Juan Marti

James River Youth Oversight

• Responsible for training, coaching, and leading the James River Youth Support Staff alongside Highschool director/James River Youth Co-Director.
• Provides oversight to all things related to Jr High Ministry including but not limited to: Sermon Scope and Sequence, life groups, Service Format, Camp, Events, etc.
• Managing the James River Youth budget alongside Highschool director/James River Youth Co-Director.
• Provides oversight to James River youth staff assisting with graphic design, digital marketing, and merchandise.
• Responsible for leading/teaching James River College Youth Practicum course.
• Streamlined operations for increased efficiency by identifying areas of improvement and implementing necessary changes.

Campus Oversight:

• Serves to implement the vision and plan of the James River Church Lead Pastors as it relates to all aspects of James River Youth ministry.
• Responsible for all West Campus James River Youth platform ministry, worship team, message presentation, video and audio components, illustrations, and games.
• Responsible for all services, activities, meetings, and events; including physical setup, dream team assignments, and overall atmosphere.
• Serves to carry out the ministry and vision of James River Youth as it relates to supporting staff, dream team, student ministry, and parent interaction.

Dream Team:

• Actively recruits, trains, and develops student leaders, dream teamers, and dream team leaders to serve for services and events.
• Ensures weekly communication with student leaders, dream teamers, and dream team leaders.
• Responsible to ensure all Dream Teamers have gone through Grow Track and James River Youth Dream Team orientation and that they are properly trained for their role.
• Works to develop a team to assist with James River Youth venue setup and cleanup.
• Ensures that all Dream Teams are connected to the team and added to the spiritual strength of the ministry.
• Provide intentional pastoral encouragement to student leaders, dream teamers, and dream team leaders.

Student Discipleship and Leadership Development:

• Serves to strengthen leaders and systems for ongoing discipleship of students through serving and Senior High Life Group involvement.
• Is responsible for student ministry leadership development and seeks to elevate students into higher levels of leadership.
• Actively seeks out opportunities and relationships with area schools, youth sporting programs, and special student events to create a connection to James River Youth and to share the Gospel.

Senior High Life Group:

• Oversee the development and growth of Senior High Life Groups at the West Campus.
• Recruit and train an effective team of Life Group leaders for Senior High Life Groups.
• Multiply and strengthen Life Groups as needed.
• Meet with the campus Life Group leaders monthly to assess strength and report to James River Youth Director.
• Ensure Life Group leaders have what they need for their role – including weekly Life Group discussion guides.
• Be familiar with everything needed for a successful Life Group campus ministry.

Venue Prep:

· Provide an atmosphere that is welcoming, clean, and well-staffed with Dream Teamers.

· Oversee set-up needs for all pre and post service activities – including guest services, info counter, games, VIP, seat cards, stanchions, snacks, and signage.

· Oversee auditorium chair setup – ensuring chairs are set up neatly and that the number of seats is fitting for that service or event.

· Ensure everything is ready at the agreed upon time.

· Ensure the auditorium atmosphere is ready for students to walk in, including music, lighting, LED, or screen content.

Camp & Event Prep:

· Serves to lead in assigned roles for all camps and events under the direction of the James River Camp Director.

· Serves to recruit dream teamers for all camps and special events.

· Commits to being at the campground for all James River Youth camp weeks.

Service Responsibilities:

• Managing Sunday and Wednesday services and Dream Teamers as it relates to the West Campus James River Youth ministry.
• Overseeing the preaching and teaching of the Word of God to James River Youth students.
• Address any concerns that could affect the unity or the strength of the James River Youth ministry in a timely manner
• Handling discipline issues and handle confrontational situations with students, parents, and leaders in a manner that reflects the heart and views of James River Church.
• Distribute OOS for both Sunday and Wednesday teams as it pertains to the ministry.
• Acquire and organize all necessary props and materials for services.
• Ensure backstage areas and supplies are kept clean and organized.
• Lead huddle times.
• Set-up sound board, microphones, TV's, and speakers.

