City Impact Literacy Program Manager

City Impact Literacy Program Manager

Believe in the power of reading to change a life?

What if you could help unlock a future of opportunity, confidence, and achievement for children who need it most?

As the Program Manager for our Literacy Program, you won't just run a programyou'll ignite potential. You'll lead a mission that equips elementary students with the skills, confidence, and love of reading that can shape the trajectory of their lives.

This role is an opportunity to cast vision, build momentum, and bring a dynamic literacy initiative to life. You'll guide strategy, lead implementation, and measure impactensuring every child we serve is given the tools to succeed not just in school, but in life.

Working alongside passionate staff, committed volunteers, and invested community partners, you'll help create a place where students are known, encouraged, and challenged to rise to their full potential.

This is more than a job.

It's a chance to open doors, inspire hope, and change livesone reader at a time.

The Program Manager will oversee all curriculum and program-related components of the Literacy Programan intensive, research-based reading initiative that mobilizes community volunteers to help students reach and exceed grade-level reading benchmarks. Through thoughtful leadership and collaboration, this role will help ensure that every child in the program gains not only stronger reading skills, but also the confidence and hope that comes with academic success.

But make no mistakethis is more than a job. We are looking for someone with passion. Someone with courage. Someone who believes that investing in the lives of children can change families, neighborhoods, and generations.

At Youth for Christ, we want leaders who are willing to step into the work with bold faith and deep convictionpeople who will pour themselves into students, rally volunteers, and pursue excellence because the mission matters. If you want comfortable routine, this probably isn't the role for you. But if you want your work to matter if you believe every child deserves the chance to read, grow, and flourish and if you want to be part of something that ultimately points people to the Name above all names, then we invite you to join us.

Essential Functions

• Ministry Team Development (60%)
• Recruit, train, and maintain volunteer ministry leader team in accordance with the processes found in the YFC Knowledge Base
• Create a strong connection between local churches and the ministry site
• Provide training materials and ministry site standards for ministry leaders
• Establish necessary support and guidelines to ensure healthy and growing ministry at all sites
• Be an advocate in the community for young people
• Report progress and ministry updates to YFC
• Relational Ministry Action Development (30%)
• Responsible for managing, facilitating and serving in the Relational Ministry Actions (RMAs)
• Establish and develop programming materials
• Train and evaluate ministry site leaders in the implementation of curriculum materials

Fundraising Responsibilities (10%)

All YFC employees are expected to regularly and actively participate in faithful activities that advance the stewardship functions of YFC USA. These activities will includebut are not limited to extending invitations to fund raising events, recruiting personal circle of influence/YFC donor contacts, sending letters, handwritten notes, personal calls, and personally ministering to donor contacts.

Spiritual Responsibilities

Because the overriding religious purpose and mission of Youth for Christ is to communicate and introduce the Gospel of Jesus Christ to young people and their families, and in that regard to make, educate and encourage life-long disciples of the Lord Jesus Christ, it is very important that you as an employee in the movement of Youth for Christ be recognized as an associate minister of the Gospel.

As an employee of Youth for Christ and an associate minister of the Gospel, YFC expects all employees to:

• Seek God's guidance and wisdom, through prayer and meditation, for the organization as a whole as well as for specific ministry initiatives.
• Participate and lead regular times of prayer, devotion and worship as a regular aspect of your role within YFC.
• Teach and preach from the Holy Bible at YFC staff meetings, conferences, camps and events.
• Model empathy, humility and care for all people. This includes promoting equity and inclusion in word and in the practice of faith expression. YFC employees will have an opportunity to be commissioned or licensed as a minister of the Gospel through the established Youth for Christ process, and/or ordained by an outside body recognized by Youth for Christ USA.

Position Requirements

Knowledge & Skills

• Embraces the vision, mission and Statement of Faith of YFC
• Understands YFC's 5 Essentials and leads through this model
• Self-Motivator
• Strong moral character and of good repute
• Connect well with youth
• Well-spoken in front of youth and adults
• Manage a team of diverse volunteers
• Honors and pursues diversity of gifts, cultures and ethnicities
• Excellent oral, written, interpersonal and presentation skills
• Able to prioritize and manage multiple responsibilities
• Good relationship building skills with adults and young people
• Perseverance through opposition and obstacles

Our cultural attributes are not about competency. It is an obedience to the call of Christ on our lives. YFC believes that spiritually healthy adults fosters healthy relationships with our kids. We place a heavy commitment and emphasis on developing and equipping a Christ-centered life marked by Enduring Humility, Relentless Trust, Joyful Camaraderie, Courageous Faithfulness and Kingdom Inspired Diversity. Willing to demonstrate and/or possesses the following:

• Ability to humbly serve and honor others even in difficult situations with prayer, consistency, transparency, and resilience. (Enduring Humility)
• Demonstrates proper reliance on God, others, and self through generous giving of time and skills, by collaboratively incorporating others' ideas, welcoming candid input, recognizing others' need for grace and extending forgiveness and empathy. (Relentless Trust)
• Prioritizes others' needs for a missional outcome, characterized by joy, with active listening and problem-solving skills, while encouraging and empowering fellow believers. (Joyful Camaraderie)
• Trusts God with new approaches and changes, and communicates needs and limits with emotional intelligence, while seeking confidence and wisdom in Christ. (Courageous Faithfulness)
• Seeks authentic Christ-Centered relationships with people of various backgrounds, fosters an inviting environment and empowers historically marginalized groups and indigenous populations (within the local context), through active listening, inclusion, advocacy for those who are vulnerable and respect of others' experiences. (Kingdom Inspired Diversity)

Credentials Required & Preferred Education

• Bachelor's Degree
• Three years of ministry experience

EEO Statement

Youth For Christ (YFC) provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, sex, national origin, age, handicap, marital status, or other unlawful discriminatory characteristics in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws. YFC is classified as an Association of Churches and as such our hiring practices reflect that designation. As a religious nonprofit organization, YFC incorporates within each leader role, the requirement to model, teach, share and live the faith. The relationship between YFC's mission and each of its leaders is its lifeblood and as such does at all times and in all instances reserve the right to make employment decisions based upon a person's religious beliefs, personal character and lifestyle consistent with our understanding of the Bible or with our overall goals and requirements for Christian ministry. We seek to create a workplace that is intentional about Kingdom Inspired Diversity. Our commitment to our employees extends to their opportunities for growth, development, promotion, training and compensation. We will make reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals with known disabilities, unless doing so would result in an undue hardship to the organization.