Teacher Staff

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Job Specific Working Conditions:

Elk Rapids Young Life

Teacher Staff

• Part-time

• Personal Fundraising: none

• Benefits: Soc Security/Medicare, Benefit Supplement, Workers Comp, 401k matching plan up to 4%

Mission Statement: To introduce adolescents to Jesus Christ and help them grow in their faith.

Qualifications:

• A mature commitment to Jesus and Christian faith as evidenced by life transformation and spiritual growth

• Belong to a local church

• Experience (volunteer or paid) with students

• Proven relational skills with both students and adults

• Demonstrates verbal and written communication skills

• Ability to maintain confidentiality

• College degree (preferred)

Responsibilities:

Ministry

Leadership Development (40%)

• Recruit, train, mobilize, and retain a team of adult Wyldlife leaders who are executing the 5 C’s of Young Life

• Supervise and evaluate volunteers in leadership development, spiritual formation, and ministry with teens

• Meet regularly with the volunteer team for ongoing training, ministry planning, and community building

The Young Life 5 C’s (30%)

• Contact Work

  • Create an effective contact work strategy to reach middle schoolers and equip your team to do the same

  • Be active in all three levels of contact work (Seen and be seen, talk with teens,, spend time with teens)

  • Train and engage the team on effective contact work

  • Build relationships with the school staff establish trust of Young Life in their building

• Club

  • Plan and implement regular club meetings

  • Train and engage the team in leading club

• Campaigners and Discipleship

  • Create an effective discipleship strategy for middle schoolers

  • Train and engage your team in the discipleship of middle schoolers

• Camp

  • Plan and implement a summer and school season camping strategy

  • Set the example of passionately pursuing teens to attend camp 

  • Highly encourage, recruit and train leaders to attend camp

  • Create a prayer team to pray for kids and leaders while at camp

• Church

  • Encourage partnerships with local churches

  • Point kids back to the Body of Christ and invite kids to church with you

Additional/Administrative: (15%)

• Accounting: Maintain accurate budgets and expense reports

• Communication:

  • Practice good communication via email, phone,  and text

  • Know and use Google Drive, spreadsheets, social media, and Salesforce

• Have a system for communicating with parents

• Provide updates and stories to regional admin and committee for them to send donor emails

• Data management: maintain accurate information on students, leaders, and donors

• Create and implement annual personal and ministry goals

Training (15%)

• Complete New Leader Training 

• Attend quarterly regional training meetings (optional)

• Connect monthly with Associate Regional Director for ongoing support/training

• Annual evaluation of focused ministry health with Committee Chair and Associate Regional Director

• Pursue opportunities for personal development and spiritua