Youth and Worship Director

Job Description

Title: Youth & Worship Director

Hours: 40 hours/week; flexible hours

Vacation: Four weeks annually with a maximum of 5 Sundays per year

Reports to: Executive Pastor

Overview

The Youth and Worship Director at Oak City Church works to develop, lead, and grow teams to disciple our students, and our people through worship so that they may know and follow Jesus. 

Qualifications

• A love for Jesus and reliance upon God’s Spirit to lead the ministry.
• The ability to screen and communicate sound theology.
• A proven disciple-maker.
• Experience in recruiting, training, equipping, and leading ministry teams.
• Demonstrated competence to sing and play an instrument.
• Strong relational skills to contextualize the gospel for middle and high school students.
• An awareness and sensitivity to the diverse needs of kids in middle and high school.
• Fulfill the character qualifications of a deacon as taught in Scripture.
• Live and lead in line with the Church’s mission, vision, values, and doctrinal statement.

Responsibilities

Planning & Executing Worship Gatherings & Events (25%)

• Design and lead worship gatherings with music that exalts Jesus with engaging music, contextualized liturgy, and heart-felt prayer to help our church grow contemplative and joyful. 
• Upfront leadership and oversight of the worship experience on Sundays and events. 

Disciplemaking of Youth (30%)

• Develop an incarnational posture of pursuing kids who do not yet know Christ.
• Regularly communicate and support parents’ at-home discipleship of students.
• Plan and lead weekly meetings, host connecting events, and bi-annual retreats.
• Equip students for ministry and invest with them in missions.

Volunteer Oversight (25%)

• Ensure that ministries are gospel-centered, spiritually rich, excellent, and pastoral.
• Recruit, train, coach, and appreciate volunteers who participate in meetings, events and contact with students.
• Recruit, audition, develop, and schedule music, media, and liturgy volunteers.
• Plan and lead a weekly practice for worship volunteers and regular meetings of youth volunteers.

Strategies and Operations (20%)

• With the elders and pastors, set and communicate regular outcomes for ministry.
• Weekly meetings with the pastors and staff to plan Sunday gatherings, personal and professional development, manage budget, set goals, and evaluate the ministry.
• Oversee music, sound, lighting, and video teams and ensure that they’re well-equipped.
• Oversee appropriate cleaning, organization, and maintenance of equipment.
• Maintain consistent communications through relationships and software.

Vision for this Role

Our priority for the person who takes this position is to settle in and make friends. If you have a family, you’ll find many open and warm families that are down-to-earth and highly relational. We want you to find encouragement from a healthy leadership culture and bring new ideas to help us implement a new discipleship structure this fall. Becoming one of us and growing as a disciple is our highest priority for you because we think it’s essential to practicing the way of Jesus and growing his kingdom.

When it comes to worship, we would like our gatherings to continue to provide engaging music with a more thoughtful contemplation through timeless liturgy. We have consistent musicians but we would like to see more new talent surfaced and developed. 

Our volunteer youth leadership has provided stable, outstanding leadership for years. We currently have 25 youth in our middle and high school ministry. That said, we are primed for growth with fifteen middle schoolers and a dozen rising 4th and 5th-grade students. We are investing in developing a more robust incarnational ministry over the next few years. Towards that end, this fall we would like to see more time spent going to where youth are and increasing our meeting frequency. Our prayer is that it will yield many grace-empowered kids who love others and serve him for the rest of their lives. 

About Raleigh, NC

As a church on the north side of downtown, our members come from all over the city and surrounding areas, giving you the freedom to choose where to live. We love “The City of Oaks!” Many of our members moved here for college and never left. Raleigh consistently tops the lists of the best cities to live in. You’ll find a nice climate with all four seasons. With over 150,000 college students, Raleigh is recognized as a national hub for tech, education, and medical research. The city is full of hipsters and families, sports and art, and a diverse and entrepreneurial spirit. If you like award-winning food, fine coffee, and a cold IPA, you’ll love it here. It’s the perfect place to play with lots of beautiful spaces, over 200 parks, and 100+ miles of greenways. Did we mention that we’re only two hours from the beach and the mountains!?! In short, if you move here, we think you’ll love it!  

How to Apply

To apply, please email (1) your resume, (2) a cover letter that introduces yourself and why you’re interested in the position, and (3) a video of you leading worship to our Executive Pastor, John Fooshee, at [email protected].