Executive Pastor

Executive Pastor

Reports to: Senior Pastor

Position Type: Full-time

Salary: Commensurate with experience

Position Overview

The Executive Pastor is the Senior Pastor’s chief integrator and senior operational leader, translating vision into coordinated action across Grace Park’s ministries, staff, finances, facilities, systems, and school. This leader oversees day-to-day execution, continually develops and equips staff, strengthens accountability, removes obstacles, and builds scalable systems that support campus growth and expansion.

The Executive Pastor ensures priorities are carried out with excellence, unity, measurable results, and careful attention to detail, freeing the Senior Pastor to focus on preaching, prayer, vision, pastoral care, and spiritual leadership. The ultimate objective is one healthy, aligned ministry organization in which Grace Park and Christian Community Schools advance a shared mission, steward resources wisely, and operate with clear communication and mutual trust for generations to come.

Primary Responsibilities

The following summarizes the position’s primary areas of responsibility. Additional details regarding the role’s scope and expectations will be discussed during the interview process.

1. Vision and Execution

Translate the Senior Pastor’s vision into clear priorities, plans, budgets, systems, accountable leaders, and measurable outcomes aligned with Grace Park’s mission, doctrine, and governance.

2. Staff and Organizational Leadership

Lead, develop, and hold accountable ministry and operations staff while cultivating a spiritually healthy, joyful, collaborative, and high-performing culture.

3. Church–School Alignment

Serve as the primary operational liaison between Grace Park and Christian Community Schools, coordinating shared resources and strengthening communication, accountability, and alignment around one mission.

4. Operations and Stewardship

Provide executive oversight of finances, facilities, personnel, safety, technology, policies, major projects, and organizational risk to ensure effective operations and responsible stewardship.

5. Ministry Effectiveness

Strengthen ministry systems and support weekend services, discipleship, NextGen ministries, pastoral care, missions, and communications while participating in preaching and pastoral ministry as assigned.

Spiritual and Character Qualifications

• A mature, growing follower of Jesus who demonstrates integrity, humility, wisdom, faithfulness, and biblical qualifications for pastoral leadership.
• Affirms Grace Park’s mission, values, ministry philosophy, and Baptist Faith and Message 2000.
• Demonstrates a strong commitment to Christian education.
• Leads with emotional and relational maturity as a humble, courageous, and gracious servant leader.
• Speaks truthfully to the Senior Pastor, protects unity, handles conflict well, and executes decisions wholeheartedly.

Leadership Qualifications

• Exceptional ability to turn vision into plans, systems, accountability, and results.
• Proven leadership in a growing, multi-ministry, or comparably complex organization.
• Strong organizational judgment, financial expertise, project leadership, and communication skills.
• Ability to lead across reporting lines and navigate church–school complexity without creating silos.
• Proficiency with budgets, goals, dashboards, policies, processes, and technology while remaining relational and ministry-minded.
• Relational maturity and adaptability within a fast-moving, evolving environment.
• Demonstrated ability to preach in church-wide weekend services with clear, engaging communication.
• Ability to build partnerships, influence effectively, and build consensus among varied teams.
• Proven ability to anticipate needs, take initiative, and lead solutions through rapid growth and organizational change without requiring close supervision.

Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree required; graduate training in theology, ministry, business, organizational leadership, or a related discipline is beneficial, but not required.
• Seven to ten years of progressively responsible leadership experience involving staff supervision, budgeting, strategic planning, and operational execution.
• Previous church executive leadership experience preferred.
• Experience with a church-operated Christian school, nonprofit, or multi-entity ministry is highly valuable.
• Demonstrated success developing leaders, improving systems, managing change, and completing complex initiatives.

Compensation and Benefits

• Salary and vacation commensurate with experience
• Housing-allowance option
• Healthcare-sharing benefits through Christian Healthcare Ministries
• 90% tuition discount for children enrolled at Christian Community Schools
• Mileage reimbursement
• Ministry and professional-development budget
• Church-paid, confidential Christian counseling services available to the employee, the employee and spouse, or the entire family as needed.

Work Environment

This position generally requires 40 or more hours per week, typically Sunday through Thursday. Flexible evening and weekend availability is expected to support church and school ministries, events, and activities.

About The Church at Grace Park

Celebrating 50 years of ministry, The Church at Grace Park is a growing, debt-free, multigenerational church located just north of Nashville in White House, Tennessee (one of the region’s fastest-growing communities). More than 400 people, from infants to senior adults, gather across our three Sunday morning services each week. Grace Park is a Southern Baptist church that is pastor-led, elder-supported, deacon-served, and congregationally governed. The Elders counsel, support, and provide spiritual accountability to the Senior Pastor. More information about our church can be found at gracepark.org and on Facebook.

Our 47-acre campus includes nine buildings and is home to Christian Community Schools (Early Education through 12th-grade). CCS serves 120+ Early Education students, 360+ K–12 students, and 260+ students through its homeschool program. The CCS School Board provides governance and accountability to the Head of Schools, who oversees the school’s administration and staff. More information about our school can be found at ccscolts.com and on Facebook.

How to Apply

Qualified candidates should submit the following:

• A résumé detailing relevant ministry and leadership experience
• A cover letter describing their interest in the position and alignment with Grace Park’s mission
• Links to two or three recent preaching or teaching examples (or any relevant video examples)
• 2-3 professional or ministry references

Please send all application materials to pastorjosh@gracepark.org with “Executive Pastor Application” in the subject line. Applications will be reviewed as they are received and handled confidentially throughout the review process out of respect for each candidate’s current employment.

The Church at Grace Park exists to help people KNOW God, GROW with His family, and SHOW His love to the world.

Although we are a church of 300 in membership, we have over 1,000 people on our campus every day. On our 47-acre campus, the largest and most complex ministry is Christian Community Schools. With 200+ kids in the Preschool, 340+ students in K-12, and another 350+ students under our homeschool umbrella, we are passionate about training up the next generation.

Grace Park is in revitalization mode. We are in a growth posture after just becoming debt-free as a church on January 1, 2025. We are in the middle of master planning with Visioneering Studios. We are seeking our next Head of Schools to take our school to the next level as the church and school grow stronger together.