MENS AND MARRIAGE PASTOR

Position Title: Men’s & Marriage Pastor
Department Name: Life Groups
Organizational Level: Professional
Reports to: Lead Life Groups Pastor
FLSA Status: Exempt
Full/Part time: Full-time
Salary Range: $55,000-$63,000 annualized
Date: August 2023

Summary/Objective:

The Men’s & Marriage Pastor will work with the Life Groups team while leading and overseeing ministries that disciple and empower men to be like Jesus and marriages to strengthen, according to Southeast’s vision and mission.

Essential Functions:

1. Lead and oversee ministries that will disciple and empower men to be like Jesus, according to Southeast’s four pillars of ministry: Moving from brokenness to wholeness; connecting to purposeful community, living a spiritually disciplined life; global impact.
2. Develop and articulate the vision for men’s ministry in correlation with the vision of the church at large.
3. Collaborate with other departments to build and support ministries for all groups and ages of adults, especially men.
4. Identify, encourage and equip men to use their gifts in development of ministry, and assist them in finding ways to serve others through those gifts.
5. Build, lead and equip the volunteer leaders.
6. Develop systems that will effectively connect men to God and each other.
7. Oversee the spiritual development of men through Bible study and discipleship, mentoring, prayer, community growth, and service.
8. Lead the overall plan for men’s ministries by designing the ministries, setting and managing goals and budget, implementation, and conducting regular ministry evaluations.
9. Maintain the master schedule and calendar of events for men’s ministries, ensuring effective correlation with the other ministries of Southeast.
10. Ensure that events are well planned, strategic towards vision, well promoted and well organized through collaboration with other ministries.
11. Communicate regularly and effectively to all men and Southeast staff.
12. Work with other staff to provide pastoral care and spiritual direction for Southeast congregation and community.
13. Oversee the marriage mentorship ministry including recruiting, empowering and equipping of all mentor couples and volunteers.
14. Plan, strategize and execute events with the purpose of strengthening marriages.
15. Provide pastoral counseling on an as needed basis for couples.
16. Work with outside marriage speakers, including communication of vision and implementation of the speakers’ content.
17. Help coordinate weddings when there is a request for a Southeast pastor to officiate.
18. Ensure all marriage programming is discipleship-oriented, lining up with the vision of the Life Groups team.
19. Work with Adult Ministries team and other partner ministries to resource couples who need additional support.
20. Perform other duties, as needed.

Time Requirements:

This position will be completed in 40+ hours per week, including weekends, some evenings and holidays.

Work Environment:
This job operates in a professional office environment and uses standard office equipment such as laptop computers, desktop computers and telephones.

Physical Demands:
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear and frequently required to sit and/or stand for sustained periods of time; lift, push, pull items in excess of 30 lbs; walk and reach with hands and arms.

Requirements:

Professional/Education

1. Bachelor’s degree in ministry or theological studies preferred.
2. Strong skills in Microsoft Office, Adobe, Social Media and Zoom, preferred.
3. Experience in church ministry preferred.
4. Experience with the SYMBIS tool a plus.
5. Strong listening skills.
6. Able to manage confidentiality in all aspects of job.

Spiritual

1. A faithful, growing Christ-follower who is deepening their personal relationship with Christ, models this to others.
2. A passionate desire to see people come to know, love and follow Christ in the context of real community.
3. In agreement with Southeast’s Statement of Beliefs, Values, Mission and Vision.
4. Desires to know and love God and wants to be used by God.

Personal

1. Dedicated to the development of God’s people in their roles of discipleship, servanthood and outreach.
2. Humble, credible, trustworthy, teachable and a self-starter with leadership influence and impact.
3. Skilled in building and leading gifts-based teams to accomplish shared purposes, they are also a team player who sees the need to take other with them in the journey of leadership and leadership development and equip others for community-building impact.
4. Strong social, biblical and verbal skills that enable them to be an effective and creative communicator.
5. Demonstrates wise judgment in decision-making.
6. Ability to live in and cultivate biblical community.
7. Champions the pillars of Southeast and core values of the staff. Values the culture of Southeast Christian Church.
8. Adhere to Southeast’s Staff Expectations: (1) work hard; (2) deal with conflict biblically (Matthew 18); (3) have a "solutions-focused mindset" (propose solutions, not just identify problems); (4) engage in community, worship and growth by being in a life group and attending one Southeast church service each weekend; (5) biblically tithing to Southeast Christian Church; (6) no gossip; (7) lives a life of integrity; (8) has a positive attitude.

Desired Competencies:

Customer Focus, Decision Quality, Strategic Mindset, Action Oriented, Plans and Aligns, Ensures Accountability, Collaborates, Builds Effective Teams, Values Differences, Communicates Effectively, Drives Engagement, Instills Trust, Demonstrates Self-Awareness

This description indicates the general level and nature of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job.