Lead Director of Kids and Families

Church Of The Resurrection•Leawood, KS

5d•Onsite

About The Position

Resurrection has an opening for a Lead Director of Kids and Families in our Ministry & Programs division! The position is full-time, exempt and is located at the Leawood campus at 13720 Roe Ave. The Lead Director of Kids and Families is the church’s highest level strategic leader when it comes to steering overall strategy for and implementation of discipleship pathways, connections and overall group life engagement for children and their families ranging from birth to 5th grade. The Lead Director sets the tone and provides resources that will equip families and their children to grow together in becoming more deeply committed followers of Jesus Christ. As a member of the M&P Lead Director Team, the Lead Director of Kids and Families will partner with the Executive Team, Location Pastors and Ministries and Program Leads to create frictionless engagement for our children and families so that every child and their family are engaged in spiritual formation, study and group life in a way that both closes the spiritual and generational gaps within our community. This person supervises the staff teams in the Kids Division across all locations and provides direction for churchwide programs and ministries under the direction of these staff members.

Requirements

Able to manage and lead multiple projects and staff members simultaneously and dependably. Knows when and how to delegate ministry and operates at a high level of efficiency and grace.
Highly relational, personable, gracious, friendly, humble, encouraging and approachable.
Demonstrated ability to build effective teams, identifying high-capacity volunteer leaders and equipping people for ministry.
An initiator and leader, forward thinking and committed, willing to be responsible and held accountable for staff and ministries under his/her direction.
Resolves complex challenges, responsive to feedback, committed to excellence, and appropriately assertive in addressing conflicts, misalignment and issues of integrity.
Understands Resurrection, exudes the church’s purpose, vision and journey, is compatible theologically and able to integrate Resurrection’s principles into discipleship programs.
Has an advanced and articulate understanding of the theology of Christian discipleship and can interpret this into age-appropriate learning objectives for various milestones and stages in our journey in faith.
Excellent verbal and written skills and experience in public speaking and teaching.
Bachelor’s degree in a related field
Ten or more years of demonstrated success in management and leadership, with at least three years in management.
Proven Results in growing churchwide programs for children and families and developing systems that will engage children and their families in spiritual formation and discipleship with clear entry points and pathways that lead them through age-appropriate milestones toward deep commitment.

Nice To Haves

A Master of Divinity or Master of Theology is preferred but not required.
Ordination as an Elder within the United Methodist Church is preferred, but not required.

Responsibilities

Develop and strengthen the church’s programs for children and families across all locations with the goal that every child and family are actively engaged in growing in the Christian life through activities, study and connection.
Ensure that the church is utilizing its people and resources across locations to have the maximum impact in both engaging its children and families with opportunities for spiritual formation and community life through programs, studies, events and retreats.
Collaborate with Lead Ministry Directors and Location Pastors to develop coordinated engagement strategies and programs to maximize efficiency and create highest level of impact for the children and families within our church and community.
It is expected that the Lead Director of Kids and Families will regularly participate in ministries under direction across locations, both as a prominently featured speaker and teacher, as well as a manager and observer seeking to meet regularly with staff onsite to promote effective communication and location-specific direction.
Lead Kids staff team across locations in effectively planning for location-specific programming, budgets and staffing needs, including balancing both spending and staffing requirements with the goal of ensuring that each program area is an effective steward of the personnel and financial resources at its disposal.
Ensure the division is developing and utilizing age-appropriate curriculum consistent with the teaching and direction of our denomination and our church, with a goal that it be distributed to help strengthen other churches.
Hold ministries and programs for children and families accountable to key metrics and benchmarks that not only track activity, but ultimately yield quantitative growth in the engagement and participation of all our adults.
Develop and initiate new ministries, programs and partnerships to meet the needs, fulfill the potential, and accomplish the vision of the Church of the Resurrection. This will include recommendations to the Executive Team and Staff/Parish Committee on new personnel as needed.
Manage, mentor and provide direction to the staff in the division. This includes ministry assessment and performance evaluation, strategic planning and goal setting, mentoring and spiritual direction, encouragement, pastoral care, support and conflict resolution.
Other duties as assigned.
Follow Jesus and engage in the “five essential practices” of the Christian life: worship, study, serve, give, and share.
Support the church’s purpose of “building a Christian community where non-religious and nominally religious people become deeply committed Christians.”
Exemplify the church’s values and support its theological direction as a United Methodist Church.