Job Description: Part-time Children's Director at Southside Community Church

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
• Explore and implement age-appropriate curriculum and activities for children
• Build relationships with children and their families
• 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
• Manage Safe check-in team, system and processes
• Manage Nursery volunteers, systems, processes
• Manage Grades 5, 6, 7 leaders
• Manage Kids@Southside annual budget
• Assist the staff in finding volunteers for occasional church-wide events that require childcare
• 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