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Greenhouse Church

Santa Fe Coordinator

Gainesville, FL · On-site

Santa Fe Coordinator Classification: Exempt Salary Job Class: Coordinator Reports to: College Associate Director Date Created: May 2026 Supervisory Responsibilities: None Time Requirement: 40 hours ...

Greenhouse Church

Santa Fe Coordinator

Gainesville, FL · On-site

Santa Fe Coordinator The Santa Fe Coordinator is a key ministry leadership position on the Greenhouse College team responsible for growing and strengthening Greenhouse's presence at Santa Fe College ...

SNOWCAT RIDGE

Seasonal Santa Clause

Dade City, FL · On-site

$15 - $25/hr

Seasonal Santa Claus** **Location:** Snowcat Ridge 27839 Saint Joe Rd, Dade City FL 33525 **Job Type:** Seasonal/Part-Time **Duration:** [Specify Duration, e.g., November to December] **About Us:

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As of Sep 15, 2026, the average hourly pay for santa in Florida is $44.91, according to ZipRecruiter salary data. Most workers in this role earn between $40.43 and $49.42 per hour, depending on experience, location, and employer.

What is a Santa?

Santas, also known as Santa Clauses, are individuals who dress up as the legendary figure of Santa Claus during the holiday season. They typically appear at malls, holiday events, parties, and parades to spread cheer, pose for photos, and listen to children's Christmas wishes. The role requires a friendly personality, a jolly demeanor, and often a convincing costume, including a red suit and white beard. Being a Santa is about creating magical experiences and joy for both children and adults.

What does a Santa do?

A professional Santa Claus plays the role of Santa Claus at the mall or Christmas events. Your responsibilities include interacting with children and having pictures taken with guests. Other duties include wearing the red Santa Claus suit, growing a beard (or wearing a fake one), and convincingly emitting jolly laughter. You typically work long hours during the holidays, with some shifts are as long as 12 hours to save children the cognitive dissonance of witnessing two simultaneous St. Nicholas’s. You work with children and may have to answer difficult or tricky questions about religion or divorce. You maintain the comforting fantasy of Santa Claus for children.

What skills and qualifications are needed to be a Santa?

To thrive as a Santa, you need strong interpersonal skills, a joyful demeanor, and the ability to engage with children and families, often supported by a background in acting or customer service. Familiarity with scheduling tools, costume care, and sometimes background checks or child safety certifications are typically required. Exceptional patience, improvisational ability, and warmth help Santas create magical experiences and handle a variety of situations. These skills are crucial to ensuring children feel comfortable, maintaining the magic of the season, and delivering memorable interactions.

What challenges do Santas face during the holiday season?

One of the main challenges faced by professional Santas is maintaining high energy and a positive demeanor throughout long shifts, often while engaging with excited children and large crowds. Santas must also be prepared to handle a wide range of emotional interactions, from shy or anxious children to those with special needs. Additionally, the role often requires working in warm, heavy costumes for extended periods and adapting to various event environments, from malls to private parties. Effective communication and improvisational skills are crucial for creating memorable experiences and managing unexpected situations.

What is the difference between Santa vs Elf?

AspectSantaElf
Required CredentialsNone specific, often festive experienceSimilar, often with craft or toy-making skills
Work EnvironmentPublic events, shopping malls, paradesWorkshop, toy factories, holiday events
Industry UsageHoliday entertainment, charity eventsToy manufacturing, holiday decorations
Common Search/ComparisonSantaElf

Santa is primarily known for appearing at public holiday events, spreading cheer, and engaging with children, often without formal credentials. Elves, on the other hand, are typically involved in toy-making and workshop activities, supporting Santa's mission. While both roles are integral to holiday festivities, Santa's role is more about public appearances, whereas elves focus on production and preparation.

