Job Overview

The Innovation Lab Executive Director provides visionary and strategic leadership to City's Innovation Lab, a team of forward-thinking strategists from across City Audiences working closely with the City Guiding Team to uniquely restore every community with the good news of Jesus. The Executive Director encourages and supports innovation at the audience/network level as well as empowers staff across all City to engage new metro areas or new affinity groups, to close identified missional gaps, to restore communities, and to help people find their places in God's story.

Job Description

The City Innovation Lab Executive Director:

1. Walks humbly with Jesus and others to learn, grow, and work together well.
2. Empowers local-level innovation through networking, training, grants, etc. within and across audiences, in accordance with City's Community Engagement Guidebook.
3. Incubates City-wide strategies by prioritizing opportunities based on City Leadership strategy and vision, and by coaching or overseeing newly created strategies during incubation stage until placement in City structure is confirmed.
4. Proactively develops funding for new ministry strategies.
5. Manages the Innovation Lab budget with keen stewardship.
6. Develops a process for identifying gaps and opportunities for new City ministry.
7. Collaborates with City Leadership Development and HR Directors to identify and raise new leaders for incubated City-wide strategies.
8. Builds partnerships with outside organizations and individuals to benefit Innovation Lab-supported teams and strategies, and to engage gap communities.
9. Vets and qualifies new and existing strategies for access to Innovation Lab resources, in accordance with City's Community Engagement Guidebook.
10. Recruits and builds a qualified, God-honoring team to accomplish these goals in partnership with City HR.
11. Participates in City coaching, leadership events, and other leadership development opportunities.