The NextGen Worship Director is a champion of leadership development within Covenant Church Worship & Creative. They emphasize cultivating the exponential growth of leaders in NextGen worship environments (Young Adults, Legendary Students, and CovKids). As a primary worship leader, they are also a vital part of leading vision-aligned worship environments in mid-week and weekend services that help people encounter the presence of God and respond passionately.

Key Responsibilities:

Weekend Responsibilities (Sunday Services)

Serve as worship leader for Sunday services in main worship environments with regular rhythms in NextGen environments.
Effectively lead the NextGen worship environments in collaboration with the Worship and Creative Pastors, ensuring spiritual and musical preparation.
Execute and implement central worship programming: preparing appropriate flow, transitions, ministry moments, and creative elements; managing and updating plans in Planning Center (making sure they have keys, charts, notes, etc.).
Facilitate regular rhythms for in-service evaluation and assessments of teams (live or via video playback)
Set the tone by arriving early, ready to engage, and prepare the atmosphere for worship.
Develop and deploy strategies for age-appropriate feedback with kids and student dream team members.
Mid-Week Responsibilities (between Sundays)
Serve as a primarily worship leader for Legendary Youth and Young Adults services.
Serve as a primary liaison to the NextGen ministries providing leadership to the worship and creative planning, programming, and environments in those areas.
Collaborate with the appropriate ministry areas and leaders to identify leadership opportunities and venues, facilitate the engagement and empowering of growing leaders, and implement best practices across all NextGen worship environments.
Establish rhythms for open, direct, and clear communication with ministry area leaders, teams, and parents.
Contribute to creative planning for services and special events, including cohesive and impactful song sets for Sunday services across all campuses.
Assist with leading weekly team nights – collaborating with the Worship & Creative Pastors to create and integrate content, training, and tools for musical and spiritual discipleship.

What a Strong Candidate Would Look Like:

The ideal NextGen Worship Director is:

Humble. They are willing to listen to others and admit they do not have all the answers.
Hungry. They possess the energy and drive to do their work with excellence. They are committed to an innovative pursuit of excellence and new ways to advance the church in ministry.
Smart. They are equipped with both technical skills and people skills, demonstrating emotional intelligence and working well with others. They are self-aware and understand the impact of their words and actions on the team.
A relational leader of leaders. They have an orientation towards serving and empowering others and building strong teams.
Forward leaning and focused. They excel in a fast-paced, change-oriented environment, maintaining an optimistic outlook and a positive attitude.
Committed. They embody the mission, vision, and values of Covenant Church with integrity and passion.
The ideal NextGen Worship Director has:

A gifting to lead worship
Extensive experience in leading worship and an excellent vocalist. (Proficiency with a rhythm instrument is preferred.)
Fluent in a variety of contemporary styles of music and a champion of diverse expressions.
Proficient knowledge of music theory (a degree or equivalent training/experience preferred).

A call to develop leaders:

Growing and healthy walk with the Lord; participating in God-honoring relationships, communication, accountability, and generosity.
Motivated to help people realize and reach their full potential.
Builds meaningful relationships and community within their teams through care, discipleship, and development.
Able to accomplish work through other leaders and in collaboration with other teams.

A track record of deploying skilled leaders into ministry at the right time:

Able to see potential in a leader and the path to help them reach it.
Stewards the influence and opportunities of others with care, intentionality, and discernment.
Avoids people-pleasing tendencies in favor of connecting a leader’s opportunities with their capacity and demonstrated capability.