Director of Youth Ministry

Director of Youth and Children’s Ministry

Reports to: Priest In Charge/Rector

Directly Supervises: All volunteers in Youth Ministry

Status: Part Time (10 hours/week)

Compensation: $12,000 annually plus 1 weeks vacation, 1 week cont’d ed

Essential Functions:

• Create, communicate, and implement a vision for youth ministry within the parish, in coordination with the rector.
• Build trusting relationships with children and families.
• Plan and organize occasional children/family gatherings, both in education and fellowship, including but not limited to: Sunday formation hour, Christmas Pageant, Youth Sunday, VBS.
• Nurture children involvement within the wider parish.
• Plan and organize regular Sunday morning Children’s Chapel.
• Recruit and supervise volunteers, offering direction, guidance, and accountability where necessary.
• Manage publicity of children’s activities through all necessary avenues.

Other Responsibilities:

• Maintain a presence at all Sunday and major worship services, as well as applicable parish events.
• Coordinate with the parish administrator to ensure church calendar is up to date.
• Engage in continuing education in order to implement new ideas, approaches, resources, etc and stay ahead of the field.
• Meet regularly with clergy and other staff to maintain cohesion between the various ministries of the parish.
• Keep up to date with SafeChurch requirements.

Physical Requirements:

• Able to keep up with the energy levels of youth.
• Able to speak in a public forum.
• Comfortability navigating different environments (church, parishioner homes, beach, hiking trails, public spaces, etc).

Core Competencies:

• Compassion/Accessibility: Generates a sense of compassion and/or accessibility by his/her very presence; responds with empathy to the life experiences of others; communicates a sense of availability, warmth, openness, and approachability especially for children; fosters natural connections between children and other members of the congregation; supports a culture of welcoming and inclusivity, connecting to the life of the parish.
• Motivating Others: Creates a climate in which people want to be involved and do their best; can motivate youth and volunteers; empowers others; invites shared input and decision making; makes each feel that his/her work is important.
• Creativity: Generates new ideas; makes new connections among existing ideas to create fresh approaches; takes acceptable risks in pursuit of innovation; learns from mistakes; has good judgment about which creative ideas and suggestions will work.
• Inclusivity: Maintains openness and engages with all individuals equally, with care and compassion, regardless of race, gender, or sexual identity; promotes the furthering of diversity and inclusivity within the youth group and parish.
• Ethics and Values: Demonstrates understanding and full support of the mission, vision, values, and beliefs of All Saints’ Episcopal Church and can impart those values to others; consistently embodies appropriate behavioral choices in both stressful and non-stressful situations.
• Strategic Management: Is future-oriented and can visualize the larger picture of where the parish is heading; identifies and prioritizes strategic objectives consistent with the vision of the parish.
• Listening: Engages in thoughtful and attentive listening; listens beneath the surface for real intent that may contradict the spoken message; overcomes personal bias to genuinely hear the ideas/concerns of another.

Benefits:

The Church will:

• Provide a vacation with full salary of one week annually.
• Pay the employer’s share of Social Security.
• Provide one week plus $500.00 annually for Continuing Education. This compensation will be reviewed annually at the time of the preparation of the church budget.
• Provide for an annual review.
• Provide an Employee Handbook for policies and procedures.