Employment at Northwoods Church
Thank you for your interest in employment opportunities at Northwoods Community Church. Please take a few minutes to review the current job openings, then complete the application form below.
Contact jobs@northwoods.church with any questions.
Current Openings
Family Ministries Volunteer Associate
Part-Time
Position Description
The Family Ministries Volunteer Associate is responsible for planning, coordinating, and executing various Volunteer events and on boarding. This role involves creating a welcoming and engaging environment for Volunteers in Family Ministries facilitating training, communication with volunteers, and organizing recruiting along with celebrating the volunteers.
Primary Duties and Responsibilities
Volunteer Assimilation
- Volunteer Processing: Implement processes and procedures to effectively assimilate volunteers into Family Ministries. This effort would include recruitment concepts (including seasonal pushes), applications, interviews, reference checks, national background checks, and orientation.
- Volunteer Recruitment: Creating and implementing a volunteer campaign twice a year to recruit volunteers to serve in Family Ministries.
- Volunteer Training: Quarterly volunteer trainings for new and vetted volunteers.
- Resource Management: Manage the budget allocated for volunteer resources and events, including purchasing necessary supplies, materials, and resources within the approved budgetary limits.
- Special Events: Create and implement volunteer celebration throughout the year.
General Responsibilities
- Meetings: Attend weekly Discoveryland staff meetings. Assist with monthly team meetings scheduled around weekend service times.
- Staff Meetings: Attend staff meetings for global, visionary, and organizational matters.
Interaction with others
- Volunteer Communication: Connect with currents volunteers through social media, email, and mail.
- Relationship Building: Foster positive relationships with children, parents, volunteers, and staff members, creating a warm and inclusive atmosphere.
- Able to work well with other Northwoods staff, adult volunteers, and parents.
Desired Skills and Abilities
Administration, organizational skills, computer knowledge, proofreading skills, event planning, and telephone etiquette, spiritual, emotional, and physical health.
Beneficial Spiritual Gifts should include leadership, administration, wisdom, and teaching.
Educational and Experience Required
High school diploma, college, or 2 years of experience in Children's Ministry preferred.
Associate Pastor of Freedom Ministries
Full-Time
Position Description
The Associate Pastor is responsible for the development, implementation, leadership, and management of Northwoods Freedom Ministries. Additionally, they support prayer ministries and contribute to the Setting Captives Free class and deliverance ministry.
Primary Duties and Responsibilities
Leadership
- Freedom Ministry: Examine and gain an understanding of the culture, vision, and goals of Northwoods for Freedom Ministry.
- Prayer Ministry: Assist the Prayer Pastor in all things related to prayer ministries, to include training, facilitating and recruiting for Altar Prayer, Prayer Room, and Prayer Appointments.
- Meetings: Hold necessary meetings to discuss Freedom content, development, goals, and implementation.
- Involvement: Meet with staff and volunteers to discuss development, implementation, and involvement in Freedom Ministry.
- Recruit: Recruit and develop Freedom Ministries Team of facilitators for implementation of Freedom Ministries. (Paid staff and volunteers.)
Strategic Development and Implementation
- Material Development: Work with Executive Pastor of Adult Ministries & Missions and the Senior Pastor to develop material for Freedom Ministries. Assist with any development of prayer and Setting Captives Free material.
- Develop/Teach: Help develop, implement and teach course materials with staff and church community for Get Free and Freedom Weekend. Assist with prayer and Setting Captives Free training. Support Pastor of Prayer in curriculum development and teaching as needed.
- Training: Help provide Northwoods ministries and church plants needing/requesting prayer training. Train others to teach Freedom Ministries core content.
- Facilitate: Define and facilitate core classes and experiences that would be a part of Freedom Ministries.
- Collaborate: Work with Executive Pastor of Ministries to understand, develop, and implement staff team member's role in Freedom Ministries.
- International: As assigned, develop Freedom Ministries with our international partners.Attend weekly Discoveryland staff meetings. Assist with monthly team meetings scheduled around weekend service times.
