Data Innovation Engineer

Position: Data & A.I. Innovation Engineer
Position Summary The Director of Data & A.I. Innovation (Director) leads One Community Church's artificial intelligence(AI) and data strategy. This is a fractional executive engagement. The role provides senior leadership across three combined functions: AI strategy, information security oversight, and privacy oversight.

The Director establishes One Community Church (OCC) as a leader in responsible AI adoption within thefaith community. The role authors and maintains the church's official AI policy, oversees the development of custom AI tools, ensures AI resources exist for every age group, and builds and leads the volunteer team that carries the work across all campuses and the virtual campus. The Director also is responsible for managing, organizing, analyzing, and improving ministry-related data that supports the mission and strategic goals of OCC.

This position ensures information related to members, attendees,ministries, engagement, events, and church operations is accurate, accessible, secure, and transformed into meaningful insights.

The Data Engineer helps OCC move beyond simply collecting information by identifying patterns, trends,and opportunities that support ministry effectiveness and stronger connections with people. This role leverages data tools, reporting methods, and emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence (AI),to improve processes, strengthen decision-making, and help ministry leaders better understand andserve the church community.

The ideal candidate is an owner of their area and demonstrates an understanding of the responsibility ofthis role to the people and the ministry as a whole. They demonstrate deep hands-on fluency with modern AI tools, executive judgment, discretion with sensitive information, a heart for developing volunteers, and the ability to turn new technology into practical ministry outcomes. They a strong analytical ability, curiosity, confidentiality, collaboration, and the ability to communicate data insights ina practical and meaningful way.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities AI Strategy & Executive Leadership Own the AI Ministry & Innovation strategy, roadmap, and budget, and report quarterly to executive leadership.

Advise the Senior Pastor and executive team on AI opportunities, risks, and decisions.

Provide a briefing to the Senior Pastor and executive team at least every two weeks. This is a 15to 30 minute update on progress, risks, and decisions needed, and it cannot be delegated.

Track and communicate key measurements of AI adoption, tool usage, and ministry impact.

Build, train, and lead the Data and AI volunteer ministry teams. The Director must be skilled in empowering, delegating and training volunteers with meaningful work to further the ministry.

Recruit continuously and plan through apprenticing and documentation for growth.

Data Policy, Security & Privacy Oversight Write, publish, and update the church's official AI and data policies, including data privacy,acceptable use, and age-appropriate safeguards.

Own privacy oversight for all information about members, attendees, volunteers, and staff thatAI tools and data systems touch.

Set and enforce standards for responsible AI and data use across the organization, including confidentiality, accuracy verification, and protection of sensitive information.

Serve as the escalation point for any AI-related security, privacy, or ethics concern.

Data Management & Integrity Maintain accurate member, attendee, volunteer, ministry, and organizational information within church data systems.

Develop and improve processes for collecting, organizing, validating, and maintaining data.

Review information regularly to identify duplicate, incomplete, outdated, or inconsistent data.

Establish practices that improve data accuracy, consistency, and reliability.

Support ongoing data cleanup and improvement initiatives.

Maintain documentation related to data processes, standards, and reporting practices.

Resources & Reporting Develop reports, dashboards, and summaries that provide meaningful insights to churchleadership and ministry teams.

Analyze attendance, engagement, participation, serving, and ministry trends.

Identify patterns and opportunities that support improved ministry planning and connection.

Translate data into clear and actionable information that assists leaders in making informed decisions.

Track and communicate key ministry measurements and organizational trends.

Support leadership in evaluating ministry effectiveness through accurate information.

Direct the development and adoption of custom AI tools. Decide what the volunteer team canbuild with no-code approaches and manage outside engineering help when a project requires it.

Evaluate, propose, and manage AI vendors, platforms, and tool licenses. Negotiate contractswithin provided budget.

Innovation & Process Improvement Utilize approved AI tools and emerging technologies to improve reporting, analysis, workflows,and organizational efficiency.

Identify opportunities where AI and…