Job Descriptions

YouthWorks offers several types of summer staff positions. Although each team member shares many of the same job responsibilities, unique areas of leadership define each position. Full-time YouthWorks staff are working year round to set up your site. All summer staff receive their community information and are trained at the beginning of the summer. For example, YouthWorks does not expect all work project staff to know how to teach home painting prior to being hired and trained. All we ask is that you would be willing to learn!

Site Director:
Experience authentic leadership. Mentor and supervise three site staff. Assist them with daily service and ministry projects. Manage finances with integrity and maintain the overall spiritual focus of the mission site. Provide leadership for adult leaders and help them process their mission weeks as they experience it alongside their youth. Develop life-long friendships with community members and be changed by their love. Site Directors must be of a post-college age, have previous leadership experience and the ability to manage a team.

All Staff:
Staff work together to create a spiritually focused and servant-centered mission site. All staff participate in evening programming in a leadership capacity and interact with youth at every opportunity. Other responsibilities include building relationships with community members, coordinating one meal a day and having a weekly check in time with the Site Director. Site staff must be flexible, teachable and willing to grow in all areas.

Utility:
Be a jack of all trades. Serve in a variety of areas. Be trained for several positions and offer support to site staff. Coordinate daily service activities and see students' lives change as they experience Christ through service. Support teams with spiritual encouragement and a servant attitude. Staff must be flexible and willing to adapt to changing roles and locations. Utility staff will be assigned to a region, not a specific site.

Kids Club:
Enable teenagers to experience the joy of loving kids. Facilitate a daily Kids Club and coordinate morning service opportunities. Provide leadership to participants as they create crafts, plan games, practice songs and make a Bible story come alive. Come to know and love community kids and their families as you work with them for an entire summer. See life change first hand as teenagers have the chance to love children with Jesus' love. Kids Club staff must be bold and confident in leading at-risk children.

Work Projects:
Help youth build relationships with community members through work projects. Learn how to set up projects and partner with local community contacts. Teach participants the basics of painting and watch them be transformed as they serve in new ways. See the lasting effect on both community members whose homes were improved as well as the teens and adults who completed the repairs. Staff must have the ability to clearly teach and prepare participants for projects. Work projects staff must also maintain and strengthen partnerships within the community.

Urban:
Get to know the various needs of an urban area and discover how volunteers can help a local organization make a difference. Network with social service and ministry organizations to coordinate service opportunities for teenagers. See lives change as teenagers are taken out of their comfort zones and come face to face with Jesus in a new way. Staff must be administratively minded, able to problem solve and manage details. Urban staff must also maintain and strengthen relationships within the community.

Program:
Plan evening talks centered on showing teenagers how to be more like Jesus. Organize and speak at nightly club time. Coordinate enjoyable and educational evening activities. Program staff will serve in a Kids club, work projects and urban capacity during the day. Help youth see the reason behind why they serve. Love and challenge them into growing in their faith. Program staff must be open to learning new methods of speaking and willing to follow a structured outline provided for talks.