Alexandria Area - Area Administrator

Young Life

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Young Life requires all employees to sign a Statement of Faith. We recommend you read this statement before applying for any position.

Job Specific Working Conditions:

Alexandria Area in Alexandria, MN is looking for an Area Office Administrator to support area staff in administrative tasks. The area is looking for someone who will fulfill all the duties listed below. If this is you, we'd love for you to apply!

Mission/Spiritual Foundation

Full inclusion of Young Life’s Essential Prerequisites for All Staff Members, which includes:

  • Statement of Christian belief and conduct expectations
  • Requirement to minister as a servant of God
  • Adherence to Young Life’s Statement of Faith and policies

Technology and Tools

  • Workday and YL Connect: used for donor updates, hiring processes, and communication.
  • Canva and Adobe: added as tools for design and communication.
  • Use of social media platforms for ministry communications (in addition to M-Site).
  • Invitation tracking system for specific events (e.g., Dessert Frenzy and Cupcake MAYnia).

Collaborative Roles Introduced

  • RCE (Relationship-Centered Engagement) team involvement:
  • For thank-you letters, donor communications, support mailings, and calendar planning.
  • Coordination with:
  • Prayer chair (for prayer emails)
  • Events Coordinator (for invitations, donor cards, programs)
  • Regional office administrator (for cross-level communication and consistency)

Updated Event References

  • Specific named events included:
  • Dessert Frenzy
  • Cupcake MAYnia
  • Clearer instructions on coordination, guest tracking, and follow-ups related to these events.

Expanded HR and Volunteer Onboarding Tasks

  • Onboarding new volunteers: Ensure driver questionnaires, background checks, and forms are current.
  • HR tasks tied more clearly to regional processing (e.g., hiring/termination via Workday).

Data Reporting

  • Responsibility to report weekly and monthly core ministry counts.
  • Continued emphasis on maintaining multiple contact databases, now integrated with YL Connect.

Training Section Expanded

New emphasis on attending and assisting with ongoing trainings for:

  • Area staff
  • Committee
  • Volunteer leaders
  • Training support is now explicitly collaborative with area staff, rather than independent.

Work Environment

  • Specifies remote work flexibility or hybrid option (“work from home options available”).
  • More inclusive and modern reference to flexible working conditions.

Area Office Administrator I

Summary:

This position provides administrative support, enabling the Young Life field ministry area office to function an organized and efficient manner.

Essential Duties:

Written and Verbal Communication

Answer correspondence, do filing and prepare mailings.

Answer phones.

Respond to voicemail, e-mail and phone calls in a timely and professional manner.

Gather articles, pictures, layout, production, mail, etc. for newsletter from area staff.

Create club/event postcards, flyers, and/or maps.

Send prayer e-mails and monthly updates.

Send personal support mailings.

Create and maintain area M-Site.

Send thank-you letters to donors.

Interact with area office assistant, area directors, area committee, volunteer team leaders and leaders with area.

Administration

Process and track donations.

Maintain donor and leader databases, ensuring that leader forms, driver questionnaires and criminal background checks are up-to-date.

Manage monthly expenses and budgets, including area bank account records, FDT, area and staff expense reports.

Accounting: pay bills, submit bank account records/purchase card expenses and donations and make copies, evaluate financial monthly status and update FDT each month.

5.Maintain contact databases including the following:

Update area donor database on a regular basis.

Enter club card data into kid database.

Update parent database.

Maintain newsletter recipient list.

Create and maintain banquet invitation list.

Update contact in Palm/Outlook.

Update e-mail distribution lists: club kids, campaigners, committee, leaders and prayer partners.

6.Human Resource for Regional Administrators

Track and report vacation, sick and personal days for eligible area staff.

Submit timesheets for hourly staff.

Complete Personnel Action Requests and required documents to hire or terminate area staff and forward to region for approval.

C.Event Administration

1.Coordinate area meetings, including:

Area Staff Meetings

Area leadership meetings

Area committee meetings

2.Camp

Track participation, payments, health forms and how much each kid has earned in fundraisers.

Send letters to parents about camp sign-ups, itineraries and health forms.

Responsible for fundraiser marketing.

Construct and distribute camp brochures.

Communicate with camp regarding camp contracts, R2 deposits, A-forms, housing request forms and 10-day call-ins.

3.Banquet/Golf Marathon/Auction

Create invitations, banquet sponsor packet, table host packet, banquet program and donor cards.

Track guest list, table sponsors, RSVP list and donations received from banquet.

Coordinate with table hosts about their invitation lists.

Mail invitations.

Send thank you notes to banquet donors.

Track table sponsors.

D.Training

Provide training to area office assistant, area directors, area committee, volunteer team leaders and leaders with various items, processes and applications related to field administration.

Working Conditions:

Office Environment

Education:

High school education or its equivalent.

Associates degree preferred.

Ongoing education encouraged.

Experience Required For The Job:

Previous administrative assistant experience preferred.

Ability to type 55 to 60 words per minute with few errors.

Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (which includes Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint).

Strong organizational skills with attention to detail and processes with the capability of handling concurrent tasks and constant interruptions.

Good grammar skills and strong written and verbal communication skills.

Ability to maintain confidentiality.

Basic accounting skills.

Detail oriented multi-tasking ability.

Proven relational skills with both kids and adults.

Initiative with developing processes/systems around events – data organization and maintenance.

Great customer service skills.

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