Hermitage Hills Baptist Church is seeking a highly skilled and experienced individual to oversee and

coordinate all aspects of its technical ministry with regards to audio, video, and lighting. The Technical

Director's primary goal is to ensure that worship services and events across all facilities and ministries can

utilize technology efficiently, effectively, and strategically to enhance the experience of those attending. While

expertise in audio, video, and lighting is a must for this position, the emphasis is on training and empowering

others to develop their skills in the ministry. Rather than doing everything oneself, the Technical Director

should fully staff the needed positions in the ministry and then be prepared to fill in, train, and troubleshoot

when necessary. It is important to note this position is more than a "gig." Worshiping God with all that we have

is imperative, no matter the role. In addition to technical responsibilities, the Technical Director is responsible

for setting the spiritual tone for the Technical Ministry. The Technical Ministry volunteers must be spiritually

prepared in addition to technically prepared for their role in worship.

Primary Responsibilities

1. Provide technical support for all worship services and events and maintain a reliable system for doing

so. This includes, but is not limited to:

• Audio mixing, monitor mixing, and audio recording (knowledge of Yamaha CL5).

• Lighting production (knowledge of Onyx).

• Switching with multiple cameras (IMAG).

• Video recording, and live streaming production.

• ProPresenter/PowerPoint presentation.

• Prepare stage for rehearsals, worship services, and events.

• Initiate successful communication with Worship Director, pastors, ministry leaders, and event

coordinators in order to help facilitate a/v needs.

• Long-Term Goal: Ensure that every worship service and event at Hermitage Hills is vibrant,

distraction-free, and technically well supported.

2. Recruit, train, equip, schedule, and lead a/v staff and volunteers on assignment:

• Recruit a/v staff and volunteers for events and services.

• Train a/v staff and volunteers to competence.

• Equip a/v staff with the proper tools.

• Deploy a/v staff and volunteers to appropriate tasks.

• Long-Term Goal: Create a healthy rotation of a/v staff and volunteers who help to ensure

quality, distraction-free environments for worship services and events; begin moving into

spiritual mentoring relationships with volunteers.

3. Update and maintain production technologies:

• Ensure that campus technologies are in working order.

• Advise on future purchases.

• Oversee any technical installation.

• Keep reliable records for purchases and licensing.

• Long-Term Goal: All production technologies are at or approaching industry standards.

Qualifications

Personal Qualities

• Has a growing relationship with Jesus Christ.

• Actively involved in a local church and willing to become a member of Hermitage Hills upon hiring.

• In full alignment with the mission, vision, and doctrinal beliefs of Hermitage Hills Baptist Church.

• Is teachable, positive, humble, cooperative, and collaborates well with a team.

• Excellent leadership skills and strong interpersonal skills.

• Ability to inspire and motivate teams of volunteers and leaders.

• Ability to embrace and pursue artistic and spiritual excellence in services.

• Very strong organizational abilities and excellent attention to details.

• Shows initiative, perseverance, ownership, and possesses a "whatever it takes" attitude.

• Able to be flexible in an environment that is subject to spur of the moment change and possesses a

gracious, Christ-like demeanor in demanding situations.

• Possesses strong time management skills.

• Highly tech-savvy, able to learn and master new technology quickly and thoroughly.

• Able to coordinate several activities at once and quickly analyze and resolve specific problems.

• Physical Demands: while performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to stand,

walk, sit, reach with hands and arms, stoop, kneel, crouch, and crawl. The employee must frequently lift

and/or move items that weigh up to 50 pounds.

Education/Experience

• Formal training in production or related field.

• Has broad, hands-on experience with technology in a modern worship production environment.

• Experience in a Technical Director (or related) role at a church with 400+ in attendance.

• Has recruited, trained, and led a team of volunteers in technical ministry.

• Dante certified or willing to obtain it within 90 days of hire.

• Expert knowledge of audio systems and large-format digital consoles. Specifically, has knowledge of

Yamaha CL5, and familiarity with personal monitoring (i.e. AVIOM) and digital audio networks (i.e.

DANTE).

• Expert knowledge of media in the context of worship services. Specifically, has detailed knowledge of

live and streaming video environments; video switcher with multiple cameras (IMAG); keyed computer-

graphics (lower thirds); presentation software (ProPresenter); and detailed knowledge of projectors,

displays and video transmission.

• Expert knowledge of lighting in the context of worship services. Specifically, has knowledge of

theatrical, intelligent, LED and lighting for video; familiarity with DMX programming; familiarity with

Onyx lighting.

• Expert knowledge of audio/video/lighting signal flows and has successfully demonstrated the ability to

troubleshoot in all of these environments.

To Apply: Email a cover letter and resume to [email protected]