Next Gen Director (Full-Time) - Dwell Church of the Peninsula | San Francisco, CA

About Dwell Church: Dwell Church is looking for a Next Gen Director to lead our Kids and Students ministries! Dwell Church is a 2-year-old church plant that just celebrated its first baptisms and is fast approaching its first million dollars raised. We went from sixteen people in a living room to 170 people at our recent Christmas service. While the attendance and finances of a church plant are important, what is of most importance to us is that we are dreaming of building a new kind of church for a new era. This includes an emphasis on supporting emotional wholeness, highly participatory leadership structures, becoming a ‘listening church’, and building a church where anyone can take a step closer to Jesus. We believe that we have been put on this planet to help people dwell in the presence of Jesus.

About Dwell Church’s Core Values: Our mission to help people Dwell in the presence of Jesus is built upon our core values. We are building a church that is:

Jesus-Centered
Research-Based
Trauma-Informed
Diverse
Affirming and Inclusive

About the San Francisco Bay Area: Our region is diverse, beautiful, driven, and intelligent. It is home to astounding natural beauty where both the beach and mountains are in reach. It is also home to Silicon Valley and situates the “haves” and “have nots” of 2026 right next to each other. We have discerned that our target audiences in this region are as follows: 1) people who stopped going to church during the pandemic; 2) people who dream of a more inclusive and emotionally safe church; 3) people who have never been to church before in their lives.

About Dwell Staff: Our staff can best help people Dwell in Jesus’ presence by being:

Generous in spirit
Learner in posture
Oriented towards emotional health and wholeness
An ideal team player

About This Position: The Dwell Next Gen Director leads Dwell Kids and Dwell Students. Responsibilities will include:

Stewarding the present: We have amazing kids and families participating in Dwell Kids! This position will continue to develop Dwell Kids through participatory leadership structures towards being the Kids Ministry for a new era. This means:
Recruiting, developing, and coordinating a diverse team of Dwell Builders (volunteers) and working with the Builder Team Lead for Dwell Kids
Continuing to build Dwell Kids culture that makes kids feel safe, known, and loved. This includes implementing safety standards, systems, and best practices. It also includes creating a participatory culture where kids have the right amount of input.

Developing and curating curriculum in accordance with our program structure and values which include:

Building an Age Diverse Learning Community
Vibrant and emotionally intelligent faith
Healthy and developmentally appropriate relationship with the Bible
Play-based learning and other pedagogical best practices
Teaching developmentally appropriate aspects of Dwell Values
Developing learning milestones and pathways
Partnering with families to support spiritual formation at home

Building the future: Dwell Church is dreaming of a Next Gen Director who can lead a participatory process in partnership with the Team Lead for Dwell Students to build and launch a student ministry. Our three-year goal is to have 30 middle schoolers and high schoolers regularly participating in Dwell Student Ministry.

Skills and Attributes Necessary for this Role:

Building teams, leading teams, and enjoying team work
A drive to learn, especially about leadership and entrepreneurship
A capacity to be curious about yourself and others
A great relationship builder, especially with busy students and families
A deep resonance with our Core and Staff Values
A vibrant faith

Pay and Benefits:

Pay Range: $70-80k

Benefits include:

Flexible work-from-home arrangement
Unlimited time off, including mandatory three Sundays per year
Other benefits currently under development

Other Dwell Facts: We are a non-denominational church plant with close relationships with The Center for Church Innovation, Cyclical Inc., and The Post-Evangelical Collective.

Any other relevant information or link to apply?: Email resume and cover letter (including philosophies of ministry for Kids and Students and key influences) to jobs@dwellpeninsula.com