Job Overview

Covenant Church and the production role in a nutshell.

We are adding a Production Director to our great team – someone who has proven experience, demonstrates humble leadership, and has a people-first mindset. Covenant Church desires to become a movement of people who live and love like Jesus, and we love leaders who help us create a culture that mobilizes people toward reflecting God’s love in the places God has us all 7-days a week. We seek a Production Director who possesses great technical skill, but more importantly, loves to recruit, equip, coach, and support a healthy team. We are seeking a leader who celebrates the success of others while applying great technical leadership to audio (especially audio!), video, lighting, and the important services and events those areas support. We need a leader who believes Sunday is the starting line, not the finish line. If this connects with you, we are excited to begin the conversation.

Greenville, North Carolina is a great place.

Greenville is a growing city located in the coastal plains of eastern North Carolina. It lives along the Tar River and has numerous parks, trails, and is the gateway to many of North Carolina’s amazing beaches along the Crystal Coast and Outer Banks. Postcard towns like New Bern, Beaufort, and Belhaven are great day trips, or cities like Washington DC, Asheville, Charleston, and Baltimore are road trip destinations that can be reached by lunch. Greenville is diverse, proud, and a great place to live, work, and raise a family. Most importantly, Greenville is receptive to the Gospel, and we want God to use us in this great city. We need brave and bold leaders to help us reach it.

Job Description

PRODUCTION DIRECTOR

Our pursuit at Covenant Church is to become a movement of people who live and love like Jesus. This is primarily expressed though 3 values: Worshipful living for Jesus – Inviting the presence of Jesus into every aspect of our lives. Selfless living for others – Living lives marked by demonstrating the generosity of God to others. Purposeful living on mission – Fulfilling God’s plan on earth as we use our God-given, diverse gifts. Those who hold positions of leadership at Covenant must commit themselves to personally living out these values, and to make those values central to their ministry leadership. We value honesty, unity, initiative, and intentionality as we humbly serve those God has placed in our care. With this in mind, we ask our Worship Director to help shape a healthy culture within the team that helps accomplish the following responsibilities in ways aligned with Covenant’s vision and philosophy.

Recruiting, empowering, and caring.

In each area of influence, the Production Director actively engages and recruits people from our church family to use their gifting and talents for the good of our church, for the advancement of the mission of our church, and ultimately for God’s glory. Ongoing and frequent equipping, feedback, coaching, and encouragement are important to the production teams as they are empowered to serve in significant ways. Finally, because people matter more than what they do, spiritual care and discipleship in the lives of the team members are central to the role of Production Director.

Initiate, improve, invest, and inspire.

The Production Director demonstrates initiative in all aspects of the role; looking for opportunity to try new things, improve existing efforts, identify more effective ways to invest in the team, be quick to address challenges, build a healthy team culture, and celebrate the growth and success of others in ways that inspire the team.

Technical leadership, volunteer service planning support, environment, and technical.

Listed below are primary areas that fall under the care and leadership of the Production Director. Preparing well equipped teams, thoughtful attention to service planning, and clear communication and expectation are all central to the role of Production Director. Responsibilities include:

• Weekend services are NOT the finish line, they are the starting Mobilizing a church is our main goal.
• Execute high standards without falling into the trap of ‘excellence’ at the expense of vision and
• The leadership, development, and encouragement of the Assistant Director and contracted
• Oversight of technical teams serving audio, lighting, screens in all worship spaces, and
• Proficiency in audio engineering (or strong engineering solutions) is of high
• Manage production equipment ensuring durability, ease for volunteers, effectiveness, and
• Serve as primary “on call” person for troubleshooting, assistance, and/or
• Oversight of set design, staging, and worship environment/atmosphere in various worship
• Oversight of LIVE streaming (including equipment and personnel) and proper archiving
• Propose technical upgrades, new designs, and improvements that serve and support our vision &
• Planning support of all services (elements, creativity, flow, etc) including special events and
• Timely scheduling of volunteers across the production ministry and coaching of
• Help support our ministry teams by providing production support, including training and self-
• Being conscious to avoid ruts, some routines, and general predictability in order to keep things
• Plan ahead, be organized, lead well, lead humbly, and work with
• Help support Student Ministry by helping lead (or facilitate leaders) and equipping students as
• Ultimate success is empowering and celebrating the success of others under your leadership and
• The spiritual care and discipleship of Covenant Teams matters more than the function of
• Of course, other duties may be assigned from time to time (e.g., weddings, funerals, seasonal events, etc).