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Responsibilities:

Sundays

The biggest responsibility of the Director of Children鈥檚 Ministry is executing our regular Sunday program for children age 0 through 5th grade. The components of the Sunday program are as follows:

鈥� Nursery 鈥� 8:45 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. during the program year; 9:45 a.m. 鈥� 11:30 a.m. during the summer. Occasional pop-up for special events / feast days. For crawling babies through 3 year olds.

鈥� Formation Hour 鈥�10:00 a.m. 鈥� 11:00 a.m. during the program year for pre-K kids through 鈥� 5th graders, broken down into four classes: Godly Play 1 (4s 鈥� Pre-K); Godly Play 2 (Kinder 鈥� 1st grade); Wayfinders (2nd 鈥� 3rd grade); and Bridge (4th 鈥� 5th graders).

鈥� Children鈥檚 Chapel 鈥� Offered at the 9 a.m. service (and also at 10 a.m. during the summer) for all children. Children leave after the Gospel lesson and are welcomed back during the Creed (9 a.m.) or during the Peace (10:00 a.m. summer).

Nursery – The Director is responsible to ensure Nursery is staffed adequate to demands at appointed times. The Director is the supervisor for Nursery staff, both paid and volunteer and they will build in regular check-ins to those supervisory relationships. If the Director has performance concerns about a Nursery employee or volunteer, they will bring those concerns to first to the Senior Director of Christian Formation, and then to the Rector.

Formation Hour 鈥� The Director is responsible for recruiting, scheduling, training, resourcing, and administering all children鈥檚 formation hour programs, under the direction of the SDCF and in alignment with St. Mark鈥檚 vision. It is typically the case that the Director would lead either Wayfinders or the Bridge themselves, while managing volunteers to lead the other rooms, but this is also negotiable. Volunteer management is of premium importance here.

Children鈥檚 Chapel 鈥� The Director leads Children鈥檚 Chapel at 9 a.m. service, and is responsible for creating or preparing the content of that time (Children鈥檚 homily, singing, prayers). They will recruit necessary volunteers for this as well.

Special 9 a.m. Service Responsibilities 鈥� The Director is responsible for doing some special preparation for the 9 a.m. service each week, including arriving early enough to set up the Prayers of the People board, to greet the Ushers (鈥淔amily of the Day鈥�), and to meet (and train) our Jr. Acolytes. (*The Director only helps with the 9 a.m. acolytes, not the 11:15 ones.)

Seasonal Activities 鈥� The Director coordinates and executes pop-up family and children鈥檚 ministry programs appropriate to changing liturgical seasons, such as Advent wreath-decorating, Christmas pageant, Easter Egg Hunt, etc.

Weekdays

Day School Chapel 鈥� Plan and lead all school chapel services on Wednesday mornings for St. Mark鈥檚 Episcopal Day School in coordination with the Rector. Maintain a positive working relationship with Day School leadership and be a visible presence with school families.

Day School Godly Play 鈥� Teach one session of Godly Play per week to Pre-K students at St. Mark鈥檚 Episcopal Day School.

VBS – Plan and execute a one-week VBS each summer.

Relational work 鈥� Especially in the first 6-12 months of the role, the Director is expected to spend time during the week getting to know and building relational capital with parents and families of the St. Mark鈥檚 community. This is an invaluable but hard to measure part of the job that not only helps give the Director a good read on what the needs and expectations of our community are, but also sows seeds for cultivating a big and ever-evolving, constantly-rotating team of volunteers.