Prayer Team
- Support Pastor of Prayer as needed in all aspects of prayer ministry to include get prayer, prophetic prayer appointments, deliverance and other various prayer ministries.
Secondary Duties and Responsibilities
- All-Staff Events: Encouraged to participate in all-staff events (i.e., retreats, special event days, etc.).
All-Church Events: Encouraged to participate in all church events as directed by leadership.
Christmas Production: Serve at Christmas Productions as directed by leadership.
Church Attendance: Be a consistent and contributing attendee of Northwoods weekend services.
Team Meetings: Meet with ministry staff for planning, coordination and development.
One on One: Meet with supervisor at scheduled times.
Systems: Maintain and make use of Northwoods database and other systems as needed.
Strategic Development and Implementation
- Material Development: Work with Executive Pastor of Adult Ministries & Missions and the Senior Pastor to develop material for Freedom Ministries. Assist with any development of prayer and Setting Captives Free material.
- Develop/Teach: Help develop, implement and teach course materials with staff and church community for Get Free and Freedom Weekend. Assist with prayer and Setting Captives Free training. Support Pastor of Prayer in curriculum development and teaching as needed.
- Training: Help provide Northwoods ministries and church plants needing/requesting prayer training. Train others to teach Freedom Ministries core content.
- Facilitate: Define and facilitate core classes and experiences that would be a part of Freedom Ministries.
- Collaborate: Work with Executive Pastor of Ministries to understand, develop, and implement staff team member's role in Freedom Ministries.
- International: As assigned, develop Freedom Ministries with our international partners.Attend weekly Discoveryland staff meetings. Assist with monthly team meetings scheduled around weekend service times.
Prayer Team
- Support Pastor of Prayer as needed in all aspects of prayer ministry to include get prayer, prophetic prayer appointments, deliverance and other various prayer ministrie
Desired Skills and Abilities
Administration, organizational skills, computer knowledge, proofreading skills, event planning, and telephone etiquette, spiritual, emotional, and physical health.
Beneficial Spiritual Gifts should include leadership, administration, wisdom, and teaching.
Educational and Experience Required
High school diploma, college, or 2 years of experience in Children's Ministry preferred.
Pay and Benefits Information
Children's Upper Elementary Associate
Part-Time
Position Description
The Family Ministries Volunteer Associate is responsible for planning, coordinating, and executing various Volunteer events and on boarding. This role involves creating a welcoming and engaging environment for Volunteers in Family Ministries facilitating training, communication with volunteers, and organizing recruiting along with celebrating the volunteers.
Primary Duties and Responsibilities
Volunteer Assimilation
- Volunteer Processing: Implement processes and procedures to effectively assimilate volunteers into Family Ministries. This effort would include recruitment concepts (including seasonal pushes), applications, interviews, reference checks, national background checks, and orientation.
- Volunteer Recruitment: Creating and implementing a volunteer campaign twice a year to recruit volunteers to serve in Family Ministries.
- Volunteer Training: Quarterly volunteer trainings for new and vetted volunteers.
- Resource Management: Manage the budget allocated for volunteer resources and events, including purchasing necessary supplies, materials, and resources within the approved budgetary limits.
- Special Events: Create and implement volunteer celebration throughout the year.
General Responsibilities
- Meetings: Attend weekly Discoveryland staff meetings. Assist with monthly team meetings scheduled around weekend service times.
- Staff Meetings: Attend staff meetings for global, visionary, and organizational matters.
Interaction with others
- Volunteer Communication: Connect with currents volunteers through social media, email, and mail.
- Relationship Building: Foster positive relationships with children, parents, volunteers, and staff members, creating a warm and inclusive atmosphere.
- Able to work well with other Northwoods staff, adult volunteers, and parents.
Desired Skills and Abilities
Administration, organizational skills, computer knowledge, proofreading skills, event planning, and telephone etiquette, spiritual, emotional, and physical health.
Beneficial Spiritual Gifts should include leadership, administration, wisdom, and teaching.
Educational and Experience Required
High school diploma, college, or 2 years of experience in Children's Ministry preferred.