Director of College (One Church Team)

SUMMARY

The primary responsibility of the Director of PL College is to provide spiritual, visionary, team-based, value-driven leadership for the PL College in a manner consistent with the vision, mission, values, and major objectives of Pinelake Church.  The Director develops, coaches, and resources the PL College team by cultivating biblical community, leading strategy, facilitating collaboration, and fostering spiritual development within our PL College and their areas of influence. 

GENERAL RESPONSIBILITIES

Learn

• Pursue a growing relationship with Jesus through consistent time in God’s Word and prayer
• Continually grow in your understanding of the Jesus-Centered Life (salvation, identity, life, and authority in Christ).
• Remain teachable and hungry, seeking feedback, learning from others, and developing both spiritually and professionally.
• Cultivate awareness of God’s presence in everyday life, listening to the Holy Spirit and responding in obedience.

Live

• Practice and model the rhythms of Be the Church (Grow, Pray, Connect, and Share).
• Pursue emotional health by engaging in self-awareness, addressing past wounds, and cultivating honest, healthy relationships.
• Practice healthy rhythms, prioritizing your relationship with Jesus and your family
• Embody a life of integrity and surrender, allowing your private life with God to shape your work.

Lead 

• Take ownership of disciple-making by supporting and strengthening environments where people can take their next step toward a Jesus-Centered Life.
• Leverage your role, systems, and responsibilities to remove barriers and create clarity, helping both staff and the church move forward in the Discipleship Pathway (Essentials → JCL → Be the Church).
• Contribute to life-change by bringing your skills, organization, and follow-through to your work, knowing that what you build and manage helps others lead and shepherd more effectively.
• Build people through your influence—encouraging, supporting, and serving teammates and Servant Leaders in ways that help them grow and thrive.
• Measure success not only by task completion, but by how your work contributes to disciples being formed and multiplied across the church.

Embrace the Culture

• Value and embody the staff values, which we call the 7 H’s: Humility, Honor, Honesty, Hunger, Holy Spirit, Health, and Harmony
• Communicate clearly, honestly, and proactively in a way that builds trust, unity, and momentum.  
• Work in alignment with the church vision and leadership
• Participate fully in the life of your campus or team, contributing to the unity, health, and shepherding of the faith family.

SPECIFIC LIST OF DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Provides vision, strategy, coaching, alignment, and resourcing to the PL College across all campuses in alignment with the direction of the Lead Team.
• Establishes goals and objectives for the PL College and initiates strategies to fulfill them.
• Relationally shepherds the Pastors and Ministers within the PL College to support their spiritual and professional development.
• Leads collaboration and strategy for PL College conferences and special events. 
• Collaborates with Pinelake Missions team in mobilizing students for Kingdom impact. 
• Shapes and supervises servant leader and small group leader development within the PL College in keeping with the principles taught in Ephesians 4:11-12.
• Directs, evaluates, and oversees Pinelake’s Discipleship Pathway process, in conjunction with the Discipleship team, for college students along with outreach, ministry structure, and special events.
• Influences the PL College culture by modeling and shepherding toward spiritual, emotional, relational, physical, and organizational health.
• Communicates consistently with the Campus Pastors and NextGen Pastors regarding the health and development of their respective staff in the PL College, as well as the One Church strategy and vision.
• Collaborates with Pinelake’s Resourcing and Creative teams regarding curriculum, content, and promotional material for the PL College.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Supervises exempt and non-exempt personnel.  
• Carries out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with the organization’s policies and applicable laws.  Responsibilities include interviewing, hiring, and evaluating performance; rewarding and disciplining employees; addressing complaints and resolving problems; and administering vacation/paid time off and other personnel procedures in conjunction with the Director of Operations and the Human Resources policies and procedures.

QUALIFICATIONS

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

EDUCATION AND/OR EXPERIENCE 

The minimum requirements for the Pastor/Director of College Ministry are a bachelor’s degree and ten years of ministry experience in college ministry contexts.  Competitive candidates will have an advance degree and seminary experience.  Also, multi-site and key leadership experiences are competitive attributes.

LANGUAGE SKILLS

The individual must have excellent interpersonal skills, ability to work with a diverse group of people, communicate clearly and effectively on the telephone, e-mail and in person, demonstrating tact and diplomacy.  Exceptional interpersonal skills are required to develop and maintain strong working relationships with volunteers, co-workers, the public, church members and regular attendees.  The individual must have the ability to understand written or oral instructions; read, analyze, and interpret documents, instructions manuals, and policies and procedures.

COMPUTER AND MATHEMATICAL SKILLS

The individual must have demonstrated skill in the use of Windows/MacOS to complete tasks, including word processing and spreadsheets and the ability to use the internet for information retrieval.  The individual must have basic mathematical skills, knowledge of bookkeeping and basic accounting, and budget and expense monitoring. The individual must have the ability to read financial information and spreadsheets.

REASONING ABILITY 

Simultaneous conceptualization and planning of multiple tasks, ability to project outcomes using different implementation strategies and ability to apply creative and innovative thinking to problem situations.  The ability to work effectively and efficiently under stressful conditions to ensure deadlines are met is essential.

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.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit and talk or hear.  The employee frequently is required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel.  The employee is required to stand, walk, and reach with hands and arms.  Must be able to lift up to 25 lbs.

WORK ENVIRONMENT

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

The noise level of the work environment is usually moderate.