Reports to Director of Youth Ministry

Classification:  Salaried, full time

Job Responsibilities:

• Organize weekly HFAM Youth Nights (Sunday night)
• Organize yearly retreats, including but not limited to Fall Retreat, Holy Week Retreat, Lock-ins, Ski Retreats, and other retreats that may arise from time to time.
• Organize, promote, and attend the summer mission trip
• Help engage our adult volunteers, recruit new adult volunteers as needed, and help foster a community among them
• Organize and send out weekly e-mails and social media posts to high schoolers and parents to keep them informed
• Meet weekly with the Director of Youth Ministry to discuss plans of outreach, goals of the program, and ways we can meet our students where they are
• Communicate information to the Director of Youth Ministry that needs to be included in parish e-mails, bulletin, and cantor announcements
• Work through a rotating schedule of Mass times: be present at either 8:30am, 11 am, or 5:30pm Mass on Sundays (excluding Christmas and Easter)
• Be a Youth Ministry team player willing to coordinate and share ideas with IGNITE Lead and be a core team member when time permits with the IGNITE group (i.e., attending IGNITE retreat/other big events they have)
• Help facilitate and attend Wednesday night Youth Ministry activities
• Attend SEARCH and Youth Leadership Workshop functions as an adult helper and other events throughout the Diocese to further extend our outreach
• Work offsite, including but not limited to, attending school functions (plays, sports games, etc.)
• Help build a leadership team of upperclassmen in the HFAM Youth Group
• Assist with planning and executing fundraisers for the Youth Ministry Program
• Plan and attend service opportunities with HFAM Youth
• Other duties as prescribed

Qualifications:

• Be organized, collaborative, and possess a strong desire to work with high schoolers
• Ability to work on a team
• Strong time management skills
• Experience working with high school youth programs in a Catholic setting.
• Bachelor degree preferred