Hillside Church Executive Pastor

Hillside Church is a growing, gospel-centered community in Bloomington, Minnesota, averaging 500–600 in weekend attendance. We are deeply committed to evangelism, discipleship, and mission for the glory of God and the flourishing of our city. As we grow, we are prayerfully moving toward becoming a church-planting church, sending out people and leaders to advance the gospel.

The Executive Pastor will serve as the senior operational and pastoral leader, partnering closely with the Senior Pastor to steward vision, lead staff, and guide Hillside Church into its next season of growth. This role requires a heart for people, a commitment to Christ-centered leadership, and the ability to oversee systems and organizational change with wisdom and care.

• Serve as a pastoral presence among staff, modeling spiritual maturity, humility, and Christlike leadership.
• Provide shepherding, care, and discipleship for ministry leaders and staff.
• Cultivate a healthy staff culture marked by unity, trust, accountability, and spiritual vitality.
• Uphold and embody the church’s theological convictions, mission, and values.
• Support the Senior Pastor in spiritual leadership and discernment, especially during seasons of change.
• Perform Pastoral duties such as preaching, teaching, care, funerals, weddings, etc.

• Translate the Senior Pastor’s vision into executable strategies, plans, and systems.
• Lead the church through significant growth and transformational initiatives, such as expansions and staff scaling.
• Anticipate future needs and proactively prepare the church for its next phase of ministry.
• Ensure alignment across ministries so that vision, strategy, and execution are unified.

• Provide direct leadership to pastors, ministry directors and operational staff.
• Clarify roles, expectations, and decision-making authority across the staff team.
• Develop leaders through coaching, mentoring, and accountability.
• Address performance issues with wisdom, clarity, and pastoral care.
• Foster collaboration across ministries and reduce silos.

• Provide leadership oversight of the church’s day-to-day operations, ensuring systems, people, and resources are stewarded with wisdom and integrity.
• Oversee financial and human resource functions in partnership with staff, volunteers, and elders, ensuring clarity, accountability, and sustainability.
• Lead annual budgeting, long-range planning, and organizational structuring aligned with the church’s mission and growth trajectory.
• Ensure policies and practices reflect biblical wisdom, legal compliance, and care for staff and volunteers.
• Guide the church through organizational change and growth with steadiness, clarity, and pastoral sensitivity.

• Serve as a trusted partner to the Senior Pastor, complementing visionary leadership with operational strength.
• Collaborate with elders when called upon by providing clear communication, thoughtful analysis, and wise recommendations.
• Support elder-led governance with integrity, discretion, and theological alignment.

• Bachelor’s degree required.
• Formal theological education (e.g., MDiv, MA in Theology, or equivalent) strongly preferred.
• Additional training in leadership, organizational development, or ministry leadership is highly valued.
• Proven experience leading people, systems, and seasons of growth may substitute for specific degrees if the candidate demonstrates pastoral wisdom and leadership capacity.
• Ordained or willing to get ordained.

• Demonstrated leadership in a growing church or comparable complex organization.
• Proven success managing staff, systems, and large-scale initiatives (capital campaigns, expansions, multi-year projects).
• Experience navigating seasons of growth, transition, or organizational change.
• Ability to make wise, timely decisions under pressure.
• High capacity for responsibility, flexibility, and leadership presence.

• Leadership capacity to manage…