Sports and Recreation Ministry Director for Lonsdale​/West

Organization Summary

ORGANIZATION

SUMMARY:

Join a team that is passionately committed to a vision for Knoxville’s youth that ensures every child in every neighborhood has the opportunity for a full life. (John 10:10) Supporting this vision, Emerald Youth Foundation, a Christian organization, is engaging 3,000 youth and their families annually with faith, learning, and health related programs and initiatives; and, has engaged more than 30,000 children and young adults in a variety of community programs over nearly three decades.

Emerald Charter Schools, a K-8 Knox County public school, was launched by Emerald Youth and remains a partner organization as well.

• Medical, Dental, Life, Short-Term & Long-Term Disability insurance paid 100% for employee.
• Voluntary benefits available for family members
• Paid Vacation
• Paid Holidays

The Sports & Recreation Ministry Director develops, plans, and manages sports and recreation programs for Emerald Youth Foundation’s assigned neighborhood, connecting and engaging with young people in the community, offering an avenue for youth to engage in a multi-sport offering allowing them to become physically and spiritually active, and instilling life-long active lifestyles. This role will recruit players, coaches, and volunteers for neighborhood sports and recreation program, execute core sports as assigned, implements and expands recreational opportunities, works closely with neighborhood & city rec sports teams providing facility access, and is the liaison for the urban FCA ministry in the neighborhood.

The director organizes programming and upholds quality of the offerings; allowing Emerald to engage in the community and broaden its reach in the city, helping to enable a strategy for day-to-day sports ministry that helps young people become comprehensively engaged, and achieve critical youth development outcomes.

• Work with the sports team to develop and implement approaches that identify and recruit neighborhood participants to connect with Emerald Youth middle school, neighborhood, and competitive sports programs, ensuring comprehensive engagement in faith, learning, relationships, and health.
• Implement each middle school and neighborhood sports season within the assigned parameters provided by Soccer and Gym Sports Directors. Manage teams for the assigned neighborhood and middle school, including the recruitment of players and coaches, collection of fees, distribution of uniforms, organization of teams, the scheduling and implementation of practices and games including referees, scorekeepers, clock operators, etc. if at neighborhood facility, and organizing parent meetings and celebrations.
  
  Ensure participation in leagues, camps, clinics, tournaments, tryouts, training, and special events with city-wide sports team. Work with assigned school/s to support the organizing of campus sports teams.
• Market competitive team offerings to neighborhood. Be present at tryouts and visit teams during season. Oversee and manage any competitive sports teams representing the neighborhood, working closely with coaches to ensure teams are assembled, appropriately trained, compete in competitive leagues, and engage more long term.
• Offer recreational activities in neighborhood as needed. Discuss offerings with Director of Area Ministry.
• Coordinate and/or arrange transportation for sporting events as needed. Ensure all guidelines are followed.
• Ensure target numbers of youth and young adults are relationally and comprehensively engaged using sports offered by Emerald Youth or partnering organizations, while valuing and upholding Emerald sports philosophy.
• Implement the recruitment system for sports and recreation programs that will help identify, recruit, engage, support, and retain neighborhood youth and young adults to participate in the Emerald Youth neighborhood and competitive sports programs.
• Develop relationships that lead to family engagement with Emerald Youth Foundation. Connect uninvolved participants to neighborhood programs, as needed.
• Identify coaches, volunteers, and FCA chaplains for teams and attend sports league meetings as needed. Work with…