Senior Director of Staff and Partnerships for the Fuller Youth Institute

Brief Description:

The Senior Director of Staff and Partnerships for the Fuller Youth Institute partners with the Executive Director, Senior Director of Content and Senior Director of Strategy to provide executive leadership for the Fuller Youth Institute, ensuring the Institute fulfills its unique expression of Fuller Seminary’s mission with excellence. This position includes oversight of a multicultural team of approximately 20 staff, all hiring and staff development processes including a focus on diversity and inclusion, furthering external partnerships primarily through FYI’s Discipleship Movement, contributing to church resource and training efforts, and general business administration and office systems. The Senior Director of Staff and Partnerships will be a seasoned organizational leader with demonstrated experience in the church and higher-education, including distinct skills in team leadership, congregational resourcing and training, and developing effective internal systems and processes. This newly created role will be critical as FYI pursues a path of scaling our research and resources, and spreading both through collaborative relationships that will ultimately lead to 100,000 US churches and ministries being better equipped to disciple young people by 2025.

Essential Functions:

• Team leadership

• Serve as a key member of FYI’s Executive Leadership Team (along with Executive Director, Senior Director of Strategy, and Senior Director of Content) with an eye toward staff development and furthering partnership opportunities.
• Responsible for executive and daily management of members of the FYI team, specifically FYI’s business operation staff (including supervision of FYI’s administrative team) and select external partnership staff.
• Oversee FYI’s interview and hiring processes, spearhead annual review and team development activities, mentor and develop team members, and execute an annual staff retreat and other quarterly trainings.
• Working alongside FYI’s Directors and Manager of Multicultural Initiatives, spearhead direction and structures for greater inclusion and equity across FYI’s procedures and processes.
• Serve as a senior-level representative of FYI within the Fuller ecosystem among other Fuller offices and administrators regarding Institute business and general Fuller business.

• External partnerships and church training

  • In coordination with FYI’s Directors, provide oversight for all areas of the Discipleship Movement, which aims to dramatically increase the number of young people who follow Jesus by equipping 100,000 diverse US churches and ministries with the tools and training required to effectively disciple today’s young people by 2025. Responsibilities will include strategic planning, relationship development with partner organizations, staff supervision, and execution of project outcomes.
  • Collaborate with Directors of FYI’s resource and training initiatives as needed to deliver high-quality support to churches and leaders. Responsibilities may include content design, strategy, writing, speaking, and staff oversight, particularly for (but not limited to) the Living a Better Story (LABS) Project and Cohort training.
  • Write for and speak to youth workers, pastoral leaders, and parents at local, national, and international training events, conferences, and churches, representing FYI content as one of its primary public voices.
    
    
• General business administration and office systems

• Work with FYI’s Office Coordinator to oversee the implementation and development of office management systems, processes, and software, including customer relationship management software (Salesforce) for the FYI team to ensure accurate and strategic tracking of contacts and relationship development.
• Build new and nurture relationships with vendors and customers, as well as broker contracts and memoranda of understanding as needed.
• Provide oversight of FYI’s on-campus and off-campus hospitality and events, including staff responsible for reserving rooms, catering, hotel reservations, and technical support.
• Partner with FYI Directors as needed to write grant requests and reports, as well as participate in fundraising strategy.