Position Profile

Mission:

“We exist to urgently lead people to say “yes” to Jesus and his purposes for their lives.”

Weekend Worship Experience:

• Lead worship for weekend services at our Lake Forest broadcast campus, setting the tone, sound, and spiritual posture that flows out to all 19 campuses.
• Shape the arc of every weekend worship moment — song selection, arrangement, flow, transitions, and pastoral moments on the mic — in close partnership with the Executive Pastor and Lead Pastor.
• Lead with both range and discernment: comfortable in upbeat, faith-filled celebration and in slower, contemplative moments where the room lingers in God’s presence.
• Create accessible worship environments where believers go deeper and people far from God can sense His presence and take a step toward Jesus.
• Lead deeper-intensity environments (such as our Return Gathering and Weekly Prayer) with the same authority and pastoral instinct.

Worship Across the Campuses:

• Build and oversee the worship strategy across all 19 campuses, creating both consistency in identity and contextual flexibility for each campus.
• Develop tiered set design (full-band, mid-tier, acoustic-tier versions of every set) so campuses can adapt Lake Forest sets to their context and team capacity.
• Partner with our Campus Worship coach to care for campus worship leaders — monthly gatherings, providing relational support, and shared standards of excellence.
• Build systems, not just stages — cultivating a culture of worship and a pipeline of leaders that scale beyond any one location.

Team Leadership and Development:

• Pastor and shepherd, the worship team — staff, contracted musicians, and volunteers — with warmth, clarity, and care.
• Identify, coach, and raise up worship leaders and musicians. Invest in people spiritually, relationally, and skillfully so that more leaders are flourishing five years from now than today.
• Build a culture of feedback, growth, and unity. Clear conflict directly. Lead a team people genuinely enjoy being on.
• Partner with our Worship Operations Manager and production team to ensure rehearsals, services, and special moments are executed with excellence.

Strategic Partnership:

• Partner closely with the Lead Pastor and Executive Pastor to translate the vision and message of each series into the worship culture of the church.
• Sit on the Campus and Weekend Ministry leadership team alongside Production, Communications, Guest Experience, and Engagement leaders to lead a unified weekend experience.
• Help carry the broader narrative of prayer and presence, Stronger Homes, the multiplication of leaders and our identity as a Good News church into the worship life of Saddleback.
• Steward budget, staffing, and creative resources with wisdom — thinking like a builder of scalable systems, not a consumer of resources.

Minimum 3-5 years experience leading a worship department as well as experience leading in more spirit led environments. Experience with multi-site is a must.