Ministry Jobs in Illinois

Children's Pastor

Parkview Community Church

Glen Ellyn, IL

$50,000 - $70,000

General Description The Children’s Director oversees all aspects of weekly children’s programming (birth-5th grade) and special events. This role seeks to create a culture where kids love church, leaders love serving, and families feel supported. Essential Job Functions - Lead a Thriving Sunday Children’s Ministry - Ensure Sunday morning children’s environments are prepared, engaging, and spiritually impactful for Parkview children - Oversee Sunday elementary programming, ensuring volunteers are trained, scheduled, and equipped to run excellent ministry environments - Foster a culture of high standards of safety and cleanliness among children’s programming. - Guide the selection and implementation of children’s curriculum that supports children's spiritual development - Manage the early childhood coordinator to ensure quality children’s programming across the ministry - Evaluate and continually improve ministry environments, systems, and physical spaces to ensure they are effective, engaging, and scalable Build and Develop Strong Volunteer Teams - Create clear pathways and effective systems for recruiting, onboarding, and training volunteers - Create effective structures to develop and coach volunteer leaders - Care for volunteers and foster a culture of celebration Strengthen Families and Church-Wide Ministry - Develop programming and special events beyond Sunday to build community and foster spiritual development among our kids. - Plan and execute events that support the entire family system - Provide occasional teaching and leadership support to Parkview Kids Camp - Support the broader mission and ministry of Parkview Church as needed Position Requirements - Care: Experience supporting and caring for young children, parents, and volunteers - Building Effective Teams: Able to train staff well, creates strong morale, defines success for the whole, fosters open dialogue, creates a feeling of belonging - Interpersonal Skills: Able to communicate and build relationships with children, staff, and parents, and resolve conflicts that arise - Physical requirements: Ability to lift a child or infant (up to 25 lbs.) repeatedly and stand for extended periods of time - Child Development Knowledge: Understand the developmental needs of young children - Organized: Ability to keep track of sensitive information and paperwork regarding registrants and volunteers - Background Check: Pass all Parkview criminal background and reference checks Experience - Work with children - Managing people - Customer service Education - Degree in ministry or related field preferred - Degree or specialization in neurodivergent children is a plus! Position Structure Reports to: Family Pastor Category: Full-time