Worship Pastor

We are a growing and planting church with a passion for worship and transformational encounter. We are looking for someone who can lead and grow a talented and committed team, lead worship on Sundays and other events, develop and train others to lead, and encourage a passion for worship within the church.

ROLES

• Lead the worship and production at Saint Mary’s Church and any future sites.
• Raise up multiple worship and production leaders, developing them creatively and spiritually, alongside training pathways and resources.
• Lead/coordinate worship on Sundays and at other Saint Mary’s ministries e.g. Alpha, staff meetings, prayer meetings, etc.
• Manage worship and production budget.
• Work with the Artist in Residence and the team to support and enable a culture of songwriting and support creativity across the city.
• Seek to identify new resources and songs for the church.
• Develop worship strategy across all sites and across age-groups (Kids, Youth, etc.).
• Ensure production on Sundays and at events is of high quality and maintained week by week.
• Ensure Saint Mary’s has appropriate worship & production equipment, licenses, and software needed to provide excellence in worship.
• Contribute to the ongoing mission of Saint Mary’s church within the city and uphold our values.

WHO ARE YOU?

• Demonstrate a desire to be a lead worshipper: a worshipping heart.
• Mature Disciple of Jesus - active in prayer, reading scripture & formational practices.
• Musical excellence twinned with a desire to improve.
• Experience in leading worship at all levels, including congregational level.
• Familiar with worship & ministry in a charismatic context.
• Able to take direction and feedback when working with others.
• Ability to train, counsel, and advise people on a one-to-one level.
• Good interpersonal skills and a desire to pastorally care for and develop the worship team volunteers.
• Desire to serve the leadership of the church.
• Strong organizational and administrative skills.
• Self-motivated.
• Polite, confident, and servant-hearted.
• High attention to detail.
• High level of confidentiality.
• Practical experience in pastoral care.
• Completed a form of Worship Training or Theological Training.
• Familiar with Church Suite & Propresenter.
• Budget management.

It is an Occupational Requirement that the successful candidate is an active Christian with a strong faith and a theological understanding of worship. We have a fast-paced working environment where we strive for excellence in everything we do. Our ethos is to be encouraging, grateful, gracious, and professional, and we endeavor to thread this through every part of the organization and every interaction. It is an exciting and challenging place to work and is full of variety. We aim for a ‘can do’ environment where innovation and creativity are encouraged alongside serving others. The staff community is warm and engaging, with lifelong relationships being built.

Over the summer of 2018, a small team of people moved from HTB to plant and revitalize the Saint Mary’s Church Southampton, located right in the heart of the city. The vision of Saint Mary’s Church is to be a community following the way of Jesus, playing our part in the renewal of Southampton. In the last 6 years, Saint Mary’s has grown to around 650 people regularly attending our Sunday gatherings, across 4 services on a Sunday. The average age of our congregation is 27, although we celebrate being a multi-generational church that is growing in its diversity. Our congregation includes around 75 children and young people.

We have been designated a resource church by the Diocese of Winchester, with a vision to plant and help revitalize churches. In 2021, we sent a plant to St Win’s, Totton, and in September 2023, we started a plant partnership with Lord’s Hill and Lordswood Church, a church in the heart of the Lordshill Estate in Southampton. In October 2024, Saint Mary’s launched a second site at Lodge Road.

We are deeply committed to the way of Jesus and being formed by his life as we practice being with him, becoming like him, and doing what he did. We have a passion to raise and develop leaders who are committed to the Good News of Jesus to lead in church and in all spheres of society. Worship informs everything we do as we seek first His kingdom and righteousness and continue to tell the story of what God is doing in our time; some of that story is captured through our Saint Music team that has written and released music to serve and resource the church.

Each member of staff plays a key role in contributing to our vision. Our mission is bigger than any individual task, but together our work contributes to the bigger picture. As a Christian organization, our faith is an integral part of our working culture. Our values as a community and a staff team are Family, Fearless & Fun, and we aim for all of our activities and processes to be driven by those values.