Job Overview

Creative Director

Department: Creative

Job Title: Daystar Creative Director

Direct Report: Global Service Programming Director

Employment Type: Full-Time (Sunday-Thursday)

Purpose of the Job:

The Creative Director serves the mission of Daystar Church by leading the Creative Ministry, managing all team members and creative projects, collaborating with other Daystar ministries, and coordinating planning and execution of special events across all Daystar locations. The Creative Director also works closely with the Lead Pastor and Service Programming Director on carrying out vision for series and weekend services.

Job Description

Essential Functions & Responsibilities:

• Visionary for the Creative Ministry
  • Embracing the vision of Daystar Church: Community Transformation through the Love and Power of Jesus
  • Casting the vision consistently and convincingly, connecting every project and event the Creative Team touches back to the vision
• Leader and Developer of Creative Staff
  • Regular meetings with all Creative staff (full-time and contract)
  • Helping team members to prioritize and develop efficient rhythms to stay ahead of their task list
  • Building in margin to be able to dream and plan for the future of Creative
  • Elevating the projects the team produces by give constructive feedback providing resources to help develop their skill sets
• Project Manager of all Creative Tasks and Event Timelines
  • Utilizing SOPs, forms, task lists, and deadlines to track progress of all projects the Creative Team is responsible to complete

• Overseer of Creative Volunteer Dream Teams (DT) at all locations
  • Partnering with campus pastors to identify campus coordinators to lead the Creative DT at their campuses
  • Equipping and resourcing coordinators with ongoing team training and development opportunities, scheduling best practices, Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and growth tracks for each DT position
  • Helping coordinators develop and maintain recruiting and onboarding processes and workflows
• Liaison for all church-wide communication, marketing and promotion
  • Tracking all upcoming events, assigning and scheduling through all our forms of communication
  • Gauging metrics to pursue most effective methods of connecting people to the mission of the church
• Protector of all Daystar Branding
  • Developing and maintaining brand guides for all ministry brands to ensure consistency across locations
  • Thinking through the eyes of an outsider and understanding how to catch their attention and add value that draws them in
• Facilitator of planning and execution of all global events
  • Maintaining rhythm of brainstorming, planning, and review meetings
  • Casting vision and guiding the process to ensure the plans stay on track
  • Creating and maintaining all SOPs to replicate successful execution
  • Tracking Budgets and Timelines
• Collaborative Partner with all Daystar Ministries and Campuses
  • Consistently communicating with Ministry Leaders and Campus Pastors to collaborate and help accomplish the vision for their areas of ministry
  • Managing incoming projects and communicating progress throughout
• Perform other ministry tasks as assigned by Direct Report, including but not limited to:
  • Creating and updating SOPs and Documents
  • Maintain personal, spiritual, and professional growth in discipleship through podcasts, conferences, book reading, and scripture.

Employees possess and exhibit the following core values in their daily lives:

• Love for God
• Love for People
• Work ethic that is excellent
• Protective and frugal with time and money
• Attitude of a servant
• Enjoyable to be around
• Devoted to the call of God and the Church

Skills & Attributes

• Experience
  • Branding, Marketing and Design
  • Adobe Creative Suite – Photoshop, Illustrator, Premier, LightRoom
  • Project Management Systems and Processes – Asana
  • Mass Communication Methods – Social Media, Text In Church, FlockNote, MailJet
  • Google Suite – Drive, Calendar, Docs and Sheets
  • Web Development and Design – SquareSpace
• Qualities
  • Christ-like, servant attitude
  • Devoted to the call of God and the vision of Daystar
  • Confident communicator that can command a room and cast vision
  • Relational leader with a heart for development
  • Skilled at delivering empowering feedback and constructive criticism
  • Natural networker desiring to connect and learn from other churches
  • Innovative thinker and not afraid to try new methods
  • Operate with the spirit of excellence
  • Efficiency with time and project management
  • Anticipating needs and being proactive finding solutions
  • Forward thinking in planning and execution