SUMMARY: This position will work closely with the Senior Pastor to advance the Youth and Children’s Ministries’ objective of helping families make disciples.
REPORTS TO: Senior Pastor
STATUS: Full-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 several 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 and aptitude will be very important. Enthusiastically embracing the doctrine, mission, and ministry philosophy of Crossway Bible Church will be critical. Some formal training in ministry or theological studies is required. The ideal candidate would aspire to eventually be an elder in our church. 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 supervision and that he be free to focus on cultivating an atmosphere of fellowship and discipleship where emerging leadership skills in others are developed.
ESSENTIAL ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDE:
Family Ministry Overall
• Maintain the gold standard for protecting minors in Youth and Children’s ministry by championing our child protection process, 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.
Youth Ministry Leadership – Work personally and through teams and volunteers to:
• Implement, monitor, and continue to develop all aspects of Youth Ministry.
• Coordinate workflow for Youth Ministry including Youth Ministry Coordinator, volunteer Bible teachers, and small group leaders.
• 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.
• Give direction and accountability to the Youth Ministry volunteer teams responsible for planning, hosting, and fundraising for events such as summer camp, one-day retreats, and other off-site events.
• Ensure 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.
Children’s Ministry Oversight
• Oversee and shepherd all aspects of Children’s Ministry.
• Oversee workflow for Children’s Ministry including Children’s Ministry Director and Lead teachers.
• Oversee work flow for all children’s ministry, including Children’s Ministry Scheduler, Check-Ins Team, Room Captains, Lead and Helper teachers, and student helpers.
• Help ensure volunteer personnel are welcomed, thanked, encouraged, equipped, and held accountable for commitments and standards.
• Help ensure weekly reminders and follow-ups with volunteers and parents are communicated.
• Help ensure curriculum is properly distributed.
• Oversee 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.
• Oversee 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.
Support Coordination
• Ensure 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 Senior Pastor in fulfilling the mission of Crossway Bible Church.
