Executive Pastor/Executive Director - Calvary Bible Church (Kalamazoo, MI) –

Lancaster Search; Kalamazoo (MI); On-site; USD 75,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Calvary Bible Church in Kalamazoo, MI seeks an Executive Pastor/Executive Director to lead the financial and operational resources, ensuring faithful stewardship and administrative excellence in support of the church’s mission.

This full-time role reports to the Senior Pastor and oversees Finance, Facilities, Ministry Support, and HR while driving vision implementation and external communications.

Qualifications

• Must meet Biblical elder qualifications and CBC membership.
• Strong leadership, communication, and relational skills.
• Experience leading multiple staff and departments.
• Bachelor’s degree with Bible knowledge or related area.

Responsibilities

• Foster servant-hearted staff culture and high morale.
• Provide strategic leadership for financial operations, budgeting, accounting, and internal controls.
• Oversee non-pastoral staff and departments (Finance, Facilities, Ministry Support, HR).
• Implement strategic objectives and manage ongoing ministries and administrative tasks.
• Ensure timely internal communication among staff, elders, deacons, volunteers, and congregation.
• Plan and execute special projects, conferences, and events.
• Coordinate facility use, ministry activities, and scheduling.
• Maintain current policies and align with elder and Senior Pastor decisions.
• Develop external communications to raise community awareness and digital presence.

Skills

Leadership

Financial stewardship

Operations management

Strategic planning

Communication

Team development

Education

Bachelor’s degree in a related field

Bible minor or equivalent Bible knowledge

Job description

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Calvary Bible Church (Kalamazoo, MI)

Position: Executive Pastor / Executive Director

Classification: Full-time Staff, Ministerial Exception

Reports to: Senior Pastor

Mission The Executive Director/Executive Pastor provides leadership and oversight of the financial and operational resources of Calvary Bible Church, ensuring faithful stewardship, organizational effectiveness, and administrative excellence in support of the church's vision, ministries, and mission.

Responsibilities

• Team Morale: Fostering team morale by personally modeling and actively encouraging a servant-hearted, positive, encouraging, and energetic staff culture.
  
• Financial Leadership and Stewardship: Provides strategic leadership and direct oversight of the church's financial operations, including budgeting, accounting, financial reporting, internal controls, and regulatory compliance. Serves as the primary staff leader and resource for financial stewardship. Performs selected day-to-day accounting functions, including financial transaction processing, account reconciliation, and financial record maintenance.
  
• Administrative Leadership: Leadership of all staff members and departments not directly supervised by a pastor, particularly Finance, Facilities, Ministry Support, and Human Resources.
  
• Vision Implementation: Implement, manage, and ensure the completion of strategic objectives, ongoing ministries, and common administrative tasks delegated by the Senior Pastor.
  
• Internal Communication: Facilitation of accurate, thorough, timely, and positive internal communication among staff, elders, deacons, ministry volunteers, and the congregation.
  
• Special Projects: Planning and execution of special projects, conferences, and events as assigned.
  
• Operations: Oversee the coordination of facility use, ministry, event, vacation, and other schedules.
  
• Policies & Procedures: Ensure policies and procedures of the church are current, relevant, and followed; and responsibly and effectively align with best practices and the decisions made by Calvary’s elders and Senior Pastor.
  
• External Communication: Develop, implement, and oversee external communication strategies that increase community awareness of the church and its ministries, including maintaining a clear, current, and engaging digital presence across the church’s website and social media platforms.
  
• Other Responsibilities: All other duties as assigned by the Senior Pastor.
  

Qualifications

• Spiritual: Must meet the Biblical requirements of an Elder (1 Tim. 3:1-7, Titus 1:6-9); consistent Christ-like character evidencing a growing relationship with Jesus Christ; membership at Calvary Bible Church (CBC) including full agreement with the CBC Constitution and Statement of Faith; and faithful attendance at CBC worship services and support of CBC ministries.
  
• Personal: Must have excellent leadership, communication, and relational skills; be enthusiastic and positive; be a team player who can take initiative while submitting to leadership; and be highly organized.
  
• Aspirational: Enthusiastic support for the pastors’ and elders’ philosophy of ministry and vision.
  
• Educational: Bachelor’s degree in a role-related field; Bible minor from a doctrinally like-minded school, or an equivalent level of Bible knowledge.
  
• Professional: Minimum 3-5 years of significant leadership responsibility in multiple-staff, multiple-department setting;
  
  • Minimum 3-5 years of significant leadership responsibility in multiple-staff, multiple-department setting.

Requirements

RESPONSIBILITIES

1. Team Morale: Fostering team morale by personally modeling and actively encouraging a servant-

hearted, positive, encouraging, and energetic staff culture.

2. Administrative Leadership: Leadership of all staff members and departments not directly

supervised by a pastor, particularly Finance, Facilities, Ministry Support, and Human Resources.

3. Vision Implementation: Implement, manage, and ensure the completion of strategic objectives,

ongoing ministries, and common administrative tasks delegated by the Senior Pastor.

4. Internal Communication: Facilitation of accurate, thorough, timely, and positive internal

communication among staff, elders, deacons, ministry volunteers, and the congregation.

5. Special Projects: Planning and execution of special projects, conferences, and events as assigned.

6. Operations: Oversee the coordination of facility use, ministry, event, vacation, and other

schedules.

7. Policies & Procedures: Ensure policies and procedures of the church are current, relevant, and

followed; and responsibly and effectively align with best practices and the decisions made by

Calvary’s elders and Senior Pastor.

8. External Communication: Develop, implement, and oversee external communication strategies

that increase community awareness of the church and its ministries, including maintaining a clear,

current, and engaging digital presence across the church’s website and social media platforms.

9. Other Responsibilities: All other duties as assigned by the Senior Pastor.

QUALIFICATIONS

1. Spiritual: Must meet the Biblical requirements of an Elder (1 Tim. 3:1-7, Titus 1:6-9); consistent

Christ-like character evidencing a growing relationship with Jesus Christ; membership at Calvary

Bible Church (CBC) including full agreement with the CBC Constitution and Statement of Faith; and

faithful attendance at CBC worship services and support of CBC ministries.

2. Personal: Must have excellent leadership, communication, and relational skills; be enthusiastic and

positive; be a team player who can take initiative while submitting to leadership; and be highly

organized.

3. Aspirational: Enthusiastic support for the pastors’ and elders’ philosophy of ministry and vision.

4. Educational: Bachelor’s degree in a role-related field; Bible minor from a doctrinally like-minded

school, or an equivalent level of Bible knowledge.

5. Professional: Minimum 3-5 years of significant leadership responsibility in multiple-staff, multiple-

department setting.