STUDENT MINISTRY ASSOCIATE
FULL-TIME
POSITION SUMMARY
The mission of Mountain Park Church is to invite the distracted and the disinterested to realize their role in God’s story. The Student Ministry Associate fulfills this mission with the students of our community by facilitating student discipleship. This includes creating opportunities for students to know love and follow Jesus, raising up teams and leaders who move students towards Christ, Encouraging and equipping parents to be spiritual leaders, and executing logistical ministry tasks.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Create Opportunities for Students to Know, Love and Follow Jesus
- Use gifting to invest in the holistic growth of students and equip them to follow Jesus in every area in their life
- Teach large group Sunday services for Middle and High school on a rotation
- Connect students with opportunities to serve others in the church, the community, and
- abroad
- Meet regularly with students for one on one mentoring relationships and contact work
- Create and lead outreach focused hangouts (every semester) that attract new students - and especially students who are not followers of Jesus - with each grade and gender group (including promotion, communication, and coordination)
- Lead, plan, and oversee annual student ministry camps, trips and events
- Work with the Student Ministries Pastor on event vision and planning
- Organize and communicate logistics in a timely and efficient manner
- Serve as an on-site point person at each event
- Follow appropriate policies and procedures for event planning, promotion, and evaluation
Raise up teams and leaders who move students toward Christ
- Recruit, develop, train, and care for volunteer teams and leaders, including
- Sunday morning small group leaders
- Mid-week discipleship program leaders
- Appropriate quantity of volunteers for camps, trips, and special events that ensure students feel safe, noticed, known and heard
- Organizational prep team who:
- Orders supplies in preparation for assigned programs
- Formats and prints weekly curriculum resources for ministry
- Helps to maintain follow up processes for new students and students with sporadic attendance
- Additional teams as needed and/or assigned
- Ensure that all volunteers (including parents) who:
- Embrace and implement Student Ministry strategies
- Take ownership of the ministry and perform their responsibilities with excellence
- Are actively involved with students outside of regular programs
- Commit to serving weekly and for as many years as possible with a vision for staying with their students through graduation
- Work with assigned leaders for departmental trainings and schedule coordination
Encourage and equip parents to be spiritual leaders
- Establish strong relationships with parents
- Clearly and effectively communicate that parents are the primary spiritual leaders of their students
- Communicating regularly with parents to
- Celebrate wins
- Promote upcoming events
- Share parenting tips
- Keep them informed of teachings in Student Ministries
- Connect students with serving opportunities
Execute Logistical Ministry Tasks
- Ensure that all tasks assigned to the volunteer prep team are completed on time and with excellence
- Coordinate attendance tracking with weekly small group leaders
- Manage student ministry receipts and expenses and submit to accounting in a timely manner
- Work to ensure Student Ministry operates within the annual budget
- Meet regularly with entire Student and Family Ministry Team
- Manage the Student Ministry social media accounts and create engaging posts that
- Encourage students to engage and respond
- Keep students and parents informed of ministry events and happenings
QUALIFICATIONS
Education/Experience
- High School Diploma or equivalent required
- Bachelor’s degree preferred
- Essential Experience
- Proven experience in ministry with students
- Strong desire to connect with student and leaders
- Preferred Experience
- At least 1 year of experience in a larger (500+) church
- Proven experience in building and leading volunteers team (20+)
- Proven experience in directing student programs
KNOWLEDGE, SKILL AND/OR ABILITY
- Proficient computer skills, experience with or ability to learn Mac software
- Ability to learn new software programs quickly
- Highly developed verbal, written and telephone communication skills with the ability to interact on both a professional and personal level
- Able to work well both independently (with minimal direction/supervision) and within a team
- Strong relational and conflict resolutions skills
- Ability to multi-task and attention to detail is essential
- This person must have a contagious passion for students
ESSENTIAL QUALITIES
Essential Qualities for growing in your role
1. Authentic dedication to spiritual maturity in Christ with a track record of Christ-like behavior, including:
- Making memories with Jesus by being a patient, follower and worshipper
- Making friends by being a truth-teller, people-lover and grace-giver
- Making a difference in the kingdom by serving, giving and witnessing
2. Commitment to MPC’s mission, values, and leadership. This includes embracing and encouraging a culture that is:
- Safe yet Dangerous
- Fun yet Intentional
- Confident yet Humble
3. Personal drive to be a self-starter with initiative and a strong work ethic
4. Enthusiasm and joy – a naturally “bright” face and smile
5. Emotional and relational intelligence
6. Personal pursuit of healthy biblical relationships
7. Ability to collaborate and be team player
8. Positive attitude that motivates and encourages others
ADDENDUM
- Additional projects and responsibilities may be necessary as requested by the Senior Pastor or Executive Pastor
- Job descriptions at MPC are fluid - meaning this job description represents the minimum expectations when it comes to tasks and areas you may be working in. The reality is that we work as a team and there are numerous other tasks that will require the participation of the person holding this position
