Employment at Northwoods Church
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Current Openings
Position Description
The Missions Local Associate will primarily be responsible for assisting the Missions Associate Pastor in 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 Local Associate will cross-train to assist with Global Reach Missions and assist the Missions Associate Pastor as needed.
Primary Duties and Responsibilities
Local Impact Ministry
- Partnership Development: Assist the Missions Associate Pastor by engaging with local missions’ partners to develop ongoing relationships and facilitate participation from Northwoods congregation and volunteers.
- Leaders & Volunteers: Assist the Missions Associate Pastor with recruitment and training of Northwoods high-capacity volunteer leaders who will facilitate teams of volunteers to serve with our local missions’ partners. Help with shaping and facilitating a Northwoods Local Impact Missions Leadership Team comprised of volunteer leaders.
- Northwoods Ministry Serving Opportunities: Assist the various ministry teams of Northwoods with opportunities to help serve locally. Work with other Missions Associates 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 the Missions Associate 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 Associate Pastor in managing budget for Local Impact Missions.
- Development: Help the Missions Associate Pastor 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, Missions Associate Pastor and 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
Position Description
The Children’s Early Childhood Associate will provide key leadership over Early Childhood (2 & 3 yr. olds) ministry of Discoveryland. This position requires oversight of the early childhood curriculum and resources. It also includes recruiting, onboarding, training, and leading volunteers for this area. This position will support the Children’s Pastor with both short term and long-term projects and assist in oversight of Discoveryland during weekend services.
Primary Duties and Responsibilities
Volunteer Leadership
- Recruiting: Seeking out and contacting potential ministry volunteers
- Onboarding & Orientation: Following the processes and procedures to bring people onto the team, placing them on the schedule, and training them on how to serve in a room.
- Coaching & Training: Provide ministry coaching and accountability with early childhood volunteer teams.
- Care: Provide care and encouragement for each volunteer team under your leadership.
- Curriculum: Ensure all early childhood rooms are adequately resourced to carry out the weekly lesson.
- Communication: Develop and maintain avenues of communication with volunteers, families, Discoveryland teammates, and church staff
- Environment: Maintain and upgrade rooms to ensure a safe and fun place for children and volunteers.
- Meetings: Attend Discoveryland staff meetings.
- Staff Meetings: Attend staff meetings for global, visionary, and organizational matters.
- Church Membership: If not already a member, take the 4 Steps classes and complete church membership.
Secondary Responsibilities
Department Support
- Outreach and Ministry events: Support the Discoveryland Team with ideas, communication and resources for outreach and ministry events
- Teamwork: Assist the Discoveryland Team in various projects as needed to build teamwork.
- Oversee: Assist with oversight of Discoveryland during our regular service times.
- Budget: Assist the Discoveryland Children’s Pastor with the preparation of the annual budget.
- Other duties as assigned: There may be times when the Children’s Pastor or church leadership will ask your help for programs or events outside of your direct responsibilities.
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
Able to work well with other Northwoods’ staff, adult volunteers, parents, and children. Frequent connection with co-workers and the Children’s Pastor for the purpose of care giving, truth telling, listening, and transparency is expected.
Desired Skills, Abilities, and Characteristics
Administration, computer, and Microsoft Office knowledge, written, verbal, and interpersonal skills, love for God and volunteers, desire to see others succeed, self-educator, demonstrate initiative, innovative.
Beneficial Spiritual Gifts
Leadership, Administration, Shepherding, and Wisdom
Education and Experience Required
College degree or 2 years’ experience in Children’s Ministry
Pay and Benefits Information
Part-Time
Position Description
The Family Ministries Volunteer Associate is responsible for planning, coordinating, and executing various Volunteer events and on boarding. This role involves creating a welcoming and engaging environment for Volunteers in Family Ministries facilitating training, communication with volunteers, and organizing recruiting along with celebrating the volunteers.
Primary Duties and Responsibilities
Volunteer Assimilation
- Volunteer Processing: Implement processes and procedures to effectively assimilate volunteers into Family Ministries. This effort would include recruitment concepts (including seasonal pushes), applications, interviews, reference checks, national background checks, and orientation.
- Volunteer Recruitment: Creating and implementing a volunteer campaign twice a year to recruit volunteers to serve in Family Ministries.
- Volunteer Training: Quarterly volunteer trainings for new and vetted volunteers.
