Executive Pastor of Ministry Development - Lexington, Kentucky

The Executive Pastor of Ministry Development is a blend of executive level
leadership and team building that ensures that all pastoral staff and ministries are effective, aligned, and healthy as numerical growth and depth is happening at FAC.

This role will encompass oversight of the majority of the pastoral staff thus, a
proven developer of ministries, teams, and individuals is desired for this role.

If you have large church experience and thrive in a multi-staff, strategic and Spirit-led environment, read on!

The Pastor of Ministry Development:

(Leader, innovator, coach, maximizer, strategic, achiever)
The candidate will act as the Chief of Pastoral Staff who will oversee the ministry leaders by:
• Executing the vision set by the Lead Pastor and the Leadership Board
• Providing pastoral leadership and coaching to the staff team and high-level leaders to maximize their God-given abilities and lead with excellence
• Developing clear strategies and sustainable systems to multiply and scale the mission of making disciples, while creating a culture of alignment and accountability to counteract vision drift.
• Working with the Lead Pastor on setting staff culture, training staff and other ministry leaders by the creation and implementation of a leadership pipeline
• Innovating ministries, teams and ideas that will take FAC into the next decade of ministry

Responsibilities
• Establish consistency between Spirit-led mission and Spirit-led work environment.
• Maintain accessibility to the pastoral staff to provide care, love, direction, comradery and oversight.
• Create an annual staff development plan and oversee the implementation of it (e.g. staff retreats, staff chapel, staff training. etc.)
• With the Lead Pastor create clear and compelling high-level organizational architecture of the church, staff, and ministries
• Work with pastoral staff members in developing self-awareness and spiritual health.
• Serve various ministries by speaking to their leadership or participation in their ministry
• Serve as an advocate for the staff

• Ensure compelling language, both written and oral, is used in departments to communicate vision, inspire hope and give meaning and direction, in concert with the Director of Communications.
• Ensure the alignment of the Pastoral Staff’s ministry budgets and resources for the implementation of ministry strategy at a department level.
• Further the culture of measurement, feedback, and innovation to advance the mission of the church
• Encourage healthy collaboration between pastors, departments and ministries.

Key Deliverables:
• Ensure the church and her leaders are moving forward in a spirit of love, trust and unity
• Ensure the vision, mission, and strategy of FAC is producing disciples who are making disciples

• Ensure the church’s (and pastoral staff’s) systems support and reinforce the church’s desired culture

• Ensure the staff are aligned to the vision, mission, and strategy.

What Success Looks Like
• High level vision and strategy are clarified with measurable outcomes that are executed by the staff
• Ministries are clear, strategic and collaborative.
• Crisis and difficult situations are handled effectively and lovingly
• Strategic strengths/weaknesses/opportunities/threats are identified, solutions are implemented, and continuous improvements are made.
• FAC’s pastoral staff are healthy, unified, and have a clear development and growth path
• FAC’s pastoral staff are faithfully fulfilling their duties and feel equipped and empowered to do so
• FAC’s pastoral staff are operating in areas of gifting and have clarity concerning roles and responsibilities.

Other expectations:
This role will report to the Lead Pastor and work closely with him.