Student Pastor

Job Description

Saint Peter’s Church

Job Description: Pastor of Students

SCOPE

This pastoral role provides leadership and vision for all Students between the 6th-12th grades.

RESPONSIBILITIES

To Students:

• Form a community of students (6-12 grades)—who practice the way of Jesus at home, at school, and in our Lowcountry Community. • Lead 2 weekly formational and fun touchpoints (currently Sunday morning and Wednesday evening) • Lead missional service engagements for our students toward our local community and global partnerships. • Provide pastoral care, crisis intervention and management, and referral connections as needed with students. • If ordained, the pastor may share responsibilities such as: weddings, funerals, baptisms, pastoral appointments, visitations, mentoring, Sunday care, and on-call responsibilities. These are shared responsibilities amongst the pastoral staff.

To Parents/Caregivers:

• Represent the NextGen team and its vision to parents/caregivers. • Create regular environments for parents/caregivers to learn and grow around current cultural issues facing young people today. • Equipping parents/caregivers to be the primary discipleship-makers of their household. • Provide regular and clear communication with students and/or parents/caregivers about student ministry events.

To Staff:

• Participates and engages joyfully in Saint Peter’s staff culture • Provides weekly ministry updates to the Staff at Saint Peter’s via weekly meeting • Investing in each staff member individually and as a team, providing vision, direction, standards, and knowledge through weekly meetings. • Participating in and developing pathways for NextGen Ministry programs and events such as Advent, Lent, Easter, etc.

COMPETENCIES

• Competent in recruiting, developing, and coaching the volunteer teams. • Availability and presence on Sunday mornings, providing proactive and responsive care as needed • Relationally oriented with a heart focused toward youth and family discipleship. • Enjoys, and is comfortable, speaking in medium size group settings of adults and students. • Team player: Humble and team oriented in leadership style fully participating in the overall leadership of our Church as a member of the Saint Peter’s Staff. • Carefully plan and manage the Student Ministry’s budget.

CHARACTER

• A person of prayer, and peace, who is committed to loving and serving our Lowcountry Community in the name and power of Jesus Christ. • Has a relationship with the Presence of God and practices the way of Jesus • Lives by an established Christian rule of life and seeks to cultivate the fruit of God’s Spirit. • Values self-leadership, growing and developing their leadership gifting, and is willing to take risks for the advancement of God’s Kingdom. • Relationally compatible with the Lowcountry culture. • Lead with and honor the Saint Peter’s Leadership Covenant as revealed in the attached document.

COMPENSATION • Full time (40-45 hours) • Salary negotiable based upon experience (we adhere to industry standard compensation bands) • Life Insurance and Cell Reimbursement • PTO and access to ACNA Retirement plan