Youth Ministry Director/Pastor

Valley Life Church

Job Description

Job Title: Youth Ministry Director/Pastor

Location: Valley Life Church Tramonto

Reports To: Pastor of Ministries

Position Type: Full-Time

Compensation: $55,000 - $65,000


Job Summary:

The Youth Ministry Pastor will lead a gospel-centered ministry for middle and high school students and their parents. The role will focus on biblical discipleship, expository preaching, believing prayer, and life-on-life mentorship, with clear emphasis on developing spiritually mature teens within the home and within the church.


This role is not a parachurch ministry. It is a pastoral leadership role designed to develop church members, not merely Christian students. Through the regular rhythms of weekly worship/preaching, seasonal camps, and parent coaching, this role will equip families to thrive in biblical discipleship.


Key Responsibilities:


1. Pastoral Ministry to Teens

  • Teach and preach the gospel through expository sermons and lessons.
  • Lead weekly youth worship gatherings with clarity, conviction, and theological depth.
  • Organize and lead winter and summer camps focused on deepening devotion and identity in Christ.
  • Meet with students for one-on-one discipleship, spiritual guidance, and prayer.
  • Help students answer questions like:
  • What is the gospel?
  • Are you a devoted believer?
  • Do you obey your parents?
  • Are you becoming a man or woman of God?
  • Are you leading others?

2. Pastoral Ministry to Parents

  • Serve as a Teen Parent Coach, equipping parents to:
  • Disciple their children at home.
  • Baptize their kids when ready.
  • Prepare their teens to take the Lord’s Supper with the church.
  • Transition into the next phase of parenting with confidence.
  • Provide teaching, tools, and relational support for parents to:
  • Raise church members.
  • Be active participants in the church body.
  • Lead spiritually at home.
  • Foster gospel conversations and biblical discipline in the household.

3. Church Integration & Leadership

  • Partner with other pastors and staff to align Youth Ministry with the overall mission of Valley Life Church.
  • Develop and lead a team of volunteers that disciple and serve the students
  • Foster a culture of spiritual growth marked by:
  • Strong prayer life.
  • Biblical literacy (“How do you Bible?”).
  • Participation in communion.
  • Discovery and use of spiritual gifts.


Qualifications:

  • A growing, vibrant relationship with Jesus Christ marked by humility, devotion, and spiritual maturity.
  • Agreement with Valley Life Church’s doctrinal beliefs and mission.
  • Demonstrated ability to teach and preach the Bible with clarity and conviction (expository style).
  • Experience discipling both students, parents, and volunteers.
  • Strong leadership, relational, and communication skills.
  • Able to lead in prayer, teach the gospel, and develop young leaders.
  • Bachelor’s degree in biblical studies, ministry, or related field preferred (seminary a plus).


What Success Looks Like

  • Teens and parents can clearly articulate:
  • The gospel
  • Their own spiritual growth and devotion
  • How they engage with Scripture and prayer
  • Their role in the local church
  • Their spiritual gifts and how they can use them
  • Parents are active disciplers in their homes and confident in guiding their teens through baptism, communion, and godly maturity.
  • A thriving youth ministry that strengthens families and raises future church leaders.


Requirements:

This role will require unusual business hours to be successful. This role requires someone who can manage a work-life balance. The person in this role is required to be at the seasonal camps and to facilitate the process of registration, transportation, execution of the camp, and safe and timely return.


About Valley Life Church



Vision Plan


Question 1: Why Do We Exist?

Valley Life Church exists to make disciples and plant churches. 


In 2011 Valley Life Church was planted for the glory of God through making disciples of people who do not know and worship Jesus and to extend that mission into other parts of Phoenix. The good of our land demands more churches that make disciples of people who do not worship Jesus. 

God’s plan to advance his mission in Phoenix is churches that disciple. We want to, both, plant churches that disciple people to worship him and be a church that makes disciples. 

We give all of our energy and attention to making disciples and planting churches to the exclusion of many good ideas and programs. While some of these decisions are difficult, we believe that only the church is called to make disciples and plant churches.



Question 2: Whom Do We Serve?

Who do we hope to reach?

Our home area is a 19 sq. mi. rectangle on the east side of I-17 from Happy Valley Rd. to Carefree Hwy. Of the approximately 30,000 people who now live there 96% have moved in within the last 20 years. 


  • From Anthem to 101
  • From Scottsdale/Cave Creek to Vistancia


Our area is new and becoming newer with the constant construction of homes, apartments and commercial development. 

Our people place a high value on well-being and generally believe that everyone should have a church and a gym, whether or not they actually are a part of either. 

People value personal health, personal responsibility, and personal freedoms.


While many people make the drive to the larger churches in the surrounding area, still less than 20% of our neighbors attend church. Every Sunday over 20,000 people in our immediate vicinity are not a part of any worship service.

While church involvement is not a part of the prevailing culture, that does not mean that people are closed to the idea. Once a relationship is established invitations to church are more than welcome.



Question 3: What Do We Prioritize?

How do we express our core values?


Beauty - God has revealed himself in creation, which calls us to worship Him as creator.

Therefore we prioritize acts of worship. All facets of Valley Life’s ministry intend to move people to reorient their lives around worshiping God, and recognizing his surpassing glory and worth above all other rivals.


Brokenness - We are all broken by sin, but the gospel steers us from shame toward repentance and restoration.

While that restoration results in strong families, orders lives, and reliance on God’s word, we will not be surprised by the need for grace.

