Project Manager - Marketing & Communications

The Project Manager runs the projects that keep the MarCom engine moving to support Southeast’s ministries and campuses. This role owns the timelines, briefs, handoffs, and accountability rhythms that ensure every approved project ships on time, on budget, and on brand. Project deliverables vary from graphics, video, photography, copywriting, marketing planning, communications, website updates, and event production support.

Why Southeast? Southeast Christian Church is a dynamic, growing church where staff are encouraged to lead boldly, care deeply, and live authentically.

What you will be doing

Project Execution & Timeline Ownership

• Own a portfolio of active projects across the full lifecycle from creative brief through formal closure.
• Conduct structured discovery to define scope, identify stakeholders, and surface risks — building an approved creative brief before work begins.
• Build realistic timelines and work with teams to ensure deadlines are met.
• Prioritize rapport building with stakeholders and creatives, providing support and clear communication.
• Establish and enable project cadences (i.e., kickoffs, check-ins, report-outs, and retrospectives).
• Identify risks early and mobilize the team to solve them.
• Facilitate project closure — capturing lessons learned, updating templates, and archiving completed projects.

Cross-Team Coordination

• Steward projects through workflow with clarity, discernment and speed.
• Coordinate handoffs between marketing, copywriters, designers, video, content capture and internal communications teams so that deliverables are completed within agreed upon timeframes.
• Nurture relationships, building trust in collaboration with Central Ministry partners to deliver atrium experiences and advance ministry objectives.
• Approach challenges critically, reprioritize tasks when needed, and escalate blockers to the Operations Director before they become issues.

Quality & System Discipline

• Drive project prioritization to support capacity management, ensuring the right work is in front of the team at the right times.
• Ensure every project has a complete brief, and the partner agrees with the overview before work begins.
• Provide accurate, honest status reports to the Operations Director on a regular cadence.
• Steward every step of the project with ease and transparent communication. This includes but is not limited to: quality assurance, reviews, and approvals
• Log and manage all change requests (scope, timeline, budget) through established change-control process.
• Drive change management for new or updated systems and processes.
• Contribute to operational system improvements; surface friction points.
• Regularly evaluate what is working/not working for the MarCom team. Partner with the Operational Director to make changes as needed

How You Operate

Self-Execution Mindset

You naturally take ownership and run with projects. You are comfortable making decisions and solving problems independently. You research, think critically, and present solutions to issues or questions as they arise.

Adaptive & Resilient

You thrive in dynamic ministry environments where priorities shift. You see change as an opportunity for improvement and adapt quickly without losing momentum or requiring extensive recalibration.

Proactive Innovator

You bring finished work and compelling ideas to the table. You are energized by developing new approaches and experimenting with creative solutions. You prefer taking initiative over waiting for direction.

Excellence-Driven

You have high standards for your work and are committed to continuous improvement. You take pride in delivering professional-quality content that represents the mission, vision, and brand of the church.

What We Are Looking For

• Heart for the Church and a desire to use operational excellence for Kingdom impact.
• 3–5+ years in project management, ideally in a creative, marketing, or agency environment.
• Mastery of a PM tool (Asana, Monday, Trello, ClickUp, or equivalent), power user level.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Suite, including Teams
• Familiarity with creative tools such as Adobe Suite, Frame.io, and Basecamp to ensure reviews go smoothly, and feedback loops are clear.
• Working AI fluency; uses AI to accelerate status reporting, brief quality checks, and meeting notes.
• Strong written communicator; can write a clear brief, a tight status update, a useful retro.
• Someone who understands business needs and leads relationally, able to build rapport with leadership, Central Ministry, and Campus partners, and is quick to build trust with others.
• Calm under pressure; bias for action; high standard for delivery.
• Comfortable leading project teams without formal authority, providing and receiving feedback to influence process and outcome improvements.
• Fluency with hybrid project management methodology (Waterfall phase gates + Agile execution principles) preferred.

Our Requirements

• Engaged member of Southeast Christian Church, or willing to become one.
• Models staff values: Honor, Care, Accountability, Grit, Authenticity, Humility, and Fun.
• Lives out staff expectations of groups, inviting, serving, worship, and giving.
• Agree with the *Statement of Faith, submit to the leadership established by the church, and lives out our church Mantras in tangible ways.  https://www.southeastchristian.org/who-we-are#mantras

*Please read our Statement of Faith that is attached below. You will be asked if you agree with our Statement of Faith within the application process.