General Pastoral Responsibilities

• Scheduled regularly to provide counsel/comfort/benovelnce to church members and non church members who call or visit in person.
• Scheduled regularly to visit church members admitted to the hospital.
• Scheduled regularly to assist in funerals.
• Provide leadership and participate in all church events including outreaches and neighborhood serve events.

Junior High Oversight

• Overseeing the preaching and teaching of the Word of God to the junior high ministry.
• Sunday morning junior high services.
• Wednesday night life groups
• Recruiting and training of teachers for various breakaways.
• Searching for and providing relevant curriculum/teaching content
• Recruiting and training of leaders and assistant leaders for 6.8 Life Groups.
• Providing leadership for 6.8 Life Groups gathering and breakouts.
• Providing game plan for discussion in 6.8 Life Groups.
• Oversee the transition of 5th graders into 6th grade.

Sunday Service

• Provide overall leadership to the Sunday morning junior high service at the assigned campus.
• Oversee the production aspect of the service.
• Planning and preparing a service that is applicable to the junior high students, being careful to emphasize true worship, preaching of the Word and response at the altars.
• Provide an atmosphere that is welcoming and exciting with leaders and student leaders.

Dream Team

• Oversee recruiting and development of adult leaders and student leaders for the junior high ministry.
• Adult leaders
• Constantly scouting for new adult leaders to join the team.
• Challenging our current team to recruit.
• Provide leadership in weekly pre-service meetings, Team Nights that take place throughout the year, as well as any annual leadership development events.
• Provide ongoing encouragement to the junior high volunteer staff.

Wednesday Service

• Coordinate Wednesday night junior high breakaway services/Jr High Life Groups.
• Oversee the production aspect of the service.
• Provide an atmosphere that is welcoming and exciting with leaders and student leaders.
• Establish a team of capable leaders.
• Establish a team of capable mentors, coordinators, leaders and assistant leaders.

Budget

Determine Jr High budget for all areas included, but not limited to:

• Jr High Life Groups
• Jr High Retreats & camps
• Jr High Sundays
• Gather all necessary receipts from each event.
• Provide check requests for necessary reimbursements.

Outreach

• Build a credible and respected relationship on the junior high campuses.
• Speaking at various FCA events and weekly meetings.
• Being present for See You at the Pole.

General Pastoral Responsibilities

• Scheduled regularly to provide counsel/comfort/benovelnce to church members and non church members who call or visit in person.
• Scheduled regularly to visit church members admitted to the hospital.
• Scheduled regularly to assist in funerals.
• Provide leadership and participate in all church events including outreaches and neighborhood serve events.

• Built strong relationships with customers to increase retention and loyalty.
• Improved customer satisfaction by efficiently addressing and resolving credit card disputes and inquiries.
• Provided exceptional customer service, leading to increased client retention rates and positive referrals from satisfied customers.
• Assisted clients in understanding their credit card benefits, resulting in increased usage of available perks.
• Implemented credit card account maintenance procedures to determine accuracy of customer information and compliance with federal regulations.
• Assisted customers with questions and inquiries to provide information regarding credit card accounts.
• Complied with internal controls and government regulations.

• Reduced downtime by proactively identifying potential hardware and software issues and implementing preventive measures.
• Documented all support activities in ticketing system for accurate record-keeping and easy reference during future incidents.
• Collaborated with IT team members to develop comprehensive solutions for complex technical problems.
• Supported remote users in addressing connectivity issues and accessing network resources securely through VPNs.
• Provided timely resolution of technical issues
• Diagnosed and troubleshot hardware, software and network issues.
• Responded to Student and Faculty inquiries and provided technical assistance over phone and in person.
• Monitored system performance to identify potential issues.
• Created user accounts and assigned permissions.
• Broke down and evaluated user problems, using test scripts, personal expertise, and probing questions.