Position Profile

Hill Country’s staff culture is in a rebuilding season marked by humility and trust. Leaders are cultivating an environment of grace, accountability, and team-based collaboration. Core values that guide this culture include:

• Trust over control: Empowering staff to lead with integrity and initiative.
• Simplicity over complexity: Reducing noise to highlight what matters most.
• Collaboration over silos: Creating integrated strategies across ministries.

• Lead and develop a high-performing team (Sr. Graphic Designer, Videographer, Project Manager)
• Create and implement scalable communication systems that support both centralized church-wide initiatives and decentralized ministry messaging
• Collaborate closely with senior leadership to translate vision into cohesive, compelling communication strategies across channels
• Provide creative leadership to branding, visual identity, digital content, and storytelling efforts
• Equip ministry teams with tools, coaching, and confidence to communicate effectively with their audiences

• Strategic Implementation: Leans in with curiosity to understand where God is leading the church and builds systems that align communications and storytelling with that vision.
• Empowerment of People: Knows how to lead others through change, stay relationally grounded, and cultivate an environment where leadership is shared and multiplied for greater impact.
• Experienced in Audience Engagement: Brings strong intuition for audience behavior and crafts messaging that builds trust, sparks engagement, and leads people to meaningful action.
• A clear and calming presence: Helps teams prioritize, plan, and stay focused on what matters most amidst complexity.
• A translator between church and culture: Understands both the language of the unchurched and the depth of the Gospel, helping the church communicate with clarity, empathy, and mission.
• Required Experience & Expertise:
  • 5–10 years of professional experience in communications, marketing, or creative leadership, Ideally in a church, nonprofit, or mission-driven organization with a collaborative team environment.
  • Demonstrated success leading teams and managing complex projects
  • Digital marketing fluency: Proficiency in web, social media, email marketing, analytics, and content strategy; comfortable using data to guide decisions.
  • Strong writing, editing, and storytelling skills; Able to write and coach others to write compelling, clear content that reflects the tone and theology of a church like Hill Country.

• Rebuilding communications as a trusted partner across ministries
• Leading change in a church that has experienced a significant season of shifts
• Simplifying and streamlining communication in a complex environment with legacy habits and systems

• Reestablish a healthy, relational dynamic between communications and ministry teams
• Design a proactive communication structure that prioritizes families, newcomers, and discipleship pathways
• Champion a clear, unified voice for Hill Country as it enters this next season of growth and simplification