Profile: City or Area Director
The City or Area Director is both a manager and a leader. This key leadership position within ISI relates to or supervises all other ISI staff in the city and will require a "high energy" person. Therefore, our standards are high for selection of this position.
A profile of the duties includes:
Management:
Gives systematic attention and oversight to all field staff in the city or Area through phone calls, personal visits, email, etc. Encouragement, exhortation, vision, discipline and an on-going sense of excitement and fun are the all-important fruit needed from the ministry of the City or Area Director.
Team Building:
This special leader has as his/her principal priority the building of a cohesive ministry team throughout the city or area among ISI staff, volunteers, churches and community leaders via communications, scheduling city or area-wide events/meetings and other creative measures to maintain staff morale, and share vision and identification with ISI’s national goals and agenda. The City or Area Director will be responsible for enlisting and leading a local community advisory council of lay community leaders who will be committed to enhancing ISI’s vision, image and resources throughout the community.
Strategic Planning:
The City or Area Director will develop an overall strategic plan of ministry, church involvement and financial development for the city "Plan". The "Plan" will be a guiding blueprint for how the various arms of ISI’s ministry within that city reach international students for Christ. It is also the City Director’s task to oversee the role development and involvement of others in the "Plan". He or she will need to be part visionary but even more heavily gifted in management, recruitment and implementation of skills.
How do you know if you would be a successful City or Area Director?
Ask yourself these important questions:
- Do I enjoy working with a team, as opposed to being independent?
- Do I get fulfillment from seeing and enabling others to grow?
- Do I enjoy communicating encouragement, explaining the outcomes of hard decisions or persuading others?
- Am I naturally inclined to be, or am I gifted as a peacemaker?
- Do I tend, in my explanation of things, to want to describe the "big picture" or "vision"?
- In solving problems, am I uncomfortable until I can see how different elements interrelate as a whole?
- Would I be comfortable acting as a representative of the Home Office to field workers, explaining policies, decisions, requirements and communicating encouragement and vision?
- Am I comfortable supervising people and being accountable to others?
- Am I known for my tact and presentation skills before a group?
- Do I have wisdom and discernment when it comes to reading strangers and the "politics" of communities or organizations?
- Am I comfortable regularly interacting with influential community members and other leaders?
If you answered "yes" to these questions and would enjoy leading a powerfully effective outreach ministry, then you may find success and fulfillment in the position of City or Area Director for ISI. Click on...
Job Description for City or Area Director
