Next Gen Director

THE OPPORTUNITY

The Oaks Church is seeking a relational, visionary, and spiritually mature leader to serve as our Next Gen Director. This person's primary responsibility is to lead and grow The Oaks Student Ministry for students in grades 6–12, serving as the hands-on ministry leader, the primary Bible communicator, and the chief developer of leaders within Student Ministry. Although the role provides leadership and alignment across kindergarten through twelfth grade, this is not a Kids Ministry Director position.

The Oaks has a Kids Director who owns and leads the day-to-day operations, programming, volunteers, and execution of Oaks Kids. The Next Gen Director provides leadership, coaching, strategic support, alignment, and accountability to the Kids Director while ensuring that Kids Ministry and Student Ministry share a unified mission and discipleship philosophy. We are looking for more than someone who can lead weekly programs.

We are seeking a proven leader of leaders — someone who has demonstrated the ability to identify, recruit, develop, empower, and multiply leaders. This person must be capable of building ministry teams, creating sustainable systems, and scaling ministry effectively as The Oaks continues to grow.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Lead and Grow The Oaks Student Ministry
• Build and Multiply Ministry Leaders
• Partner with Parents
• Provide Strategic Next Generation Leadership
• Support and Lead the Oaks Kids Director
• Build Effective and Safe Ministry Systems

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

The successful candidate must:

• Demonstrate a growing relationship with Jesus Christ, spiritual maturity, and a clear calling to disciple the next generation.
• Have a clear passion for and calling to ministry with middle school and high school students.
• Fully support the mission, values, doctrinal beliefs, and ministry philosophy of The Oaks Church.
• Have a proven track record of leading leaders, not merely coordinating volunteers or managing programs.
• Demonstrate the ability to identify, recruit, develop, empower, and multiply leaders.
• Have successfully built ministry teams in which trained leaders assume meaningful ownership and responsibility.
• Demonstrate the ability to create scalable ministry structures, systems, and leadership pipelines.
• Have experience leading a ministry through meaningful growth, change, or increased organizational complexity.
• Demonstrate the ability to cast vision, create alignment, address problems, and move teams toward measurable goals.
• Have meaningful ministry leadership experience that includes direct responsibility for students and adult leaders.
• Be able to teach Scripture clearly, faithfully, and engagingly to strudents at different developmental stage.
• Be an effective communicator with students, parents, volunteers, staff memebers and church leaders.
• Demonstrate strong relational instincts and a genuine desire to be present in students' lives.
• Possess the spiritual and relational maturity to command a room without dominating it.
• Demonstrate sound judgement, personal integrity, emotional matruity, and appropriate relation boundaries.
• Be willing and able to work the evenings, weekends, ministry gathering, and special events required by the position.
• Satisfactorily complete all required background checks and child-safety training.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

Preference may be given to candidates who have:

• A bachelor's degree in student ministry, biblical studies, Christian ministry, or a related field.
• Four or more years of experience leading a student, family, or Next Generation ministry.
• Previous experience serving as a Student Pastor, Student Ministry Director, Next Gen Director, or in a comparable leadership role.
• Experience supervising ministry staff or providing leadership and coaching to another ministry director.
• Experience scaling a growing Student Ministry
• Experience creating and implementing a discipleship strategy across multiple develpmental stages.
• Formal biblical or theological training.

LEADERHIP AND COLLABORATION

The Next Gen Director reports to the Associate Pastor and works closely with the Lead Pastor, elders, Oaks Kids Director, Administrative Assistant, and other ministry leaders.

The Kids Director will receive leadership, coaching, and strategic direction from the Next Gen Director while continuing to own and lead the day-to-day work of Oaks Kids.

The Next Gen Director will be expected to embrace collaboration, communicate openly, receive direction and feedback with humility, and contribute positively to the overall culture and mission of The Oaks Church.

THE LEADER WE ARE SEEKING

The right person will be a Student Ministry leader at heart and a leader of leaders in practice. This person will be equally comfortable teaching Scripture, developing adult leaders, coaching a ministry director, communicating with parents, attending a student's game, solving organizational problems, and building a long-term ministry strategy.

This leader should bring warmth and energy without sacrificing maturity, authority, or…