 We expect the ongoing process of sanctification, the moral failures of those that do not know him, and the need for repentance by those that do. 


Truth - Jesus has completed the work of redemption, taking our punishment and ushering us into a life lived for God’s glory.

Therefore we remind each other of the truth of Scripture and make each other aware of the lies of the enemy. We intend to be Bible-saturated people, so that we will not be misled by our culture, our hearts, or idols of the world. 


Compassion - As we have been shown great forgiveness, we are motivated to absorb wrongs rather than seek justice.

Therefore we are prepared to recognize the potential for grace’s work in every circumstance. We aspire to be not easily offended, ready to repent, and quick to reconcile. We will see potential church planters, leaders, disciple-makers in all people as a testimony to the power of God’s constraining love and sovereign plan.


Community - Our gratitude for forgiveness leads us to extend kindness to others, creating a church family that looks outward.

Therefore we reject individualized Christianity and hope to become a growing family of ministers. We desire to become a church that is difficult to simply attend, and aggressively move people into making disciples and planting churches.





Question 4: How Will We Know if We Are Successful?

What will we measure in order to evaluate fruitfulness?


Church Planting 

  • Churches Planted
  • Churches that plant churches
  • Worship metrics for church plants
  • Total attendance
  • Kids attendance
  • Youth attendance
  • Baptisms


Discipleship Groups

  • Number of groups
  • Number of attenders
  • Annual leader retention


Membership

  • Annual membership
  • % Serving
  • % In Groups


Connections

  • % of newcomers to attend Lunch
  • % retention of first time guests
  • % Baptisms/attendance 


Worship

  • Total attendance
  • Kids attendance
  • Youth attendance
  • Baptisms


Budget

  • Year over year growth of budget
  • Meet Budget
  • On budget spending based on projected budget



Question 5: What Will Our Future Look Like?  

A present-tense description of the future.


December of 2027

Valley Life is now a church body of 4 congregations across Arizona.

Each with its own 

  • full time Associate Pastor
  • building

Each church plant is led by a pastor who is a gifted evangelist, preacher, and galvanizer.


Lead Pastor

  • Preaching 
  • Training preachers
  • Ensuring the quality of preaching across all congregations
  • Providing spiritual leadership to Valley Life Church across all congregations


Director or Associate Pastor of Operations

  • Head of operations for all congregations.
  • Finance
  • Facilities
  • HR
  • Communications/Media
  • Training
  • Policies
  • (HQ)


Valley Life Tramonto

  • Valley Life Tramonto is served by a full-time Associate Pastor dedicated to the care of the members and mission of the people of Tramonto.


Associate Pastor Tramonto 

  • Health of leaders and members, attenders of Tramonto. 
  • Tramonto is also served by a full-time Worship Pastor, Family Pastor, and Discipleship Pastor.


Associate Pastor of Discipleship 

  • Community Groups
  • Connections/First Impressions
  • Men
  • Women
  • Classes


Associate Pastor of Families

  • Kids
  • Youth
  • Young Adults
  • Marriages


Associate Pastor Worship 

  • Sunday worship service
  • Prayer
  • Production


  • Tramonto operates in three separate buildings for worship, youth/kids, and offices.
  • Tramonto is a church of 1,000 people in weekly attendance.
  • Tramonto has 330 members (33% of annual attendance)
  • Tramonto’s budget is +$2,000,000
  • Tramonto baptizes 100 people each year (10% of annual attendance).



All Valley Life Congregations

  • Valley Life Church operates as 4 congregations working as one to make biblical Christianity undeniable and unavoidable in our communities.
  • The people in our target area know Valley Life as a church in this community, as ambassadors of Christ to his community. 
  • Community leaders recognize that the members of Valley Life are involved in the community as humble, faithful servants of the public good in the name of Jesus Christ.
  • People sense that Valley Life is a place of deep friendship, sacrifice, and service to each other. 
  • People understand that they are better leaders and citizens in all facets of life because they were taught the gospel of Christ and value beauty, brokenness, truth, compassion and community.
  • Families that comprise Valley Life Church are good, glad, and strong as a result of the blessings bestowed upon those who walk in God’s ways. 
  • Children raised in our church do not regularly abandon their faith in adulthood because they have a personal vibrant relationship with Christ that is expressed through their participation as members of his body, the Church. 
  • Valley Life pastors enjoy the blessing of long tenures watching over the souls of the members with joy and not groaning because the members are not disobedient or hard hearted. (Hebrews 13:17)
  • Staff members are hard workers, worthy recipients of generous wages, who do their work as unto the Lord with goodness, gladness, and strength. (1 Timothy 5:17-18)


Valley Life International

Valley Life Cottonwood

Valley Life TBD

  • These congregations will be governed by the members of the entire church body
  • These congregations will be led by the elder team and Lead Pastor
  • Elder team may be comprised of members from any Valley Life congregation
  • Each congregation will have a Associate Pastor who may or may not be a part of the Elder team
  • Associate Pastor will report to the Lead Pastor as a staff member 
  • Future pastors and staff members will be added to each congregation as needed determined by Lead Pastor
  • Operations (facilities, finance, communications, HR) for each congregation will be led by Director or Associate Pastor of Operations
  • Valley Life congregations will be launched not as means of managing growth at Tramonto, but as a means of reaching lost people in a new area.
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Experience Required
1-5 years
Type
Full-time
Education Required
High School Diploma
Date Posted
1 day ago
Location
Phoenix, Arizona
Denomination
Baptist: SBC
Church Size
500-750
Website
http://valleylife.church
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