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**Regional Director - Capital Region**:
**Description**:
**Essential Duties**:
**Spiritual Development — **“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, prayer and a sincere commitment to understanding God’s Word.
- 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 region, 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 vision for reaching “every kid” within the region.
- Recruit, interview, hire and place staff within the region.
- Supervise, develop and evaluate staff, providing resources and experiences needed to implement the vision.
- Facilitate departures when necessary.
- Develop and implement regional trainings.
- Conduct assignments or events, including leadership weekends, recruiting days, staff development, leader training and more.

**Resource Development — **“Fueling the ministry” includes events, major donor care, public relations (branding) and TDS team.
- Help areas develop committees. Communicate regularly with committee and RCE chairs within the region.
- Develop and lead the region’s fundraising strategy, ensuring excellence in communication to donors.
- Raise the necessary funds to carry out the regional ministry vision.
- Ensure a RCE plan including vision statement and strategy and financial master plan is implemented and reviewed.
- Work with Development staff to identify potential donors for missionwide efforts.
- Coordinate and conduct quality events which reflect Young Life’s capacity to impact kids and warrant the investment of a participant’s personal and corporate resources.
- Work with the area committee to develop good community and church relationships.
- If appropriate, recruit, develop, encourage and sustain a diverse regional committee.

**Direct Ministry — **“Proclaiming and modeling” includes contact work, club, Campaigners and camp.
- Develop new areas, and identify interested adults to help the ministry to grow.
- Visit areas as needed, including routine and emergency crisis visits.
- Observe and evaluate local areas to ensure Young Life ministry is carried out with excellence.
- Ensure a plan is in place to grow Young Life in the region including multi-cultural and focus ministries.
- Maintain ministry contact with kids to the extent it is necessary to be effective in this role.
- Provide networking opportunities to offer additional camping experiences using non-Young Life camps and discipleship experiences

**Ministry Support — **“Taking care of business” includes accounting, administration, communication (internal), data management and strategic plan.
- Maintain professionalism concerning office hours, dress, conduct and time management.
- Interface with the mission-wide office to facilitate communication and implementation of all Young Life leadership initiatives, policies and procedures.
- Provide clear, prompt, appropriate and professional communication to everyone within the scope of ministry.
- Set yearly strategic ministry plan growth and initiatives to grow the ministry; review them on a regular basis.
- Implement and support regional initiatives, such as a student staff program, multi-cultural advance and Forward.
- Accept both short and long-term assignments and projects.
- Other mission-wide tasks as assigned

**Job-Specific Working Conditions**
- Must live within the Capital Region.
- The anticipated salary for this position can range from $86,000-$110,000 depending on relevant experience and education.

**Note**: _This description is not intended, and should not be construed, to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, skills, efforts or working conditions associated with this job. It is intended to be an accurate reflection of the principal job elements essential for making compensation decisions. _

**Qualifications**:
**Education**
- College degree

**Experience Required for the Job**
- Five or more years of Young Life area director experience (or above), or equivalent executive leadership experience outside of Young Life.
- College degree
- Young Life staff experience is highly recommended to succeed in the position.
- Must be able to supervise at a distance.
- Proven spiritual leader.
- Proven leadership in developing diverse staf