Foley Youth Director

Job Description

Title of Position: Foley Campus Youth Director
Direct Supervisor: Campus Pastor
Job Category: Family Ministries
Position Type: Part Time
Location: Foley Campus

Synopsis of Role

We equip students and leaders to own their faith through spiritual rhythms, compassionate action, everyday mission, and disciple-making. By pairing deep discipleship with active evangelism, we empower students to confidently influence the world around them for the Kingdom of God.

Principal Responsibilities

To oversee and disciple students, parents, and small group leaders of the Foley Campus. This includes, but is not limited to, responsibility over:

- Takes ownership of all areas of ministry, activities and pastoral care at their campus
- Spiritual and numerical growth of students in groups
- Spiritual development of youth leaders
- Students serving on the weekends
- Training and multiplying group leaders
- Mining for stories
- Calling out the potential, raising up, and qualifying new leaders
- Communicating with and equipping parents
- Building a stronger leadership structure to serve the small group leaders

Required Skills and Job Complexity

Unique Skills and Knowledge
- Pastor students and leaders
- Administration - Demonstrated ability to efficiently organize information and plan events.
- Gatherer - Rally people together for a common purpose
- Communication - Demonstrated above average written and spoken communication skills with the ability to express the vision in a compelling way.

Creative Problem Solving and Decision Making
- Present facts in an organized manner.
- Provide detail description of possible solutions.
- Positive attitude and positive approach to problem solving by being solution focused.

Relational Connections
- City Hope Church Partners, Participants, and their students
- Administrators and staff within local school systems
- Group Leaders
- Pastoral Staff/Office Staff

Competencies Critical to this Position

Self Development:
- Accepts responsibility for personal and intentional learning and growth.
- Reads books and other relevant materials and resources.
- Participates in educational opportunities and seeks diverse work experiences.

Buoyancy:
- Flexible style; receptive to change.
- Possesses the ability to change (or be changed) to fit circumstances.
- Adjusts with ease.
- Demonstrates persistence and employs alternate behaviors in the face of events which interfere with plans and schedules.
- Recovers quickly from setbacks or difficult situations.

Emotional Intelligence:
- The ability to recognize, understand, and manage emotions effectively and purposefully, both in oneself and with others.

Communication Skills:
- Communicates the right information, to the right people, in the right way, at the right time.

Priority Setting & Energy Management:
- Focuses their time, energy, and efforts on responsibilities that will have the greatest positive impact on your professional and personal well-being.

Follow Through:
- Adheres to high personal standards of reliability, openness, and consistency.
- Continues on a course of action or with a task to its completion.

Key Performance Measurements

- Student attendance at Groups, Collective, Camp, Mission Trip, Heart and Soul, Retreats and Campus Events.
- Students connecting and taking a next step: Weekend serving, Salvation, Baptism, Bringing, Consistency…
- Developing and retaining volunteer leaders: lead weekly small groups, serve at Collective, lead at Camp…
- Connecting and communicating with parents and families
- Create an environment that students want to be in, feel valued, and are connected to a leader.

Required Education / Experience

- Candidate must have a high school diploma and some college
- Candidate must have at least 2 years experience in a significant leadership role of a youth ministry averaging at least 50 students weekly.

Preferred Education / Experience

- Bachelors Degree from an accredited institution
- 1 years in leading a youth ministry
- Experience at a church running more than 500 average weekend attendance
- Experience at a multi-site church

*This description is not all inclusive, and other duties may be assigned as necessary.