Director Of Strategic Initiatives Jobs in Puerto Rico

Youth For Christ Puerto Rico is seeking a passionate, highly organized, and mission-driven Director of Operations & Development to help strengthen and expand our ministry across Puerto Rico.

This key leadership position works alongside the National Director to provide strategic oversight of the organization's operations, finances, human resources, compliance, and resource development. The Director of Operations & Development ensures that the ministry has the systems, processes, and infrastructure needed to grow sustainably while maintaining excellent stewardship of the resources God has entrusted to the organization.

The ideal candidate is a servant leader with strong administrative and financial skills, a heart for ministry, and a desire to see young people transformed by the Gospel of Jesus Christ. This role combines operational excellence with strategic thinking, allowing the National Director to focus on ministry leadership, partnerships, and organizational expansion.

The following will be the key areas of responsibility for Job Description for Director of Operations & Development:

Coordinate and supervise daily operations in conjunction with the National Director

Manage workflows, timelines, and operational milestones

Develop and implement annual operational plans

Establish and maintain policies and procedures

Oversee facilities, vendors, and organizational resources

Lead budgeting, financial tracking, and reporting

Ensure stewardship of all funds

Oversee payroll, benefits, and compliance

Support audits and board financial reporting

Oversee hiring, onboarding, and staff development

Support recruitment and retention

Strengthen organizational culture

Partner with National Director in executing strategy

Support strategic planning

Represent organization with partners as needed

Support operational needs of ministry programs

Support expansion into new communities

Build relationships with donors, churches, and partners

Support fundraising events and campaigns

Assist in grant research and proposals

Develop local, national, and international funding opportunities

Strategic Role Clarification

The National Director is responsible for vision, ministry leadership, external relationships, and overall fundraising leadership. The Director of Operations & Development focuses on execution, systems, compliance, and expanding organizational capacity. This role strengthens internal operations and fundraising systems, enabling sustainable growth while reducing dependency on a single leader.

A growing personal relationship with Jesus Christ and active involvement in a local evangelical church.

Passion for the mission of Youth For Christ and reaching young people with the Gospel.

Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Nonprofit Management, or a related field (preferred).

3+ years of experience in operations, administration, finance, or nonprofit leadership.

Strong organizational, leadership, and project management skills.

Experience with budgeting, financial oversight, and organizational systems.

Proficiency in QuickBooks (or similar accounting software), Microsoft Office, and Google Workspace.

Excellent communication skills in English and Spanish.

High integrity, self-motivation, and the ability to work both independently and collaboratively.

Willingness to occasionally work evenings, weekends, and attend ministry events as needed.

• Seek God's guidance and wisdom, through prayer and meditation, for the organization as a whole as well as for specific ministry initiatives.
• Spend time regularly in devotion, prayer, and worship individually.
• Participate in and occasionally lead regular times of prayer, devotion and worship with the YFCPR team.
• Teach and preach from the Holy Bible, accurately handling Biblical truth.
• Model empathy, humility and care for all people.
• Demonstrate a humble and teachable spirit.
• Be active in a local church.

The Director of Operations & Development will report directly to the National Director of YFCPR.

The following items depict expectations during the term:

• Adhere to all policies & procedures put in place by YFCPR.
• Attend weekly staff meetings.
• Complete weekly Staff Report & Ministry Update via JotForm before Mondays at 10 am.
• Complete required YFCPR staff training & attend all YFCPR volunteer trainings.
• Represent YFCPR at local events as needed.

All YFC employees are expected to regularly and actively participate in faithful activities that advance the stewardship functions of YFCPR. These activities will include but are not limited to extending invitations to fundraising events, recruiting personal circle of influence YFC donor contacts, sending letters, handwritten notes, personal calls, and personally ministering to donor contacts.

Youth For Christ (YFC) provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, sex, national origin, age, handicap, marital status, or other unlawful discriminatory characteristics in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws.

YFC is classified as an Association of Churches and as such our hiring practices reflect that designation. As a religious nonprofit organization, YFC incorporates within each leader role the requirement to model, teach, share and live the faith. The relationship between YFC's mission and each of its leaders is its lifeblood and as such does at all times and in all instances reserve the right to make employment decisions based upon a person’s religious beliefs, personal character and lifestyle consistent with our understanding of the Bible or with our overall goals and requirements for Christian ministry.

We seek to create a workplace that is intentional about Kingdom Inspired Diversity. Our commitment to our employees extends to their opportunities for growth, development, promotion, training and compensation. We will make reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals with known disabilities, unless doing so would result in an undue hardship to the organization.