SUMMARY: This position will work closely with the Director of Family Discipleship to advance the Children’s Ministries’ objective of helping families make disciples.
REPORTS TO: Director of Family Discipleship and Senior Pastor
STATUS: Part-Time Employee
QUALIFICATIONS: This person must be spiritually mature, teachable, trustworthy, humble to follow and able to lead. This individual must have interpersonal and leadership skills to lead and manage large teams. A qualified candidate can communicate effectively, follow-up diligently – drive to clarity about expectations – and have conversations about jobs well-done and not-so-well done. This person will need to build teams and shepherd groups – as well as counsel and guide volunteers and parents in biblical disciple-making. Organization and administrative skills will be important. Enthusiastically embracing the doctrine, mission, and ministry philosophy of Crossway Bible Church will be critical. Formal training in ministry or theological studies is preferred, but not required. Our hope is the individual in this position would continue our practice of raising up volunteer leaders to assume greater and greater levels of responsibility for ministry tasks under his or her supervision and that he or she would be free to focus on cultivating an atmosphere of fellowship and discipleship where emerging leadership skills in others can be developed.
ESSENTIAL ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDE:
Children’s Ministry Oversight
• Implement, monitor, develop all aspects of Children’s Ministry.
• Coordinate work flow for all children’s ministry, including Children’s Ministry Scheduler, Check-Ins Team, Room Captains, Lead and Helper teachers, and student helpers.
• Ensure volunteer personnel are welcomed, thanked, encouraged, equipped, and held accountable for commitments and standards.
• Ensure weekly reminders and follow-ups with volunteers and parents are communicated.
• Ensure curriculum is properly distributed.
• Coordinate the direction and accountability to the Children’s Ministry volunteer teams responsible for planning, hosting, and fundraising for any extra-curricular or off-site events.
• Assist in the development and/or maintenance of ministry visioning and control documents such as Mission/Vision/Values statement, org chart, 3-year goals and 1-year milestones, playbook, student and leader rosters, event calendar, leader job descriptions, curriculum plan, and competencies targets.
Child Protection
• Maintain the gold standard for protecting minors in Children’s ministry by championing and overseeing our child protection process for children’s ministry volunteers, serving as a member of the Child Protection Team, and onboarding, training, and ensuring ongoing compliance with and development of our policies and procedures.
• Partner with Child Safety Coordinator to oversee child protection in every aspect of church life.
Support Coordination
• Coordinate childcare resources are in place for non-Sunday events (such as First Wednesdays) and adult classes and training.
Administration
• Attend to administrative details for the functioning of this role (especially budgeting, expense monitoring, planning, and communication).
IN GENERAL: This person will do what is necessary to assist the Director of Family Discipleship in fulfilling the mission of Crossway Bible Church.
