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Employment Opportunities at UMCWFB

 
   
 
Vision Statement: “The United Methodist Church of Whitefish Bay seeks to assist persons in becoming deeply committed followers of Jesus Christ.”

 



Position: ROTATION SUNDAY SCHOOL COORDINATOR

Team Leader: Director of Christian Education

Position Description:

Desirable qualities—This person should be of strong moral character, deepening and growing personal faith in one’s relationship to Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior. This person must also be committed to weekly small group study and worship with other adults, and demonstrate an ability to relate well to children from Senior kindergarten through 5th grade, as well as a desire and an effectiveness in working closely with youth and adult volunteers.

Availability—This person will shadow Richard Whitaker, Director of Christian Education mid August through September 2008; gradually, then fully taking over this responsibility in October 2008-May 2009; from early June through mid August there would be no Rotation Sunday school responsibilities

Time commitment—This salaried, quarterly position is for approximately 10 hours weekly (minimum) from mid August through May. Approximately 2.5 hours weekly would be spent in the education office, 2.5 hours of set-up of FH and classrooms, 3 hours providing assembly and classroom leadership on Sunday mornings + an additional 1.5 hours of take-down, put away and record keeping. About once every 4 weeks an additional 2-4 hours will be required for editing of each new unit of curriculum, attendance at Children’s Education Team or Safe Sanctuaries Team meetings, phone recruitment. Hours beyond the paid 10 hours maximum would be considered as volunteer hours of service to the church.

Payment—Will be based on a ¼ time annual salary, spread equally over 12 months at a rate negotiable upon experience; with payment twice monthly on the 15th and last of each month. For the first 3 months, a weekly time log is to be kept for compensation/evaluation purposes.

Basic Areas of Responsibility—

  • Requires regular office hours (preferably on Tuesdays when Richard is off) for full access to the computer
  • Selects with the Children’s Ed. Team 5 curriculum units each year, keeping in mind year long and seasonal church themes and our 3 fold purpose of “Loving God, Caring for others, Serving the world.”
  • Reviews the current 4 year Rotation Sunday School theme plan for the selection of these units and for making recommendations to the Children’s Ed. Team for rewriting those yearly theme objectives as needed
  • Works closely with the volunteer coordinator that helps with teacher/shepherd recruitment and training; as such, makes sure that all curriculum units are edited, printed and distributed to incoming teachers in a timely manner.
  • Identifies, along with the 2 Sunday School superintendents and the entire Children’s Ed. Team, prospective teachers and shepherds for on-going recruitment needs; assists in the contact and recruitment of shepherds and teachers
  • Maintains accurate and updated ministry profile ‘job descriptions’ for key positions in Rotation Sunday School and forwards all changes and additional names of new volunteers on to Nell Nash
  • Comes in on Fridays or Saturdays to set-up Fellowship Hall, kitchen, and opens up upstairs classrooms.
  • Provides needed props, costumes, printed classroom resources as dictated by the curriculum to teachers
  • Works with Sunday School superintendents to put away everything after each weekly assembly opening; locks and secures all upstairs classrooms
  • Posts all Sunday school attendance figures immediately after Sunday school is over; turns in all mission monies to Finance volunteers to count on Monday mornings (or delegates this to others)
  • Creates a Biblically themed object lesson, altar décor for each week’s opening assembly
  • Prepares a weekly classroom parent newsletter of what has taken place that week in Rotation Sunday school
  • Communicates welcome, includes parents, offers a listening ear, and when appropriate, suitable counsel re. parental concerns, family problems etc
  • Selects 4 quarterly mission offering projects each year; submits requests for disbursements to mission agencies in a timely manner.
  • Encourages children to reach out and invite friends to join them for Sunday School and other church events that pertain to children and families.
  • Communicates and works closely with the Director of Christian Education regarding such things as Teacher recognition and appreciation, presentation of third grade Bibles/Christian education weekend, special church-wide mission collections/projects that children are engaged in, fall Rally Day, recruitment of key volunteer chairpersons or co-ordinators as vacancies arise.
  • Prepares and leads seasonal/ special day Sunday school lessons such as UNICEF Sunday, Christmas Sunday, Easter Sunday and Pentecost when normal Rotation schedules are suspended.
  • Writes and distributes an every 5 weeks shepherds’ summary lesson which shepherds then lead with their students to recap the learnings of the unit being completed
  • Works closely with Director of Education to make sure all new volunteers in Rotation Sunday School have been through the Safe Sanctuaries application and screening process, and that renewals are recommended to the Director for processing in a timely fashion.
  • Other duties that the Director of Education, or the Children’s Ed. Team may need to add to this position

Accountability—This person is directly accountable to the Director of Christian Education and secondly to the Children’s Education Team in carrying out mission objectives, sound educational principles using the multiple intelligences, strong Biblical grounding and teaching. They will serve as an ex-officio member of both the Children’s Ed. Team and the Safe Sanctuaries Team.

Evaluation—A three, six month and one year performance review will be conducted by the Director of Education, with additional input solicited from the Children’s Ed. Team members. Yearly goals will be established around areas of strength and those needing improvement with the option of renewing this one year position in summer of 2009.

Application/Interview process—This job description will be posted in the church newsletter, available at the front office desk and listed on our web site during the months of late March through May 31, 2008. An application form will need to be filled out, and a resume attached, and returned by the May 31st deadline, then interviews with a Search Committee (composed of members of the Children’s Ed. Team and possibly Staff Parish Relations Team) will take place in June, with selection made by early July.

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CONTACT: Richard Whitaker

Ministry: Christian Education
Phone: 414-964-2424, ext. 121
Email: rwhitaker@umcwfb.org