Part Time Music Director

Chatham Community Church is a contemporary, non-denominational, multi-site church

in the Chapel Hill/Pittsboro area. Our vision is connecting people to God and to each

other and our mission is to lead all people to become authentic followers of Jesus who

engage our world for good. We are a big-tent church that majors on the historically

faithful core tenants of the Christian faith with plenty of room for disagreement on

secondary issues. Our core values are gospel-centered, biblically-guided,

relationally-connected, generous-hearted, and outwardly-focused. You can learn more

about us by going to www.chathamchurch.org.

The purpose of the Music Director position is to connect people to God and to each

other through creating outstanding culture of love, humility, and excellence on the music

team. You will be creating, organizing and executing the music related elements that

create the Sunday morning worship experience and other worship services. This is a

Central Services role that provides leadership to each of our campuses.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

Note: All “weekly” hours are variable, depending on the week

5 Hours CONTENT CREATION | Working with executive staff in calendaring and

mapping out worship services as well as each Sunday’s logistics. Collaboration will

take place in a weekly meeting. Independently, provide song selection and arranging,

find/create all music related resources needed by the music and production teams,

execute plan for prayers, transitions, and speaking parts, and communicate plans and

resources to the teams via planningcenteronline and email.

1 Hour TEAM LEADERSHIP | Staff Point of Contact for everything related to music for

worship services and a few annual churchwide events. Support current music teamvolunteers with good communication, scheduling practices, music related resources,

spiritual direction and encouragement. Very occasional gatherings for team and culture

development.

1 Hour WORSHIP TEAM FORMATION | Work with the Creative Arts Director to help

shape worship team culture through spiritual formation and team-building experiences.

These might include but are not limited to implementing a devotional during rehearsals,

occasional pastoral meetings with people on the team, and collaborating to design and

deliver on worship workshops.

2 Hour WORSHIP TEAM DEVELOPMENT | Recruit/audition new music team

members. Provide individualized training and guidance for team members with their

instrument/vocals. Provide group training.

2 Hours REHEARSAL PREP | In preparation for rehearsal, learn to sing and play songs

and posted harmonies, study arrangement notes with focus on complex rhythms and

chords to enable the worship team to efficiently learn the songs. Fully understand the

click/track/and guide as well as Propresenter resources to ensure a smooth rehearsal.

2 Hours REHEARSALS | Plan for and direct or oversee weekly rehearsals for both

campuses on two different evenings. You have primary authority over the scheduling of

the rehearsals, taking into consideration building usage constraints and volunteer

engagement.

5 Hours WORSHIP SERVICES | Lead the pre-service meeting for each Sunday

morning if the production team lead is not available. Lead worship services musically

weekly on Sunday mornings. Set up worship leading well for the campus you are not

leading. As long as you have a worship leader scheduled, it may be valuable to ‘attend’

a service and watch the team and learn about the congregation’s experience. You are

expected to prepare and lead worship for all major church holidays, like Christmas,

Easter, New Years, Fall Launch. It is expected and encouraged that you will take two

weeks paid vacation that include Sundays. While you will be responsible for getting

coverage for you while you are on vacation, the Creative Arts Director will help, and will

plan those weeks for you that you will be out.

2 Hour SUPERVISION | Weekly meeting with Creative Arts Director for training,

spiritual care, practical applications and troubleshooting, job performance, development

and visioneering.

2 Hours ADMINISTRY | Scheduling volunteers for worship services andrehearsals for music, audio, and propresenter. Email, comm’s, prep, prayer, etc., accounts and budgeting, coordination with production teams. Helping

to keep up with inventory of equipment. Support current music team volunteers with good communication, scheduling practices, music related resources, spiritual direction and encouragement. Attending Quarterly Staff Meetings and additional safety trainings.

1 Hours EXTRAS | Worship nights. Occasional meetings for worship leaders. Occasional teaching/vocal sessions. Funerals and weddings are not very regular, but they do occur. While you are expected to help with them when you can, you are compensated separately for $150. Community festival. Continued personal

development: refining and expanding musicianship; both practicing instruments and learning new ones. Spiritual studies, devotionals, song studies

OPTIONAL ADDITIONS:

3 Hours YOUTH BAND | Lead 1 song for weekly worship for Youth Group. Introduce the

song and lead prayer afterwards. A focus on facilitating a consistent and meaningful

worship experience. Organizing monthly Youth Band sets for Youth Group, running two,

1 hour rehearsals in preparation, in addition to filling in on any instrument when needed.

Encouraging the Youth to take ownership of Youth Band and coaching them to select

sets and engaging in Spiritual Leadership from the stage. Additionally, planning Youth

Sundays on every 5th Sunday in a month, running rehearsal, and coaching the Youth to

become confident Worship Leaders.

3 Hours CHOIR | Selecting choir music for both Christmas and Easter Season for Adult

and Children’s Choir. Planning rehearsals and effectively organizing them to ensure a

fun and productive choir experience. Music is selected, purchased, and organized;

ensuring both physical copies of the music as well as digital rehearsal recordings for

every song and every vocal part. Accompanists and any guest musicians are secured

for the rehearsals and performance as required. Consistent communication with the

Choir throughout the season culminating in an impactful performance.

3 Hours STAGE SET | Assist creative arts director as needed with stage set design and

implementation for each new sermon series.

HOURS

23 Starting hours per week // 2 weeks paid vacation (flexible). This position has

potential for growth in hours and responsibilities.