Job Overview

The Executive Pastor’s core responsibility is to ensure organizational infrastructure, fiscal integrity, and disciple making processes exist, are monitored and maintained so the church fulfills its mission and strategy both within the church as well as outside the church through our community-based non-profit Serve Reedley. 

About Us: Redeemer’s Church is a casual, multi-ethnic, multi-generational church of 650 weekly attendees with a passion to serve and reach low-income & culturally diverse communities. Redeemer’s church is in Reedley, CA, only 25 minutes from Fresno. You can learn more about who we are at www.redeemerschurch.com and servereedley.org.

Job Description

Reports To: Lead Pastor

The type of skills you’ll need

• Strategically Gifted: They’re wired to drive the creation and execution of organizational goals and priorities.
• Wired as an Activator/Implementor: They’re able to lead strategy and execution in accomplishment of vision.
• Organized and a Systems Builder: Things won’t fall through the cracks because they’ve created systems for all the things they have to juggle.
• Strong Biblical and Theological Foundations
• Strong Communication Skills

Role Description

Operations: 

• HR:  Meet with the Operations Team quarterly to review insurance, employee handbook,
• finances, policies & procedures; assist in review & evaluation of staff and hiring and firing
• Facility: Oversee maintenance employees, contractors and volunteer teams ensuring each are carrying out their responsibilities to maintain the health of the church. 
• Finance: Oversee staff budgets; Oversee any campaigns, developing stewardship and generosity; assist our non-profit Serve Reedley as needed (experience in grant support would be ideal)

Strategic Planning:

• Work with the Lead Pastor to implement the vision for each ministry toward discipleship and growth
• Ensure consistent evaluation of the health and ministry goals of staff, providing follow-up and next steps for them to carry out the vision. 
• Alongside the Lead Pastor, provide strategic support to ministry leaders to plan out each year according to our core values, strategies and goals. 
• Facilitate and co-lead occasional staff meetings and leadership meetings.
• Facilitate occasional leadership trainings for ministry team leaders (deacons)
• If/when needed, help create a strategy for multi-site growth to neighboring towns. 
• Assist Serve Reedley in strategies to further reach families and youth in need within our community and help create sustainability of our non-profit operations. 
• Ensure there are healthy systems implemented throughout different ministries and helping staff to follow through with those systems. 

Discipleship:

• Primary discipleship oversight over Men’s Ministry and men’s leadership team: carrying out our vision “Men Mentor”;  Connecting men to the basics of faith, growing in Biblical depth, discipling other men in groups, and, eventually, discipling younger men and boys, especially those without fathers 
• Support each ministry in implementing and strengthening their discipleship pathway that moves people from being new in faith all the way to discipling others and leading in ministries
• Work with our small groups deacon to train leaders to disciple others; 
• Ensure each ministry is prioritizing leadership development with training plans
• Oversee the training and consistent follow-up of ministry interns
• Support youth directors in the mentorship & leadership development of youth and young adults
• Co-lead a discipleship class that helps individuals develop a vision for leading others and results in a vision and plan for discipleship or ministry leadership. Assist in coaching people in launching their ministry visions within the church or community at-large. 

Other Responsibilities:

• Ability to preach a few times per year
• Able to teach classes if needed in Biblical studies, leadership, etc. 
• Ensure Sunday morning services run smoothly through implemented systems

The Ideal Candidate

• Proven experience overseeing the growth of a larger, complex organization 
• A solid education in Biblical and Theological studies
• Proven leadership in a multicultural context: has an understanding of people from different cultures and socioeconomic backgrounds; the ability to connect with those who speak Spanish could be especially useful in our context
• A gifted communicator who knows how to make complex ideas accessible to people who are new to faith, hurt by past religious experiences, or do not have a formal educational background. 
• Proven experience in developing skills and leadership that move people along a continuum of growth. 

The Redeemer’s Culture:

We have a very strong & healthy culture here. We are heavily united, we encourage healthy, humble conflict and we rarely face the issues of typical ‘church politics’ or negative conflict amongst overseers and staff. The staff is deeply interpersonal, playful and open with one another.  So we provide this snapshot for you to consider thoroughly whether this is the right context for you: 

• We are socially engaged AND Gospel-centered, holding to the authority of scripture; we are a fast-growing, modern church who has creative ministries serving the most vulnerable in our city. We also hold to a high-view of scripture, and believe each person needs to know the scriptures in-depth. We hold to traditional theological foundations and believe the scriptures should inform our culture even while we seek to meet our community in there deepest needs. We are passionate about doing justice and loving mercy and passionate about teaching the Truth of scripture. 
• We value leaders who have stories; can your articulate your past struggles and pains and the Gospel’s practical influence on your life and apply it to ‘why’ you serve others now? Most of our staff did not previously work at churches and have overcome great challenges.  Therefore you will not find a lot of hyper-religious, insider-based language. We are a very down-to-earth team and highly value the ability to connect with people from all different backgrounds and struggles. We want people to be able to come into Redeemer’s with no church background, past church hurt, or little education and feel like they can understand the Gospel and feel like they are growing and changing with us through the work of the Holy Spirit. 
• We value honesty and humility: Do you have a high emotional intelligence that is keenly aware of your own sins and weaknesses? Are you comfortable talking openly about those and working on those consistently? Can you take honest feedback and always seek growth? One of the top things our congregation knows us for is authenticity and openly confessing our own struggles while teaching others to grow with us. We are not a people who care for pastoral titles or positions of hierarchal importance. 
• We value humor: Between our recovery programs, mental health programs, homeless ministries, and more, we work with very serious issues weekly. To counter-balance that we value a playful spirit and laughter. We are not easily offended by life’s absurdities and difficulties and talk through them. We actively seek to use humor in groups and teaching and seek partners who know how to not sweat the small stuff. 
• We are not a partisan church:  We are diverse in every way: age, race, denominations (mennonites, baptists, pentecostal and catholics make up large portions of our church). In addition, political differences abound here. We remain committed to the Gospel to critique and encourage people of all types. We are serious about what we call ‘The whole Gospel’: We believe in the moral and theological teachings of Scripture as well as the social ramifications of it. We serve the poor and hurting through our non-profit and we teach everyone orthodox theological foundations that are accessible to all. We often confront the idolatry of ideology of both the left and right in our modern politics.

Compensation will be based on experience and education. 

$65-80k. We offer health insurance benefits and housing allowance for pastors.