Worship Director

Antioch Community Church College Station•Bryan, TX

2d•Onsite

About The Position

The Worship Director exists to lead the worship ministry so that Antioch’s gatherings help the church behold Jesus, respond to Scripture, worship in Spirit and truth, and grow as a radiant church ready for Christ’s return. This role owns the worship ministry’s direction, health, quality, leadership development, worship-specific decisions, and team culture. The Worship Director does not carry the entire volunteer administration system alone. The Volunteer Coordinator owns the church-wide volunteer pipeline, scheduling support, onboarding workflow, communication systems, and volunteer database processes. The Worship Director partners with the Volunteer Coordinator while retaining responsibility for worship-specific discernment, standards, training, placement, and ministry outcomes. The Worship Director does not own production systems. The Production & Environments Director owns sound, slides, livestream, AVL systems, stage execution, and production volunteers. The Worship Director partners with Production to ensure worship-related production needs are clear and Sunday execution is smooth.

Requirements

Mature and growing relationship with Jesus.
Strong biblical and theological instincts for worship.
Commitment to congregational worship over performance.
Openness to the work of the Holy Spirit with biblical discernment and order.
Pastoral sensitivity and relational wisdom.
Musical competence sufficient to lead, coach, evaluate, and develop worship leaders.
Ability to lead both people and systems.
Strong communication and follow-through.
Ability to receive feedback without defensiveness.
Ability to give feedback with clarity, humility, and courage.
Capacity to build trust with volunteers.
Administrative competence without becoming overly administrative.
Emotional maturity, humility, teachability, and servant-hearted leadership.

Nice To Haves

Worship team capacity should be stewarded according to the following priority order: Sunday morning gatherings, Major church-wide gatherings, Worship nights / prayer nights, Young adult or college-related gatherings, Youth gatherings, Other ministry requests as capacity allows.
The Worship Director has authority to recommend “not now,” “not with live worship,” or “not with the full team” when a request would overextend the worship ministry or weaken Sunday readiness.
The Worship Director owns worship ministry direction, health, quality, Sunday worship planning, worship execution, leader development, worship-specific volunteer discernment, team culture, and worship ministry outcomes.
The Worship Director must lead the ministry without absorbing every operational detail.
The Worship Director partners with this role when worship is needed for church-wide events.
The Worship Director collaborates with Production on worship-related needs but does not own production systems.

Responsibilities

Ensure alignment of the theological, pastoral, musical, and practical direction of worship at Antioch.
Oversee the worship plan for Sunday gatherings.
Select songs that are biblically faithful, pastorally appropriate, and congregationally singable.
Curate and introduce new worship songs thoughtfully.
Maintain clarity around Antioch’s worship values: Christ-centered, Spirit-led, biblically grounded, emotionally honest, ordered, humble, and congregational.
Partner with the Senior Pastor, preaching team, and service-planning team so worship supports the overall direction of Sunday gatherings.
Attend or review Sunday services regularly to evaluate worship health and effectiveness.
Guard against worship becoming performative, emotionally manipulative, theologically shallow, overly controlled, poorly prepared, or disconnected from the congregation.
Help ensure worship moments are pastorally wise, spiritually attentive, and appropriately ordered.
Recruit, develop, and support worship leaders and Bottom Line Leaders.
Meet with Bottom Line Leaders at least once per semester to assess needs, team health, leader development, and ministry concerns.
Provide regular feedback to worship leaders and Bottom Line Leaders after they lead.
Help leaders grow in spiritual leadership, musical leadership, team communication, preparation, congregational awareness, and pastoral sensitivity.
Help Bottom Line Leaders lead their teams spiritually and relationally, not merely musically.
Identify emerging worship leaders and build a clear development pathway for them.
Promote a feedback culture marked by humility, encouragement, clarity, teachability, and growth.
Partner with the Worship Ministry Coach as needed to strengthen worship leader coaching and feedback.
Cultivate a worship team culture marked by humility, joy, preparation, spiritual maturity, teachability, excellence, and unity.
Provide consistent encouragement to worship leaders, Bottom Line Leaders, and worship volunteers.
Personally connect with key volunteers and leaders so the team feels known, supported, and covered.
Address unhealthy attitudes, relational tension, repeated lack of preparation, reliability concerns, or team culture issues.
Encourage worship volunteers to prepare spiritually, not merely musically.
Help volunteers understand that worship ministry is both musical and pastoral.
Protect volunteer health by evaluating team capacity before accepting additional worship-related event requests.
Surface concerns early before they become larger team problems.
Model humility, teachability, spiritual hunger, and emotional maturity.
Define worship team standards for character, spiritual maturity, musical ability, preparation, reliability, and team fit.
Identify and personally welcome potential new worship volunteers.
Conduct or participate in worship-team onboarding interviews.
Evaluate new volunteers for worship-specific readiness.
Coordinate with Bottom Line Leaders for musical evaluation and role-specific feedback.
Approve final placement of worship volunteers into appropriate roles.
Communicate clearly when someone is ready, not yet ready, better suited for another role, or in need of further development.
Ensure worship volunteers are placed wisely, not merely because there is a scheduling need.
Partner with the Volunteer Coordinator to ensure new volunteers receive the worship team handbook, required apps, PCO access, Multitracks access, and any other necessary onboarding steps.
Build and maintain a pathway for developing future worship leaders and Bottom Line Leaders.
Identify emerging leaders and help discern their readiness.
Create or maintain worship values training for worship volunteers.
Create or maintain onboarding and training content for new worship team members.
Plan occasional skill development opportunities for the worship team.
Help develop musicians and vocalists as needed.
Train new youth worship leaders as appropriate and in partnership with youth ministry leadership.
Help ensure the worship ministry is not dependent on one person, one team, or one generation of leaders.
Develop worship volunteers who are spiritually mature, musically prepared, relationally healthy, and pastorally aware.
Maintain clear worship ministry roles, expectations, and communication rhythms.
Ensure weekly worship plans are prepared with adequate time for team preparation.
Work with Bottom Line Leaders to ensure each worship team is prepared for Sunday.
Coordinate with the Production & Environments Director regarding tracks, stage setup, IEMs, sound needs, rehearsal needs, and service flow.
Confirm that team members have what they need to prepare well.
Ensure service communication rhythms are clear, whether through PCO, Telegram, email, or another agreed-upon tool.
Partner with the Volunteer Coordinator on PCO scheduling support, volunteer responses, reminders, and follow-up.
Maintain and periodically clean up the worship song list in Planning Center.
Ensure worship-related licenses, supplies, instruments, and gear needs are handled by the appropriate owner.
Identify recurring worship-related equipment or stage-system issues and help resolve them with the appropriate team.
Oversee the worship ministry task system and ensure responsibilities are assigned to the appropriate owner: Worship Director, Volunteer Coordinator, Bottom Line Leaders, Production Team, Communications, or another staff member.
Monitor worship-related event requests and make ministry-level decisions about worship team capacity, priority, and readiness.
Provide direct ministry leadership to worship leaders, Bottom Line Leaders, and worship team volunteers, in partnership with the Volunteer Coordinator.