Job Description
The Geared-To-Empower Bike Ministry Coordinator position is a full-time position at Center of Hope. The Bike Ministry Coordinator responsibilities include: 1) Serving as a member of the Center of Hope staff who embraces the Center of Hope mission to walk alongside people to promote physical and spiritual health, 2) Sharing the Good News of Jesus while teaching adults and children how to repair their own bicycles, 3) Creating a healthy, Christian culture in our Bike Ministry for our guests to feel belonging, 4) Recruiting, training, supervising, and empowering volunteers, 5) Salvaging parts for bicycle repair and recycling unneeded parts, 6) Maintaining a good supply of bicycles for Bike Ministry, 7) Creating and implementing new programs within the Bike Ministry, 8) Leading Travel Repair Station efforts in Sioux Falls metro, and 9) other duties as assigned.
A formalized job description will be given to interested canditates.
Job Requirements
Physical demands of the job generally described: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, sit, and climb stairs. The position requires finger dexterity, good color vision, good hearing, good vision and speaking skills.
Lifting requirements: The employee may occasionally need to lift and/or move 40 or more pounds.
Exposure to other physical hazards: May occasionally be exposed to chemicals and other body fluids, if providing first aid to a guest or volunteer.
Cognitive/Mental Requirements: The position requires reading, mathematics, writing, analyzing data or report information; drawing conclusions from written or computer generated materials; developing plans, procedures, goals, strategies, budgets or processes based on data analysis of experience; creating methodologies for accomplishing a goal; evaluating performance of others; directing activities of others to persons and/or other resources; and directing activities of others to accomplish a goal.
Adherence to COH vision/mission: The person in this position functions consistent with Center of Hope vision and mission.
Maintain confidentiality: Center of Hope donors have an explicit right to confidentiality. Ministry staff will maintain standards of confidentiality for all donor information. Donor and other information is to be shared only with team members and volunteers as appropriate. Information may be shared with others (outside agencies) only after proper releases have been obtained. All staff are held accountable for the confidentiality of communications between clients and staff and all information in the physical and electronic donor records. Since the nature of our relationships is one of trust, respect and personal commitment to our donors, the Ministry expects employees to reinforce these concepts and refrain from discussing proprietary or confidential information.
No records or lists will be maintained where they may be seen or read by other people we serve or members of the community. All office files and records created by employees of Center of Hope for the purpose of administering the offered programs and services are considered the property of Center of Hope.
Willing to lead others to Christ, to pray with them, and disciple them: The preferred candidate should have a faith in Jesus Christ that when presented with an opportunity to share their faith, they are confident to do so. The preferred candidate is a person who has the ability to work with many different kinds of people-groups. These groups may be believers in the Christian faith or not. The preferred candidate should be of the integrity to not accept gifts that do not line up with core principles of the ministry.