Children’s Ministry Director

Job Description

Children’s Ministry Director

Reports to: NexGen Pastor

Job Function

The Children’s Ministry Director provides vision, leadership, and oversight for the Children’s Ministry, ensuring that its philosophy, direction, and ministry efforts align with ChristWay’s mission, values, and strategic objectives. This role serves to lead and strengthen the ministry's overall effectiveness at investing in families and making disciples of Christ.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute a ministry strategy that disciples children and equips, supports, and partners with parents for the overall discipleship of their family.
• Create a welcoming atmosphere and experience for children and parents each week during Sunday mornings, Life Group K!DS, and family ministry events.
• Maintain strong leadership for the children’s ministry through effective recruiting, training and retaining strategies with volunteers.
• Provide leadership, oversight and evaluation for all children’s ministry programming and initiatives.
• Steward ministry resources, curriculum and facilities to support effective discipleship and ministry excellence.
• Collaborate with other church ministries and staff to ensure alignment with the overall mission and vision of ChristWay.
• In partnership with church leadership, develop an annual budget for the children’s ministry and operate within the budget each year.
• Fulfills other responsibilities as instructed by the NexGen Pastor.

Qualifications

• Growing personal relationship with Jesus Christ, demonstrating spiritual maturity, integrity, and a lifestyle consistent with biblical teachings.
• Demonstrates a clear calling and passion for children’s ministry and family discipleship.
• Degree in Education and/or 2-3 years experience in ministry.
• Experience with large children’s ministry preferred (200+ children).
• Administrative and task oriented.
• Strong communication skills.
• Highly organized, able to plan months in advance.
• Commitment to support ChristWay and CW K!DS and Special Needs Ministry vision.
• Ability to recruit, develop, and lead teams of volunteers.
• Exhibits strong relational skills with children, parents, volunteers and staff.
• Self motivated with the ability to work independently and collaboratively within a team environment.

Competencies

Adaptability: Adjusts to changing circumstances and needs, openness to new ideas, willingness to assume new responsibilities and ability to handle pressure.

Communication: Communicates well both verbally and in writing, creates accurate and punctual reports, delivers presentations, shares information and ideas with others, and has good listening skills.

Computer Skills: Skilled in the use of computers, adapts to new technology, keeps abreast of changes, learns new programs quickly, and uses computers to improve productivity.

Dependability: Meets commitments, works independently, accepts accountability, handles change, sets personal standards, stays focused under pressure.

Emotional Maturity: Knows strengths, weaknesses and needs, learns from failures and successes, is capable of accepting responsibility for mistakes and failures, has appropriate sense of humor and demonstrates a good balance between self-confidence and humility.

Initiative: Tackles problems and takes independent action, seeks out new responsibilities, acts on opportunities, generates new ideas, practices self-development.

Integrity/Ethics: Deals with others in a straightforward and honest manner, is accountable for actions, maintains confidentiality, acts in manner consistent with the core values of the organization.

Team Orientation: Is an integrated and effective member of the staff team, committed to the success of all areas of congregational life. Demonstrates interest, skill and success in team environments; promotes group goals ahead of personal agendas; steps up to offer self as a resource to members of the team; understands and supports the importance of teamwork.

Position Type

Exempt, full time, Sunday – Thursday