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Santa Fe Coordinator

Gainesville, FL • On-site

Greenhouse Church
Religious Organizations • 11 - 50 employees
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Job description

Position Overview
Job Title: Santa Fe Coordinator
Classification: Exempt
Salary Job Class: Coordinator
Reports to: College Associate Director
Date Created: May 2026
Supervisory Responsibilities: None
Time Requirement: 40 hours weekly (full-time)
Work Environment: Greenhouse Church HUB Campus, Santa Fe College
Job Summary / Purpose
The Santa Fe Coordinator is a key ministry leadership position on the Greenhouse College team responsible for growing and strengthening Greenhouse's presence at Santa Fe College and the Sunday morning college experience at the Main Campus. This role is highly relational and ministry-focused, with an emphasis on evangelism, discipleship, leadership development, microchurch multiplication, and student assimilation. This role also provides the leadership and coordination necessary to ensure that Sunday mornings are a welcoming and effective pathway into the life and discipleship community of Greenhouse Church.
Position Goals
  • Shepherd and cultivate a thriving, Jesus centered ministry community among students at Santa Fe College
  • Multiply healthy Greenhouse College microchurches by identifying, discipling, and developing student leaders
  • Cultivate a strong culture of evangelism and equip students to confidently reach and invite others into Christian community
  • Create a welcoming and relational Sunday morning college ministry where students are known, connected, and encouraged to take meaningful next steps in their faith
  • Shepherd students toward deeper engagement in biblical community, discipleship, serving, and the broader life of Greenhouse Church

Santa Fe College Ministry Leadership
The Santa Fe Coordinator serves as the primary ministry leader for Greenhouse College at Santa Fe College. The goal is to establish a thriving, multiplying ministry presence where students are reached, discipled in community, developed as leaders, and empowered to reach their campus.
Campus Ministry & Evangelism
  • Provide spiritual and ministry leadership for Greenhouse College's evangelism and outreach efforts at Santa Fe College
  • Build, disciple, and mobilize a team of students and volunteers committed to reaching the Santa Fe campus with the gospel
  • Cultivate a consistent relational ministry presence on campus through evangelism, outreach, tabling, events, and other creative opportunities to engage students
  • Teach, train, and personally model evangelism for Santa Fe students & microchurch leaders, creating opportunities for students to grow through active ministry
  • Provide vision and leadership for Welcome Week and other strategic opportunities to reach and connect with students throughout the year
  • Intentionally shepherd students reached through campus ministry toward Sunday gatherings, microchurches, discipleship, and deeper involvement in Greenhouse College

Microchurch Multiplication & Discipleship
  • Multiply healthy Microchurches among Santa Fe students
  • Identify, disciple and develop Santa Fe Microchurch leaders
  • Shepherd students reached at Santa Fe into biblical community, discipleship, and meaningful relationships within the church
  • Meet regularly with Greenhouse College Microchurch leaders for discipleship, development, encouragement, and accountability
  • Lead a Greenhouse College Leaders Core Group and help co-lead in Discipleship Training

Student Leadership Development
  • Build and lead the Santa Fe student board, cultivating a team of students and leaders who take meaningful ownership of ministry on their campus
  • Cast vision and provide spiritual and strategic direction for student board members
  • Equip and empower student leaders to serve as campus ambassadors, outreach leaders, culture-builders, and disciple-makers
  • Meet regularly with student leaders for coaching, discipleship, accountability, and leadership development

Sunday Morning College Ministry
The Santa Fe Coordinator provides primary leadership for the Sunday morning college experience at the HUB Campus. The goal is to create a vibrant and welcoming ministry environment that connects the hundreds of college students attending Sunday morning services to relationships, discipleship, Microchurches, serving, and the broader life of Greenhouse Church.
College Lounge & Student Engagement
  • Lead the Sunday morning College Lounge as a relational environment where college students are welcomed and connected to Greenhouse Church
  • Build meaningful relationships with new & existing students, intentionally shepherding them toward community, discipleship, and meaningful next steps and involvement with Greenhouse Church
  • Collaborate with college staff to strengthen the Sunday morning college experience as an effective place for connection
  • Oversee & ensure the College Lounge environment is welcoming, prepared, and equipped with the food, drinks, supplies, etc. needed to support ministry

