Director, Children's Ministry

• Location 1000 N Randall Road, Elgin, IL, 60123, United States
• Employee Type FT Exempt

Provide leadership and oversight of the children’s ministry across campuses. Development and execution of goals and objectives ensuring all events and curriculum support the vision, mission, beliefs, doctrine and direction of the church. Ensuring safety, security, compliance, volunteer coordination, training and certification, events, prayer. projects, budgets and all aspects of staffing (i.e. performance, feedback and development).

• Lead spiritual direction of HK in congruence with Campus Pastors
• Develop team (staff and volunteers) based on biblical principles and values
• Ensure curriculum selected and/or developed is age-appropriate. Ensure leaders/volunteers are able to effectively teach children
• Creativity and innovation for events planning and activity development for children to experience and learn about Jesus. Helping families understand their journey together as a family
• Work cross functionally on the development of policy and procedures regarding Child Protection, Safety, Security, In His Image, Volunteer Certification, etc.
• Oversee policies and procedures to ensure adherence including certification and training as needed/required
• Hold team (staff and volunteers) accountable to expectations
• Oversee and manage budget for all income and expenses
• Oversee and support children and families during weekend services and events
• Develop trusted relationships with teams, children and families to effectively respond to and solve concerns and problem arising in/out of classrooms, child discipline and feedback
• Ensure all compliance items and investigations are documented and reported as required, including proper authorities
• Maintain high integrity and confidentiality with all relationships
• Schedule is non-traditional work hours (includes weekends and evenings)

• Personal and growing relationship with Jesus and a humility to testify to it
• Ability to explain “What Harvest Bible Chapel Believes”
• Ability to pray with other employee’s, guest and attenders of the church
• Be an active, engaged and accountable member of a community group

• Ability to recruit and develop others (i.e. staff and volunteers) and continual development of building a volunteer base
• Highly relational and shares knowledge with teams and communicates in all direction for the overall benefit to help the church as a whole
• Strong problem solving capabilities and accountable for decisions
• Strong collaboration with other departments for a win-win solution
• Strong organizationally and attention to detail
• Enthusiastic self-starter with staff, volunteers, children and families
• Strong communication, verbal and written
• Highly collaborative to learn best practices and share with team and others
• Ability to accept and provide honest balanced feedback
• Ability to work non-traditional hours to support the needs of the church
• Continues with self-development and learning best practices for the ministry relevance
• Ability to defuse situations and mediate conflict

• Bachelor’s Degree, preferably in ministry, youth, child development or related field
• 3-5 years of leadership experience in ministry or education
• Experience with VBS, AWANA, etc. is preferred