Church Positions, Part-Time

Job Type: Part-time Pay: From $25,000.00 per year, based on experience

Benefits:
• Flexible weekday schedule
• Professional development assistance

Schedule:
• 12 hours/week
• Participate in Sunday Worship and Lead Youth Gatherings Ability to commute/relocate:
• Garland, TX 75040: Reliably commute

Seeking a committed, Spirit-filled, Christian leader with a passion for discipling young people with the gospel. The ideal candidate is a person who can relate well with youth, parents, and adult volunteers. This role will require a candidate with demonstrated experience applicable to equipping youth for ministry.

Responsibilities:

Lead the church's pastoral care and spiritual formation for youth between ages 11 to 18, as well as connect with young adults.

Reach out to unchurched youth in the community, engage them with the gospel, and involve them in the work of the church.

Lead Children’s Sermon/Ministry Moments during worship.

Recruit, develop, and support new volunteers for the church's youth ministry.

In consultation with other youth leaders and senior church leadership, develop an annual budget for the youth ministry and operate within the constraints of that budget.

Develop a Bible teaching calendar for the youth that takes into consideration the full counsel of God's Word and the spiritual, physical, emotional, and mental needs of the youth in our community.

Regularly teach and model lessons from the Bible to the youth with conviction, compassion, and care.

Support efforts to minister to the parenting needs of the church body.

Help to establish a long-term vision for how the church engages youth.

Develop and execute a strategic plan for the youth ministry.

Regularly report to the church's leadership about developments in the youth ministry.

Help to promote and coordinate all summer camping activities the church's youth participate in.

Regularly lead the youth in short-term mission/service experiences

Work with other church leaders to find ministry opportunities for youth in the broader church family.

Participate in all staff meetings and retreats.

Requirements:

Model a lifestyle congruent with Jesus’s teachings, to love God, oneself and others in unity with Christ.

Understanding of and willingness to serve within the doctrinal commitments of the church.

Experience in ministering to youth and shepherding youth ministry volunteers.

Strong ability to lead people of varying ethnicities, socio-economic levels, and generations.

A desire to teach and mentor youth in biblical truth.

Ability to pass a background check

Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

A growing Christian faith and character.

A commitment to the mission of the church.

A calling to pastoral ministry.

Three Personal References.

Reports to: Senior Pastor
Directly Supervises: Childcare providers
Status: Part Time (15 hours/week)
FLSA: Non-Exempt
Salary Range: 19,000 - 23,000 annually

Job Summary

The director of children, youth, and families oversees all areas of the children’s and
youth ministries at UBC. They are responsible for maintaining welcoming, safe, and
engaging opportunities for connection and spiritual formation throughout the year.

Essential Functions:
● Oversees all Sunday morning programming for children and youth (infants
through 12th grade), selecting Sunday School curriculum (in collaboration with
Sunday School teachers and the Spiritual Formation Director), teaching as
needed, providing necessary resources for other leaders, and ensuring a safe and
effective drop-off and pick-up process.
● Facilitates children and youth integration in worship by leading the children’s
moment each Sunday, maintaining and updating children’s worship bags and
children’s area in sanctuary each week, sitting with the youth group and helping
manage the transition of young children to the Kid’s Place during worship.
● Coordinates additional events for children and youth during the school year,
including UFriends (Sunday afternoons once or twice per month) and Parents’
Night Out (first Friday of each month).
● Plans and organizes summer programming, including youth camp, Vacation
Bible School, and youth service learning trip.
● Provides pastoral care for children, youth, and families by building relationships,
offering support in times of loss and transition, reaching out to new and visiting
families, and creating a space of welcome and inclusion for kids and youth of all
genders, sexual orientations, ethnicities, abilities, socio-economic or religious
backgrounds.
● Recruits, trains, schedules, and supervises adult volunteers and childcare
employees; communicates with volunteers and childcare employees weekly.
● Maintains and updates child protective policies, risk management policies,
medical consent and release records for children and youth, and volunteer
background checks and child safety training completion.
Other Responsibilities
● Participates in weekly staff meetings and worship planning with an eye toward
creating opportunities to welcome/include children and youth in the life of the
church.
● Serves as staff liaison for Children, Youth and Families committee at monthly
meetings; develops and maintains the youth and children’s budgets in
collaboration with the committee.
● Oversees organization and care for the Kid’s Place and Youth Room.

Qualifications
● Bachelor’s Degree (seminary training preferred)
● Previous experience working with children and youth
● Administrative experience (budgeting, organizing volunteers, maintaining
records)

Core Competencies
● Attention to Detail: Consistently attends to the many small pieces which must be
assembled into an organized whole; follows up on missing or out of balance
items; resolves unanswered questions needed to address a problem; keeps the
larger picture in mind while tending to the smallest of details.
● Verbal Communication: Is able to deliver a message clearly, articulately and
with appropriate emotion in a variety of settings; demonstrates communication
styles appropriate to the situation at hand; adjusts the message, without losing
the essence of the message, depending upon the circumstance and the listener.
● People/Volunteer Management: Provides direction, gains commitment,
facilitates change and achieves results through the efficient, creative and
responsible deployment of volunteers; engages people in their areas of giftedness
and passion.
● Compassion and Care: Exudes a natural sense of care for the well-being of
others; responds with empathy to the life circumstances of others; communicates
a sense of support in his or her very presence; demonstrates appropriate and
boundaried expressions of care.
● Spiritual Maturity: Shows strong personal depth and spiritual grounding;
demonstrates integrity and is seen by others as trustworthy and authentic;
nurtures a rich spiritual life; seeks the wisdom and guidance of appropriate
mentors; is able to articulate a clear and consistent theology.
● Mission Ownership: Demonstrates understanding and full support of the
mission, vision, values and beliefs of the congregation; can demonstrate those
values to others; consistently behaves in a manner congruent with the mission,
vision, values and beliefs.

Hours: 29 per week

Responsibilities:

• Have a passion for ministry in serving Christ and teach others the love of Christ.
• Provide discipleship ministries for children, youth and family ministries.
• Foster Biblical and Spiritual Development with our Children, Youth and Families
• Develop and implement Biblically based programs and have volunteers to help with Wednesday Evening activities.
• Provide outreach ministries in the community.
• Recruiting, training, and implementing volunteers for all aspects of these ministries.
• Become a Safe Sanctuary Trainer to train staff and volunteers.
• Oversee hiring and work of our nursery/children employees.
• Have once a week programs with our Methodist Children’s Learning Center pre-K program.
• Have once a week programs for our after-school ministry program.
• Have once a month program with our Home School Program.
• Oversee volunteers and teach children and youth for Sunday School and Children’s Church.
• Recruit and teach our weekly acolyte’s and the child who leads the Lord’s Prayer for worship.
• Recruit and encourage our children to go to Church summer camp.
• Lead and recruit volunteers for VBS for the community and the pre-school.
• Ability to connect and build meaningful relationships with the kids and their families.
• Communicates weekly with parents and children; writes a monthly newsletter article; publishes events on our Facebook page, website and other social media.
• Be able to pass a criminal background and driving test.
• Flexible and able to work under pressure.
• Very good verbal and written communication skills.
• Team player with other staff, volunteers and church members.
• Flexible hours.
• And all other assigned duties by the pastor.

Reports to: Senior Pastor

State: LA