Students Program Director

Sun Valley Community Church; United States; On-site; USD 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Sun Valley Community Church seeks a Students Program Director to lead Preteen, Jr High, and High School ministry across weekend and midweek environments. The role collaborates with SVCC leadership to create vision and implement plans that reflect SVCC culture and priorities, equipping campuses, teams, and parents.

The position focuses on content development, campus coaching, and ensuring age-appropriate environments, while aligning with SVCS mission and values across online and live contexts.

Qualifications

• Education and training that equips for vocational ministry in a large ministry context.
• Three years of experience in administration, curriculum development, and/or student ministry programming.
• Strategic in nature; able to drive projects and strategies to completion.
• Self-motivated and self-directed, requiring minimal supervision.
• Effective team-building skills and ability to motivate others.
• Strong communication with parents, students, volunteers, and staff.
• Supports SV Students mission, vision, and values.

Responsibilities

• Oversee Preteen, Jr High, and High School programming for midweek and weekend services across environments.
• Develop a strategic implementation plan with SVCC culture, scope, and language.
• Oversee planning, content creation, and programming for weekend, midweek, online, and special events.
• Provide leadership and coaching to campus staff for weekly ministry execution.
• Give regular feedback to campuses on program content and execution.
• Update and maintain scope and sequence documents for Student Ministries content.
• Support campuses during summer camp and campus launches related to Student Ministries.

Skills

Leadership

Strategic thinking

Team building

Communication

Problem solving

Self-motivation

Education

Vocational ministry education for a large context

Job description

POSITION SUMMARY

The Students Program Director works collaboratively with Sun Valley Community Church (SVCC) leadership to develop vision for weekend, midweek, online, and special event content for Student Ministries. This position creates a strategic implementation plan and provides leadership for Student Ministries priorities and standards to staff—including direct oversight of Preteen, Jr. High, and High School programming for both midweek and weekend environments—while contributing to equipping campuses, team members, ministry teams, and parents. In all actions, reflects the Sun Valley Community Church (SVCC) team leadership distinctives.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

1. Oversee and manage Preteen, Jr. High, and High School programming for both midweek and weekend services, ensuring consistent, age-appropriate environments across all student ministry environments, including but not limited to content, look and feel, worship, object lesson supplies, environment needs, cultural implementation.

2. Create a strategic implementation plan which includes developing content based on SVCC’s culture, scope and sequence, and language to create environments where participants will have fun, experience biblical teaching, understand how to apply what they have learned, know who Jesus is, and will be known by peers and team members.

3. Oversee the planning, content creation, and programming elements of weekend, midweek, online, and special events. Create necessary content delivery methods to campuses.

4. Lead, coach, and manage priorities and standards, ensuring campus staff are set up well to execute weekly Preteen, Jr. High, and High School ministry. Provide clear direction for implementation of programs and expected outcomes and coaching to campus staff concerning alignment to the SVCC vision, values, culture, and strategic priorities.

5. Provide regular feedback to help campuses and opportunities to receive feedback on program content and execution across all student age groups.

6. Update and maintain the scope and sequence documents and the planning documents for Student Ministries content.

7. Provide leadership and support to campuses during summer camp and campus launches as it relates to Student Ministries programming and curriculum.
   

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• Education and training that has equipped them for vocational ministry in a large ministry context.

• Demonstrated track record of spiritual maturity and character consistent with biblical requirements for church leadership.

• Three years of experience in administration, curriculum development, and/or student ministry programming.

• Strategic in nature; an innovative thinker with the ability to drive projects and strategies through to completion.

• Self-motivated and self-directed, requiring minimal supervision.

• Effective team-building skills and ability to motivate others.

• Effective problem-solving, creativity, and communication skills (both written and verbal) with parents, students, volunteers, and staff.

• Support the mission, vision, and values of SV Students.

• Agrees and aligns with the mission, vision, leadership distinctives, and doctrinal statement of SVCC.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

Four years’ full-time related experience leading or managing Preteen, Jr High, or High School programming in a multi-site church setting of over 2000 members/attenders.