Executive Pastor of Ministry

The Executive Pastor of Ministry provides pastoral and strategic leadership for Westwood’s ministry staff, aligning people, ministries, and campuses around the church’s mission and vision. Working closely with the Senior Pastor, this leader develops ministry leaders, strengthens staff culture, establishes shared priorities, and translates vision into coordinated action.

This role requires significant vocational ministry leadership experience in a local church, including direct supervision and development of church staff leaders. Candidates should bring demonstrated experience leading through other leaders and providing direction across multiple ministry areas. Business or nonprofit leadership experience may complement this background but does not replace the required church ministry leadership experience.

The Executive Pastor of Ministry oversees campuses, outreach, worship, care, kids, students, connections, groups, formation, people, and strategy while helping cultivate a spiritually healthy, collaborative, and effective ministry team.

Responsibilities

Pastoral Leadership

• Serve as a pastor at large of Westwood Community Church, participating in staff meetings, retreats, church functions, pastoral care and counsel, and other pastoral responsibilities.
• Provide teaching ministry at the invitation of the Senior Pastor or in other approved settings.
• Officiate church ordinances, weddings, and funerals as assigned.
• Participate in the Pastor-on-Call rotation.
• Model spiritual maturity, biblical leadership, and a commitment to Westwood’s mission and way of life.

Staff Leadership and Development

• Lead, supervise, coach, and develop ministry staff leaders who oversee their own staff and volunteer teams.
• Establish clear expectations, provide meaningful feedback, and hold leaders accountable for ministry effectiveness and team health.
• Build a staff culture marked by trust, collaboration, ownership, and spiritual growth.
• Align ministries and campuses around shared priorities while equipping leaders to lead effectively within their areas of responsibility.
• Champion staff development, healthy ministry structures, and innovation that support the church’s long-term growth.

Strategy and Ministry Effectiveness

• Partner with the Senior Pastor in setting direction, making thoughtful decisions, and advancing the church’s mission.
• Lead the annual strategic planning process, including evaluating staff effectiveness, reviewing mission, vision, and core values, developing objectives and tactics, and establishing annual church goals with the Leadership Board.
• Translate churchwide vision into clear ministry priorities, actionable plans, and coordinated execution.
• Establish and maintain ministry reports and scorecards that give the Senior Pastor, Leadership Board, and staff visibility into ministry health and effectiveness.
• Lead ministry staff in developing annual budgets that support the strategic ministry plan.
• Collaborate with the Director of Operations to support effective ministry and organizational alignment.
• Ensure operational integrity, continuity, and readiness through leadership and oversight of support staff within the role’s responsibilities.

Partnerships and Growth

• Lead church, community, and ministry partnership efforts, including developing an incarnational strategy, building relationships with other leaders, and strengthening Westwood’s impact here, near, and far.
• Partner with the Senior Pastor in church growth and development initiatives, including capital fundraising campaigns, master planning, project management, donor development, church multiplication, and other Kingdom impact work.
• Represent Westwood with wisdom, integrity, and care in relationships with community and ministry leaders.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Live out Westwood’s Staff Values:

• Head High
• Heart Soft
• Arms Linked
• Feet Forward

We exist to help people be and love like Jesus. We do this through relevant Bible teaching, modern worship and creating a variety of opportunities for significant and supportive relationships. Whether this is your first time visiting a church or your thousandth time, we want you to feel welcome here. Come as you are—in jeans or your Sunday best. Wherever you are in your faith, we want to meet you and help you navigate life.