Kids Director

Position Overview - Kids Director

Remnant exists to CONNECT, LOVE and SEND .The Kids Director oversees kids ministry programming and implements the discipleship plan for kids from babies to 4th grade, develops adult and student leaders, and partners with parents in their spiritual influence.

Responsibilities

Oversee Kids Ministry Programming

• Oversee all programming and ministry for kids from birth to fourth grade, including Sunday mornings, outreach events.

• Ensure that the Bible is taught with clarity and creativity to help kids engage and progress in their relationship with God.

• Create kid-friendly environments, activities, and programming for each age group that foster learning and encourage spiritual growth

• Provide safe/secure, fun/engaging, and Christ-centered discipleship-driven environments for kids 

• Create a strategy for reaching and assimilating new children and families

• Establish a multiple church approach to facilitate and lead VBS (never been done at Remnant before)

• Understand that we are a non traditional church model, heart must beat for the community and willing to go the extra mile to reach one more for Jesus

Develop Adult and Student Leaders

• Invite, train, empower and disciple volunteers to provide leadership within Kids Ministry in cooperation with the pastoral staff

• Communicate weekly and meet routinely with Kids Ministry leaders in order to build ownership and equip them to lead other volunteers

• Create processes and events to make Kids Ministry function well in all aspects using volunteers in their areas of giftedness

Partner with Parents in their Spiritual Influence

• Equip parents to be involved in the spiritual formation of their kids by providing them with resources, training, and discipleship opportunities

• Design and plan periodic child dedication services as required, meeting the needs and expectations of families attending the church 

General Responsibilities

• Perform baptisms, hospital visits with follow-ups, as well as care and counseling as necessary

• Attend kid’s extracurricular activities on a weekly basis

• Develop and maintain budgets for the Kids Ministry. This responsibility will take into consideration the monitoring of expenditures within budget limits

• Work in partnership with the Student Ministries Team to provide a transition from 4th grade to 5th grade that is intentional, constructive and faith-building for the children and their families

Qualifications

• Personal relationship with Jesus Christ and alignment with the mission of Remnant

• Strong ability to lead and manage a team - leading by example and unafraid to call others to next level leadership

• Relationally drawn to people over programs and planning; willing to serve others first and generally well-liked

• Strong team-building skills engaging people both skilled and unskilled in accomplishing tasks and responsibilities; includes staff in planning and decision-making processes; makes self accessible to staff; provides regular performance feedback; improves processes; continually works to improve leadership skills

• Prioritizes and plans work responsibilities; uses time efficiently; plans for additional resources; sets goals and objectives; organizes or schedules other people and their tasks

• Identifies and resolves problems efficiently; gathers and analyzes information; develops solutions; uses reason, addresses conflict and does not avoid it