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Full Job Description
If you have a heart for students in Jr. High and High School, love to work with volunteers, are enthusiastic about interacting with staff, students, and parents, outside vendors and going to camps, our Los Angeles campus has an opening for a *part-time* (20hrs/week) Student Ministry Director.
Primary Duties:
Weekend Worship Services
- Program preparation
- Setting up and tearing down the rooms used
- Ensure enough volunteer leaders are staffed for each weekend
- Prepare and deliver message each week
- Create an environment each week that provides connection time, worship time, avenues for visitors to attend, and helps students engage and take next steps in their spiritual journey
- Build teams of adult leaders and student leaders to help with the development and execution of the weekend experience
Small Groups
- Program preparation, student development, and working with host homes to ensure small groups for students (life groups) are offered during the school year
- Build life group leaders and gender-specific adult leaders to help, encourage, and develop students in their faith
Connection Events
- Provide, coordinate, and facilitate a monthly connection event to build stronger relationships outside of the weekend and mid-week small group experience
- Provide the opportunity for students to bring their un-churched friends
Qualifications & Experiences
- Prior experience in student ministries
- Strong attention to details
- Proficient use of Microsoft Office
- Able to multitask and extremely organized to handle multiple and shifting priorities
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- Ability to lead, direct, coordinate, organize and follow through
- A Bachelor’s Degree is highly desirable, or equivalent ministry experience
Saddleback Church is both an equal opportunity employer and a faith-based religious organization. We conduct hiring without regard to race, ethnicity, national origin, citizenship, age, sex, marital status, membership in any labor organization, political ideology, or disability of an otherwise qualified individual. The status of Saddleback Church as an equal opportunity employer does not prevent us from hiring staff based on their religious beliefs so that all employees share the same religious commitment which is central to our mission.