Worship/Creative Arts Pastor

Worship Leader Magazine; Mobile (AL); On-site; USD 52,000 - 66,000; Full time

Job summary

Worship Leader Magazine in Mobile, AL seeks a Full-Time Ministerial, salaried leader to oversee Worship & Creative Arts across church services and events. You will recruit and train worship teams, manage budgets, and ensure a vibrant sanctuary environment with a strong volunteer culture.

Meet weekly with campus pastors, supervise music, tech, photography, and communications teams, and develop a robust worship program across campuses. Must model Christian virtues and lead with excellence.

Qualifications

• Must be spiritually mature and able to work with volunteers
• Strong communication, problem solving, and people skills
• Experience in worship ministry and team leadership

Responsibilities

• Recruit and train the worship teams and leaders for each campus
• Develop our sons and daughters in worship and utilize them as soon as they are ready in services
• Ensure music areas remain vital, productive and staffed with trained leaders
• Oversee creative team leaders (Music Director, Tech, Photography, Communications, Video, Social Media)
• Meet weekly with creative team leaders and campus pastors to plan services
• Maintain budgeting for the department
• Ensure sancturary environment reflects genuine worship
• Conduct weekly rehearsals and learn new music
• Identify songs within song parameters
• Coordinate team building activities
• Recruit, train and develop musicians for bands
• Collaborate with Children’s and Youth Pastors to integrate music programs
• Maintain licensing for copyrighted music
• Learn and oversee technical aspects of worship ministry (Ableton, Planning Center)
• Attend staff and leadership meetings and support ministry needs

Skills

Worship Leadership

Recruitment & Training

Event Planning

Budget Management

Team Collaboration

Ableton Live

Planning Center

Tools

Ableton Live

Planning Center

Job description

Job Classification: Full-Time Ministerial, Salaried

POSITION PURPOSE: Oversee Worship & Creative Arts for all worship services and special events.

NATURE OF WORKING IN A CHURCH ENVIRONMENT: The person assuming this responsibility must be spiritually and emotionally mature, friendly, and have a good attitude while in the workplace. It is also imperative to have good people skills, problem solving skills, communication skills and general computer skills. The employee must be able to function on a team and work closely with a large group of volunteers, as well as other staff members. In addition, must be able to distinguish between the nature of a church environment, which depends heavily on its volunteers, versus a secular environment, which works mostly with paid employees. This distinction is critical to the function and success of the position. As a part of the Christian community, it is imperative that employees of the church understand they are viewed as an example of Christian virtues and must not violate these virtues through their behavior, attitudes, actions or speech.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Recruit and train the worship teams and leaders for each campus
• Develop our sons and daughters in worship and utilize them as soon as they are ready in the services
• Ensure that the music areas of ministry remain vital, productive and staffed with well-trained lay leaders
• Provide oversight for all the creative team leaders (Music Director, Tech, Photography, Communications, Video, Social Media)
• Meet weekly with creative team leaders and campus pastors to plan the weekly services. Work closely with the Pastor for the direction of the services
• Maintain proper accounting and budgeting for the department
• Ensure that the sanctuary environment is one of genuine worship
• Ensure that the team attitude, attire and skill level are conducive to an environment of worship
• Conduct weekly rehearsals to learn new music and maintain a standard of excellence
• Identify and learn songs within Pathway’s song parameters as set by the Lead Pastor
• Conduct periodic fellowship for team building
• Recruit and train church musicians to accompany and support each worship service
• Recruit, train and develop musicians for the bands
• Work closely with the Children’s Pastor and Youth Pastor overseeing and developing a musical program to be integrated into the worship services
• Maintain licensing for copyrighted worship music used at Pathway
• Learn and oversee the technical aspects of worship ministry (Abelton, Planning Center, etc)

This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties of this position. Employees will be required to follow any other job-related instructions and perform other job-related duties requested by either the Lead Pastor or Executive Pastor. Requirements are representative of minimum levels of knowledge, skills, and abilities. To perform this job successfully, the employee will possess the abilities or aptitudes to perform each duty proficiently. This document does not create an employment contract, implied or otherwise, other than an “at-will” employment relationship.

Staff Duties

• Attend all staff meetings, all church leadership meetings, and all required training meetings
• Provide assistance to every ministry and department within the church by being available to answer questions, find resolutions and help with needs
• Fulfill the role of a Pastor of the Worship Ministry and the Church when needed. (Hospital visit rotation, calls, etc.)
• Represent the church by expressing a warm welcome to visitors, to include greeting after service, developing a strong bond of friendship with the congregational body, and serving as a liaison between the church and our community

Grievances

Grievances with another employee, supervisor, or volunteer worker, shall be handled in the following manner: A written grievance shall be given to the Lead Pastor in person. The grievance will not be discussed with any other staff member or church member. The Lead Pastor will set up a meeting with all parties involved to attempt to resolve the grievance. The decision of the Lead Pastor will be final. Any non-compliance to the Lead Pastor’s decision will be grounds for Employment termination.