CCNCN Hiring for Religious Education Teacher Job at San Ramon, CA Full Time

PRINCIPAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

Collaborate with lay leaders and staff to articulate a mission and identity for family ministry and religious education programs for children and youth, connecting to the needs of the congregation’s children, youth, and families.

Plan, organize, implement, and evaluate the Children’s Religious Education programs of the church, using internal and external resources,

Recruit, train, support, collaborate with, and manage Religious Education Volunteers.

Develop and implement family ministry, supporting parents in their roles as their children’s primary religious educators.

Working collaboratively with worship staff and lay worship associates, develop and implement multigenerational worship for Sunday worship services’ Time for All Ages, periodic full multigenerational Sunday worship services, and other circumstances as needed.

Support, collaborate with, and supervise Religious Education staff.

CORE COMPETENCIES

Spiritual Maturity: Shows strong personal depth and spiritual grounding; demonstrates integrity in word and deed; responds with a constancy of purpose; is seen by others as trustworthy and authentic; nurtures a rich spiritual life; seeks the wisdom and guidance of appropriate mentors; is able to articulate a clear and consistent theology.

Spiritual Formation: Demonstrates an understanding of spiritual formation as a journey or process; invites children and youth into reflection about their process of spiritual formation; teaches a variety of spiritual practices to lead children and youth in their spiritual development; creates classroom and multigenerational environments that foster spiritual deepening.

Interpersonal Skills: Establishes good working relationships with all others who are relevant to the completion of work; works well with people at all levels of the congregation; builds appropriate rapport; considers the impact of their actions on others; uses diplomacy and tact; is approachable; avoids communication triangles.

Supervising Work: Is good at establishing clear expectations and setting clear direction; sets stretching objectives; distributes the workload appropriately; provides regular and ongoing feedback about performance; proactively deals with substandard performance; engages disciplinary processes in a timely manner.

Leadership Development: Encourages others to discover and engage their giftedness and skills in service to the larger community; calls out the best in others; supports others in the development of their skills and abilities; actively seeks to engage others more directly in the leadership life of the congregation; thinks strategically about the continual need for a next generation of leaders and works to build the leadership base.

Team Building: Weaves new people into teams; leads the team successfully through difficulties and challenges, including conflict, and power differences within the team; creates strong morale and spirit in their team; shares wins and successes; defines success in terms of the whole team; creates feeling of belonging and pride in the team.

Volunteer Management: Provides direction, gains commitment, facilitates change and achieves results through the efficient, creative and responsible deployment of volunteers; engages people in their areas of giftedness and passion.

Change Management: Seeks organizational innovation with a purpose; leads others into innovative activity; creates a prudent risk-taking environment; embraces life-long learning for oneself and for others; accepts the mistakes of others and turns them into learning opportunities; identifies alternatives to status quo and advocates system changes when barriers to change are identified.

Process Management: Good at figuring out the processes necessary to get things done; knows how to organize people and activities; understands how to separate and combine tasks into efficient work flow; knows what to measure and how to measure it; can see opportunities for synergy and integration; can simplify complex processes and create policy for repetitive processes.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $15.00 – $30.39 per hour

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Health insurance

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Monday to Friday

Work Location: One location