Music Director

Direct and lead worship musicians during rehearsals, soundchecks, and services

Take ownership of the musical preparation and execution of worship sets across Creative Church environments

Support worship leaders in carrying the vision, direction, and flow of each service

• Build arrangements, transitions, dynamics, spontaneous moments, tags, vamps, musical cues, and extended worship sections

Help create musical environments that are prepared and excellent without becoming rigid or over‑produced

• Remain highly flexible and responsive when worship leaders or pastoral leadership change arrangements, repeat sections, move into spontaneous worship, change keys, introduce an unplanned song, or adjust direction in the moment
• Recognize where a worship leader is going musically and help the band follow quickly and confidently
• Communicate clearly with musicians during rehearsals and live worship through Nashville Numbers, musical cues, talkback, hand signals, and other established systems

Support the Worship Director on Sunday mornings by helping lead the team both practically and spiritually

Work closely with Production and Audio to ensure the band, playback, keys, transitions, and overall musical sound function cohesively

• Understand how to create musical space that supports prayer, ministry, healing, altar moments, and spontaneous worship without overplaying

Prepare and organize songs before rehearsals and services

Create clean, accurate Nashville Number charts, chord charts, arrangements, and other musical resources

Maintain accurate musical resources within Planning Center Online

• Ensure keys, BPMs, arrangements, tracks, patches, sounds, pads, transitions, and necessary musical information are prepared and communicated before teams arrive
• Review upcoming worship plans and identify musical needs, difficult transitions, key changes, spontaneous opportunities, or potential issues ahead of time

Develop musical solutions and backup plans when necessary

Help maintain consistency in how songs are arranged and executed across Creative Church Build systems and resources that allow volunteer musicians to walk into rehearsals prepared and confident

• Develop a strong working knowledge of Creative Church's worship repertoire, including modern worship music, hymns, gospel‑influenced worship, contemporary worship, historic songs of the Church, spontaneous worship, and songs spanning multiple generations

The Music Director should be able to confidently lead worship from keys while understanding how keyboard sounds, textures, voicings, dynamics, and musical space shape the atmosphere of a worship environment.

Responsibilities include:

• Demonstrate advanced proficiency on piano and keyboard in both rehearsed and spontaneous environments
• Confidently use Nord keyboards and understand patch selection, layering, splits, organ sounds, piano sounds, synths, pads, and live worship workflows
• Build and maintain modern worship keyboard sounds using tools such as:
  • Nord
  • Main Stage
  • MIDI programming
  • Ableton Live
  • Omnisphere
  • Keyscape
  • Software instruments and MIDI plug‑ins
• Understand how to build, layer, and manipulate piano sounds, pads, synths, textures, strings, organs, ambient sounds, and other worship keys elements
• Create and organize patches, pads, textures, layers, and soundscapes that serve individual songs and worship environments
  
  Understand how to build atmosphere musically without overcrowding the room
• Understand modern playback systems, click tracks, cues, stems, and worship music workflows

Creative Church values a broad worship vocabulary.

The Music Director should:

• Have a wide…