Worship Pastor

Status: full-time, salaried

Mission, vision, strategy, and values of New Life

Our Mission: Embracing each person with the life-changing grace and truth of Jesus.

Our Vision: To bring the fingerprint of Jesus to the community.

Our Values:

God’s Voice - We Listen

Courageous Faith - We Act

Authentic Family - We Accept

Trusting Relationships - We Support

Healing Family - We Protect

Next Generation - We Invest

Our Strategy: To be disciples of Jesus who find our identity in Him, make our career reflect Him, and love others as Jesus loves us.

About this role

The role of Worship Director is to lead all aspects of the worship life within New Life, which involves envisioning, equipping, and mobilizing the musical talents of volunteers. The Worship Director shepherds people in authentic worship through the experience of worship and also assists in all the creative efforts of the church.

Primary Responsibilities

1. Serve as the primary worship leader for New Life.

2. Build, direct, coordinate, and develop the band.

3. Lead weekly rehearsals for the band and schedule team members.

4. Post church charges, MP3s, and other necessary elements for the band each week.

5. Participate in all production and creative meetings. This includes assisting in the

overall programming and execution of creative elements in the worship experience.

(Props, songs, video elements, etc.)

6. Assist with providing music at occasional services such as weddings, funerals, etc.,

or arrange for others to do so.

7. Train or facilitate trainings for singers and instrumentalists.

8. Manage and maintain the musical instruments and music technology equipment,

keeping up to date with developments.

9. Manage the music budget in accordance with the financial policies of the church.

10. Build a library of music and support materials.

11. Pastor, coach, and care for all worship team volunteers, taking key leaders to other

Services, conferences, and meetings that will help equip them for the work of the

ministry.

Strengths and skillset

• Passionate about bringing God’s people close to His heart in worship.

• A good “team player” and team builder with experience in supervising, motivating, and encouraging others.

• Able to keep calm under pressure and respond in a measured way in stressful situations.

• Conducts life with the utmost integrity in all situations.

• Able to maintain confidentiality and discretion.

• Proven organizational and administrative skills.

• Able to set realistic goals and targets and be able to set a pace of work that is sustainable in the long term.

Key performance indicators

• Develop leaders and make disciples.

• See team embrace the vision of bringing the fingerprint of Jesus to their community.

• Care for the needs of your team.

• Develop musicians.

• Grow your team each year.

• Be a team player with others on staff.

Personal responsibilities

While not specifically related to the job, here are some personal responsibilities of everyone on staff at NewLife.

• Live out the vision and mission of NewLife Church.

• Maintain God-ordained priorities in your life by putting Jesus Christ first in your life.

• Give cheerfully to NewLife Church.

• Be loyal to what vision and the staff of NewLife and always protect the unity of the church.

• Demonstrate a Christ-like attitude through all interactions with the congregation, staff, and volunteers.

• Be the fingerprint of Jesus by having relationships with lost people.

Your schedule

This is a full-time position that reports to the Lead Pastor. Time should be spent in the office to build connections with other staff members, in the community to be the fingerprint of Jesus, and with your worship team to move them closer to Jesus.

NewLife Church is celebrating 24 years of serving the Des Moines area and surrounding suburbs with the goals of knowing Jesus, discovering purpose, finding community, and living the mission. We average between 350 to 400 weekly attendees supported by five paid administrative staff and five elders. We are blessed with a modern worship center situated on 10 acres of land. In the fall of 2023, the church celebrated the grand opening of a new 7,300 square feet addition (NextGen Center) to our current facility with the primary purpose of supporting our Students and Children ministries. We as a church are committed to bring the fingerprint of Jesus to our community. Because of this we are committed to loving our community with no strings attached.