Campus Pastor - Future Campus

Traders Point Christian Church; Whitestown (IN); On-site; USD 65,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Traders Point Christian Church is seeking a Campus Pastor to lead our campus with gospel-centered values. The CP will align campus teams with TPCC beliefs and actively remove barriers to help people know Jesus and take their next steps in discipleship.

The role focuses on campus health, growth, and leadership development, including pastoral care for staff and ongoing collaboration with central ministry leads. This is a hands-on pastoral leadership position at the Whitestown campus.

Qualifications

• Follower of Jesus who pursues spiritual growth and health.
• Collaborative teambuilder with conflict resolution and interpersonal skills.
• Proven experience leading teams and developing others.
• Gains energy in executing vision and translating it to others.
• Ability to balance detail management with shepherding people.

Responsibilities

• Be a model of and the champion for TPCC markers of engagement.
• Ensure engagement pathway is healthy and effective at the campus.
• Oversee campus staff, volunteers, and guests and ensure alignment with TPCC vision, beliefs, values and behaviors.
• Provide visible weekend leadership including hosting weekend gatherings, lobby presence, connecting with guests and leaders and leading First Step.
• Ensure prompt guest follow up and connection through timely responses to questions and information requests via email, TPCC website, church kiosks, Info Central and other inquiries.
• Develop community relations projects to connect with and serve the people around the campus.
• Prepare and steward the campus budget so resources are allocated appropriately.
• Ensure effectively functioning and unified campus staff.
• Manage and oversee campus staff including hiring, training, resourcing, developing pastoral roles, supervising, and evaluating direct reports in consultation with People Department.
• Provide pastoral care and support for campus staff.
• Perform other duties as required.
• Job description is subject to change based on the organization/department’s needs.

Skills

Spiritual leadership

Collaborative teambuilder

Team management

Vision to action

People shepherding

Education

Campus ministry experience

Ministry culture/outreach understanding

Evangelism & discipleship gifting

Job description

Traders Point Christian Church defines our culture by these three gospel-centered values: humble, hungry and healthy. We expect and hold staff accountable to live out these values through their behaviors daily. We expect staff to humble themselves before God and others, work hard and unto God to advance His mission. We expect staff to maintain focus on their health: relationally, physically, mentally and spiritually. We expect staff to be active members of the church who contribute to the church’s mission and vision. We expect staff to serve as spiritual leaders to our church body by being part of a group, serving, attending service and tithing.

JOB SUMMARY

The Campus Pastor (CP) is the primary leader and vision-caster for the campus, championing for alignment with TPCC Values, Beliefs and Behaviors. The CP is responsible for replicating the DNA of TPCC at the campus by leading teams who strive to remove unnecessary barriers that keep people from Jesus. The CP leads teams who help people know Jesus and take their next step of discipleship. The CP is responsible for the overall health & growth of the campus.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Serve as direct supervisor to campus youth, kids, guest experience, and groups staff/lead and maintains a dotted-line supervisory positions to the campus worship leader and technical director
• Provide oversight of effective execution of TPCC strategies and tactics at the campus
• Provide oversight to meet the pastoral care needs of the campus
• Provide oversight to and stewardship of the daily operations of the campus and campus staff

DUTIES/PRIMARY JOB PRODUCTS

• Be a model of and the champion for TPCC markers of engagement
• Ensure engagement pathway is healthy and effective at the campus
• Oversee campus staff, volunteers, and guests and ensure an understanding and alignment with TPCC vision, beliefs, values and behaviors
• Provide visible weekend leadership which includes hosting weekend gatherings, lobby presence, connecting with guests and leaders and leading First Step
• Ensure prompt guest follow up and connection through timely responses to questions and information requests via email, TPCC website, church kiosks, Info Central and other inquiries
• Develop community relations projects to connect with and serve the people around the campus
• Prepare and steward the campus budget so that resources are appropriately allocated
• Ensure effectively functioning and unified campus staff
• Manage and provide oversight of the campus staff which includes hiring, training, resourcing, developing pastoral roles, supervising, and evaluating direct reports in consultation with the People Department
• Provide pastoral care and support for campus staff
• Perform other duties as required.
• Job description is subject to change based on the organization/department’s needs.

INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL RELATIONSHIPS

• This position reports directly to: Campus Ministry Pastor
• Collaborate closely with the central ministry leads
• Participate as a full member of the pastoral staff, attending such meetings and special events as required
• Work toward fulfillment of above job products in context of ministry team(s), composed of member-ministers who themselves are leading and being equipped to effectively lead
• Serve in rotations assuming normally expected roles of a pastor: weddings, funerals, teaching, weekend hosting, preaching, general pastoral counseling, premarital counseling and hospital visits
• Serve as direct supervisor of the campus staff in the following areas: Groups, Kids, Youth, Guest Experience
• Maintain harmonious relationships with other staff members, facilitating inter-team collaboration and Kingdom collaboration between other churches and ministries

REQUIRED SKILLS/ABILITIES

• Follower of Jesus who passionately pursues spiritual growth and health
• Collaborative teambuilder with strong conflict resolution and interpersonal skills
• Proven experience leading teams and developing others
• Gains energy in the execution of vision and translating vision to others
• Ability to manage the tension present when balancing detail management and shepherding people

EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE

• 2 years’ experience working in Campus Ministry preferred
• Experience and demonstrated understanding of ministry culture and outreach strategies
• Demonstrated passion and gifting in the areas of evangelism, discipleship and pastoral care

PHYSICAL DEMANDS/WORK ENVIRONMENTS

Constantly

• Remaining in a stationary position, often standing or sitting for prolonged periods
• Communicating with others to exchange information
• Repeating motions that may include the wrists, hands, and/or fingers
• Assessing the accuracy, neatness, and thoroughness of the work assigned
• No adverse environmental conditions expected
• Sedentary work that primarily involves sitting/standing

Occasionally

• Moving about to accomplish tasks or moving from one worksite to another