Parkview Community Church

Children’s Pastor

Job Summary

Description

The Children’s Pastor oversees all aspects of weekly children’s programming (birth-5th grade) and special events. This role seeks to create a culture where kids love church, leaders love serving, and families feel supported.

Parkview Community Church is a welcoming and growing church in Glen Ellyn, Illinois, committed to leading people into a relationship with Jesus and helping them grow through community, care, and service. Parkview strives to create meaningful opportunities for people to take next steps in faith, build lasting relationships, and serve others. The church is shaped by values such as Relationship over Religion, Grace over Guilt, Compassion over Complacency, Unity over Uniformity, and Curiosity over Certainty. Parkview’s also has four distinctives that shape its ministry and community life. These are about values, practices, and perspectives that inform their approach to ministry. They include: men and women serving at all levels of leadership, a commitment to justice, financial integrity, and a teachin-team approach.

Responsibilities

Lead a Thriving Sunday Children’s Ministry

  • Ensure Sunday morning children’s environments are prepared, engaging, and spiritually impactful for Parkview children
  • Oversee Sunday Elementary programming, ensuring volunteers are trained, scheduled, and equipped to run excellent ministry environments
  • Foster a culture of high standards of safety and cleanliness among children’s programming.
  • Guide the selection and implementation of children’s curriculum that supports children’s spiritual development
  • Manage the early childhood coordinator to ensure quality children’s programming across the ministry
  • Evaluate and continually improve ministry environments, systems, and physical spaces to ensure they are effective, engaging, and scalable
  • Build and Develop Strong Volunteer Teams
  • Create clear pathways and effective systems for recruiting, onboarding, and training volunteers
  • Create effective structures to develop and coach volunteer leader
  • Care for volunteers and foster a culture of celebration
  • Strengthen Families and Church-Wide Ministry
  • Develop programming and special events beyond Sunday to build community and foster spiritual development among our kids.
  • Plan and execute events that support the entire family system.
  • Provide occasional teaching and leadership support to Parkview Kids Camp
  • Support the broader mission and ministry of Parkview Church as needed.

Desired Skills

  • Care: Experience supporting and caring for young children, parents, and volunteers
  • Building Effective Teams: Able to train staff well, creates strong morale, defines success for the whole, fosters open dialogue, creates a feeling of belonging
  • Interpersonal Skills: Able to communicate and build relationships with children, staff, and parents, and resolve conflicts that arise
  • Physical requirements: Ability to lift a child or infant (up to 25 lbs.) repeatedly and stand for extended periods of time
  • Child Development Knowledge: Understand the developmental needs of young children
  • Organized: Ability to keep track of sensitive information and paperwork regarding registrants and volunteers
  • Background Check: Pass all Parkview criminal background and reference checks

INCLUSION

Moderate (Big Tent)

Salary

$50,000-$70,000

Benefits

  • Pastoral housing allowance
  • Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage
  • Cell phone reimbursement
  • Life insurance/short-term and long-term disability
  • Health and wellness benefit
  • Matching retirement contributions
  • Generous vacation policy, including the week after Christmas and the week of 4th of July
  • Year-end discretionary bonus

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