About this position
Executive Pastor of Operations & Ministry
Position Type
Full-Time
Compensation & Benefits
• Salary: $90,000–$130,000 annually, commensurate with experience and qualifications
• Health Insurance
• Dental Insurance
• Paid Time Off
• Ministry and professional development opportunities
Position Summary
The Executive Pastor of Operations & Ministry serves as a senior leader responsible for the operational health, administrative effectiveness, staff coordination, and ministry execution of King’s Church.
Working closely with the Lead Pastors, the Executive Pastor oversees the systems, personnel, processes, and infrastructure necessary for a growing congregation. This includes administration,
Sunday services, church-wide events, staff supervision, communications, volunteer development, and ministry coordination.
This is a leadership and accountability role, not a position expected to personally execute every task. The Executive Pastor will delegate effectively, develop capable staff and lay leaders, establish clear procedures, and ensure ministry responsibilities are completed with excellence.
This position is both pastoral and executive. The ideal candidate will be spiritually mature, relationally strong, highly organized, capable of managing complexity, and personally invested in discipleship and congregational care.
Primary Responsibilities
1. Executive Leadership & Organizational Management
• Translate pastoral vision and ministry priorities into effective organizational execution.
• Oversee administrative infrastructure, operational procedures, and internal systems.
• Develop efficient workflows, clear responsibilities, communication structures, and accountability across teams.
• Serve as a primary point of coordination between the Lead Pastors and administrative and operational support staff.
• Anticipate organizational challenges, recommend improvements, and resolve problems proactively.
• Build systems that support continued church growth and potential expansion to multiple Sunday services.
• Maintain regular office hours and participate in staff meetings, planning, and church-wide initiatives.
2. Staff Leadership & Management
• Supervise designated administrative and operational staff, including the Scheduler, Administrative Support, Interns, Production Manager, and other assigned personnel.
• Conduct regular one-on-one meetings, set performance goals, provide feedback, and support staff development.
• Establish clear job responsibilities, priorities, and performance expectations.
• Oversee appropriate delegation and completion of administrative and operational tasks.
• Foster a godly, competent, committed, supportive, and unified staff culture.
• Address performance concerns and organizational challenges with wisdom and care.
• Support staff onboarding, training, professional development, and leadership growth.
• Serve as a primary point of contact between pastoral leadership and support staff while respecting the authority of other ministry leaders.
3. Church Administration & Office Management
• Develop and maintain efficient procedures supporting the church’s day-to-day administration.
• Oversee office operations, facility maintenance coordination, bills, vendors, Instacart orders, and office supplies.
• Ensure weekly updates to church databases, including Planning Center, Constant Contact, and relevant Google Sheets.
• Oversee the organization and maintenance of the Church Directory.
• Manage Emburse account administration for ministry and small group leaders.
• Oversee new visitor contact, follow-up, and scheduling of pastoral meet-and-greets.
• Manage the preparation, scheduling, and distribution of King’s Weekly content and related communications.
• Coordinate church-wide announcements and communications with other staff; assist with or delegate Canva graphic design as needed.
• Ensure recurring administrative tasks and projects are completed accurately and on schedule.
4. Sunday Operations & Service Leadership
• Maintain final operational accountability for Sunday planning, preparation, staffing, and execution.
• Oversee Sunday volunteer teams, including hospitality, security, tech, setup and teardown, and other designated teams, through staff and lay leaders.
• Ensure effective scheduling, volunteer communication, recruiting, onboarding, training, and team development.
• Coordinate with pastors, worship leadership, and production staff on service plans, liturgical elements, presentation slides, and service transitions.
• Oversee facilities, signage, equipment, supplies, room preparation, and safety procedures.
• Maintain updated team policies, procedures, and clearly assigned leadership responsibilities.
• Develop repeatable systems and leadership pipelines that can support additional Sunday services.
• Respond to Sunday operational challenges and continually improve procedures.
• Maintain a regular Sunday presence while delegating direct setup, teardown, and other execution responsibilities as appropriate.
Final accountability does not require personally completing every Sunday task or remaining onsite for the entirety of setup and teardown when qualified leaders have been assigned.
5. Church-Wide Events & Ministry Operations
• Serve as the final operational point of contact for regular church-wide events and ministry activities, working through designated ministry leads and support teams.
• Oversee logistical coordination for GO, REC, THINK, LEARN, Kingdom Kids, King’s Collective, Good Neighbor, Run Club, Small Groups, EQUIP, Men’s Ministry, and Women’s Ministry.
• Ensure major events have clear owners, plans, timelines, registration processes, communications, and adequate resources.
• Develop consistent event-planning procedures and scalable systems.
• Form and lead a supplemental events service team to assist with special gatherings such as the annual Christmas party, gala, and major church-wide events.
• Support women’s ministry event execution, including Women’s Life and LINK, in coordination with designated ministry leaders.
• Provide operational support for Good Neighbor partnerships with like-minded nonprofits.
• Oversee the organization and communication of outside mission teams.
• Evaluate events and initiatives and improve their execution.
The Executive Pastor may delegate the planning, attendance, and execution of individual events while retaining overall operational accountability.
6. Volunteer Leadership & Development
• Establish healthy systems to recruit, train, disciple, and retain volunteers and volunteer leaders.
• Meet periodically with key lay leaders for encouragement, care, feedback, and development.
• Identify and equip emerging leaders to take increasing responsibility within ministries.
• Maintain training materials, procedures, and expectations for volunteer teams.
• Partner with pastors and ministry leaders to ensure volunteers are spiritually cared for, not merely utilized.
• Cultivate a culture of prayer, ownership, humility, hospitality, excellence, and joyful service.
• Address volunteer conflict and leadership challenges with wisdom and care.
7. Congregational Discipleship & Pastoral Ministry
• Regularly meet with church members and attendees for discipleship, encouragement, prayer, and spiritual development.
• Assist the Lead Pastors in appropriate shepherding, counseling, and member care.
• Participate in regular member check-in meetings alongside other staff.
• Identify and equip future ministry leaders.
• Participate actively in a King’s Church Small Group and the wider discipleship life of the church.
• Model faithful church membership, hospitality, evangelism, and personal discipleship.
Qualifications
Spiritual & Pastoral Qualifications
• Meets the biblical character qualifications outlined in 1 Timothy 3 and Titus 1.
• Demonstrates a growing and mature relationship with Jesus Christ.
• Fully supports and models the doctrine, mission, vision, and values of King’s Church.
• Demonstrates pastoral maturity, sound judgment, humility, servant leadership, and a heart for discipleship.
• Is com
Location and commute
Washington, DC 20022.
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How to apply
Review the vacancy and complete the application on the employer or recruitment partner’s website. Requisition ID: WJ-3198802281.