Youth-Focused Leadership Developer - Eastern and Southern Africa

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

1. Encourage and empower youth by walking alongside them and co-facilitating Youth Cohorts or peer networks for mutual learning and care and prophetic imagination to concretely live out gospel witness within neighborhoods.
2. Identify and develop long-term reciprocal relationships with Christian leaders, churches, and organizations who see youth as leaders. Share a vision for missional living and gospel witness among different sociocultural backgrounds including the poor and marginalized.
3. Using practical and interactive learning processes, curricula, and methodologies, co-facilitate conversations, experiences, gatherings, and courses that equip youth to serve, lead, and innovate.
4. Care for key leaders, accompanying them through prayer, mentoring, and spiritual direction to promote a growing faith in Jesus, emotional well-being, and sustainability in ministry.
5. Co-design and connect with youth and collaborators for life skills, vocational discernment, and social entrepreneurship.
6. Collaborate actively with a community of practice relating to the ministry for mutual learning and growth as youth fruitfully live by God’s gifting within them.

1. Meet with other Resonate staff and partners in the region once a month for prayer, learning, guidance, and ministry planning.
2. Become involved with the team’s communal listening and discernment processes and spiritual conferences.
3. Peer mentor church and ministry leaders engaged in youth leadership development.
4. Periodically connect virtually and in person with other team members and partners in the region for , prayer, strategy, best practices, and encouragement.

1. Facilitate reciprocal exchanges between the CRCNA and ministry collaborators in Eastern and Southern Africa for youth leadership formation.
2. Return to North America periodically for Reconnect visits to report on God’s mission within youth and listen for ways to connect the CRCNA and other entities in the formation of youth.
3. Provide the CRCNA with insight and resources about youth missional formation from the missionary’s knowledge and expertise, encouraging a deeper passion and involvement in global missions. 
4. Communicate the nature and impact of Resonate's ministry activities to the CRCNA and others through written communications (at least quarterly), and through teaching and speaking engagements, especially on Reconnect visits.
5. Participate in support-raising for Resonate Global Mission’s ministries by developing and maintaining a network of supporting churches and individuals in North America.

SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE & EXPERTISE:

1. Professing membership in a Christian Reformed congregation, or of a church in communion with the CRCNA, and agreement with the doctrine of the church signified by signing a covenant statement.
2. Demonstrated commitment to gospel witness and the integral word and deed mission of the church as expressed in Resonate’s foundational documents. 
3. Demonstrated affinity and passion for ministering among people of different sociocultural backgrounds including the poor and marginalized.
4. Demonstrated effective intercultural awareness and capabilities to work with others from different cultures and religious backgrounds
5. Demonstrated ability to listen well and empower others for gospel witness and ministry.
6. Proven capacity to be creative and innovative in complex situations without a predetermined map.
7. Self-motivated and proven quality administrative and organizational skills.
8. Flexible and adaptable to travel, communication, and living conditions in Africa.
9. The ability to travel periodically to, from, and within North America.

1. Master’s degree (completed or in progress) in a field related to the position.
2. Three years of practical ministry experience with youth and leadership development, in contexts where crossing racial, ethnic, or other social barriers was necessary.
3. Certification or willingness to achieve certification in relevant interactive learning processes.
4. Training in spiritual formation is preferred.

Full-time Benefits

• Work-Life Balance
• Full-Time Flexible Work Arrangements 
• Generous Vacation and Holiday Time
• Competitive benefits and retirement plan
• Professional Development Opportunities
• Contributing to an organization that is making an impact in the world