Children's Ministry Director

We are thrilled to announce an exciting opportunity for a dedicated and passionate individual to join our team as the Children's Ministry Director. This pivotal role is designed for someone who has a heart for nurturing the spiritual growth of young minds and a vision for leading a dynamic children's ministry program. As we embark on this search, we invite applications from those who are committed to creating a welcoming and engaging environment where children can explore and deepen their faith. If you have a strong background in children's ministry, a joy for working with students, and a desire to be a part of a healthy team culture, we encourage you to apply for this position.

Position Overview

• Develop a clearly defined vision, strategy, and direction for discipleship within Children’s Ministry
• Provide oversight, planning, guidance, and execution of all aspects of Children’s Ministry programming, including:
  • Sunday morning Kid’s Church
  • Wednesday night programming
  • Specialized child-based programming
  • Outreach events for kids and families
  • Family events/programming
  • Summer programming and Camp coordination
  • Curriculum selection, development, and teaching implementation for all children’s programming
• Develop and implement age-appropriate environments for children, taking time to care for all ages from birth through 5th grade.
• Provide overall administration, communication, development, and procedure enforcement specific to the ministry.

Position Responsibilities

• Build up, support, and encourage a student leadership team. 
• Provide direction for Children’s Ministry staff, leaders and volunteers.
• Lead, recruit, develop, train, direct, and provide recognition for all Children’s Ministry staff, leaders and volunteers.
• Develop and implement strategy for whole-family discipleship; working directly with families and other ministries to equip and empower parents to come alongside their children’s faith journey within a supportive church community.
• Oversee distribution of 3rd-grade Bibles and first communion.
• Attend school and community events as a supportive, loving, fun, and consistent leader.

Additional

• Articulate, champion, and share the importance of Zion’s mission and vision amongst the staff and church body.
• Work scheduled hours, communicate with the Executive Director and Executive Pastor when you can’t be to work/meetings on time, appointments, vacation, and sick days. 
• Check/Respond to emails/texts/phone calls daily (working hours). 
• Attend scheduled meetings, department meetings, and staff meetings and exemplify staff core values. 
• Create and maintain a budget.  Order supplies as needed and turn in receipts.
• Communicate when you need help or training. 
• Provide spiritual leadership for your team. 
• Directing/leading your volunteers.
• Do something to appreciate your volunteers – Celebrate what God is doing. 
• Vision Casting, planning, and prayer over the ministry.
• Worship, read books, podcasts, etc., to grow as a leader. 
• Attend sermon read-throughs when available.
• Attend at least one corporate worship service a week.
• Attend all church functions, worship services, and meetings as requested by the Executive Team.

Key Qualifications

• Must love God and have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, confessing Him as Lord and Savior.
• Committed to Zion’s mission, vision, and values.
• Highly relational and loves to work with people.
• Be a catalytic leader with great people skills; a team player excellent at working with staff and volunteers.
• Ability to work well in a team environment and take direction from others. 
• Is supportive, cooperative, teachable, and humble.
• Ability to work effectively in a deadline-driven and multi-priority environment.
• Maintain confidentiality.
• Administrative/organizational skills (ability to organize work, set priorities, be detail-oriented, be a good time manager, and carry out responsibilities with minimum oversight.)
• Ability to delegate well and raise up teams.
• Good written and oral communication skills.
• Highly professional.
• Friendly and sensitive to a wide range of people from all different ages, races, genders, and socio-economic backgrounds.
• An affinity for the development of leaders.
• Ability to lead others and create/sustain organizational structures.

Education & Experience

• Experience in ministry is a plus.
• Children’s ministry degree or similar is a plus.

Application Requirements

• Resume
• Cover Letter
• Contact information for three references

If you have any questions, contact info@zionclearlake.org.