Position Description

We are seeking a dedicated and passionate individual to join our team as a part-time Children's Director at Southside Community Church. This is a contract position starting at 12 months with re-evaluation 2-month prior to the contract end. This position requires a commitment of 15 hours per week

Responsibilities:

• Lead and oversee all aspects of the children's ministry, including Sunday Kids Church
• Create a safe and welcoming environment for children to learn and grow in their faith
• Develop and implement age-appropriate curriculum and activities for children
• Build relationships with children and their families, providing pastoral care and support
• Develop effective follow-up processes for new families
• Recruit, train and provide leadership to volunteers in the children's ministry
• Maintain Plan2Protect protocol and training for all kids’ workers
• Schedule volunteers for all kids classes and events
• Manage Safe check-in team, system and processes
• Manage Nursery volunteers, systems, processes
• Manage Grades 5, 6, 7 leaders
• Oversee Kids@Southside preview element in Sunday Morning Service
• Manage Kids@Southside annual budget
• Be the point person for special events and activities for children and families requiring free babysitting at the church
• Overseeing & coordinating Southside’s full-week summer VBS
• Manage Kids@Southside’s Canada Summer Jobs interns

Immediate Goal

• Create vision for multiple services of kids programming
• Get Kids@Southside team prepared and equipped to run multiple services with kids programming by March 31, 2024
• Staff kids programming for 2 services
• Become proficient in using Notion, People Planning Center and Slack for team projects, volunteer scheduling and team communications.

Qualifications:

• A strong personal faith in Jesus Christ and a passion for serving children
• Previous experience in children's ministry or related field is preferred
• Excellent leadership and organizational skills
• Ability to communicate effectively with children, parents, and volunteers
• Flexibility to work on Sundays and occasional evenings
• Freedom of conscious to teach harmoniously under our Christian & Missionary Alliance statement of faith

Schedule requirements:

• Kids@Southside Director must be present for 40 Sunday’s per year (allowance for 12 Sunday’s offsite)
• Kids@Southside Director isn’t required to be teaching Kids@Southside for all of those Sundays, but must be present and available for the Kids@Southside Team between 8:00am-12:00am for each of those Sunday’s
• Kids@Southside Director may use any of the 12 Sunday’s offsite as paid training days visiting other children's ministries
• Approval must be given ahead of time by direct oversight
• Candidate will make Tuesday morning ministry team leaders meetings on a weekly basis (10am-11:30am)
• In-person is expected, online on occasion is permitted with special permission
• Weekly one-on-one with direct oversight (1-hour)
• All other hours are flexible and at the Kids@Southside Directors discretion
• All schedule requirements are subject to change by the Lead Pastor with 2-weeks advance notice

Key Performance Indicators:

• Adding/Training/qualifying new Kids@Southside Teachers.
• 2024: 3 new monthly teachers by 2025
• Onboarding new adult and teenage volunteers.
• 2024: net +10 monthly kids volunteers

Team

• Kids@Southside director will report directly to the Lead Pastor
• Work with the existing kids@southside leadership team and full volunteer roster

Compensation:

• Discussed with the Lead Pastor
• 15 hours/week on a 12-month contract

If you are enthusiastic about helping children develop a strong foundation in their faith and are excited to be a part of a vibrant church community, we would love to hear from you. Please submit your resume and a cover letter detailing your relevant experience and why you are interested in this position.

Please note that this job description is subject to change based on the needs of the church and ministry.