Worship Pastor

29,500

Description of Job

We love to worship at River! We’re looking for a Worship Pastor to oversee our fantastic worship and production teams, ensuring that worship is musically excellent, contextually relevant, and Spirit-filled.

Full-time | Up to £29,500

Job title:

Worship Pastor

Department:
Worship and Production

Reports to:

Senior Leaders

Principal location:
River Church Ipswich

Special conditions of employment:
There is a genuine occupational requirement that the post-holder is a Christian, as permitted under the Equality Act 2010.

Start date:

As soon as possible.

Working days/hours:
Full-time (Sunday to Thursday)

Salary:
Up to £29,500 (dependent on experience)

Travel:
May be required on occasion

Contract length:
Initial 2 years with the option to extend or become permanent

Other expectations:
The role holder will need to be available to work some other key dates outside the usual working pattern, such as special services (Christmas, Easter etc.), annual meetings, and Focus (our annual one-week church holiday in the summer). It is expected that staff members will be active members of River Church, committed to praying, serving, giving financially, and growing as a disciple of Jesus in a Hangout.

• Work with Senior Leaders to oversee all aspects of worship, production, and services at River Church
• Ensure that worship and production at River Church embody our goals to be Spirit-filled, people-empowering, fun-loving, and abundantly-living, and exhibit musical excellence
• Lead the worship and production team, training, pastoring, managing, mentoring, and discipling volunteers, ensuring that team members are modelling mature Christian discipleship, and growing in their faith
• Recruit and audition new team members to meet future demands (i.e., sufficient team for additional services and church plants to be sent without level of bands dropping)
• Run weekly Thursday evening rehearsals for worship bands and production volunteers serving on any given week, as well as regular team nights, and group and one-to-one sessions to up-skill worship and production team members
• Train and release new worship leaders to serve across River Church, and to resource future church plants
• Lead worship as required on Sundays, Alpha, River College, Overflow (prayer and worship nights), 7am Prayer, and at other services and events
• Oversee the planning and delivery of Sundays, ensuring that deadlines are met, service plans are created and published, team rotas are filled, and that logistical factors relating to production, staging, and worship are considered
• Manage Multi Tracks, preparing set lists and tracks for all worship sets
• Ensure compliance with best safeguarding practice across the worship and production team
• Manage worship and production departmental budget
• Ensure that all relevant licenses relating to worship and production are in place, including PPL, PRS, CCLI, Multi Tracks, and OFCOM Wireless Equipment licenses
• Manage all worship and production equipment, keeping an inventory and overseeing maintenance, repair, and upgrades of staging, instruments, and production equipment
• Preach and teach, particularly on subjects related to worship, on occasion, as required
• Work with other team members to write, arrange and produce worship music, including producing new worship songs for use in worship sets and for commercial release; organising songwriting with appropriate members of team, and recording, for distribution and use on Multi Tracks
• Contribute to River Church’s Students and Collective (20s-30s) ministries, leading groups and sessions as required, and frequently discipling students and young adults, as part of the Rising Generations department
• Attend and contribute to Staff Meeting, and Tuesday morning Prayer Meeting
• Regularly pray for the Worship and Production ministries and teams
• Ad hoc tasks and other project work

Personal qualities and beliefs

It is essential that the role holder:

• has a mature personal faith in and relationship with God as Father, Son and Holy Spirit
• is committed to the dream, purpose, and goals of River Church
• believes and embodies the orthodox Christian teaching revealed…