Description:

Young Life in the Brunswicks (New Brunswick, NJ) is seeking an innovative, driven, and faithful individual to fulfill the role of a part-time YoungLives Coordinator.

YoungLives? is Young Life’s outreach and ministry to parenting teenagers and their children. YoungLives? clubs are regular gatherings with parenting teenagers and mentors with the support of childcare workers and various community help. Clubs meet around the world offering fun, laughter, encouragement and an inspirational message. Other YoungLives? activities may include Bible study, group outings and life skill instruction.

In New Brunswick, this part-time coordinator would be working directly alongside our existing YoungLives coordinator and the Area Director in leading the largest YoungLives ministry in the Northeast, being responsible for helping steward the maintenance and growth of the existing ministry. While there is an existing club and ministry, it has grown at a rapid pace, creating a need for another individual who can work more closely with mentors and adult volunteers, and work with churches and ministry partners to ensure that Club goes off without a hitch.

This coordinator needs to be someone who has a mature faith, and a willingness to adopt leadership in multiple capacities, primarily mentors and volunteers, in addition to the teen moms themselves.

Responsibilities:

Ministry

• Recruit, train, mobilize and retain mentors, childcare volunteers and other individuals supporting the ministry.

• Foster direct ministry relationships with teen moms and their children.

• Coordinator will mentor at least one, if not two to three, participant(s).

• Supervise and evaluate volunteers in leadership development, spiritual formation and ministry with teen moms.

• Meet regularly with the volunteer team for on-going training, ministry planning and community building.

Implement the 5 C's of Young Life

• Contact Work - Continue to create a culture amongst the other mentors of going to where teen moms are to spend time with them regularly

• Club - Maintain and grow New Brunswick’s regular club.

• Campaigners - Participate in on-going Bible study with teen moms and junior leaders

• Camp - Help lead logistics for Summer Camp, working with ministry partners to raise funds for teen moms to go to camp, and attend the week of summer camp

• Committee - Work alongside the area’s existing Committee, and have a watchful eye for recruiting the next individual or family who desires to make an impact with teen moms

Financial Management + Donor Development

• Raise personal and ministry funds as determined by the supervisor, in a “missionary”-style funding model.

• Participate in area fundraising events and opportunities, like a Banquet, recruiting players and business sponsors for the annual Golf Outing, and participating in the camp scholarship yard sale.

Administration

• Work in accordance with the Area Director, YoungLives Coordinator, and area administrator to ensure that area administrative tasks are handled with excellence and on time.

Community Outreach

• Speak to civic and church groups to promote and publicize YoungLives.

• Develop relationships with schools, teen parenting programs, crisis pregnancy centers and other applicable community organizations.

Qualifications:

• Commitment to a growing relationship with Christ.

• Ability to clearly communicate the Gospel and train others accordingly.

• Ability to clearly communicate Young Life’s mission and the vision for YoungLives.

• Ability to recruit, train, and care for adult volunteers

• Understand the unique issues faced by pregnant and parenting teen moms.

• Proven relational skills with both adolescents and adults.

• Strong verbal and written communication skills.

• Ability to maintain confidentiality.

• Self-motivated.

• Goal-oriented.

• Proven leadership skills.

• Ability to travel as the job requires.

• Ability to invest and learn the ethics of trauma-informed care.

• Either speak Spanish or have a willingness to work and learn cross-culturally.