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Working alongside staff and volunteers, this leader creates safe, Gospel-centered environments where students encounter biblical truth, grow as disciples, build meaningful relationships, and learn to carry the Gospel into their schools and homes. The role calls for a passion for partnering with parents, developing volunteer and student leaders, and building an organized, welcoming ministry that helps students take meaningful next steps in following Jesus together.\nPrimary Outcomes\nThe Student Minister will:\n1. Ensure students are growing as disciples of Jesus. \n2. Provide safe, welcoming, and excellent ministry environments \n3. Establish strong partnerships with parents and families \n4. Develop a healthy, equipped, and multiplying ministry team \n5. Creates organized and sustainable ministry systems\nGeneral Responsibilities\n1) Students Growing as Disciples\nProvide vision, strategy, and day-to-day leadership for Student Ministry, ensuring alignment with The Mount’s mission, doctrine, and values.\nLead and oversee weekly ministry environments, including Midweek worship and Student CGs (Community Groups).\nPlan and deliver biblically faithful, Gospel-centered teaching that is relevant and applicable to students.\nCreate pathways that help students understand and respond to the Gospel, develop spiritual practices, serve others, share their faith, and celebrate milestones such as salvation and baptism.\nShepherd students through prayer, discipleship, consistent presence, and appropriate soul care throughout the week.\nBe present, visible, and engaged on Sundays and Wednesdays, building meaningful relationships with students, parents, volunteers, and new families.\nRegularly evaluate teaching, weekly environments, participation, and discipleship strategies for effectiveness and improvement.\n2) Safe, Welcoming & Excellent Ministry Environments\nChampion a ministry culture in which the physical, emotional, spiritual, and relational safety of every student is a clear priority.\nImplement and consistently enforce all MinistrySafe requirements, student-protection policies, check-in procedures, transportation guidelines, and emergency protocols.\nMaintain accurate records for volunteer screening, background checks, training, incidents, attendance, permissions, and relevant student information.\nTrain staff and adult Student Ministry volunteers in appropriate boundaries, group leadership, emergency response, and best practices for safely engaging students.\nRespond promptly and appropriately to safety concerns, incidents, disclosures, and policy violations in coordination with church leadership.\nPlan, prepare, and execute camps, conferences, retreats, and seasonal events with clear Gospel-centered purpose, strong communication, thoughtful logistics, and appropriate follow-up.\nEnsure ministry spaces are prepared, welcoming, secure, and supplied for each gathering.\n3) Strong Partnership with Parents & Families\nPartner with parents as the primary disciplers of their students by providing practical, accessible resources, curriculum recaps, and encouragement.\nDevelop a regular rhythm of parenting workshops and training opportunities that equip parents with biblical, practical tools for discipling their kids.\nConnect with new students and families through prompt follow-up, personal invitations, and clear next steps.\nCommunicate consistently with parents about ministry updates, teaching, events, policies, schedules, and opportunities for involvement.\nCreate reliable processes for tracking guests, absences, care needs, and follow-up so students and families do not fall through the cracks.\nBe a ministerial presence for families navigating spiritual questions, teenage challenges, crises, and significant spiritual milestones.\nBuild trust with families through professionalism, discretion, responsiveness, and a warm, Christlike spirit.\nCoordinate appropriate care and follow-up with parents, adult Student Ministry volunteers, staff, and church leadership when needs arise.\n4) A Healthy, Equipped & Multiplying Ministry Team\nRecruit, screen, onboard, train, coach, schedule, and care for adult Student Ministry volunteers.\nBuild a broader leadership pipeline that develops adult Student Ministry volunteers and students to disciple others, lead teams, and multiply future leaders.\nMaintain consistent rhythms for team communication, training, appreciation, connection, evaluation, and followup.\nEnsure each Student CG and ministry environment is appropriately staffed with trusted and equipped leaders.\nProvide clear expectations, resources, feedback, and accountability so leaders can serve confidently and effectively.\nSupervise, develop, and support the Student Ministry Associate through clear expectations, regular coaching, and shared ministry ownership.\nCultivate a team culture marked by prayer, humility, accountability, encouragement, collaboration, and sustainable service.\n5) Organized & Sustainable Ministry Systems\nSteward the Student Ministry budget, calendar, teaching resources, registrations, supplies, technology, and spaces responsibly.\nOversee Planning Center systems related to volunteer scheduling, registrations, attendance, communication, and family information.\nMaintain organized documentation and workflows so ministry information is accessible, accurate, and consistent.\nDevelop annual ministry goals, plans, budgets, calendars, and measurable indicators of ministry health.\nParticipate in staff meetings, key ministry planning rhythms, church-wide events, and leadership development.\nWork collaboratively with elders, staff, and ministry leaders to align calendars, facilities, messaging, promotion, pastoral care, and family ministry efforts.\nCommunicate Student Ministry priorities, needs, challenges, and wins clearly to the Connections & Care Pastor and relevant staff.\nModel a culture of prayer, humility, ownership, healthy communication, continuous improvement, and joyful service.\nQualifications\nA growing, mature follower of Jesus Christ with behavior and character consistent with biblical teaching.\nAlignment with The Mount’s doctrine, mission, values, and leadership.\nWilling to become a member of The Mount Church.\nA shepherd’s heart with the ability to lead with conviction, humility, warmth, patience, and courage.\nA genuine love for students and families and a desire to see the next generation follow Jesus.\nHighly relational and emotionally mature-able to connect with students, parents, and volunteers from varied backgrounds and handle sensitive situations with discretion and wisdom.\nA collaborative, team-first leader who communicates openly, welcomes input, shares ownership, and works across ministry areas to advance the mission of the whole church.\nCommitted to student safety, appropriate ministry boundaries, and consistent accountability.\nOrganized, self-motivated, and able to manage multiple moving pieces without losing the relational and ministry focus of the role.\nAble to lead both strategically and practically, moving comfortably between vision, people development, teaching, administration, and hands-on ministry needs.\nExperience & Skills\nBachelor’s degree in Ministry, Biblical Studies, Youth Ministry, Christian Education, or a related field preferred; relevant ministry experience will be considered in place of a degree.\n5 years of proven leadership experience in student or family ministry within a local church.\nDemonstrated ability to build teams, develop volunteer and student leaders, and create healthy volunteer systems.\nUnderstanding of adolescent development, age-appropriate teaching, group leadership, and family discipleship.\nStrong communicator-both when teaching students and when communicating with parents, volunteers, staff, and church leadership.\nExperience planning and executing weekly ministry environments, camps, retreats, and student events.\nDemonstrated ability to implement student-safety policies and lead teams with consistency and accountability.\nProficient with common church and office software, including Planning Center, ProPresenter, and Microsoft products, with the ability to learn new tools quickly.\nWork Rhythm / Expectations\nStandard office hours are Monday through Thursday, 9:00 AM-4:00 PM, with the expectation of also being present on Sundays and Wednesday evenings.\nAdditional evening, weekend, and seasonal responsibilities are expected for volunteer training, camps, retreats, ministry events, and church-wide gatherings.\nParticipate fully in the life of the church, contributing to the unity, health, and shepherding of The Mount Church.\nMaintain a healthy, sustainable pace and model wise boundaries while 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