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Job Summary

The director of children, youth, and families oversees all areas of the children’s and youth ministries at UBC. They are responsible for maintaining welcoming, safe, and engaging opportunities for connection and spiritual formation throughout the year.

Essential Functions

• Oversees all Sunday morning programming for children and youth (infants through 12th grade), selecting Sunday School curriculum (in collaboration with Sunday School teachers and the Spiritual Formation Director), teaching as needed, providing necessary resources for other leaders, and ensuring a safe and effective drop-off and pick-up process. 

• Facilitates children and youth integration in worship by leading the children’s moment each Sunday, maintaining and updating children’s worship bags and children’s area in sanctuary each week, sitting with the youth group and helping manage the transition of young children to the Kid’s Place during worship.

• Coordinates additional events for children and youth during the school year, including UFriends (Sunday afternoons once or twice per month) and Parents’ Night Out (first Friday of each month). 

• Plans and organizes summer programming, including youth camp, Vacation Bible School, and youth service learning trip. 

• Provides pastoral care for children, youth, and families by building relationships, offering support in times of loss and transition, reaching out to new and visiting families, and creating a space of welcome and inclusion for kids and youth of all genders, sexual orientations, ethnicities, abilities, socio-economic or religious backgrounds.

• Recruits, trains, schedules, and supervises adult volunteers and childcare employees; communicates with volunteers and childcare employees weekly. 

• Maintains and updates child protective policies, risk management policies, medical consent and release records for children and youth, and volunteer background checks and child safety training completion.

 Other Responsibilities

• Participates in weekly staff meetings and worship planning with an eye toward creating opportunities to welcome/include children and youth in the life of the church. 

• Serves as staff liaison for Children, Youth and Families committee at monthly meetings; develops and maintains the youth and children’s budgets in collaboration with the committee.

• Oversees organization and care for the Kid’s Place and Youth Room. 

 Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree (seminary training preferred)

• Previous experience working with children and youth

• Administrative experience (budgeting, organizing volunteers, maintaining records)

Core Competencies

• Attention to Detail: Consistently attends to the many small pieces which must be assembled into an organized whole; follows up on missing or out of balance items; resolves unanswered questions needed to address a problem; keeps the larger picture in mind while tending to the smallest of details.

• Verbal Communication: Is able to deliver a message clearly, articulately and with appropriate emotion in a variety of settings; demonstrates communication styles appropriate to the situation at hand; adjusts the message, without losing the essence of the message, depending upon the circumstance and the listener.

• People/Volunteer Management: Provides direction, gains commitment, facilitates change and achieves results through the efficient, creative and responsible deployment of volunteers; engages people in their areas of giftedness and passion.

• Compassion and Care: Exudes a natural sense of care for the well-being of others; responds with empathy to the life circumstances of others; communicates a sense of support in his or her very presence; demonstrates appropriate and boundaried expressions of care.

• Spiritual Maturity: Shows strong personal depth and spiritual grounding; demonstrates integrity and is seen by others as trustworthy and authentic; nurtures a rich spiritual life; seeks the wisdom and guidance of appropriate mentors; is able to articulate a clear and consistent theology.

• Mission Ownership: Demonstrates understanding and full support of the mission, vision, values and beliefs of the congregation; can demonstrate those values to others; consistently behaves in a manner congruent with the mission, vision, values and beliefs.

To apply, send your resume and cover letter by July 1st, to employment@ubcaustin.org.