Youth Worship Leader

YOUTH WORSHIP LEADER

Overview/

Purpose:

The role of the Youth Worship Leader is to oversee and lead the worship ministry of Heights Youth, over multiple locations, by helping people encounter Jesus, engage in their faith with Jesus, and empower them to serve Jesus. This will require a firm grasp of the beliefs, values and strategy of Heights Church. This position will be under the direction and leadership of the Worship Pastor.

The Youth Worship Leader will be responsible for the following:

1) Modeling Biblical Priorities

Responsible for upholding Biblical priorities and core values of Heights Church. The Youth Worship Leader should represent a growing personal relationship with Christ. They will strive to fulfill his or her purpose in life and ministry while demonstrating integrity in words, relationships, and actions.

• A passion for God
• Responsible for upholding biblical priorities and core values of Heights Church
• Models and upholds Heights Staff Family Values (Humility, Heart, Honest, Helpful, Health, Hardworking and Hospitable)
• A servants heart
• Models a strong and growing relationship with Christ
• Participating in a Heights life group on a regular basis
• Displays Christian leadership by using foundational spiritual qualities
• Displays ministry skills, such as the ability to effectively communicate Scripture, managing or coaching others, motivating others and graciously correctly others when necessary
• Displays working knowledge of stewardship and demonstrates fiscal responsibility

2) Leadership of Serve Team Members

Success in this role will be best accomplished by prioritizing an investment in ministry leaders. Responsible for creating an environment that recruits, develops, and empowers worship ministry leaders:

• Communicate a clear vision and wins for staff and serve teams on a regular basis given from the Next Gen Pastor, Worship Director and/or Production Director
• Create an atmosphere that will capture that heart and energy of the youth
• Engage the youth by creating an exciting and uplifting worship experience
• Build, recruit and equip others to play instruments, sing and lead worship as a part of the youth worship team
• Oversee systems for scheduling, training, and care of serve team members
• Utilize Planning Center for service flow to produce and communicate all aspects of all youth services and events (pre-service team huddle, service prep, execution of service)
• Provide staff and serve teams with current worship ministry best practices given from the Worship Director/Pastor
• Create and continuously improve follow-up methods to ensure that youth and adult serve teams are plugged in to Heights Church

3) Team Player for Youth Worship

Responsible for creating worship engaging experiences and life-changing environments for youth:

• Attend and actively participate in weekly Youth team meetings over multiple locations
• Function as a team member who care for the team as a whole and seeks to help where/when needed
• Attend weekly office days with the worship ministry for team unity and relationship building
• Attend meetings and collaborate with ministry leads to plan, schedule, budget and carry out the vision of the worship ministry over multiple locations
• Set-Up/Tear-Down
  • Oversee any stage setup and teardown required for Youth services/events

QUALIFICATIONS, SKILLS & REQUIREMENTS

• Highly relational (caring and personable on an individual level)
• Effective communication skills with team members (interpersonal and group)
• Theologically and doctrinally aligned with Heights Church on important matters
• Demonstrates evidence of a Christ-like attitude in words and actions, with humility
• Demonstrates a heart and passion for worship ministry to youth
• Self-starter - able to work independently in a disciplined manner
• Demonstrated innovative and creative approach to ministry
• Administrative and organizational skills with attention to detail
• Ability to manage multiple projects and prioritize effectively
• Must be versatile and collaborative team player with the ability to work independently
• Demonstrated ability to project a professional Heights image through in-person, video, email, and phone interaction
• Proven ability to use good judgement and ability to maintain confidentiality
• Perform other duties as assigned by supervisor

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit; use hands to finger; and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; reach with hands and arms; and stoop, kneel, or crouch. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, and color vision.

WORK ENVIRONMENT:

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an…