Youth Development Coordinator

**Job Description: Qualifications and Education Requirements, and Skills**
- A mature Christian with an authentic and vibrant relationship with God, attending church regularly and is active in ministry work.
- Proven with minimum 1 year experience as a Camp Coordinator (or similar level and experience) with excellent references by previous camp supervisors
- Proven ministry experience in leading children and young people
- Demonstrates maturing character of enthusiasm, politeness and cooperation
- Enjoy being with children and youth, patient and be able to serve as a positive role model and mentor
- Must abide to Plan to Protect® training, prevention and protocol for a safe and zero tolerance to bully and abuse environment
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- A strong team player that demonstrates good relationships to team members of different age in existing ministry
- Ability to set work priorities, good time management, organized habits and work-time flexibility.
- Communicating tools with visual arts and using social media by designing flyers, posters, short video clips for promotion and communicating purposes
- Excellent interpersonal skills (able to prevent and handle conflicts or undesirable situation)
- Preferred skills: digital online meeting platforms, graphic and video editing and production experience
- Spoken Cantonese and/or Mandarin an asset
- Mandatory Police Vulnerable Sector Check clearance prior to commencement of the employment
- A valid CPR level C (within 2 years at beginning of start date), Emergency or Standard First aid certificate

**Roles and Responsibilities**

Under your mentor and supervisors, you will be planning, organizing, supervising and delivering a dynamic and fun-filled and leadership building project and camp experience for the next generation.

You will lead your team to achieve our youth and children's goal for the summer. You will model your passion and excellence in a Christian nurture and setting by

1. ensure the young leaders serve with the intention to invest and bless children's well-being through the camp

2. Shining for Jesus in the community by blessing the community through blessing the families and children involved, and coordinating volunteers in the project.

3. Assist the Community Programs Director in the process of registration, execution, collecting feedback and planning of post-camp ministry or follow-up

4. Keeping the Community Programs Director updated on the progress of planning and implementing the camp and informed him or her of any urgent matters

5. Aim to set up and achieve a high standard for mental, emotional and social well beings of all youth and children

This is an ongoing project in Peoples Gospel Church. There are lots of creativity and flexibility and fun. Yet, this aims to set a good foundation for the future endeavors for children and their families in the community.

During children's camp. One of you will act as the Chief camp coordinator. This person will directly report to Community Programs Director. S/he will
- Oversee planning of overall program with detail schedule, database, communication network, and,
- Give guidance, directions and tasks to the Vice(s), and in return receives reporting from Vice Coordinator, Counsellors and Counsellors in training
- Give active and immediate feedback to the team
- The Vice(s) and assistant to the Chief who will
- Prepare the master planning and execute the VBS curriculum and program
- Directly report to the Chief
- Oversee and focus on administrative details of the program by arranging roles & responsibilities, tasks and deadlines to the youth team
- Give active and immediate feedback to the team
- Organize filing and recording
- All Coordinators, however, are working together under the Director to:
Adhering and keeping health and safety of campers according to all relevant church policies and procedures, such as but not limited to, incident report.
- Attending all required training programs, Plan-to-Protect®, counsellor’s orientation, program training, and team-building sessions.
- Pioneer an in-person camp program from scratch as a new project in PGC
- Plan, analyze the VBS curriculum to devise camp schedules, plan activities of summer camp to produce a healthy, educational, community building experience for needs of children and youth
- Connect with community especially church leaders to devise way of how to help children also contribute to their community.
- Organize manpower with positive and clear communications to the whole team
- Be a great model to team supervising all the youth, to plan and lead children program with community and character building in mind.
- Take turn to lead morning devotions for team
- Lead daily briefing and debriefing to all team members
- Devise a creative and solid plan to reach out to Parents and Campers before, during, and after the camp, which includes a post-camp worship celebration in PGC, or any creative follow-up to campers.