Executive Pastor of Ministry

Westwood Community Church; Excelsior (MN); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Westwood Community Church seeks an Executive Pastor of Ministry to provide pastoral and strategic leadership, aligning staff, ministries, and campuses with the church’s mission and vision. This leader develops ministry staff, strengthens culture, and translates vision into coordinated action under the Senior Pastor’s guidance.

The role oversees multiple ministries and partnerships, ensuring healthy structures, effective planning, and budget development to support the long-term growth of the

Qualifications

• Significant vocational ministry leadership experience in a local church.
• Direct supervision and development of church staff leaders.
• Experience leading through other leaders and aligning multiple ministries.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a pastor at large of Westwood Community Church, participating in staff meetings, retreats, church functions, pastoral care and counsel, and other pastoral responsibilities.
• Provide teaching ministry at the invitation of the Senior Pastor or in other approved settings.
• Officiate church ordinances, weddings, and funerals as assigned.
• Participate in the Pastor-on-Call rotation.
• Model spiritual maturity, biblical leadership, and a commitment to Westwood’s mission and way of life.
• Lead, supervise, coach, and develop ministry staff leaders who oversee their own staff and volunteer teams.
• Establish clear expectations, provide meaningful feedback, and hold leaders accountable for ministry effectiveness and team health.
• Build a staff culture marked by trust, collaboration, ownership, and spiritual growth.
• Align ministries and campuses around shared priorities while equipping leaders to lead effectively within their areas of responsibility.
• Champion staff development, healthy ministry structures, and innovation that support the church’s long-term growth.
• Partner with the Senior Pastor in setting direction, making thoughtful decisions, and advancing the church’s mission.
• Lead the annual strategic planning process, including evaluating staff effectiveness, reviewing mission, vision, and core values, developing objectives and tactics, and establishing annual church goals with the Leadership Board.
• Translate churchwide vision into clear ministry priorities, actionable plans, and coordinated execution.
• Establish and maintain ministry reports and scorecards that give the Senior Pastor, Leadership Board, and staff visibility into ministry health and effectiveness.
• Lead ministry staff in developing annual budgets that support the strategic ministry plan.
• Collaborate with the Director of Operations to support effective ministry and organizational alignment.
• Ensure operational integrity, continuity, and readiness through leadership and oversight of support staff within the role’s responsibilities.
• Lead church, community, and ministry partnership efforts, including developing an incarnational strategy, building relationships with other leaders, and strengthening Westwood’s impact here, near, and far.
• Partner with the Senior Pastor in church growth and development initiatives, including capital fundraising campaigns, master planning, project management, donor development, church multiplication, and other Kingdom impact work.
• Represent Westwood with wisdom, integrity, and care in relationships with community and ministry leaders.
• Perform other duties as assigned.
• Live out Westwood’s Staff Values: Head High, Heart Soft, Arms Linked, Feet Forward

Skills

Staff Leadership

Strategic Leadership

Church Governance

Budgeting & Planning

Staff Development

Job description

The Executive Pastor of Ministry provides pastoral and strategic leadership for Westwood’s ministry staff, aligning people, ministries, and campuses around the church’s mission and vision. Working closely with the Senior Pastor, this leader develops ministry leaders, strengthens staff culture, establishes shared priorities, and translates vision into coordinated action.

This role requires significant vocational ministry leadership experience in a local church, including direct supervision and development of church staff leaders. Candidates should bring demonstrated experience leading through other leaders and providing direction across multiple ministry areas. Business or nonprofit leadership experience may complement this background but does not replace the required church ministry leadership experience.

The Executive Pastor of Ministry oversees campuses, outreach, worship, care, kids, students, connections, groups, formation, people, and strategy while helping cultivate a spiritually healthy, collaborative, and effective ministry team.

Responsibilities

Pastoral Leadership

• Serve as a pastor at large of Westwood Community Church, participating in staff meetings, retreats, church functions, pastoral care and counsel, and other pastoral responsibilities.
• Provide teaching ministry at the invitation of the Senior Pastor or in other approved settings.
• Officiate church ordinances, weddings, and funerals as assigned.
• Participate in the Pastor-on-Call rotation.
• Model spiritual maturity, biblical leadership, and a commitment to Westwood’s mission and way of life.

Staff Leadership and Development

• Lead, supervise, coach, and develop ministry staff leaders who oversee their own staff and volunteer teams.
• Establish clear expectations, provide meaningful feedback, and hold leaders accountable for ministry effectiveness and team health.
• Build a staff culture marked by trust, collaboration, ownership, and spiritual growth.
• Align ministries and campuses around shared priorities while equipping leaders to lead effectively within their areas of responsibility.
• Champion staff development, healthy ministry structures, and innovation that support the church’s long-term growth.

Strategy and Ministry Effectiveness

• Partner with the Senior Pastor in setting direction, making thoughtful decisions, and advancing the church’s mission.
• Lead the annual strategic planning process, including evaluating staff effectiveness, reviewing mission, vision, and core values, developing objectives and tactics, and establishing annual church goals with the Leadership Board.
• Translate churchwide vision into clear ministry priorities, actionable plans, and coordinated execution.
• Establish and maintain ministry reports and scorecards that give the Senior Pastor, Leadership Board, and staff visibility into ministry health and effectiveness.
• Lead ministry staff in developing annual budgets that support the strategic ministry plan.
• Collaborate with the Director of Operations to support effective ministry and organizational alignment.
• Ensure operational integrity, continuity, and readiness through leadership and oversight of support staff within the role’s responsibilities.

Partnerships and Growth

• Lead church, community, and ministry partnership efforts, including developing an incarnational strategy, building relationships with other leaders, and strengthening Westwood’s impact here, near, and far.
• Partner with the Senior Pastor in church growth and development initiatives, including capital fundraising campaigns, master planning, project management, donor development, church multiplication, and other Kingdom impact work.
• Represent Westwood with wisdom, integrity, and care in relationships with community and ministry leaders.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Live out Westwood’s Staff Values:

• Head High
• Heart Soft
• Arms Linked
• Feet Forward