- Resource Management: Manage the budget allocated for volunteer resources and events, including purchasing necessary supplies, materials, and resources within the approved budgetary limits.
- Special Events: Create and implement volunteer celebration throughout the year.
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
- Volunteer Communication: Connect with currents volunteers through social media, email, and mail.
- 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.
Desired Skills and Abilities
- Administration, organizational skills, computer knowledge, proofreading skills, event planning, and telephone etiquette, spiritual, emotional, and physical health.
- Beneficial Spiritual Gifts should include 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
Part-Time
Position Description
The Executive Assistant to Family Ministries provides support to Family Ministries and Student Life at Northwoods. This position is responsible for three major aspects: Family Ministry Support, Director Support, and Executive Administrative Support.
Primary Duties and Responsibilities
Director Support
- Professional Expectations: As the Executive Assistant, the expectation is high to represent the organization with high standards in appearance, attitude, and competency.
- Departmental Meetings: Attend weekly and monthly staff meetings encompassing Family Ministries.
- Staff Meetings: Attend staff meetings for global, visionary, and organizational matters.
- Event Involvement: As time allows and when needed/appropriate participate in student and/or family ministry events.
Executive Administrative Support
- Communication: Assist with communication of events for Student and Family Ministries. When needed, communicate on behalf of the Executive Pastor of Family Ministry.
- Support: Work closely with the Executive Pastor of Family Ministry to ensure adequate coordination and communication of tasks (i.e., photocopying, mailings, phone calling, resource ordering, etc.).
- Phone messages/emails: Respond to phone messages and emails as needed for the Executive Pastor of Family Ministry, staff team, and Northwoods as needed.
- Preparation: Assist the Executive Pastor of Family Ministry in preparing documents for team meetings and record minutes.
- Database: Oversee all database responsibilities, including data entry, for Student Ministries for families associated with Quest and Converge. This will include working with the Family Ministries Volunteer Associate regarding volunteer records and ministry readiness. This role will oversee the database to ensure accurate records, generating MP reports, as well as managing medical release forms for all student participants.
- Expense Reports: Assist the Student Life Team in processing monies collected for events and resources, as well as manage and complete the monthly expense reports.
- Budget: Maintain the Student Ministries budget spreadsheets.
- Administrative Assistant Team: Attend scheduled meetings with other Admin. Assistants. Fulfill scheduled shifts to be the on-call Admin. Assistant answering phones that come into the church.
- Resources: As part of the Student Life Team, as necessary, purchase items around specific events and teaching topics.
- Special Events: Ensure that all Student Ministry events are included in programs and church calendar/website, by preparing announcements and securing the facility for all events.
- Reports: Providing MP reports as needed.
- Proofread: Proof documents for accuracy and clarity.
- Calendar Day: With the Executive Pastor of Family Ministry, prepare for and participate in the church-wide calendar day event.
Student Ministry Café Coordinator
- This is a unique aspect of this position.
- Oversee and operate the Student Center Café. This includes menu planning, shopping for/ordering supplies, food prep., and building/ equipping volunteers. Responsibilities include tracking and managing the café budget. This also includes purchasing items for and helping to set up the Quest Café.
- This would require being at Converge on Wednesday evenings. Once the café closes, and things are cleaned and money counted, you would be able to leave. This is usually around 7:15/7:30.
Interaction with Others
The Executive Assistant will work closely with the Student Ministry staff. In addition, effective interaction and leadership will be needed with volunteers, parents of students, and other Administrative Assistants. Furthermore, the Executive Assistant must demonstrate a heart for ministry (serving others) and reflect a lifestyle consistent with the Northwoods Community Church staff handbook.
Desired Skills, Abilities, and Characteristics
- Administration, organizational skills, computer knowledge including Microsoft Office and MP Database, proofreading skills, and telephone etiquette.
- Beneficial Spiritual Gifts should include administration, helps, encouragement, creative communication, discernment, and leadership.
- Educational/Experience requires a high school diploma, college, or an administrative background.
Beneficial Spiritual Gifts
- Administration, helps, encouragement
Education and Experience Required
A high school diploma. Having some college education and/or the skills to carry out the position are beneficial. Experience working in a team environment is helpful as well as being able to accomplish tasks individually. Having any food service experience is helpful but not required. We would pay for you to receive your food handling managing license.
Pay and Benefits Information
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