Ministry Pastor (Youth)

Ministry Pastor (Trent Youth)

CLOSING DATE FOR APPLICATIONS:9:00am, Monday 23 June 2025

INTERVIEWS: Expected to take place on Wednesday 02 or Thursday 03 July 2025

Hours: 30 – 37.5 hours per week (0.8-1.0 FTE)

Days: 5 days per week, including Tuesdays and Sundays

Contract: Permanent

Salary:
£30,780 – £32,950 per annum, pro rata based on full-time hours of 37.5 per week. Monthly salary based on 37.50 hours at £31,860 (mid-range) is £2,655 before deductions

Summary / Overview of role:

The post holder will be responsible for pastorally leading and organising Trent Youth events and activities, alongside the Senior Ministry Pastor, and to help lead the Trent Youth Team. You must have a passion for youth ministry, strong leadership skills, and a heart for guiding young people in their faith journey. The ideal candidate will be a gifted communicator and have experience of leading and pastoring both young people and teams.

Key Responsibilities:

Leadership and vision:

• To develop and implement a vision for the youth ministry that aligns with Trent Vineyard’s vision and values.
• Alongside the Senior Ministry Pastor, to help lead the Trent Youth core team.
• To identify, recruit, train and develop members of the Youth team that love Jesus and young people.

Ministry Development:

• Foster a culture of teamwork, commitment, and spiritual growth within the youth ministry.
• To continue to build the youth ministry around team and volunteers.
• To provide practical, administrative and pastoral support to all youth ministry areas.
• To attend, support and lead Trent Youth Sundays and Tuesdays.
• To mobilise and support the Trent Youth volunteer team.
• To take oversight of some volunteers who give time during the week.

Discipleship:

• Build meaningful relationships with young people and the youth team, facilitating their mentorship and discipleship.
• Encourage and equip young people to develop and take on leadership roles within the ministry and the church.
• Lead by example in personal spiritual growth and encourage both the young people and youth team to cultivate their relationship with God through prayer, worship and service.

Management and administration:

• To support the administration and organisation of youth small groups.
• Manage the youth ministry budget and resources effectively.
• Maintain clear and consistent communication with the Senior Ministry Pastor.
• To coordinate Trent Youth residential trips, particularly DTI.
• As a member of the Leadership Team, you will undertake occasional and various responsibilities as the need arises (e.g. speaking engagements, event organisation, ad hoc projects) in accordance with the serving expectations that come with this role.
• Attend and contribute to meetings and events relevant to a member of the Leadership Team and wider Staff Team. (e.g. staff meetings, Leadership Team and Pastoral Group meetings, Leaders’ meetings and regular annual events)

Community Engagement:

• Engage with the young people, their parents and your line manager to understand needs within Trent Youth and the wider church.
• Engage with other youth pastors across the city to build healthy relationships with other churches.
• As a youth pastor within the vineyard movement, build relationships with the DTI team and other vineyard youth pastors.
• Stay relatively current with youth trends, and the challenges of youth culture.

Person Specification:

Skills & Behaviours:

• A love of young people with a passion to make disciples
• Excellent leadership and management skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to establish a rapport with a wide cross section of society
• Proactive and self-motivated
• Discreet, trustworthy and able to maintain confidentiality in handling sensitive matters
• Strong decision-making ability with the initiative to seek solutions and implement new ways of working
• Teachable and open to feedback
• Flexible attitude and ability to adapt to changing circumstances
• Ability to work well under pressure and meet deadlines while maintaining healthy boundaries
• Ability to engage and inspire young people, the team, and the wider church
• Able to plan and organise projects and events and facilitate meetings
• Be able to handle your own and other people\’s emotions well
• Work well as part of a team with the ability to delegate and work through others
• A personal walk with Jesus underpinning a lifestyle of integrity
• A compassionate heart and ‘can do’ attitude
• Understand and model biblical values of leadership

Experience:

• Managing a team, preferably within a church setting
• A strong understanding of the principles of working with and raising up leaders from diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds – where possible, the candidate will have life and work experience with and around a range of culturalbackgrounds
• Up to date understanding of safeguarding proceduresand GDPR requirements
• Some working knowledge of budgets and budgetary control
• Pioneering projects and initiatives involving substantial resources and large numbers of people
• Galvanizingpeople around new projects and ideas

Qualifications

• Theology qualification (desired)
• Computer literate in Microsoft Applications, internet, databases

Other requirements:

• Loyal to the Senior Pastor, Senior Leadership Team, Trent Vineyard and the Vineyard Churches movement
• Committed to and demonstrate knowledge of the vision, values, beliefs and ethos of Trent Vineyard
• Attend Trent Vineyard as an active member of church
• Willing to submit a DBS Check
• Able to work Sundays
• Willing to work some evenings and weekends to facilitate ministry related events
• Be a practicing Christian*

Reporting Relationships:

You report to: Senior Ministry Pastor (Trent Youth)

Reporting to you: Trent Youth Ministry Staff, Trent Youth volunteers

Working Benefits:

· 28 days annual leave pro rata including statutory bank holidays

· Additional leave over Christmas

· Annual staff day and team events

· Enhanced sick pay, pension contributions and family leave pay

· Group Life, Income and Critical Illness cover

· Cycle to work scheme

· Coffee Shop discount card

· Free annual eye tests

· Access to Employee Assist Program

· Long Service Award (when qualifying period is reached)

*Occupational Requirement

This role has an Occupational Requirement to be a Christian, as permitted under Schedule 9, Part 1, of the Equality Act 2010

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