Student Ministry Coordinator

PART-TIME: 15 hours per week

The Student Ministry coordinator will be responsible for assisting in the student ministry with implementing and executing ministry to junior and senior high students at Park Near North. This position will provide leadership, direction, and management to this ministry in a young and growing ministry.

Key Responsibilities

- Foster and encourage youth to feel connected and integrated within the greater church.

- Teach Gods Word in a way that resonates with the youth to help them understand the Gospel and its power to transform a teenagers life.

- Consistently meet and connect with students beyond regularly scheduled programming times.

- Minister to the parents by actively connecting with, listening to, and responding well to them.

- Build a growing team of lay leaders and volunteers through enlistment, training, development and empowerment.

Qualifications

Required Experience

- Two-plus years of serving in an environment with students.

- Theological consistency with the doctrinal statement of Park

- Proven experience discipling both leaders and students.

- Proven ability to teach the gospel to teenagers

- Experience in a city/urban ministry preferred

- Proven track record as a leader of teens

- Proven ability to provide leadership and mobilize a team of lay leaders and volunteers

- Have a proven track record of equipping and releasing volunteers in ministry

- Proven ability to develop and implement strategy

- Proven ability to start and finish projects

- Understands this world and transmits the gospel in a way that a teen can understand

Preferred Experience

- Previous experience working with youth who have a variety of educational backgrounds: Public, Private, Christian, Home-Schooled, etc.

- Previous experience in working with urban youth from a variety of ethnic and economic backgrounds

- Proven ability to develop strategic alliances with churches and Para-church youth ministries

- Bachelor's degree is preferred, but not required

Desired Gifts, Skills, Talents and Passions

- Must have leadership gifts with a shepherds heart with a redemptive and transformational leadership style

- Must exhibit a teachable spirit and willingness to personally develop

- Must have a gospel-centered framework that produces biblically sound ministry and communication both publicly and privately

- Must hold in balance a gospel-centered approach to life and leadership and couple that with a culturally savvy understanding of the urban teen.

- Must exhibit contagious enthusiasm for teenagers and their families

- Must know how to navigate a city and find it as life-giving and not a life-taking experience

- Must have the ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment; to focus intently on a goal and love being a part of an entrepreneurial, innovative culture

- Must have a desire to network and build strategic coalitions

- Needs functional level of administration skills

- Must be comfortable and competent working in multi-ethnic and multi-cultural environments

- Must have sufficient emotional and social intelligence to have credibility with parents and other adults

- Be committed to starting and finishing projects

Personal Requirements

- Lives a life consistent with qualities laid out in 1 Timothy 3 for an elder

- To be in a small group and/or have an accountability partner

- To be intentionally fostering a deeper relationship with Jesus Christ through your time in the Bible, prayer, and Christian community

- Membership at Park or willing to become a member at Park.

- To reflect Christ in your words and actions in your personal life and ministry. You will be looked up to as you model the Christian faith, and the way you live your life should reflect the Gospel.

- Life marked by personal integrity, holiness, purity, and freedom from any addictions

- To live in the city limits of Chicago