Kids Pastor

Position Summary

As part of the NextGen Department at River Valley Church, the Kids Pastor/Ministry Lead is responsible for overseeing all elements of ministry to children at the campus, from birth through 5th grade. This includes overseeing weekend, mid-week, and special event programming, along with managing special events and other campus staff specific to KiDS ministry. This position also acts as the lead for all KiDS specific interns at the Eagan campus.

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

The Kids Pastor/Ministry Lead is required to perform a range of duties including, but not limited to:

Weekend Responsibilities

• Act as lead presenter for KiDS at their campus for the majority of weekend services. Raise up volunteer leaders to present as well, when needed.

• Be the leader available to oversee Early Childhood and Elementary programs each weekend in the areas of training, troubleshooting and recruitment.
• Recruit, Train, and regularly schedule volunteers needed to care for kids at all weekend services
• Raise up volunteer leaders to present in the Elementary room. Step in to serve as lead presenter, as needed.
• Review over lesson plans received from Central Services for each week and make necessary adjustments applicable to the campus. This includes ensuring you have all the graphics and promotional materials for each series.
• Oversee campus child dedications
• Be the staff representative for the families and meet with them prior to the dedication ceremony.
  

Campus Leadership

• Be a champion for the vision of KiDS amongst families with young children.
• Regularly share the vision for empowering parents with tools they can use to lead their children into a strong, personal faith journey.
• Ensure NextGen and KiDS best practices, policies, strategies and leadership initiatives are in place.
• Oversee the midweek program
• Find and modify curriculum for the weekly evening programming
• Schedule volunteers that will be helping and presenting that curriculum on a weekly basis while giving direction for weekly lessons.
• Manage purchasing of supplies for the campus, which includes furniture, toys, signage and equipment in general.
• Manage any KiDS events for the campus outside of weekend services.
• Work closely with the campus youth team to effectively transition KiDS graduates into the Youth ministry
  

Central KiDS Team

• Participate in Kids team connects (including Ministry Mondays), workaways, house wide events, and regular individual connects with Lead Kids Pastor.
• Work closely with the KiDS team as well as the Lead Kids Pastor to brainstorm ideas on series topics, Kidmin ministry strategy, and ongoing development and improvement of Kids programming.
• Act as Ministry Mentor for KiDS Interns to assist them with goal setting, assigning them projects, give them weekend specific responsibility and pieces to own.
• Help champion the vision of NextGen to ensure best practices, policies, strategies and leadership initiatives are in place.
  
  

Other Responsibilities

Individual will complete responsibilities in accordance with the church’s policies and applicable procedures as assigned. Ability to travel and other duties as assigned.

As a pastor of River Valley Church, you will be given the authority to perform “sacerdotal functions” according to IRS guidelines and “must be able to perform substantially all the religious functions of an ordained minister to be treated as a minister for social security purposes.” It is expected that you will fulfill your pastoral duties as needed to uphold the requirements put in place by the IRS.

Qualifications

• Excellent communication skills with children, teenagers and adults
• Ability to manage multiple priorities at a time, discerning and setting appropriate goals and timelines
• High level of creativity and flexibility
• Proficient in use of G-Suite as well as Database usage
  
  

Education

A four-year bachelor’s degree is desired with preference given to a pastoral or other ministry-related degree. Qualified candidates should either have ministerial credentials or be working towards obtaining credentials. Credentials with the Assemblies of God are preferred.

Experience

Successful candidate should have 2-4 years related experience