Associate Campus Pastor (Oxford Campus)
SUMMARY
The Associate Campus Pastor reports to and serves alongside the Campus Pastor to help lead, shepherd, and equip the Pinelake Oxford campus. As an extension of the Campus Pastor’s office, this role enhances and provides greater span of care and depth in pastoral leadership, team development, and ministry oversight. The core focus is to partner with the campus pastor to ensure the mission, vision, and values of Pinelake Church are carried forward with excellence and faithfulness.
GENERAL RESPONSIBILITIES
- Works in coordination with the overall goals and objectives of Pinelake Church.
- Assists the Campus Pastor to work toward excellence in all areas of the ministry.
- As a part of the overall Oxford Campus staff team, participate in campus-wide ministry events and the shepherding of our Oxford Campus faith family.
- Basic personal responsibilities:
- Maintain a vital and growing personal walk with the Lord through committed Bible study, prayer, meditation and practicing L3.
- Maintain proper priorities in your home including your spouse and children (if married and/or with children).
- Faithfully support the ministries of Pinelake by maintaining wise stewardship measures over the resources entrusted to you.
- Maintain active participation in community.
- Reflect a growing awareness and practice of personal Emotional Healthy Spirituality.
- Perform duties and responsibilities in a manner to glorify Christ and further the mission and ministry purposes of Pinelake Church (Colossians 3:23-24).
- Value the 7 H’s of our staff culture in your heart, home, and life (Humility, Honor, Honesty, Hunger, Holy Spirit, Health and Harmony).
SPECIFIC LIST OF DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
- Help lead, develop, and care for staff and volunteer teams
- Provide pastoral leadership through presence, prayer, care, and relational connection
- Support weekend services and key ministry environments
- Champion a culture of discipleship, teamwork, and servant leadership
- Step in to lead ministries or initiatives as needed to support campus health and growth
- NextGen & Discipleship Oversight
- Provide direct leadership, coaching, and accountability for the Lead College Pastor, Lead Student Pastor, Kids Pastor, Preschool Minister, and (as assigned) the Adult Groups/Discipleship Pastor
- Champion a unified discipleship pathway across preschool, kids, students, college, and adult groups to ensure alignment and continuity
- Conduct regular one-on-one meetings with direct reports to provide spiritual care, leadership development, goal alignment, and performance feedback
- Ensure ministry strategies, calendars, and environments are aligned with Pinelake Church’s mission, vision, values, and campus priorities
- Support, coach, and equip ministry leaders in volunteer recruitment, leader development, and team health
- Oversee ministry planning, execution, and evaluation for key seasonal initiatives (camps, retreats, conferences, and milestone events)
- Collaborate with the Campus Pastor to identify leadership development opportunities and succession planning for NextGen and discipleship ministries
- Perform other duties as assigned.
SPECIFIC RESPONSIBILITIES – NEXTGEN, FAMILIES, & DISCIPLESHIP OVERSIGHT
- Serve as a catalyst and guide in equipping parents to become disciple-makers in their homes. Partner with NextGen families through intentional initiatives and relational engagement to strengthen the family unit and cultivate faithful followers of Jesus who, in turn, make disciples.
SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Adult Groups and Connections ministry staff as well as all NextGen ministry staff to include preschool, kids, middle school, high school and college.
QUALIFICATIONS
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.
- Proven ministry leadership experience in a local church with comparable context to Pinelake Oxford’s size and culture
- Deep love for the local church with proven leadership toward building a discipleship culture
- Passionate about people and energized to see others grow
- Strong relational and team leadership skills
- Flexible and dependable to lead and execute key initiatives
- Focused and aligned with Pinelake Church’s mission, vision, and values
- Spiritually mature, emotionally healthy, and secure enough to lead from the second chair.
EDUCATION AND/OR EXPERIENCE
Bachelor’s degree minimum; Required to be licensed/ordained. Seminary experience is a plus. Eight or more years of related experience and/or training.
LANGUAGE SKILLS
The individual must have excellent interpersonal skills, ability to work with a diverse group of people, communicate clearly and effectively on the telephone, e-mail and in person demonstrating tact and diplomacy. Exceptional interpersonal skills are required to develop and maintain strong working relationships with volunteers, co-workers, the public and church members and regular attendees. The individual must have the ability to understand written or oral instructions; read, analyze and interpret complex documents, instructions manuals, policies and procedures is essential.
COMPUTER AND MATHEMATICAL SKILLS
The individual must have demonstrated skill in the use of Windows/MacOS to complete tasks, including word processing and spreadsheets and the ability to use the internet for information retrieval. The individual must have basic mathematical skills, knowledge of bookkeeping and basic accounting, and budget and expense monitoring. The individual must have the ability to read financial information and spreadsheets.
REASONING ABILITY
The individual must be able to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions; respond effectively to the most sensitive inquiries; simultaneous conceptualization and planning of multiple tasks, ability to project outcomes using different implementation strategies and ability to apply creative and innovative thinking to problem situations; and solve practical problems. The ability to work effectively and efficiently under stressful conditions to ensure deadlines are met is essential.
PHYSICAL DEMANDS
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit and talk or hear. The employee is required to stand, walk, and reach with hands and arms.
Must be able to lift up to 25 lbs.
WORK ENVIRONMENT
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
The noise level of the work environment is usually moderate.