Director of Worship

SUMMARY

Worship Strategy and Creative Leadership:

• Provides visionary leadership in developing the academic year and summer worship schedule/calendar.
• Recruits, develops, and mentors student worship leaders for involvement in Chapel, Anchor, and other campus events.
• Curates worship sets and carefully considers how it integrates with the event, message, worship team ability, and style-of-worship preferences of the student body.
• Trains, leads, and manages the student worship teams, chapel volunteers, and others who assist with chapel and worship opportunities on and off campus. Helping them to grow as worship leaders, musicians, and artists.
• Oversees the creative design of chapel services, including production, lighting, and multimedia elements, ensuring a seamless and meaningful experience.
• Programs worship elements for other departmental such as admission recruitment days, welcome weeks, and special services.
• Manages multiple event deadlines, providing organizational oversight to worship team participation across various events throughout the week.

Operations:

• Coordinates all aspects of worship programming and special events, including guest worship leaders, worship teams, production, student volunteers, and student workers.
• Oversees all screen materials used in worship sets such as lyrics, scripture, images, and videos.
• Supports chapel staff on a regular basis in areas such as attendance monitoring and event troubleshooting.
• Secures venues for rehearsals and communicates with the necessary stakeholders prior to chapel services or chapel-related events.
• Submits and tracks all media and technical support requests with attention to details and follow-through.
• Supports the broader Spiritual Life team and aids with student correspondence throughout the year.

Spiritual Leadership:

• Provides consistent discipleship and pastoral care for worship team members, investing in their holistic development.
• Mentors members of the worship teams providing guidance, discipleship, prayer, to cultivate spiritual growth and development.
• Partners with the Spiritual Life team to define and enforce conduct requirements for students on the student worship teams.

Communication and Collaboration:

• Manages team scheduling using Planning Center or similar platforms, ensuring consistency and clarity in the execution of events.
• Oversees the creation of all graphics to be displayed during services ensuring timely submission for department approval.
• Acts as the primary liaison between Spiritual Life Creative Services, Family Church production, and any other third-party production team.
• Identifies and submits equipment requests to ensure excellent service.

Equipment and Inventory:

• Oversees the maintenance, use, and inventory of musical instruments (drums, monitors, speakers, etc.).
• Encourages excellence and responsibility in the use of resources entrusted to the worship ministry.

EDUCATION:

EXPERIENCE:

ESSENTIAL COMPETENCIES (Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities)

• Customer Service Orientation – Keeps internal and/or external key stakeholder(s), students, parents, faculty, staff and community partners in mind at all times.
• Professionalism – Displays a high level of professionalism, e.g. timeliness, reliability, communication, and work ethic.
• Christ-first Faith – Provides spiritual support to community members, including students, on their Christian faith journey.
• Adaptable/Flexibility – Ability to change or adjust to change.
• Attention to Detail – Ability to efficiently and accurately focus on a specific task or number of tasks. Reviews details with a critical eye.
• Conflict Management – Functions professionally and wisely during difficult conversations, while under stress, and while managing challenging situations.
• Continuous Improvement – Implement or brainstorm ways to optimize a process.
• Creativity – Ability to think creatively and design creative solutions to problems.
• Develops Others – Ability to promote continuous improvement within teams and/or individuals.
• Effective Communication – Expresses ideas and information in a clear and concise manner both verbally and in writing to convey clear, well-articulated messaging across a wide variety of audiences.
• Establishes Trust – Gains the confidence of others by actions and words that promote being honest, forthcoming, and vulnerable.
• Leadership/Influence – Ability to motivate, coach and develop others, as well as influence a group of people to achieve common goals, and implement university strategies. Strong supervisory skills.
• Problem-solving – Anticipates, evaluates, diagnoses, and resolves problems in a systematic and fact-based manner.
• Project and Time Management – Effective planning and priority setting. Ability to manage several complex projects simultaneously while working under pressure to meet deadlines.
• Results Orientation & Accountability – Takes accountability and identifies, executes and drives actions to consistently achieve desired results.
• Self-development – Grow one’s self-awareness, abilities, skills, and/or talent.
• Teamwork & Collaboration – Creates a climate that fosters commitment to a common vision and shared values that promote cooperation and working together through trust and support of others both departmentally and cross-functionally.
• Technology – Strong aptitude to learn new technologies as department processes evolve.

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS:

• Ability to work non-routine hours during certain times of the year.
• Ability to traverse campus and stairs.
• Ability to lift/move objects up to 50 pounds.