Challenges and Opportunities
- Following Strong Leadership: The previous Youth Director did an excellent job – building trust and connection. That means the new leader inherits a healthy base, but will need to earn relational credibility with students, leaders, and parents. The good news: the team is ready to follow a strong, humble leader who shows up consistently and invests well.
- Building Systems Across Campuses: Liberty Youth has momentum—but the infrastructure for multi-campus collaboration, communication, and accountability is still under construction. This is a high-feedback environment, and there’s strong unity?in spirit – what’s needed now is a leader who can build the systems to support it.
- Volunteer + Leadership Development: There’s a hunger for leadership development at every level. The right person will love recruiting and training volunteers and see this not as a burden – but as one of the best parts of their calling.
- Clarifying Central vs. Campus Leadership: With this being a newly defined central role, there’s still work to do in helping campus Youth Directors and their teams understand how the Central Youth Director fits into the overall structure. That’s not a negative – it’s a unique chance to define expectations, build healthy rhythms of collaboration, and model servant leadership from day one.
Leadership, Culture, and Reporting
- Liberty Church is a thriving multisite church with eight campuses across multiple states. Known for its high-trust, highly collaborative culture, Liberty places a strong emphasis on communication, teamwork, and shared leadership across all ministry areas.
- The leadership structure is intentionally designed to support both centralized direction and strong local execution.
- At the top, the Lead Pastor sets the vision, while the Executive Team establishes the strategic direction for the church as a whole Central Directors like this Student Director role – serve as ministry specialists, providing strategic leadership, equipping campus teams with resources, and helping unify ministry efforts across campuses.
- Each Campus Pastor oversees their local staff and ensures ministry alignment with Liberty’s mission. Local Directors lead their specific departments on campus, while support staff help carry out the vision and direction.
- This role reports to both Kristin Lipscomb (Central Ministries) and Matt Mills (Blue Angel Campus Pastor). It blends strategic influence with hands-on leadership at Liberty’s original and largest campus, creating a unique opportunity to shape student ministry not just locally, but church-wide.
Key Responsibilities
Central Oversight
- Develop and champion the vision and strategy for Liberty Youth across campuses
- Lead and support Campus Youth Directors with coaching, care, and clarity
- Build out systems for communication, accountability, and resource sharing
- Oversee curriculum, event planning, and teaching rhythm across all campuses
- Lead monthly Youth staff meetings and one-on-one coaching
- Partner with the Executive Director of Ministries on vision execution and alignment
Blue Angel Campus
- Pastor students, volunteers, and families at the Blue Angel campus
- Equip and lead volunteer teams for both weekly services and special events
- Prepare and execute engaging midweek and Sunday student gatherings
- Provide spiritual care and relational presence to students and families
- Manage the youth ministry budget for the campus and coordinate key events
- Recruit and empower leaders to take ownership of the ministry
Key Qualifications
- Minimum 5 years experience in student ministry (multi-campus experience preferred); minimum of 2 years leading in a larger ministry setting
- Proven ability to lead teams and build healthy, scalable systems
- Passionate about discipling students and developing leaders
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Values diversity, humility, collaboration, and fun in ministry
- Bachelor’s degree preferred