Director of Women's Discipleship & Groups

Position Summary

The Director/Minister of Women’s Discipleship is responsible to lead, develop, and grow healthy women’s groups. They should be a leader of leaders. They are responsible to oversee all Women’s Ministry initiatives and events. They are relational Discipleship Culture carriers. This leader will lead and invest in their volunteer leadership teams making biblical disciples who make and send disciples who love and live like Jesus.

This position reports to the Senior Director of Adult Discipleship.

• To live out the core values and mission of CyLife Church.
• Identify, develop, raise up, and release small group leaders and coaches within our discipleship process.
• Facilitate and support the Connection process by leading people into relational small groups.
• Shepherd the biblical process of discipleship within the small group community through oversight and leading Disciple
  
  Shift1 (DS1), Small Group Leader and Coach Trainings and leading and maintaining a small group coaching structure.
• Identify people for leadership development to become spiritually healthy small group leaders and coaches.
• Know where people are in the discipleship process and work with small group leaders and coaches to know where their group members are in the process as well.
• Create and develop a relational small group leadership culture that values the following:
  Invitation/recruiting; personal spiritual health; training; coaching; modeling; delegation; equip and empower to do ministry; opportunities to practice; releasing to lead, branch and multiply.
• Ensure all new leaders go through:
  Partnership Classes (before leading); DS1 Training and completion of the Small Group Apprentice Trainning(before leading); SGL Training (each year);
  Coaching of leaders and coaches.
• Utilize and maintain Planning Center and TEAMS applications in the key areas of tracking and monitoring small groups related data and completing workflow assignments each week.
• Develop, manage and review yearly budgets (accountable to monitor monthly spending).
• Submit Expensify report for bank statement, monthly.
• Evaluate Adult small groups’ health in the following areas:
  Baptisms, leadership structure, connections, vision casting, communication, health, and time management.
• Lead the Women’s Ministry at CyLife Church, which includes working with the Lead Pastor on curriculum selection, special events planning and execution, leading volunteer teams, consistent communications, ministry growth development and ensuring alignment with the discipleship ministry and mission at CyLife Church.
• Interview women baptism candidates and share the Gospel.
• Collaborate with the Adult Discipleship Pastor/Director and the Men’s Discipleship Pastor/Dir., as needed.
• Write and select Adult discipleship curriculum for all adult small groups.
• Co‑lead various Adult Discipleship ministry training sessions and Partnership classes.
• Oversee and direct Mother’s Day events.

Education & Experience:

• Must be a fully committed follower of Jesus Christ and a Partner of CyLIfe.
• Must be actively involved in or leading a discipleship small group.
• Received a call from God to full time ministry.
• High school diploma or general education degree (GED) required, related degree preferred.
• Minimum 2 years experience working and/or serving with an evangelical church team.
• Must have at least 1 year of related leadership experience.
• Proficient in the use of Microsoft Office software such as Word, Excel and Outlook.
• Able to quickly learn and adapt to new technology and systems.

We expect the Director of Women’s Discipleship and Groups to model and live out the CyLife Church Core Values as they go about their work, as well as, help to support the staff to live out these Core Values as well.