Apprentice- Male Campus

Job Description  

Apprentice

Job Title:  Apprentice

Hope Center Ministries is a growing nonprofit discipleship recovery program with multiple centers across the U.S.   Hope Center Ministries exists to restore lives, restore families, and restore communities.  We do this by helping those individuals bound by drug addiction and/or alcoholism find lasting freedom and sobriety through a relationship with Jesus Christ, which translates into seeing the lost saved, the saved freed, the freed restored, and the restored fulfilled.  

Vision
The Apprentice is:

• A person who ensures that the message of Jesus is presented and the opportunity for someone to receive Jesus as their Lord
and Savior is given
• An effective communicator in accurately taking the whole word of God and providing avenues of application that the residents
understand
• Lives in “Tomorrowland”, always conscientious about the future of the Center
• Someone whose genuine spiritual life shows through in teaching, leadership and relationships
• A Spirit-led, mature believer who speaks from experience
• Collaborates with Director on one, five and ten year plans for corporate growth and evolution
• A cooperative, self-confident motivator
• An effective team builder to bring other leaders alongside
• A leader who provides staff with the direction and tools for their jobs

Leadership Responsibilities

• As the Director of a Hope Center, you will be ridiculously in charge and fully responsible for insuring that the campus you are
leading is healthy and growing. It is your job as an Apprentice to shadow the Director at all times and to achieve the same
results.
• You will learn how to lead and develop your staff so they, in turn, can lead their ministry leaders, who lead ministry captains
and volunteers
• Work alongside the Director in the maintenance of a compelling vision and act as the key implementation champion for the
strategic plans at their local center
• Participate in fulfilling the overall vision of Hope Center Ministries
• Will create and/or participate in a leadership process that strategically develops key leaders, next level leaders and emerging
leaders for the discipleship process
• Will learn to train or arrange for the training of future Apprentices through the Leadership Institute, equip classes, mentoring
and coaching
• Devise ways in which residential ownership can be expanded
• All Center Apprentices are required to meet monthly to be developed as a leader by our COO, CEO, Lead Pastor and Hope
Consultants.
Staff Development Responsibilities
• Attend a weekly staff meeting to invest in your leaders. This is for your own leadership development as well as addressing
other matters like work crews, admissions, fundraising, etc.
• Learn how to collaborate with the CFO and COO to address financial issues pertaining to the Center
• Learn how to give oversight to building management, ordering supplies, contracting for services or repairs, supervising the
work of staff members or volunteers and managing the campus budget
• Learn to perform related duties as assigned by Director
• Maintain compliance with all Hope Center policies and procedures.

Vocation Training 

• Learn how to develop new relationships with potential Vocation Training partners
• Learn how to ensure VTP budgets are being met and are continually increasing
• Learn how to strive to find healthier training environments on a continual basis
• Learn to ensure proper training is being provided by VTP Partners
• Learn to ensure adequate safety training is being provided by VTP Partners

Fundraising

• Learn how to leave ead all of your Center’s fund raising events
• Strive to improve each and every fundraiser
Admissions
• Be a model of interaction with the community and local churches
• Be a spokesperson for Hope Center Ministries within the wider community
• Evaluate the risk of resident harm. Our mission is to help people; causing harm to a resident, however unintentional,
undermines your purpose and jeopardizes our mission
• Develop new and innovative recruitment techniques
• Promotion of your Center through the following:
o Word of Mouth
o Church Speaking Engagements
o Distribution of Literature

Professional Development and Personal Growth Responsibilities

• Devote time to spiritual, mental and physical development and well-being through personal discipline
• Attend courses/workshops/conferences, as appropriate
• Attend a Life Group as a participant and/or assume Life Group leadership
• Learn to develop an annual plan/budget in cooperation with President/Founder, CFO, and Senior Director or his/her designee
• Key Performance Indicators will be reviewed quarterly regarding adding leaders and volunteers to the team
• Learn to set realistic goals through casting a vision, implementing strategies, establishing calendar dates and evaluating the
funds needed in order to achieve them
• Will perform semiannual self-evaluations
• A full performance evaluation will be completed semi-annually