Executive Pastor/Chief of Staff

IL Baptist State Association; Broadview (IL); On-site; USD 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

IL Baptist State Association seeks a Chief of Staff & Ministries to translate the Senior Pastor's vision into coordinated action across the church, guiding staff and ministry teams toward healthy, aligned ministry execution. The role combines leadership, strategic execution, communications oversight, and operational coordination to strengthen organizational effectiveness and relational health.

A bachelor's degree is required; a master's degree is preferred.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree is required; a master's degree is preferred.
• Strong communication skills, judgment, discretion, emotional intelligence.
• Ability to lead through influence and authority in a growing ministry.

Responsibilities

• Executive Leadership: Partner with the Senior Pastor to translate vision into clear plans, decisions, and accountability.
• Staff Leadership: Provide leadership, coaching, coordination, and accountability for staff and ministry leaders.
• Ministry Oversight: Ensure ministries are spiritually healthy, strategically aligned, appropriately staffed, and effectively serving.
• Communications Oversight: Oversee church-wide communications across ministries and digital channels.
• Strategic Execution: Drive major church initiatives from planning through implementation with measurable outcomes.
• Organizational Alignment: Strengthen coordination across ministries, campuses, and leadership teams.
• Leadership Development: Develop staff and ministry leaders and empower volunteers.
• Executive Support: Help prioritize issues for senior leadership and ensure decisions are followed through.
• Culture & Spiritual Leadership: Model mission, values, and leadership behaviors within the staff.

Job description

CHIEF OF STAFF & MINISTRIES

JOB DESCRIPTION

Reports to: Senior Pastor | Position: Full-Time Leadership Role

POSITION SUMMARY

The Chief of Staff & Ministries serves as a key organizational and ministry leader, helping translate the vision and priorities of the Senior Pastor into coordinated action across the church. This role provides leadership to staff and ministry teams, strengthens organizational effectiveness, oversees communications, and ensures ministries are aligned, healthy, and executing with excellence. The role combines people leadership, ministry oversight, strategic execution, communications, and operational coordination.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Executive Leadership: Partner with the Senior Pastor to translate vision and strategic priorities into clear plans, decisions, and accountability.
• Staff Leadership: Provide leadership, coaching, coordination, and accountability for staff and ministry leaders while cultivating a healthy, collaborative culture.
• Ministry Oversight: Ensure ministries are spiritually healthy, strategically aligned, appropriately staffed, and effectively serving the congregation and community.
• Communications Oversight: Oversee church-wide communications and messaging, ensuring clear, consistent, timely, and mission-aligned communication across ministries, staff, congregation, digital channels, and key initiatives.
• Strategic Execution: Drive major church-wide initiatives from planning through implementation with clear ownership, timelines, resources, and measurable outcomes.
• Organizational Alignment: Strengthen coordination across ministries, departments, campuses, and leadership teams; identify and resolve gaps, duplication, and barriers to execution.
• Leadership Development: Develop staff and ministry leaders and strengthen systems for recruiting, equipping, and empowering leaders and volunteers.
• Executive Support & Decision-Making: Help prioritize issues requiring senior leadership attention, prepare for key decisions and meetings, and ensure decisions are communicated and followed through.
• Culture & Spiritual Leadership: Model the church's mission, values, and expected leadership behaviors while contributing to the spiritual and relational health of the staff and church.

IDEAL CANDIDATE

A spiritually mature, relationally strong, highly organized leader who can move comfortably between ministry leadership and organizational execution. A bachelor's degree is required; a master's degree is preferred. The successful candidate demonstrates sound judgment, discretion, emotional intelligence, strong communication skills, and the ability to lead through both influence and authority. They see the big picture while ensuring important details are executed, build trust, navigate complexity and change, develop people, and create clarity in a growing ministry environment.

SUCCESS IN THIS ROLE

The Senior Pastor is better leveraged; staff are aligned and thriving; communications are clear and consistent; ministry leaders are equipped and accountable; strategic priorities move forward; and the church's ministries operate together in support of its mission and vision.