YOUTH & YOUNG ADULTS PASTOR

Position Title: Youth and Young Adults Pastor
Department Name: Family Ministries
Organizational Level: Professional Staff
Reports to: Family Ministries Pastor
FLSA Status: Exempt
Full/Part time: Full-time
Salary Range: $57,000 - $70,000 (annualized)
Date: February 2025

Job Summary:
Lead the Youth & Young Adults Ministry by recruiting, developing, and supporting volunteers, fostering student discipleship, and partnering with parents to nurture students’ spiritual growth. Collaborate with church staff to align ministry efforts with the church’s vision, plan engaging events, and manage communication and resources effectively.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Have a passion for discipling youth and young adults to know God.
2. Recruit, mentor, and empower volunteers for student and young adult ministries, ensuring strong leadership and support.
3. Build relationships with students, parents, and volunteers, fostering community and spiritual growth.
4. Develop a Student Leadership Program to help students discover and use their gifts in the church and beyond.
5. Partner with parents to equip them as spiritual leaders in their children’s lives.
6. Plan and lead events such as retreats, camps, and weekly gatherings to engage students in discipleship.
7. Select curriculum to reinforce biblical teachings at church and at home.
8. Communicate regularly with students, parents, and church leadership through newsletters and digital platforms.
9. Manage the ministry budget and collaborate across teams to coordinate events and align efforts with church goals.
10. Support cross-ministry events (e.g., VBS), assist with Family Ministries initiatives, Southeast Christian School, and take on other tasks as needed.

Time Requirements:

This position will be completed in 40+ hours per week.  This position works Sunday – Thursday, including Sunday mornings and evenings, as well as some holidays and other weekday/weekend days or evenings as necessary.

Desired Competencies:

Discipleship Focus, Strategic Mindset, Cultivates Innovation, Action oriented, Plans and aligns, Ensures accountability, Manages conflict, Develops talent, Builds effective teams, Communicates effectively, Drives vision and purpose, Demonstrates self-awareness

Work Environment:
This job operates in a professional office environment and uses standard office equipment such as laptop computers, desktop computers and telephones.  This job also operates in large rooms and groups of people.

Physical Demands:
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear and frequently required to sit and/or stand for sustained periods of time; lift, push, pull items in excess of 50 lbs; walk and reach with hands and arms.

Requirements:

Professional/Education

1. 5+ years of experience on a church staff in student ministry or a related field, preferred.
2. Bachelor’s degree with emphasis in youth ministry preferred.
3. Basic computer and social media skills.
4. High level of organizational skills.
5. High level of communication skills through all means of communication.
6. Ability to manage confidentiality in all aspects of job.

Spiritual

1. A faithful, growing Christ-follower who is deepening their personal relationship with Christ, having a reverence for God, and a desire for the movement of the Holy Spirit while modeling this to others.
2. A passion for knowing the Bible and an understanding of the contextual content.
3. A desire to see people come to know, love, and follow Christ within the Body of Christ and their communities.
4. A desire to learn and be available to new concepts and ideas in ministry.
5. In agreement with Southeast’s Statement of Beliefs, Values, Mission and Vision.
6. Desires to know and love God and wants to be used by God.

Personal

1. Dedicated to the development of God’s people in their roles of discipleship, servanthood and outreach.
2. Humble, credible, trustworthy, teachable and a self-starter.
3. Skilled in building and leading gifts-based teams to accomplish shared purposes. They are also a team player who sees the need to take others with them in the journey of leadership, leadership development, and equipping others for community-building impact.
4. Strong social, biblical and verbal skills that enable them to be an effective and creative communicator.
5. Demonstrates wise judgment in decision-making through prayer, being the Word, community and worship.
6. Ability to live in and cultivate biblical community.
7. Values the culture of Southeast Christian Church.
8. Adhere to Southeast’s Staff Values:
   1. We listen, live, and love like Jesus: we prioritize and nurture our relationship with Jesus; we seek to grow as his disciples; we demonstrate his love through our actions, worship, generosity, and obedience.
   2. We value relationships and teamwork: we see people as opportunities, not as inconveniences; we resist silos; we take care of ourselves and each other; we lean into accountability; we engage in hard conversations and assume the best.
   3. We value integrity in all aspects of life: we strive to live out God’s standards, not our own; we don’t cut corners; we give our best and pursue excellence in all we do; we honor God with our bodies; we are honest and upright.
   4. We have a solutions-focused mindset: we look for solutions when problems arise; we are willing to help, even when it’s “not our job”; we find the win, even when the answer is “no.”
   5. We don’t take ourselves too seriously: we have fun; we practice humility and appreciate appropriate humor; we celebrate; we choose positivity and encouragement

This description indicates the general level and nature of work performed by employees within this classification.  It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job.