Sunday Morning Serve Team
  • Recruit, vision-cast, and develop a strong Sunday morning college serve team
  • Empower serve team leaders to take meaningful ownership
  • Create opportunities for students to discover, develop, and use their gifts through serving

First-Time Guests & Assimilation
  • Ensure first-time college guests are personally welcomed, feel relationally connected and invited into meaningful next steps
  • Intentionally connect students into Greenhouse discipleship pathways, including ABCs: Activate, Breakthrough, and College Microchurches
  • Help students discover meaningful opportunities to serve and use their gifts across Greenhouse, including Kids, Youth, Tech, Café, Hospitality, and other ministry areas
  • Collaborate with the college staff team to strengthen invitational and assimilation strategies

College Internship
  • Help lead and execute the Greenhouse College Internship during the summer
  • Teach, disciple, and develop students throughout the internship
  • Cultivate a strong culture of evangelism and mission that builds momentum toward the fall semester
  • Mobilize interns for meaningful ministry, evangelism, and outreach at Santa Fe College, particularly during Summer B
  • Develop strategies and opportunities to reach, build relationships with, and connect new students throughout the summer
  • Identify, disciple, and develop interns with potential for continued leadership within Greenhouse College

College Team Leadership & Collaboration
  • Actively contribute to Greenhouse College staff meetings, ministry planning, and team gatherings
  • Provide regular leadership, insight, and communication to the college staff regarding Santa Fe ministry, Sunday morning ministry, student development, opportunities, and challenges
  • Maintain clear communication and appropriate administrative systems necessary to support effective ministry

Qualifications & Skill Requirements
  • Demonstrated commitment to following Jesus and making disciples
  • Passion for evangelism, college ministry, leadership development, and reaching students who are disconnected from Christian community
  • Ability to build meaningful relationships with college students and develop others as leaders
  • Ability to teach, disciple, coach, and spiritually lead students
  • Commitment to developing a strong working knowledge of Greenhouse Church's mission, vision, values, and ministry strategy
  • Strong initiative and ability to move ministry vision into action
  • Excellent interpersonal, oral, and written communication skills
  • Ability to lead teams, recruit volunteers, and empower others to take ownership
  • Strong organizational and prioritization skills with the ability to manage multiple ministry responsibilities
  • Sound judgment, discretion, and ability to maintain confidentiality
  • Working knowledge of social media and digital communication tools
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Office and ability to learn ministry software and applications, including Planning Center
  • A joyful attitude and ability to represent Christ and Greenhouse Church well among diverse groups of people
  • Minimum high school diploma; degree preferred

Physical Demands
  • Able to lift up to 50 pounds and move furniture/equipment
  • Able to stand for extended periods during Sunday services and ministry events
  • Local travel required; potential global travel required

Required Team Norms
Must be willing to uphold and champion the following:
  • We are passionate disciples who reorient their lives around Jesus' call to serve, win souls, and make disciples.
  • We will fight to abide first every day.
  • We will lift the faith in every room we walk in.
  • We believe the best in people and care enough to confront.
  • We work hard and laugh often.
  • We have an insatiable desire to grow.
  • We show up with our best, working with all our hearts unto the Lord.
  • We live lives of adventure and generosity, allowing God to lead us to spend ourselves for those who could never pay us back.

Required Character Attributes
  • Places a high value on unity (Ephesians 4:3)
  • Lives a life above reproach (1 Timothy 3)
  • Models a life of holiness, purity, and integrity (Hebrews 12:14)
  • Has a good grasp of Scripture and is not given to untested points of view (Colossians 2:8)
  • Devotes themselves to prayer (Colossians 4:2)
  • Has a persevering spirit and soul (James 1:4)
  • Is strong and stable and not given to double-mindedness (James 1:8)
  • Is quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to become angry (James 1:19)
  • Has a calmness of spirit and does not overreact (Proverbs 29:20)
  • Displays loyalty to other team members (2 Timothy 4:9-18)
  • Displays a positive attitude (Philippians 4:8)

Other Duties
Please note that this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing
of all activities, duties, or responsibilities required of the employee. Duties, responsibilities, and
activities may change at any time with or without notice.

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