Strategic Worship Experience Pastor

Hope-Church; Richmond (VA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

HOPE Church seeks a Worship Experience Pastor to provide strategic, pastoral, and organizational leadership for all worship and production environments—on campus and online. You will shepherd Worship Lead Pastor and Production Lead, shape worship philosophy and service flow, anddevelop staff and volunteers to advance the church’s mission.

The role emphasizes theological depth, musical excellence, and pastoral presence, with duties spanning vision casting, cross-ministry collaboration, and

Qualifications

• Active and growing personal relationship with Jesus Christ.
• Strong alignment with HOPE’s mission, vision, values, and theological convictions.
• Minimum bachelor’s degree in worship leadership, theology, music, production, leadership, or related field preferred.
• Significant experience leading complex worship, production, or creative ministries in a large church or similarly complex environment.
• Demonstrated ability to lead worship vocally and instrumentally from the platform in a congregational setting.
• Proven experience leading and developing high-capacity leaders and teams.
• Strong strategic thinking, organizational leadership, and systems-building ability.
• Strong communication, relational, and coaching skills.
• Working knowledge of modern worship and production systems, platforms, and workflows.
• Demonstrated ability to balance pastoral sensitivity, creative vision, and operational execution.

Responsibilities

• Develop and champion a compelling vision for worship experiences across all HOPE environments.
• Partner closely with the Ministries Director and other senior ministry leaders to ensure worship environments support HOPE’s mission, vision, values, and long-term strategic direction.
• Shape systems, structures, and rhythms that enable sustainable excellence as HOPE grows.
• Ensure worship and production strategy remains scalable, proactive, and aligned with future ministry expansion.
• Provide direct supervision, coaching, support, and accountability for Worship Lead Pastor and Production Lead.
• Lead regular 1:1 meetings, goal-setting, and performance development conversations.
• Foster healthy collaboration between Worship, Production, Communications, Family Ministries, and Ministry Experience.
• Build a culture of trust, humility, excellence, ownership, and spiritual maturity.
• Create and lead intentional gatherings, development opportunities, and retreats that build community, cast vision, deepens spiritual formation, and strengthens team culture across Worship and Production.
• Support succession planning, leadership development, and staff growth across both departments.
• Oversee the spiritual, creative, and practical design of HOPE’s worship environments while helping shape and model a compelling culture of worship both on and off the platform.
• Ensure services are thoughtfully planned and executed with theological depth, musical excellence, and strong congregational engagement.
• Partner with the Worship Lead Pastor on worship philosophy, service flow, song strategy, creative planning, volunteer development.
• Help maintain consistency and alignment across all worship venues and ministry environments.
• Oversee the strategy, systems, and standards for production across all HOPE environments.
• Ensure excellence in audio, video, lighting, livestreaming, digital production.
• Partner with the Production Lead to improve workflows, systems, and technical reliability.
• Guide planning for future equipment.
• Serve as a key bridge between worship/production and other ministry departments.
• Help translate ministry vision into effective worship and production execution.
• Partner with ministry leaders to support Sundays, major events, seasonal services, and special initiatives.
• Partner closely with the Communications Director to ensure worship experiences and churchwide communications are creatively aligned, mutually reinforcing, and consistently support HOPE’s messaging and ministry priorities.
• Ensure ministry requests are prioritized and supported through clear communication and planning processes.
• Champion healthy volunteer cultures across worship and production teams.
• Ensure strong systems for volunteer recruitment, onboarding, scheduling, training, and care.
• Support leaders in creating environments where volunteers feel spiritually encouraged, equipped, and valued.
• Foster leadership pipelines that develop future worship and production leaders.
• Oversee departmental budgets related to worship and production.
• Help prioritize spending, equipment purchases, staffing needs, and capital improvements.
• Ensure wise stewardship of resources while supporting ministry effectiveness and growth.

Skills

Strategic leadership

Team leadership

Worship leadership

Communication

Coaching

Pastoral care

Education

Bachelor’s degree in worship leadership, theology, music, production, or related field

Job description

HOPE Church seeks a Worship Experience Pastor to provide strategic, pastoral, and organizational leadership for all worship and production environments—on campus and online. You will shepherd Worship Lead Pastor and Production Lead, shape worship philosophy and service flow, anddevelop staff and volunteers to advance the church’s mission.

The role emphasizes theological depth, musical excellence, and pastoral presence, with duties spanning vision casting, cross-ministry collaboration, and