Field Senior Vice President

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Job Specific Working Conditions:

The anticipated salary for this position can range from $153,900-$198,400, depending on relevant education, experience, and location.

This role requires the person reside within the South-Central Division

Essential Tasks & Responsibilities:

Spiritual Leadership — “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, study, prayer, and worship.
• 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 division is designed and carried out with a dependence on prayer that takes place out of the overflow of a personal relationship with Jesus Christ.

Healthy Culture — “Proclaiming and modeling” ministry

• Build a healthy culture, steeped in spiritual disciplines, diversity, equity, belonging, truth, transparency, curiosity and innovation.
• Ensure the development and implementation of measurable plans for the health, nurture and encouragement of staff, volunteer leader, committee members and donors in each region.
• Visit regions including routine and emergency crisis visits.
• Observe and evaluate regions to ensure Young Life ministry to include camping is carried out with excellence.
• Provide clear, prompt, appropriate and professional communication.
• Serve on the U.S. Field Leadership Team.
• Attend Global Leadership Conference and other meetings as requested.

Performance & Leadership Development — “Equipping staff, leaders, and committee” includes key volunteer care, recruiting, team building and training and supervision.

• With GSVP approval, hire and place regional directors.
• Supervise, develop and evaluate regional directors and divisional staff, providing resources and experiences needed to implement the vision of the Mission.
• Ensure RDs begin and sustain healthy Young Life areas in as many locations as possible in their regions.
• Oversee the hiring, orientation, and training of key leadership staff to build a technically strong, well supported, engaged team.
• Collaborate with key departments (i.e. Finance, Human Resources, Learning & Leadership Development, etc.) as needed.
• Work alongside the GSVPs, VPs, and Regional Directors to ensure the success of all focus and life stage ministries by developing clear goals and accountability at every level of mission leadership, which includes ME, Capernaum, YoungLives, WyldLife, YLCU, Military, etc.
• Effectively plan and support career pathing/succession planning for all staff.

Financial Health — “Fueling the ministry” includes events, major donor care, public relations (branding) and TDS team.

• Oversee the financial health of the Division to include each region and help meet the financial needs of the overall mission of Young Life.
• Ensure finances are managed with stewardship, equity, accountability and transparency.
• Lead the division’s fundraising strategy, ensuring excellence in communication to donors.
• Raise the necessary funds to carry out the divisional ministry vision.
• Identify and cultivate national and/or global donors.
• Work with Development team to identify and cultivate potential donors for mission-wide efforts and camp capital campaigns.

Vision & Strategy – “Casting the Vision” includes leading the strategic vision for the division.

• Provide vision and direction, strategic planning, staff engagement and overall leadership for reaching all adolescents in the division to include the design and execution of recruitment, retention and staff development initiatives that advance diversity, equity and belonging.
• Develop and lead strategic initiatives to advance the Mission and oversee and implement plans in collaboration with the GSVP and other senior leaders (i.e. MLT, SVPs, VPs etc.).
• Ensure annual strategic plan is in place to grow Young Life in the division to include all stage of life and focus ministries.
• Build and maintain effective relationships between Camping, Field, Development and Mission Services staff and hold team accountable for doing the same.
• Identify, frame an