College Director of NYU

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Job Specific Working Conditions:

College Director in NYU

Ministry Functions:
Spiritual Development — “Following Jesus” includes prayer and spiritual disciplines, fellowship, growth and health and church relationships.

• Commit to understanding God’s Word and practicing spiritual disciplines including retreat and reflection times.
• Actively participate in a church community and the spiritual life of the Young Life community.
• Lead the area and individuals in spiritual development and prayer.
• Ensure that all Young Life ministry in the area is designed and carried out with a dependence on prayer that takes place out of the overflow of a personal relationship with Jesus Christ.

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

• Cast the vision for campus ministry and maintain healthy ministry teams by recruiting, mobilizing and retaining teams of staff and volunteers.

• Recruiting

• Recruit, hire and place staff, leadership teams and committee members that reflect the makeup of the campus community.
• Mobilizing
• Develop, supervise and evaluate staff.
• Help provide resources and experiences needed to implement the vision for campus ministry and spiritual leadership plan.
• Recommend quality summer staff, summer interns and adult guests.
• Retaining
• Ensure excellent contact work, club, small group ministry, camping and service opportunities are modeled.
• Lead regular gatherings to cast vision, train and empower staff, leaders and committee to uniquely lead on their campus utilizing Young Life College’s Reach, Build, Launch strategy aligned with the mission and values of Young Life.

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

• Help recruit, encourage and sustain a local committee as partners in ministry to join in prayer, mentoring college students and fundraising.

• Work together with the committee members to ensure:

• A fundraising strategy is developed and implemented.
• A TDS team is pursuing and maintaining financial partners for the area.
• A surplus of funds are available for ministry sustainability and growth.
• Excellent communication to donors and community.
• Ongoing recruitment of potential committee members — striving for diversity of age, ethnicity, church attendance and more.
• Conduct quality events that display Young Life College’s impact and warrant investment of resources.
• Network and collaborate with other Young Life College Directors for encouragement, sharing of strategies and ideas.
• Maintain major donor relationships that provide a personal touch to each major donor multiple times annually to update, thank, an