Employment at Northwoods Church

Position Description

The Family and Event Associate for Discoveryland is responsible for planning, coordinating, and executing various family events and programs. This role involves creating a welcoming and engaging environment for families and children in Discoveryland, facilitating parent training, communication with parents, and organizing events that foster spiritual growth, fellowship, and community involvement.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

Family Events

• Event Planning: Develop and implement a comprehensive plan for family and children's events, including holiday celebrations, summer camps, parent-child activities, and outreach initiatives.
• Parent Training: Develop and implement classes to train up parent’s to be spiritual leaders.
• Equipping and Encouraging Parents: Create and maintain a resource area in Discoveryland that would help equip parents to lead in their home.
• Volunteer Recruitment and Training: Recruit, train, and coordinate volunteers to support various events and programs.
• Resource Management: Manage the budget allocated for family resources and events, including purchasing necessary supplies, materials, and resources within the approved budgetary limits.

General Responsibilities

• Meetings: Attend weekly Discoveryland staff meetings.  Assist with monthly team meetings scheduled around weekend service times.
• Staff Meetings: Attend staff meetings for global, visionary, and organizational matters.

Interaction with others

• Parent Communication: Follow- up with new families that come each weekend. Maintain open and effective communication parents, providing regular updates, event details, and program information through newsletters, emails, social media, and other communication platforms.
• Relationship Building: Foster positive relationships with children, parents, volunteers, and staff members, creating a warm and inclusive atmosphere.
• Able to work well with other Northwoods staff, adult volunteers, and parents.

Commissioned Responsibilities and Expectations

• At Northwoods, commissioned staff are spiritually ready to minister to the congregation and community on a personal level.
• Care Responsibilities: The expression of care may include but not be limited to: Prayer, teaching, encouragement, shepherding, equipping, personal ministry, and visitation.
• A spiritual leader in our community who contributes to the spiritual growth and formation of the people he/she leads and influences publicly and privately.

Desired Skills and Abilities

• Administration, organizational skills, computer knowledge, proofreading skills, event planning, and telephone etiquette, spiritual, emotional, and physical health.

Beneficial Spiritual Gifts

• leadership, administration, wisdom, and teaching.

Educational and Experience Required

• High school diploma, college, or 2 years of experience in Children’s Ministry preferred.

Pay and Benefits Information

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Position Description

The Missions Associate (Local Impact) will primarily be responsible for developing local impact missional partnerships through cultivating relationships with local missions’ partners, recruiting and overseeing volunteer leaders, and growing Northwoods volunteer participation with local missions’ partners. Additionally, the Missions Associate (Local Impact) will cross-train to assist with Global Reach Missions and assist the Missions Pastor as needed.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

Local Impact Ministry

• Partnership Development: Engage with local missions’ partners to develop ongoing relationship and facilitate participation from Northwoods congregation and volunteers.
• Leaders & Volunteers: Recruit and train Northwoods high-capacity volunteer leaders who will facilitate teams of volunteers to serve with our local missions’ partners. Shape and facilitate a Northwoods Local Impact Missions Leadership Team comprised of the volunteer leaders.
• Northwoods Ministry Serving Opportunities: Assist the various ministry teams of Northwoods with opportunities to help serve locally. Work with other Missions Associates and Directors to help effectively assimilate new volunteers into serving roles.
• Communicate: Assist other Missions Associates in communicating partnership events, needs, and opportunities.

Ministry and Leadership Development

• Partnership Development: Assist Missions Pastor in cultivating relationship through effective communication with ministry partners.

Missions Ministry

• Weekend Missions Communication: Assist as needed in serving at the Missions Counter on weekends.
• Volunteer Care: Care for the health of team volunteers and help align servants with their giftedness.

Administrative Responsibilities

• Budgets: Assist Missions Pastor in managing budget for Local Impact Missions.
• Development: Develop an annual ministry plan.
• Systems: Maintain accurate database records, ministry calendars, and effective communication methods.
• Meetings: Attend all meetings required of this position with staff and volunteers.
• Leadership: Provide leadership and communication with volunteers serving in local missions.

Commissioned Responsibilities and Expectations

• Commission: At Northwoods, commissioned staff are spiritually ready to minister to the congregation and community on a personal level. 
• Care Responsibilities: The expression of care may include but not be limited to: Prayer, teaching, encouragement, shepherding, equipping, personal ministry, and visitation.
• Expectations: To be a spiritual leader in our community who contributes to the spiritual growth and formation of the people he/she leads and influences publicly and privately.

Interaction with Others

This person will work closely with the Missions Pastor and other Missions Associates.

Desired Skills, Abilities, and Characteristics

This individual should have high people skills, the ability to build teams, cast vision, and train individuals.  Additionally, this individual should be competent in a variety of basic computer software and skills.

Beneficial Spiritual Gifts

Leadership, Administration, Shepherding

Education and Experience Required

College Degree, experience working with volunteers is helpful.

Pay and Benefits Information

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