Executive Pastor

Job Overview

About Pennington Park

God has been faithful to Pennington Park Church over its eight short years of existence. They have a deep commitment to God’s word, and a desire to see lives transformed by the gospel. While an impressive 30+ percent of attendees are 18 years old or younger, they also enjoy a rich diversity of multi-generational discipleship.

Community expectations are high, and the church’s unwavering commitment to excellence has driven its growth.  The church recently celebrated a successful capital campaign to expand its three-year-old facility to accommodate the rapidly growing congregation, now averaging 1,000 each Sunday. Behind this impressive growth lies a growing, dedicated, high-performing staff eager for further development. In the last six months, the team has doubled in size to 16 staff members.

Located on the northeast side of Indianapolis, Fishers, Indiana, is one of the fastest-growing suburbs with nearly 100,000 residents. Money Magazine ranked Fishers as its Best Place to Live in 2017, and more recently, in 2022, Livability rated Fishers the 8th best place to live in the United States. A growing economy, vast urban amenities, and a wealth of recreational opportunities are just a few of the factors that make Fishers an excellent community.

Job Description

About This Role

The executive pastor will serve in a vital role with several essential responsibilities. The executive pastor will be responsible for implementing and executing the vision cast by the lead pastor. This position will assist the lead pastor in leading and directing the staff, including supervising a number of staff members, to maximize their gifts and ensure the church’s overall strategy is implemented through ministry effectiveness and alignment. In addition, this role will also oversee the church’s operations from a high level and report directly to the lead pastor.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Oversee several staff members by regularly meeting with them for support, ministry assessment, goal setting, development plan, coaching, and conducting end-of-year evaluations.
  • Lead the staff meetings for the purpose of alignment and cohesion among the staff.
  • Create intentional activities, environments, opportunities, etc., to improve staff culture, morale, and relationships.
  • Work alongside the ministry leaders to ensure ministries are healthy and thriving and implement the vision of the church set by the lead pastor through executing the three-fold strategy (Belong, Grow, Multiply) across the ministries of PPC.
  • Work alongside the rest of the staff to ensure the right priorities are carried out across key events, ministries, and programs so there is alignment, cohesion, and health.
  • Provide oversight of all business and administrative-related aspects of the church to ensure effective operations.
  • Create appropriate systems, structures, policies, and procedures to aid the staff that results in cohesiveness alignment and maximizes job performance efficiency.
  • Ensure each ministry and staff member has what is needed to operate effectively and in a way that fits the church’s mission through day-to-day operational management, guidance, and problem-solving with the ministry leads as needed.
  • Assist in high-level problem solving, communion, baptisms, prayer/worship nights, member meetings, membership classes, counseling, be available to teach in other adult equipping classes and forums, and whatever projects and tasks are needed.

What a Strong Candidate Would Look Like:

  • Works alongside the lead pastor as ‘hand in glove’.
  • Collaborates with lead pastor, staff, deacons, and elders.Follows through on details in a reliable, trustworthy, and excellent way.
  • Leads leaders and develops others while building and leading teams.
  • Creates systems, structures, and procedures efficiently.
  • Uses appropriate judgment, discretion, sensitivity, and maintains a high degree of confidentiality, handles conflict in a godly manner and, acts as a team player, and employs strong people skills.
Church Name: Pennington Park Church
Location: Fishers, Indiana
Website: https://www.penningtonpark.com/

Job Type: Full-time
Role: ASSOCIATE/EXECUTIVE PASTOR
Salary: TO BE DETERMINED

Date Posted: 4 months ago