop a yearly personal growth plan that fosters a vibrant spiritual life including time for solitude, retreat, reflection, prayer and a sincere commitment to understanding God’s Word.
- Seek and maintain relationships and disciplines, in the context of active participation in a church community.
- Actively participate in the spiritual life of the Young Life community.
- Lead teams and individuals in spiritual development.
- Ensure that all Young Life ministry in the region, is designed and carried out with a dependence on prayer that takes place out of the overflow of a personal relationship with Jesus Christ.
- Cast vision for reaching “every kid” within the region.
- Recruit, interview, hire and place staff within the region.
- Supervise, develop and evaluate staff, providing resources and experiences needed to implement the vision.
- Develop and implement regional trainings.
- Conduct assignments or events, including leadership weekends, recruiting days, staff development, leader training and more.
- Help areas develop committees. Communicate regularly with committee and TDS chairs within the region.
- Develop and lead the region’s fundraising strategy, ensuring excellence in communication to donors.
- Raise the necessary funds to carry out the regional ministry vision.
- Ensure a TDS plan including vision statement and strategy and financial master plan is implemented and reviewed.
- Work with Development staff to identify potential donors for mission wide efforts.
- Coordinate and conduct quality events which reflect Young Life’s capacity to impact kids and warrant the investment of a participant’s personal and corporate resources.
- Work with the area committee to develop good community and church relationships.
- If appropriate, recruit, develop, encourage and sustain a diverse regional committee.
- Develop new areas, and identify interested adults to help the ministry to grow.
- Visit areas as needed, including routine and emergency crisis visits.
- Observe and evaluate local areas to ensure Young Life ministry is carried out with excellence.
- Ensure a plan is in place to grow Young Life in the region including multi-cultural and focus ministries.
- Maintain ministry contact with kids to the extent it is necessary to be effective in this role.
- Provide networking opportunities to offer additional camping experiences using non-Young Life camps and discipleship experiences.
- Maintain professionalism concerning office hours, dress, conduct and time management.
- Manage finances with stewardship, accountability and transparency using the mission wide applications.
- Interface with the mission wide office to facilitate communication and implementation of all Young Life leadership initiatives, policies and procedures.
- Provide clear, prompt, appropriate and professional communication to everyone within the scope of ministry.
- Set yearly strategic ministry plan growth and initiatives to grow the ministry; review them on a regular basis.
- Implement and support regional initiatives, such as a student staff program, multi-cultural advance and Forward.
- Accept both short and long-term assignments and projects.
- Other mission wide tasks as assigned.
- Could include the extremes of a camp assignment, e.g. heat/cold, dirt, long hours and the physical demands of hiking, horseback riding, boating, etc. Staff person must be able to handle these conditions.
Qualifications
Education
- College degree preferred.
- Completion of Core Training — Phase One
- Must be able to supervise at a distance.
- Proven spiritual leader.
- Proven relational skills with both kids and adults.
- Demonstrated verbal and written communication skills.
- Ability to maintain confidentiality.
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