Are you a resilient and caring leader with previous pastoral or church leadership experience?
Are you passionate about Hillsong Kids and levelling up the campuses children’s ministry?
Do you want to be part of a team who is serving the church in an innovative way locally and globally?
Our City Campus team is currently looking for a Campus Children & Family Oversight to join the team. This role will be responsible for ensuring the team health, growth and an increase in weekend
attendance as well as ensuring systems and structures are in place so that the vision of Hillsong Church is outworked effectively at the Campus.
Other aspects of this role include:
HEALTH AND WEEKEND ENGAGEMENT
- Responsible for seeing growth in the attendance of kids’ programs and the health and growth of the family community.
- Provide programs in all weekend services that are of an excellent standard.
- Increase health in all areas of Hillsong Kids ministry as evidenced by growth in KDG’s; numbers of leaders; weekly attendance; the number of pastoral follow-up calls made; and the connection of new families into Hillsong Kids.
- Be visibly present and engaged at Sunday services, checking in with Service and Room Leaders.
- Support leaders with real‑time problem solving and escalate Pastoral Care matters as required.
- Maintain weekly connection with key volunteers to support, coach, and develop them.
- Lead and develop the leadership team of the families community in their mission to building a healthy community for parents and children.
LEADERSHIP & TEAM DEVELOPMENT
- Bring vision, leadership, training & next steps to team
- Build community amongst the team, discipling according to individual needs
- Build a key team to help you carry the Ministry
PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT
- Work with kids’ leaders and kids creative to provide programs across all age groups that are of an excellent standard creating opportunities for kids to build friendships with others and Jesus.
- Identify improvements required in the systems used for weekend services including safety and
protection, program excellence and communication to and from leaders.
- Invest in Family Team leadership and contribute to effective family follow‑up strategies.
- Attend monthly in‑person Key Team meetings and off‑month online check‑ins to ensure
alignment on program execution and focus areas.
SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT
- Oversee the systems and structures across Hillsong Kids at your campus to ensure
leaders have a clear pathway to enter leadership as well as grow and develop.
- Setup leadership structure across your campus to ensure each service has an oversight
- Upskill and train key volunteers in Planning Center (PCO) systems, including rostering and team
management.
- Provide volunteer lists, roster support, and troubleshoot scheduling challenges in collaboration with the Generations Team.
- Support onboarding processes for new Kids volunteers.
- Develop systems that ensure families receive timely and consistent follow‑up.
SAFE CHURCH
- Ensure all programs and events under your leadership comply with all Safe Church
policies and procedures.
- Ensure HSK is a safe place for children through leaders’ inductions, monitoring of
leaders, training and awareness, physical environments.
- Maintain pastoral oversightof volunteers and families, ensuring concerns raised from rooms or weekend services are escalated in alignment with Safe Church protocols.
Ideally, the successful candidate will bring:
- Bachelor’s degree in Ministry, Theology, Education, or a related field (strongly preferred).
- Proven experience in children’s ministry leadership.
- Passionate about Hillsong church and children’s ministry
- Demonstrated ability to pastorally care for and disciple young people, supporting their spiritual, emotional, and relational development.
- Experience in leading and equipping volunteer teams, incl. training, mentoring, & team building.
- Experience in relational ministry, incl. connecting with children, parents, and leaders in a school or church setting.
- Strong understanding of the spiritual and developmental needs of children age 0-12.
- Knowledge of leadership development principles, particularly within a ministry or church context.
- Clear understanding of Christian discipleship models, culture, and how to communicate faith in relevant and age-appropriate ways.
If this sounds like you, we would love for you to apply today!
Applications close: 17th April 2026, 11.59pm AEDT
