Student Ministry Coordinator

Park Community Church • Chicago, IL

9h

About The Position

The part-time Student Ministry Coordinator works 15 hours per week assisting with the implementation and execution of ministry to junior and senior high students at Park Near North. The role provides leadership, direction, and management for this ministry in a young and growing ministry. The coordinator helps students feel connected to the broader church, teaches God’s Word in ways that help teenagers understand the Gospel and its transformative power, and builds relationships with students and their parents. The role also develops a team of lay leaders and volunteers through recruitment, training, development, and empowerment.

The candidate should have experience serving and discipling students and leaders, teaching the Gospel to teenagers, leading teens, mobilizing volunteers, developing and implementing strategy, and completing projects. City or urban ministry experience is preferred. A bachelor’s degree is preferred but not required.

The successful candidate should demonstrate leadership with a shepherd’s heart, a teachable spirit, a gospel-centered approach, cultural understanding of urban teenagers, enthusiasm for teenagers and their families, and the ability to work in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial, multi-ethnic and multicultural environment. Candidates must have functional administrative skills, emotional and social intelligence, and a desire to network and build strategic coalitions.

Personal requirements include living consistently with the qualities for an elder described in 1 Timothy 3; participating in a small group and/or having an accountability partner; intentionally cultivating a relationship with Jesus through Scripture, prayer, and Christian community; being or becoming a member of Park; reflecting Christ in personal life and ministry; living with integrity, holiness, and purity and being free from addictions; and living within Chicago city limits.

Requirements

• At least two years of experience serving in an environment with students.
• Theological consistency with Park’s doctrinal statement.
• Proven experience discipling both leaders and students.
• Proven ability to teach the Gospel to teenagers.
• Proven track record as a leader of teens.
• Ability to provide leadership and mobilize lay leaders and volunteers, including equipping and releasing volunteers for ministry.
• Ability to develop and implement strategy and to start and finish projects.
• Ability to understand the world of teenagers and communicate the Gospel in a way they can understand.
• Leadership gifts with a shepherd’s heart and a redemptive, transformational leadership style.
• A teachable spirit and willingness to develop personally.
• A gospel-centered framework for biblically sound ministry and communication, publicly and privately.
• Ability to balance a gospel-centered approach to life and leadership with a culturally savvy understanding of urban teens.
• Enthusiasm for teenagers and their families.
• Ability to navigate and enjoy city life.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment, focus on goals, and contribute to an entrepreneurial, innovative culture.
• Desire to network and build strategic coalitions.
• Functional administrative skills.
• Comfort and competence working in multi-ethnic and multicultural environments.
• Sufficient emotional and social intelligence to establish credibility with parents and other adults.
• Commitment to starting and finishing projects.
• Live consistently with the qualities laid out in 1 Timothy 3 for an elder.
• Participate in a small group and/or have an accountability partner.
• Intentionally foster a deeper relationship with Jesus Christ through Bible reading, prayer, and Christian community.
• Be a member of Park or be willing to become one.
• Reflect Christ in words and actions in personal life and ministry; model the Christian faith and a life that reflects the Gospel.
• Demonstrate personal integrity, holiness, purity, and freedom from addictions.
• Live within the city limits of Chicago.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in city or urban ministry.
• Experience working with youth from a variety of educational backgrounds, including public, private, Christian, and home-schooled settings.
• Experience working with urban youth from a variety of ethnic and economic backgrounds.
• Ability to develop strategic alliances with churches and parachurch youth ministries.
• Bachelor’s degree (preferred, but not required).

Responsibilities

• Help implement and execute ministry for junior and senior high students.
• Foster students’ connection and integration within the broader church.
• Teach God’s Word in ways that resonate with youth and help them understand the Gospel and its power to transform their lives.
• Meet and connect with students consistently outside regularly scheduled programming.
• Connect with, listen to, and respond well to parents.
• Build a team of lay leaders and volunteers through enlistment, training, development, and empowerment.
• Provide leadership, direction, and management for the student ministry.
• Develop and implement ministry strategy and start and finish projects.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Part-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed