Head of Children's Ministry

General Description

Head of Children's Ministry
Salary Per Annum (Depending on experience): Subject to Discussion
Full Time: Weekly Hours Outlined at Interview

Birmingham City Church is a multicultural inner city church situated in the heart
of Birmingham, the nation's second city. It has a congregation of over 1000
people and as such it is a vibrant and exciting church. Birmingham City Church
is part of the Elim family of churches and would be counted as a resource
church to others in the denomination, and to the other churches in the city.
BCC has a thriving and exciting children's ministry called 'BCC Kids' which runs
on each Sunday...

Vision

BCCKids aims to:
ENGAGE the children of BCC - so that church and following Jesus captivates them.
IMPACT them with the teaching of Jesus, involving practical application.
RELEASE the children into their ministries by encouraging them to use their own gifts and talents.
In engaging, impacting and releasing the children, we seek to make them disciples of Jesus Christ.

Job Title

Head of Children's Ministry
Full time position, working staff member at BCC including evenings and weekend work

Description

The Children’s Leader will take a key role in developing the children’s ministry at BCC by serving as both a quality practitioner and an apprentice leader.
They will continue to grow in their leadership skills while helping to provide leadership within the children’s ministry.

Skill Areas

Leadership Skills

• Help to lead, recruit, train and establish both present and future teams and sustain enthusiasm.
• Serve and direct the Sunday morning children's ministry and mid-week programme.
• Be involved in the main thrust of the church life and vision.
• To assist in the leading of BCC teams and at wider or national ministries.

Communication

• Help to develop more technological ways to communicate safely to children i.e. website page, messaging, e-newsletter, video blogs.
• Communicate to parents and carers.
• Report to the senior leadership team and to the wider church membership.

Increase the Quality of Production

• Keep the children's ministry on the cutting edge of what is happening in God's Kingdom through media, and looking at the complexity of needs.
• Creatively use 'BCC Kids' as a brand, both in aesthetics and professionalism.
• Bring out creative art talents and release other leaders into this.

Community Formation

• To be aware of and help develop the early years ministry with links with parents and foster support to single parents.
• Build paths for children to be more recognised in the wider body of the church.
• Build midweek and holiday encounters, activities and relational opportunities.
• Help develop pastoral visitation to children in conjunction with the pastoral team.
• Build bridges to those who are not presently at BCC.

Manage

• Build on existing administrative procedures with team including records of data, keeping statistics of growth.
• Responsibility for the checking of potential workers under BCC's child protection policy and link with coordinator.
• Help implement and resource training and events for training.

Training

On-going training is resourced and encouraged as much as possible. This includes providing training for the children's teams and receiving training personally.

Accountability

On a day to day basis, the applicant is to manage their own time, with reference
to the senior leadership team (A day off in the week is expected).
• Weekly meetings with line manager
• Monthly meetings and reporting to the core team
• Regular report to the Eldership

Appraisals of performance, targets and support
Twice yearly review - our senior leadership makes it their responsibility to
provide resources and support as needed.
Both the weekly briefing with all staff and the prayer meeting are mandatory, and
planning involvement as required.
Detailed objectives for the role of 'Children's Ministry Leader' will be made
available as to the activities, and expectations for ongoing working practice.