MENTAL HEALTH PROGRAM DIRECTOR / GIRLS CAMPUS LIFE SPECIALIST

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MENTAL HEALTH PROGRAM DIRECTOR / GIRLS CAMPUS LIFE SPECIALIST

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Position Overview
This position is responsible for overseeing the administration, coordination, and growth of the Rebalance program and assisting with the Campus Life program. This includes working with DHS, DYS, and school systems to establish classes, managing coaches, ensuring compliance with contracts and waivers, handling billing and scheduling, and maintaining communication with key stakeholders such as parents, schools, and the Food Bank. The Rebalance Director plays a crucial role in ensuring the success of the program and supporting the youth it serves.

Position Summary
Position Overview
This position is responsible for overseeing the administration, coordination, and growth of the Rebalance program and assisting with the Campus Life program. This includes working with DHS, DYS, and school systems to establish classes, managing coaches, ensuring compliance with contracts and waivers, handling billing and scheduling, and maintaining communication with key stakeholders such as parents, schools, and the Food Bank. The Rebalance Director plays a crucial role in ensuring the success of the program and supporting the youth it serves.
It requires spiritual and organizational leadership skills, the ability to work with and through other people, and strong communication skills. S/he must embrace and build a team that embodies YFC’s Cultural Attributes: Christ-centered, enduring humility, relentless trust, courageous faithfulness, joyful camaraderie, and kingdom inspired diversity. S/he will seek to implement relational ministry actions to develop Authentic Christ-Sharing Relationships with young people within the context of their YFC ministry model.
Key Responsibilities
Program Development & Partnerships

Establish and maintain relationships with DHS (Department of Human Services), and school districts to secure contracts and enroll students in Rebalance classes.
Work directly with school systems to expand Rebalance class offerings and ensure alignment with school schedules and needs.
Problem-solve challenges related to youth, parents, teachers, schools, DHS, and games to ensure smooth program operations.
Foster and grow the area Campus Life program and create synergy between Rebalance and Campus Life.

Coach Management & Training

Supervise and support Rebalance coaches, ensuring they are well-equipped to deliver classes effectively.
Conduct twice-yearly observations of all coaches’ classes, providing feedback and support as needed.
Organize meetings and training sessions for coaches to enhance program delivery and professional development.
Be on call during class times to address any urgent issues that arise.

Scheduling & Communication

Manage the scheduling of classes and coaches, ensuring all sessions are adequately staffed.
Maintain ongoing communication with parents, addressing concerns, providing updates, and ensuring a positive experience for youth.
Coordinate with proper entities/people to ensure meals/snacks are available for students as needed.
Monitor and verify waivers before youth participation, ensuring compliance with all program policies.
Send reminders and updates to coaches regarding text messages to students throughout the week via Slack.
Review, check, and distribute letters and official communications as needed.

Billing & Administrative Tasks

Handle all billing and invoicing for DHS, and school districts, ensuring timely payments and financial tracking.
Assist in grant applications and completion of required paperwork to secure funding and maintain program sustainability.

Qualifications & Skills

Experience working with DHS, or school districts in a program management or administrative role.
Strong leadership and team management skills, with experience supervising and training staff.
Excellent organizational abilities, with the ability to manage multiple tasks, schedules, and responsibilities.
Effective problem-solving skills, especially in high-pressure situations involving youth, parents, and institutional partners.
Strong written and verbal communication skills to maintain professional relationships with stakeholders.
Experience with billing, contracts, and grant writing preferred.
Flexibility and availability to be on call during class times to handle urgent matters.

Essential Functions
Ministry Team Development (30%)

Recruit, train, and maintain volunteer ministry leader team.
Create a strong connection between local churches and the ministry site
Provide training materials and ministry site standards for ministry leaders
Develop healthy 3 Story teams for each ministry site
Establish necessary support and guidelines to ensure healthy and growing ministry at all sites
Be an advocate in the community for young people
Report progress and ministry updates to YFC

Relational Ministry Action Development (60%)

Responsible for managing, facilitating and serving in the Relational Ministry Actions (RMAs)
Direct the 3 Story Team at their site in accomplishing the standards outlined in the RMAs found in the Knowledge Base
Establish and develop programming materials
Train and evaluate ministry site leaders in the implementation of curriculum materials

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 word and in the practice of faith expression. 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.

Position Requirements
Knowledge & Skills

Embraces the vision, mission and Statement of Faith of YFC
Participation in YFC’s Blueprint for Leadership
Understands YFC’s 5 Essentials and leads through this model
Self-Motivator
Strong moral character and of good repute
Connect well with youth
Well-spoken in front of youth and adults
Manage a team of diverse volunteers
Honors and pursues diversity of gifts, cultures and ethnicities
Excellent oral, written, interpersonal and presentation skills
Able to prioritize and manage multiple responsibilities
Good relationship building skills with adults and young people
Perseverance through opposition and obstacles

About
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 fosters 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. Willing to demonstrate and/or possesses the following:

Ability to humbly serve and honor others even in difficult situations with prayer, consistency, transparency, and resilience. (Enduring Humility)
Demonstrates 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. (Relentless Trust)
Prioritizes others’ needs for a missional outcome, characterized by joy, with active listening and problem-solving skills, while encouraging and empowering fellow believers. (Joyful Camaraderie)
Trusts God with new approaches and changes, and communicates needs and limits with emotional intelligence, while seeking confidence and wisdom in Christ. (Courageous Faithfulness)
Seeks authentic Christ-Centered relationships with people of various backgrounds, fosters an inviting environment and empowers historically marginalized groups and indigenous populations (within the local context), through active listening, inclusion, advocacy for those who are vulnerable and respect of others’ experiences. (Kingdom Inspired Diversity)

Credentials Required & Preferred Education

Bachelor’s Degree Preferred
Ministry experience preferred

Fundraising Responsibilities
All YFC employees are expected to regularly and actively participate in faithful activities that advance the stewardship functions of YFC USA. These activities will include—but are not limited to— extending invitations to fund raising events, recruiting personal circle of influence/YFC donor contacts, sending letters, handwritten notes, personal calls, and personally ministering to donor contacts.
EEO Statement
Youth For Christ (YFC) provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, sex, national origin, age, handicap, marital status, or other unlawful discriminatory characteristics in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws.
YFC is classified as an Association of Churches and as such our hiring practices reflect that designation. As a religious nonprofit organization, YFC incorporates within each leader role, the requirement to model, teach, share and live the faith. The relationship between YFC’s mission and each of its leaders is its lifeblood and as such does at all times and in all instances reserve the right to make employment decisions based upon a person’s religious beliefs, personal character and lifestyle consistent with our understanding of the Bible or with our overall goals and requirements for Christian ministry.
We seek to create a workplace that is intentional about Kingdom Inspired Diversity. Our commitment to our employees extends to their opportunities for growth, development, promotion, training and compensation.
We will make reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals with known disabilities, unless doing so would result in an undue hardship to the organization.
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