Job Description

As the Director of Women’s Ministry, you will be primarily responsible for: ● Overseeing weekly Women’s Bible studies during the school year, coordinating both the content and the logistics, so that women can gather together in mutually supportive community and grow in their knowledge and love of God together. ● Caring for women in the church, including working alongside pastors and others, to support them well and help them wisely navigate through times of struggle and hardship. ● Planning events for women’s ministry that encourage, challenge, and bless the women of the congregation and provide opportunities to invite women from outside the church. ● Connecting women in the congregation with each other so that women feel welcomed and enfolded into the life of the church ● Recruiting, coordinating, managing, and training volunteers in a way that enables them to participate in serving each other while growing and maturing, in an environment of mutual care and love

About the Organization

Grace Presbyterian Church of Silicon Valley was founded in 2000 and is located in Palo Alto, CA. Grace serves a congregation of 800+ regular adult attenders each week. Our mission is to GATHER the convinced and unconvinced into community, where we GROW as Jesus does His work of forgiving and renewing, and then we GO out to live for a story bigger than ourselves.

Qualifications

We are seeking candidates who: ● Exhibit personal faith in Christ, are being transformed by grace, and who have personal values and convictions aligned with our church’s beliefs concerning the Scriptures and the gospel. ● Are rooted in and able to communicate a Reformed understanding of the gospel, grace, and the Christian life, and to connect it to the practical everyday struggles of women so that Christ is always foregrounded. ● Demonstrate spiritual maturity: able to model a life worthy of imitation and wisely and winsomely lead others toward a life rooted in Christ with patience and sound judgment. ● Lead with a warm heart and enjoy motivating and encouraging others with grace and humility, as well as having the patience and flexibility that working with others requires. ● Embody the qualities of humility and teachability in the way they relate to and work with others and enjoy the give-and-take of being a part of a team, and are able to delegate to others thoughtfully. ● Can adapt and relate to women of different ages, ethnicities, personalities, circumstances, levels of spiritual maturity, as well as roles and responsibilities in the world. ● Have the ability to manage the logistics behind ministry, including organizing events effectively, gathering and directing volunteers, working within established systems, and creating new systems where needed ● Create an atmosphere that is welcoming to all, whether long-time members or first-time attendees, with fun and laughter, and also leaves room to weep with those who weep