The Youth Ministry Director exists to provide love and care for students in grades 6-12. This person is someone with a deep love for Christ and students; someone with a passion for and an understanding of High School and Middle School students; someone who is able to thrive in a team environment, who loves to laugh, and someone who is able to envision and energize a community of students as it fits within the vision and mission of Brookside Church.
Classification: Full Time, Salaried, Exempt
Accountable to: NextGen Pastor
Average Hours/Week: 40
Qualifications and Expectation
- Acknowledge Jesus Christ as personal Lord and Savior
- Demonstrate personal maturity and godliness, growing in conformity to the image of Christ
- Agreement of the Brookside Church Statement of Faith
- Submit to authority of Lead Pastor and Elder Board
- Possess the heart of a pastor – not just the skills of a leader
- Possess a commitment to a holistic approach to discipleship and spiritual growth
- Passionate about facilitating discipleship in a family-oriented, multi-generational church
- Must be a competent and skilled oral and written communicator
- Experience in developing and working in team-based ministries and who thrives in a highly collaborative working environment
Pastoral and Shepherding Relationships
Initiate and build relationships with students, adult leaders, and parents to develop ongoing discipleship opportunities
- Invest weekly in students by spending time at school campuses, games/concerts/performances, restaurants, coffee houses and hang out spots
- Seek to reach out to uninterested students
- Challenge interested students to move closer to God through Jesus
- Construct intentional times weekly for the express purpose of building redemptive relationships
- Pursue adult leaders who can pour into students
- Engage in regular and international ways of connecting with parents
- Have a visible and appropriate presence via social media
Direct, plan and establish environments where students feel accepted and safe to discover their story
- Establish a balance of fun and relevance with evangelism and discipleship
- Exercise and utilize biblical teaching, facilitation of discussion, and effective communication
- Work with the creative and family ministry team to develop content
- Remain aware of current youth issues, trends and language
- Provide a safe atmosphere where all can grow in their desire to serve and honor God.
- Organize volunteers to serve in the High School and Middle School gatherings
- Work to create environments students feel they belong, are known and held accountable
- Create a safe place for questions to be asked and struggles to be shared.
Parents, Volunteers and Community
Invite, train and lead the adult volunteers.
- Identify and pursue potential volunteers
- Establish a solid teaching team that can connect with students
- Lead, instruct and encourage adult leaders to become self-guided ministers
Construct intentional times weekly to build relationships and pursing adult leaders
- Coordinate service opportunities retreats, events and mission trips
- Cultivate a heart for serving others
- Engage in service opportunities during the year and in the summer
- Maintain 3, 6, 9 months out for planning and communication purposes
Intentional emphasis on partnering with parents
- Cultivate relationship with parents/guardians to support their discipleship efforts at home
- Work with parents on generating a discipleship program in the home
- Create events that strategically and intentionally target parent student interaction
Collaborate with schools, principals, other churches and organizations
- Cultivate a relationship with the school principals in our area
- Build relationships with other youth pastors and directors in our area
- Choose strategic organizations to come along side and support
Other Responsibilities
- Carry out projects and responsibilities as assigned
- Attend weekly staff meetings Maintain healthy staff relationships
- Collaborate across all ministry departments Utilize intergenerational partnerships with the entire family at Brookside