Worship Experience Specialist

Have you often felt like you wanted your work to have meaning? Every day, Resurrection staff members are doing work that matters with people who care. Resurrection’s purpose since its conception in 1990 is to “build a Christian community where non-religious and nominally religious people are becoming deeply committed Christians.” Join our team and see how your contributions move the needle in transforming the World. 

Resurrection has an opening for a Worship Experience Specialist in the Ministries & Programs division! The position is part-time, exempt with Sundays required and is located at the Overland Park campus at 8412 W 95th St, Overland Park, KS 66212. Please see below for a full job description. 

Job Summary  

The Worship Experience Specialist is the church’s location leader responsible for creating a meaningful worship experience that guides guests and existing members on their journey to become deeply committed Christians. As a member of the Worship Team, the Location Worship Experience Specialist will steer all logistics related to weekend worship, ensuring that every person who attends worship has an exceptional experience. Weekend worship responsibilities consist of leading the ministries of Holy Communion and Baptisms as well as the management of Hospitality teams including Greeters and Ushers, Parking teams, Connection Point/Info Desk, Medical Team and others supporting first impressions and the guest experience related to worship. The Location Worship Experience Specialist is also responsible for key administrative aspects of the location such as first-time guest follow up and serves as a collaborative team member at the West location. 

Essential Responsibilities and Expectations: 

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

Position-Specific 

• Serve as the on-site Staff leader in Worship Experience for all worship services.
• Provide holistic leadership, training, and support to all Worship Experience Teams
  • Manage volunteer schedules and ensure adequate coverage for all services.
  • Build effective teams, identifying high-capacity leaders and equipping people for ministry. 
  • Ministry assessment and performance evaluation, goal setting, mentoring, spiritual encouragement, support, and conflict resolution.
  • Prepare for and conduct team meetings, trainings, and celebration/recognition events.

• Lead logistical planning and implementation of worship elements in weekly worship and special events
  • Includes special worship events and liturgical holidays.   Examples: Communion, Acolytes, Baptism, Anointing, Ash Imposition, processionals, recessionals, remembrance of baptism. 
• Oversee Communion logistics for Sanctuary
  • Sets up Sanctuary for Communion each month, ensuring altar is set according to Pastor preference. 
  • Lead volunteers as staff person on-site during communion services each month.
• Manage logistics of special worship-related handouts or sermon series promotional items, i.e, print collateral. Worship giveaways, sermon series items, etc.
• Collaborate with the Worship Experience Team provide timely oversight of first-time guest follow up practices as well as other member and guest communications relating to the worship experience including location specific online platforms.
• Maintain a functional and reverent aesthetic in all worship spaces. 
  • Seasonally work with Worship Design Manager and contracted florists/interior designers to support the development and implementation of a décor scheme that enhances the worship experience during holidays and in accordance with the liturgical calendar, i.e., Lent, Maundy Thursday, Easter, Advent, Christmas. 
    • Recruit and provide leadership to volunteer teams or contractors assigned to implement this plan.
• Coordinate logistics of large-scale worship services such as Candlelight Christmas Eve and Easter as well as recruiting and equipping additional volunteers for these larger special services. 
• Attend Worship Experience and Location-specific team meetings, All-Staff meetings, etc. 
• Provide support to location team in the event of large weddings or funerals in the Sanctuary. 
• Other duties and tasks as assigned.

Churchwide 

• Follow Jesus and engage in the “five essential practices” of the Christian life: worship, study, serve, give, and share.
• Support the church’s purpose of “building a Christian community where non-religious and nominally religious people become deeply committed Christians.”
• Exemplify the church’s values and support its theological direction as a United Methodist Church.

Competencies

• Activating - proactively takes on new challenges and opportunities with energy and urgency.
• Developing Others – coaches, encourages and resources individuals and teams to discover their calling and meet career and church goals.
• Driving Vision and Clarity – ensures people are on the same page and understands the cross-functional role teams play in making the church a success.
• Innovating – provides new solutions that will elevate the church’s effectiveness. 
• Improving Systems – configures organizational systems, structures, and processes for greater effectiveness. 
• Leading Change – promotes, champions and enables changes and helps bring others along in the process. 
• Motivating – creates a climate where people are inspired to do their best to help the church achieve its purpose.
• Orchestrating – ensures everyone works together to achieve the same goal of staging seamless, coherent user experiences.
• Problem Solving – makes good decisions quickly, solves problems effectively to help move the church forward.
• Resourcing – secures and deploys resources as effectively and efficiently as possible. 
• Team Building – forms highly effective teams, whether supervised or informal, where individuals with diverse skills achieve ambitious goals.

Qualifications 

• Positive and professional communication skills with strong acumen for working with a wide variety of people.
• Proficient computer skills, especially with MS Excel, Outlook, and Word.   
• Data management expertise through database maintenance and reporting. 
• Aptitude working with web content management software. 
• Ability to multi-task and manage competing priorities.
• Knowledge of the United Methodist Book of Discipline relating to sacraments and worship practices. 
• Physical Requirements: Must be able to lift, push, or pull 50lbs., stand for long periods of time and walk extensively during worship services.