Youth and Community Pastor

The purpose of the role is to grow the youth ministry of the church and develop community-wide relationships with schools, HE & FE organisations, and agencies across the city. This role reports to the associate vicar, and Saint Mary’s offers additional pastoral support as needed within this ministry role.

YOUTH:

• Saints Youth (11-18 year olds) currently provides a weekly Youth Club for local young people, Youth Alpha, and sessions on Sundays for older and younger youth. This role would seek to grow the ministry and develop community relationships/partnerships across the city.
• In collaboration with the team, develop and hold a vision for reaching and discipling young people in our city.
• Build and maintain a strong volunteer team who understand the vision for the youth team and the wider church, who can confidently deliver the youth programme.
• Maintain and develop stakeholder relationships both locally and nationally.
• Develop and coordinate the growth of youth discipleship pathways.
• Develop and grow the mission and outreach ministry of the youth team (i.e. Youth Club, Youth Alpha, socials, etc.).
• Build relationships with schools, HE and FE organisations locally.
• Annually coordinate and pastor the young people while attending Focus, recruiting team, guardians, transport, and pastoral care, etc.
• Partner with other churches, building links and relational connections and missional collaboration.

WIDER CHURCH INVOLVEMENT:

• Supporting other ministries at events or courses throughout the year - this may fall outside of regular working hours. Healthy management of time will be this role holder's responsibility as well as supported by their line manager.
• Will play an active role in other areas of the church, offering practical and administrative support where needed (i.e. Alpha).
• Ensuring the vision for youth feeds into the wider vision for the Renewal of the City.
• Contribute to the overall running of Sundays as part of the wider Sundays staff team.
• This list is not exhaustive, and the role will acquire other responsibilities as necessary.

WHO ARE YOU?

• Anyone who joins our team is joining the Saint Mary’s staff family, and therefore character and values hold equal importance to the practical skills required for the role. This role will report to the Ops Manager and Church Leader.
• Passion for seeing the renewal of young people in our city.
• Strategic mindset and ability to set vision.
• Confident public speaker.
• Polite, confident, and servant-hearted.
• Experience leading a team and line management of individuals.
• Strong understanding and demonstrable commitment to safeguarding.
• Experience managing a budget.
• Experience working with youth.
• Understanding of safeguarding policy, procedure, and practice.
• Self-motivated and with experience of self-management.
• High level of confidentiality.
• The role requires a clear DBS check - this position falls under the new Positions of Trust legislation.
• We have identified this post as being one to which a Genuine Occupational Requirement applies, and this post is conditional on a successful applicant being a practising Christian.
• Practical experience in working in a church.
• Familiarity with ChurchSuite.

We have a fast-paced working environment where we strive for excellence in everything we do. Our ethos is to be encouraging, grateful, gracious, and professional, and we endeavour to thread this through every part of the organisation and every interaction. It is an exciting and challenging place to work and is full of variety. We aim for a ‘can do’ environment where innovation and creativity are encouraged alongside serving others. Staff community is warm and engaging with lifelong relationships being built.

In the last 6 years, Saint Mary’s has grown to around 650 people regularly attending our Sunday gatherings, across 4 services on a Sunday. The average age of our congregation is 27, although we are and we celebrate being a multi-generational church that is growing in its diversity. Our congregation includes around 75 children and young people.

We are deeply committed to the way of Jesus and being formed by his life as we practise being with him, becoming like him, and doing what he did. We have a passion to raise and develop leaders who are committed to the Good News of Jesus to lead in church and in all spheres of society.

Our values as a community and a staff team are Family, Fearless & Fun, and we aim for all of our activities and processes to be driven by those values.