Lead Worship Pastor

Description

• Salary Range: $90,000 – $105,000 annualized, depending on experience and depth of multisite leadership background. 
• Position Type: Full-Time, Ministerial Exempt (40+ hours/week, including weekends). 
• Benefits Package: Includes comprehensive Medical, Dental, Vision, and Life Insurance, along with paid Vacation, Sick Leave, and Personal Days. 

ROLE SUMMARY

The Lead Worship Pastor leads the ONE&ALL Central Worship Team in creating vision, strategy, plans, and standards, working toward building a consistent worship experience across all of ONE&ALL’s campuses as we fulfill the mission of bringing people far from God near to God. The Lead Worship Pastor also provides central support to Campus Worship Pastors as they lead the local campus worship experience. Finally, the Lead Worship Pastor serves as the Worship Pastor to the entire church—casting vision and nurturing worship experiences that encourage church attendees to seek a deeper relationship with God through worship.

JOB DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Areas of responsibility include, but are not limited to the following:

Central Team Leadership & Strategic Development

• Vision & Alignment: Directly lead the Central Worship Teams, providing an environment of collaboration to develop vision, strategies, and action plans to continually pursue excellence in worship in alignment  with the vision of the Lead Pastor.
• Multisite Oversight: Serve as ONE&ALL’s multisite lead for  worship, providing the ministry philosophy, standards, influence, and direction related to campus constants, DNA, and culture.
• Worship Production: Directly oversee the Central Worship Team as they support all elements related to weekend and other church services across all campuses including, but not limited to, order of service development, song selection, track development, lyric preparation, lighting and video production.
• Technical Standards: Oversee the standards for all campus production technical needs and manage the teams responsible for providing central technical support.
• Creative Oversight: Play a significant role in the process and systems for producing original music and songwriting, and oversee creative resources produced by the church for distribution.

Staff Discipleship & Talent Development

• Culture of Development: Help create a culture of development by recruiting, training, placing, supporting, and monitoring Worship Serve Team Members.
• Team Care & Performance: Develop team members, evaluate team needs,      strengths, opportunities, and areas of improvement. Mentor, advise, coach, and pastor worship team members across all campuses.
• Recruitment: Direct and facilitate the recruitment of new worship team members, ensuring proper onboarding, training, and nurturing.
• Training: Develop and provide ongoing worship team  development and training opportunities for all worship staff and serve      team members.

Campus Collaboration & Support

• Campus Support: Support Campus Pastors in providing an excellent worship experience by collaborating with them and Campus Worship Pastors regarding innovation and problem-solving.
• Meetings & Touchpoints: Facilitate weekly worship team meetings (Central and Campus teams) and regular meetings with Campus Pastors to support efforts in growing a fully functioning campus.
• Rotational Presence: Provide support to campuses during weekend and other services on a rotating basis to ensure a physical presence, interact  with worship team members, and support Campus/Worship Pastors.
• Holiday Programming: Partner with Campus Pastors and Campus Worship Pastors in creating and implementing worship service elements for holidays (Easter, Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, Christmas) and special services.

Administrative & Pastoral Operations

• Strategic Metrics: Partner with Campus Pastors and Campus Worship Pastors in developing OKRs for campus worship ministries that align with ONE&ALL's strategic goals.
• Financial Accountability: Oversee the Central Worship Ministry yearly budget and ensure proper adherence to financial policies and procedures.
• HR Management: Work with central worship team members to maintain a balanced work schedule, partnering with the HR Team to track vacation, sick days, days off, etc.
• Musical Contribution: Participate in weekend services and events as a Worship Leader, musician, Musical Director, or other role as needed.
• General Pastoral Care: Serve as a pastor of ONE&ALL, remaining available for regular church pastoral support (e.g., Pastor On-Call duties, funerals, weddings, prayer, and general service support).

Core Central Lead Expectations

As a Central lead, actively maintain the following identity roles:

• Be a campus supporter and culture carrier.
• Be a vision caster, strategic leader, and content creator.
• Be a standard developer, disseminator, and overseer.
• Be a trainer, mentor, and provider of pastoral care and event project planning.

ALL STAFF RESPONSIBILITIES

• Spiritual Growth: Continue to grow as a follower of Christ, so that what you do overflows from your relationship with Him.
• Biblical Requirements: Meet the scriptural requirements for an elder (though you may not serve as an elder) by living a spiritually surrendered life leaning on the Holy Spirit, spending consistent time in prayer and the Word.
• Financial Stewardship: Faithfully give to the Lord through ONE&ALL Church in a way that is consistent, sacrificial, and follows the first fruit principle (with a tithe being the benchmark).
• Values & Attendance: Live out the ONE&ALL Staff Values with staff, congregation, and community, and attend a campus service regularly.
• All-Church Events: Serve at Easter, Christmas, and other designated all-church events, and participate in Monthly All Church Prayer Nights.
• Office & Governance Compliance: Abide by the on-campus office policy and monitor compliance with Finance and HR policies within your ministry area.
• Operational Management: Approve time cards for non-exempt employees before 10 AM on Monday payroll weeks, and approve time-off requests daily via Paylocity.
• Staff Discipleship: Conduct weekly or bi-weekly 1-on-1s with direct reports, and conduct bi-annual performance evaluations for staff in your  ministry area.
• Pastoral Presence: Participate in Weekend Services according to pastoral staff expectations, perform sacerdotal duties regularly as needed, and remain available to the congregation before and after weekend services.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS AND WORKING CONDITIONS

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by a teammate to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Physical Movement: Regularly required to stand, sit, talk, hear, see, and use hands/fingers. Frequently required to reach with hands and arms. Occasionally required to walk and climb stairs.
• Lifting: Must frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.
• Vision & Discernment: Specific vision abilities include close/distance/color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and focus adjustment. Occasionally must be able to detect, distinguish, and determine taste  and/or smell during services and events.
• Communication: Frequently communicates, exchanges, and conveys information with team members on staff, vendors, and contractors.
• Environment: Shared workspace with a moderate to loud noise level. A typical church environment includes large and small group gatherings      with loud music. Requires commuting to other campuses on the road and in traffic.

Requirements

QUALIFICATIONS AND SKILLS

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Worship Arts, Worship Leadership, Music, Biblical Studies,  Theology, or Practical Ministry.
• Ordination: Be a current or past ordained / licensed Pastor.
• Experience: Minimum of 10 years of experience serving as a Lead or Primary Worship Pastor in a  large, multisite church environment growing a thriving worship team.