Children's Ministry Director

Children’s Ministry Director Position Summary

The Children’s Ministry Director creates an engaging, welcoming, organized, and spiritually impactful ministry for children and families through leadership of Sunday programming, children’s worship, volunteer development, parent engagement, discipleship, and ministry environments.

The ideal candidate is relational, energetic, organized, creative, and capable of building both systems and culture.

• Lead the overall Sunday children’s ministry experience for 10 am service
• Coordinate weekly large group worship and engagement time for children
• Coordinate/schedule train teachers and helpers for individual class environments (B-K, 1-3, 4-6) – games, scriptures activities, interactive teaching
• Coordinate entry music, signage, decorations, and atmospheric elements
• Help create strong positive first impressions for visiting families
• Collaborate with Lead Pastor around Children’s Ministry Holiday Service involvement

• Children’s Ministry Director participation in congregational services regularly

Examples may include:

• Communications/announcements
• Baptisms/testimonies/scripture memory recitation
• Coordinate with media team to showcase children’s environments

• Build strong relationships with parents and caregivers
• Welcome and follow up with first-time families
• Maintain regular communication regarding ministry updates and events
• Coordinate seasonal events that support parents and children (date night, movie nights, parent classes)

• Oversee/staff midweek childcare environments as needed
• Coordinate simple weekly or bi-monthly content for children and families
• Help maintain engagement throughout the week through communication and content
• Attend Tuesday AM prayer (2x/month) and Tuesday AM staff meeting (2x/month)

• Help maintain engaging and welcoming ministry environments including playground and family spaces
• Recruit, schedule, and develop teachers, helpers, volunteers
• Build healthy volunteer culture and team morale
• Ensure ministry spaces remain clean, safe, organized, and visually inviting

• Strong relational and communication skills
• Positive, energetic, and welcoming personality
• Organized and dependable
• Comfortable leading groups and speaking publicly
• Proficient in Microsoft suite, Google suite, Planning Center, Clearstream, Mailchimp, social media, simple graphic design & simple video editing
• Ability to build culture, engagement, and systems
• Some related college education

Prior experience in children’s ministry, volunteer leadership, worship leadership, or family ministry

Formal ministry education is not required.

Alignment with SRCC’s Doctrine and philosophy of ministry required. become a member of the congregation.

We believe children’s ministry should be joyful, Gospel-centered, relational, organized, spiritually meaningful, and family-oriented. Our goal is to create environments where children and families feel seen, welcomed, connected, and excited to grow in faith and community together.

Position: Part-Time (25 hours per week)
Compensation: $30/hour
Reports To: Lead Pastor