Youth Event Coordinator

One Sentence:
Make Wednesday nights, kickoffs, retreats, and conferences happen with excellence — owning both the experience students walk into and the systems behind it.

Direct Supervisor:
Noah DeRoos, Ministry Leader

Job Title:

Youth Even Coordinator — This is a FULL-TIME staff position.

• Event planning and execution — Lead our spring and fall kickoffs, own Fall Retreat logistics, and lead High School Conference end to end, including speakers, the master plan, and the promo timeline. Build the run-of-show for Wednesday nights — welcome stations, hosting, the new-student booth, and cleanup.
• Ministry systems and communication — Run Planning Center for email. Own weekly family messages, the monthly newsletter, reminder texts, stage communication, and event registration. Coordinate merch, and hold the logistics deadlines for website and print with our partner teams.
• Volunteer coordination — Schedule, communicate with, and follow up on volunteers. Manage people coming in, and build the hospitality systems that make volunteers and guests feel taken care of.

• Conduct interviews for adult leaders and student leaders.
• Spend regular time with adult leaders and students — coffee meetups, coaching, encouragement, and discipleship.
• Show up for staff meetings, Wednesday review, and retreat planning as a dependable teammate.
• Be present at student games and outreach events.
• Keep growing — reading and development are part of the job, not extra.

Your week is anchored by a handful of standing commitments: a churchwide meeting on Monday, a staff meeting and a tactical staff meeting on Tuesday, and regular event review meetings. Wednesday is the long day — youth programming runs through the afternoon and evening, and it is the night everything you built that week gets tested.

Beyond those anchors, your time goes, in priority order, to event planning and execution, the systems and communication that support it, volunteer coordination, time with leaders and students, and your own growth. That mix shifts week to week — a retreat week looks nothing like a mid-February week — and your weekly one‑one with your supervisor is where priorities get set.

Retreat weeks, conference weeks, and camp weeks will exceed forty hours. Ordinary weeks should not.

This role grows with the person in it. How quickly it expands, and how far, depends on how you work and how you show yourself over time.

You will be given a long leash — room to work hard, try things, and make mistakes while you are learning. In exchange, we need you to be self‑driven. Nobody will stand over your shoulder assigning you every task, and the people who do well here are the ones who see what needs doing and do it. As you handle well what is given to you, more will come your way.

We want all of our employees at Cornerstone to reflect the cultural values of holy ambition, rooted conviction, strategic generosity, and fun. This is the way we behave and live.

Every one of these has a ditch on both sides. We are asking you to walk the ridge.

We work hard, because what we are doing is worth working hard for.

• Too much: proud overwork. You get selfish with your ambition and it quietly becomes about you.
• Too little: laziness. You coast, and someone else carries what you set down.

We know what we believe and why we believe it.

• Too much: you get hard on people — right, but unkind. A Bible butthead.
• Too little: you are a flag in the wind, with no real position to stand on.

We give our time and our money away, and we are thoughtful about where it goes.

• Too much strategy: stinginess. You…