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 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.

• 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.

• 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

• 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

• 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.