Central Campus Pastor

Central Campus Pastor
Reports to: Lead Pastor or Executive Pastor

Campus: Central

Level: Director 

Summary of position: A Campus Pastor is the face and point leader of an Echo.Church campus. Their primary responsibility is to pastor the local campus and develop staff and leaders to effectively reach people far from God and develop them to passionately follow Jesus. They own, communicate, and contextualize the church's vision at the local level.

Qualities needed:

• Passionate relationship w/ Jesus, robust inward life, and strong daily spiritual practices.
• Effective communicator - inspire with vision, passion, and practical next steps
• Leadership - ability to develop and work through paid staff and lay leaders. Ability to identify, develop, and multiply leaders (for groups and teams)
• Passion for those far from God - contagious drive toward reaching people
• Teachability and humility - pursuing feedback and coaching. Comfortable with 2nd chair
• Self-starter with an entrepreneurial work ethic
• Actively using gifts and producing fruit - with a track record of growing things.

Key Responsibilities:

It’s important to remember that though a Campus Pastor is accountable for all these areas, they are expected to develop capable leaders that can execute and be responsible for them. 

• Lead Campus Staff -  Pastor, care, and lead the campus staff and equip them to develop leaders and multiply volunteers. Includes leading staff meetings, create feedback/evaluation mechanisms, department goal setting, team accountability, ministry alignment, etc.
  
• Leadership Development - Work to build up the leadership pipeline of your campus and continually develop and mobilize volunteer leaders to serve with their gifts. The priority for a CP to mobilize high level leaders over every main ministry area.

• Shepherd the Echo DNA - Lead your campus in proactively moving toward the Echo.Church visionary goals, embracing Echo values, and prioritizing Echo main strategies.  See Echo’s playbook here.
  
• Weekend Readiness - Ensure all weekend services are executed with excellence in all areas (worship, kids, guest experience etc.). Work to remove every obstacle or distraction that could keep the campus from growing.

• Stage Communication - Prayerfully and adequately prepare how you or those you develop will cast vision during the Welcome and Next Steps Sunday moment, always helping people take practical steps.  Prayerfully get familiar with every Sunday message and be available and ready to occasionally teach. Contribute to team teaching meetings and teach locally when needed.  

• Echo Group Development - Prioritize the development of Echo Groups and discipleship on your campus by working with the Groups department to recruit, train, and release people to lead. The adult attendance in groups should stay above 70% of weekend adult attendance, with the goal of 80%+.

• Connection & Follow up - Weekly connect (phone/text/zoom…) with first time guests and those committing to take next steps. Lead the campus connection strategy and process. Volunteer sign-ups, group sign ups, decisions to get baptized…

• Community Engagement & Evangelism - Build relationships with lost people, city staff, business leaders, church leaders, entrepreneurs, and others in the community surrounding your campus. 

• Oversee Campus Online Presence and Strategy - the management of your Campus online presence, other advertising/marketing, and all local marketing (signs, billboards, banners, mailers, etc.). This is done in conjunction with our Communications Director.

• Manage Campus Budget - Set campus budget and ensure that your campus departments are staying within it, tracking reports, and planning expenses effectively. 

• Other - Benevolence requests, model discipleship, develop marketing and evangelism strategies, plan community outreach events, manage campus facilities, pioneer giving initiatives...

Key Campus Health Indicators

A Campus Pastor should carefully monitor and ensure the integrity of the following data points, which are indicators of health at their campus.

1. Activate attendance and follow up

1. Sunday Attendance
2. Giving Totals and First Time Givers
3. Groups Sign-ups & Attendance (80%+ signed up per semester, 80% attending average)
4. First Time Decisions to Follow Jesus
5. First Time Guests
6. Second Time Guests
7. Baptisms (10:1 adult to baptisms annually)
8. Volunteers Serving (15-20% of adult attendance serving weekly)
9. Community Engagement 

Weekly / bi-weekly tasks:

• Follow up with first time guests and those who indicated taking next steps (salvation, baptism, volunteer, life groups).
• Participate in weekend planning meetings. 

• Prepare and run campus staff meetings and direct reports with campus staff.
• Lead staff in making and evaluating quarterly goals in light of overall church goals.

• Meet with key leaders, donors, and volunteers for development and care.

Click here to learn more about Campus Pastor Rhythms

Echo.Church ministerial duties of all commissioned, licensed and ordained ministers includes:

• Praying and giving spiritual advice for others
• Leading others to worship by helping them serve with their gifts
• Teaching and leading Echo Groups
• Sharing the Gospel message with clarity
• Teaching, instructing, or organizing religious initiatives
• Performing baptisms, serving communion, performing wedding ceremonies and funerals.