KIDS DIRECTOR

Position Title: Kids Director
Department Name: Family Ministries
Organizational Level: Professional Staff
Reports to: Family Ministries Pastor
FLSA Status: Exempt
Full/Part time: Full-time
Salary Range: $55k – 65k (annualized)
Date: April 2025

Summary/Objective:               

The Kids Director will provide leadership and oversight of the Kids Ministry, birth through 5^th grade.  This includes the execution of vision, values, and programming to create a partnership with families in which children are in a Christ-centered Bible led, worship centered environment on a weekly basis.

Essential Functions:

1. Recruit, equip, empower, and disciple volunteer leaders in their Kid Ministry roles to develop spiritual growth and a sense of community.
2. Develop and help lead high quality, relational, and biblically centered programming for Babies through 5^th grade.
3. Select and utilize curriculum resources to help parents reinforce biblical lessons at home.
4. Grow a community that shepherds kids’ hearts to know Jesus by the care, love, safety, and compassion that is exemplified in the Kids Ministry staff and volunteers.
5. Maintain a culture of recruitment, training, and equipping volunteers.
6. Partner with the Youth Ministry to bridge the transition between Elementary and Middle School.
7. Maintain Kids Early Childhood and Elementary budget and calendar to ensure it is honored and Kingdom focused.
8. Maintain visionary leadership for the future of the Early Childhood and Elementary ministry at Southeast.
9. Collaborate, plan, and execute VBS with team.
10. Supervise and shepherd Kids Assistant Director and Weekend Coordinators that ensures a heart of unity and collaboration.
11. Partner with other staff for ministry cross-over and for special events (including VBS, Easter, Christmas and other church events).
12. Perform other duties, as needed.

Time Requirements:

This position will be completed in 40+ hours per week (Sundays through Thursdays). Some holidays, weekends and evenings may be required.

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 a large classroom setting and requires standing, bending, kneeling and more.

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 30 lbs; walk and reach with hands and arms.

Requirements:

Professional/Education

1. 2+ years of experience in Children’s Ministry required. Degree in Children’s related field preferred.
2. Church staff experience is highly considered.
3. Ability to manage confidentiality in all aspects of job.
4. Love kids and desire to help kids grow to know Jesus.
5. Ability to direct work.

Spiritual

1. A faithful, growing Christ-follower who is deepening their personal relationship with Christ, models this to others.
2. A passionate desire to see people come to know, love and follow Christ in the context of real community.
3. In agreement with Southeast’s Statement of Beliefs, Values, Mission and Vision.
4. Desires to know and love God more and wants to be used by God.
5. Seeks the Lord in prayer and the Bible for all aspects of ministry.

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 with the catalytic leadership influence and impact.
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 and leadership development and equip others for community-building impact.
4. Strong social, biblical and verbal skills that enable him/her to be an effective and creative communicator.
5. Demonstrates wise judgment in decision-making.
6. Ability to live in and cultivate biblical community.
7. Champions the mission, vision, and values of the church and staff.   Values the culture of Southeast Christian Church.
8. Adhere to Southeast’s Staff Values:
   1. 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.

Desired Competencies:

Customer focus, Decision quality, Direct Work, Ensures accountability, Collaborates, Interpersonally astute, Builds effective teams, Communicates effectively, Drives engagement, Instills trust, Demonstrates self-awareness, Manages ambiguity

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.