Audio Visual (AV) Manager/Assistant Manager

Wesleymc; Singapore; On-site; SGD 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Wesley Methodist Church is seeking an AV Manager to lead the Audio Visual Department across worship services, events, and ministry activities. You will supervise staff and volunteers, coordinate with vendors, and ensure reliable AV systems and livestreaming capabilities.

Join a hands-on team focused on technical excellence, project planning, budgeting, and ongoing upgrades to support worship and outreach. Experience in live events and church AV is preferred.

Qualifications

• Experience leading AV teams in worship or live events.
• Strong leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to troubleshoot live event AV under pressure.
• Experience with AV systems including digital mixers, video, and livestreaming.

Responsibilities

• AV Operations: provide AV support for worship services, conferences, camps and events, coordinating staff and volunteers.
• Project Management: plan, budget, execute, install and upgrade AV projects and renovations.
• Staff and Volunteer Management: supervise staff and train volunteers in AV operations.
• Maintenance: perform proactive maintenance to minimise disruption across the church AV systems.
• Future Planning: propose improvements and new systems to benefit ministry needs.
• Administration: oversee budget and procurement and develop standard operating procedures.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Team management

Live events

Tools

Blackmagic

Yamaha

Dante Networking

Shure/Sennheiser wireless

ProPresenter 7

PowerPoint

Qlab

OBS

NDI

Job description

Overall Description of Role:

The AV Manager / Assistant Manager leads Wesley Methodist Church's Audio Visual Department, ensuring the smooth delivery of audio, video, lighting, presentation, livestreaming, and technical support across worship services, ministry activities, and special events. The role combines hands on technical excellence with team leadership, overseeing AV staff and volunteers, managing vendors and projects, maintaining and upgrading AV systems, and ensuring the church's technology infrastructure effectively supports ministry needs. The AV Manager also oversees departmental planning, budgeting, procurement, and administrative processes to ensure reliable and future ready AV operations.

What you'll do

AV Operations

• Manage AV department resources to provide AV support worship services, conferences, camps, activities and events, whether in church or external premises, through assigning of AV staff, operating AV systems, working together with AV volunteers or engaging external AV freelancers.

Project Management

• To oversee AV projects including planning, budgeting, executing, installation, maintenance, upgrades; these may be standalone AV projects or part of larger renovation and other upgrading projects which involve AV.

Staff and Volunteer Management

• To supervise staff in the AV department, assigning them work, as well as training and guiding them to perform their duties; and as assigned, to train and supervise volunteer teams on how to operate the AV equipment in a collaborative and skill team environment.
• To facilitate the development of professional relationships with vendors, and procure new equipment in accordance with church processes and needs.

Maintenance

• To perform proactive maintenance on the AV equipment and systems across the church to result in as little disruption as possible.

Future Planning

• Provide input on improvements and new systems, equipment and processes that would benefit the church, its ministries, and activities.

Administration

• To oversee and carry out the AV department budget and procurement processes in accordance with church policies; to develop and implement AV standard operation procedures to improve work processes.

What we're looking for

Committed to the mission, vision, and values of Wesley Methodist Church, with a positive and proactive attitude.

Strong leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work effectively with staff, volunteers, ministry leaders and ability to take instructions.

Able to remain calm, think quickly, and troubleshoot effectively in high pressure live event environments.

Willingness to continually learn and develop technical and leadership competencies.

Experience in AV operations within a church, live production, events, or similar environment.

Experience serving in a large church environment with more than 2,000 members would be an advantage.

Audio: Digital Mixers (including Yamaha) and Dante Networking, Shure/Sennheiser wireless technology, in-ear monitoring systems, and recording and post-production

Video: Blackmagic hardware and software, PTZ camera operation and basic AV over IP or NDI video networks

Lighting: Use and programming of DMX-based systems

Presentation: PowerPoint (minimum) and ProPresenter 7, Qlab

AV Networking: be familiar with AV networking systems

Livestreaming: OBS or similar livestreaming platforms

Live events: Has experience in AV work in a live environment.

Technical ability: Diagnose and troubleshoot AV systems and equipment issues on the spot; comfortable with reading technical schematic diagrams, with basic knowledge of basic routing and configurations.

We regret that only shortlisted candidates will be notified.