Audio Team Lead
Village Church, Canada

PRIMARY OBJECTIVES

The Audio Team Lead’s responsibility is to bring intentional focus for every guest to hear the gospel, engage with corporate worship, and experience an environment that directs their attention to Jesus in the Sunday gatherings and midweek events. This position serves as a part of the Production Team who ensures the most forward-facing ministries of Village Church, the teaching, worship, and service experiences, are brought to life to have the greatest impact in the lives of people.

DEMONSTRATED COMPETENCIES

• Technical Expertise: The ability to demonstrate a depth of knowledge and skill as it relates to a technical process or speciality. Acts as an expert in the specific field.

• Collaboration: Works cooperatively with others and follows through on assigned tasks. It’s an all hands on deck approach to ensure deliverables are completed on time. Works together effectively with interdependent goals and common values and norms to foster a best team environment.

• Creative Thinking: Skilled in the ability to generate new ideas, concepts and solutions and is able to manage the development of these ideas and concepts from thought to reality. Engages in responsible dialogue and brainstorming to develop new ideas and unique solutions to problems. Discovering new opportunities and solutions for problems by looking beyond current practices and using innovative thinking. Curious and excited about people and content.

• Flexible Thinking: Able to thrive in a fast-paced environment and effectively adapt to a variety of situations. The ability to understand and appreciate different and opposing perspectives, proposing ways to do things differently. Displays a positive attitude in the face of ambiguity and change. Your creative flexibility in complex situations leads to greater efficiency.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Participates in an Audio Team pool that serves regional Village Church locations.
• Leads and manages the volunteer team members through recruiting, training, scheduling, shepherding, and conducting development sessions with staff and leaders.
• Supports the Worship Leader, band, and speaker(s) through preparedness, skill, and communication.
• Ensures the live experience is clear and intelligible, feeback-free, the vocals are primary, and the sound level targets are achieved.
• Ensures all transitions are anticipated, intentional, and prepared for.
• Ensures excellent audio recordings of the music and live teaching elements of each service.
• Follows the Production workflow to ensure Sunday and mid-week services and events are produced on time and at the highest level of excellence. This includes all mid-week planning, service collaboration, communication, and ensuring deliverables are completed on time.
• Ensures Audio Systems are maintained, repaired, and functioning optimally at Sunday and midweek venues.
• Works closely with the Worship Leader and Production Ministry Lead to ensure sonic cohesion with Village Church audio standards.
• Participates in Village-wide and regional events.
• Participates in training of leaders for new Village Church locations.
• Contributes to regular training events and resources.
• Ensures all responsibilities are completed in a purposeful, strategic and focused manner that points people to Jesus.
• Acts as a servant by inviting, discipling, training and equipping others to serve.
• Ensures all responsibilities are produced, promoted and led with a high level of innovation and excellence, honouring God at the highest level.
• Acts with a sense of ambitious urgency, ensuring all work is completed wisely and impactfully. Time is a gift from God.
• Maintains an openness to being a learner by committing to continuous spiritual, professional, and self development.
• Contributes to the best team culture by participating joyfully and working well with peers.
• Commits to thanking at least one volunteer on a weekly basis.
• Demonstrates behaviour consistent with the Standard of Conduct as outlined in the Village Staff Handbook.

KEY RESULTS

Gospel:

• There are no barriers or technical distractions in the Sunday and midweek services, which would inhibit guests from hearing the Gospel message.
• The Audio Team understands their role in seeing people become fully devoted followers of Jesus.
• Team members serve joyfully and authentically out of the Good News that we are redeemed and have our purpose in Jesuseverything we do points back to this.

Community

• People are given the opportunity to use their gifts and talents in high-capacity volunteer roles - entering into the work that Christ is doing through the local church.
• The volunteer team is healthy in number and commitment; they ar

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