Children’s Ministry Nursery & Preschool Lead, Federal Way (Full-Time)
The Nursery & Preschool Lead provides leadership and administrative assistance to the Christian Faith Children’s Nursery & Preschool Department to ensure effectiveness and efficiency of the overall operations at the Federal Way campus.
Experience and Knowledge Required
- Experience in problem solving.
- Ability to supervise multiple projects effectively.
- Excellent verbal and interpersonal skills.
- A love and calling toward ministry to children and families.
- Ability to learn and use CCB software efficiently.
- Experience and high proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite to include Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
- Exceptional organizational skills with a particular emphasis on follow-through and attention to detail.
- Ability to work independently with a high degree of professionalism, discretion and confidentiality.
- Must be a strong communicator with excellent written, verbal and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to create, analyze and maintain project budgets.
Essential Functions and Responsibilities
- Receive direction from Department Head and communicate to Christian Faith staff and volunteers to follow up on completion of work.
- Oversee all operations of Nursery & Preschool Ministry at the Federal Way campus, ensuring the success of the weekend experience.
- Directly oversee security and communication with Dream Team.
- Responsible for weekend experience Birth to 4 years old age groups.
- Respond to DH with emergencies/urgent issues as they arise.
- Respond to emails and phone call within 24 -hour time frame.
- Create monitoring systems to detect problems as early as possible and initiate interventions to solve the problems.
- Recruit and work with dream team to build the Federal Way Nursery & Preschool Team and work with Christian Faith staff to ensure proper training of volunteers.
- Participate in annual budget preparation to ensure adequate funds for operation of Nursery & Preschool Department.
- Answer general phone calls in reference to Nursery & Preschool Ministry inquiries and direct all incoming calls correctly to CF staff members.
- Coordinate with departments and oversee special events through completion.
- Purchase equipment and supplies for Federal Way Nursery & Preschool Ministry.
- Maintain a strong, organized filing system which requires a thorough knowledge of all ongoing projects and activities within the Nursery & Preschool Ministry.
- Provide general office support including opening and distributing mail as well as faxing, copying and ordering office supplies.
- Create, review and update yearly and special project budgets within the teams.
- Generate reports and graphs as needed.
- Coordinate and oversee Nursery & Preschool Ministry childcare for special events.
- Weekly observe adult-to-child ratios campus-wide to ensure child safety, abide by state laws, and monitor growth for additional rooms that may be needed.
- Participate in weekly department meetings to discuss enhancing the weekend experience and upcoming events.
- Running miscellaneous errands for Nursery & Preschool Ministries and the Children’s Ministry as a whole.
Other Duties and Responsibilities
- Love for God
- Love for People
- Work Ethic that is excellent, protective and frugal with time and money
- Attitude of a servant, enjoyable to be with and devoted to the call of God and the Church
- Other Ministry Duties as assigned
Attributes
- Christ-like, servant attitude
- Devoted to the call of God and the vision of Christian Faith
- Operates with a spirit of excellence
- Fun/enjoyable
- Loyal
- Organized and structured
Extent of Public Contact
- Daily contact with members of the CF Nursery & Preschool team
- CF Pastors and staff members
- Very visible role with families of Christian Faith Children’s Ministry.