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Chicago Associate City Director:
- Purpose: To assist the city director to lead and grow the CSM site order for CSM to fulfill our corporate mission of “providing students and adults with an effective urban ministry experience that transforms lives, influences local churches and honors Christ.”
- Time Frame: Start Date: Spring 2010, approximate 2 year commitment
- Responsibilities:
- Scheduling
- Schedule groups at ministry sites and restaurants;
- Communicate schedules and details to leaders of serving groups and city hosts; and
- Use “Scheduler Builder” to create and edit all mission trip schedules.
- Ministry Sites
- Maintain and develop relationships with ministry sites and ethnic restaurants;
- Deepen relationship with present ministry sites by visiting and volunteering regularly during slow times; and
- Be the liaisons between the ministry sites and serving groups.
- Hosting
- Orienting them to the city and CSM rules and guidelines;
- Framing each ministry site, restaurant and activity;
- Guiding them to each site and restaurant; and
- Facilitating their entire schedule and leading evening discussions and debriefs to help them process their experiences; and
- Follow accounting procedures for money handling.
- Seasonal Staff
- Assist in Training and Supervising seasonal staff;
- Share weekly site visits with City Director for seasonal staff;
- Engage in mediation of conflict, when needed;
- Assist in the recruitment of seasonal staff;
- Explain and Advise weekly schedules to seasonal staff; and
- Be available to seasonal staff during on-call hours.
- Miscellaneous Tasks
- Assist to maintain appropriate written materials for the CSM Site, i.e. maps, prayer tour, devotionals, rules, etc.;
- Assists in food and supplies shopping for the CSM site; and
- Conduct previsit trips for group leaders, when needed.
- Qualifications:
- Enjoys working with suburban and rural youth;
- Awareness of cultural differences within the Church and passion to relate cross-culturally;
- Has a passion for missions, particularly in an urban setting;
- Is independent and a self starter (but can work on a team);
- Has leadership experience;
- Loves Jesus and want to serve Him - please read about our statement of faith and mission;
- Good administrative, supervision and organizational skills; and
- High level of problem solving skills.
- Salary:
- Negotiable, with a fundraising goal (depending on the package). Health Insurance and other benefits are also provided. Most of our full-time staff raise up to ½ of their salary package.
- Social work jobs - NACSW's website
- Urban Ministry jobs - UrbanMinistry.org
All interested applicants should review the full job description and then email their cover letter and resume to .
