CAREERS

EXECUTIVE PASTOR (Full Time)

We are seeking a gifted and experienced Executive Pastor to partner closely with the Senior Pastor in leading the life and ministry of Riverlife. This key leadership role focuses on translating vision into action—ensuring our ministries are healthy, aligned, and effectively delivered—while enabling the Senior Pastor to concentrate on vision, preaching, leadership development, and theological leadership.

The Executive Pastor provides strategic, pastoral, and operational leadership across Riverlife’s ministries. This role combines strong people leadership with organisational clarity, overseeing day-to-day ministry delivery, leading and developing pastoral and ministry staff, and coordinating cross-ministry initiatives that advance our shared vision.

This is a senior ministry role for someone who loves both people and systems, thrives in collaboration, and brings wisdom, maturity, and spiritual depth to complex leadership environments.

Key Focus Areas:

• Vision into Action: Partner with the Senior Pastor and leadership to translate Riverlife’s long-term vision into clear, aligned, and measurable ministry plans.

• Ministry Leadership: Oversee the delivery of ministry programmes, major initiatives, and events, ensuring alignment, momentum, and healthy execution.

• Staff & Team Development: Lead, coach, and develop pastoral and ministry staff, fostering a culture of clarity, accountability, growth, and pastoral care.

• Cross-Ministry Coordination: Strengthen collaboration across ministries, ensuring shared priorities, effective resourcing, and strong communication.

• Leadership & Culture: Play a key role in the Leadership Team, supporting follow-through, alignment, and a healthy staff and volunteer culture.

• Pastoral Presence: Contribute meaningfully to the spiritual life of the church through preaching, ministry leadership, and pastoral engagement as needed.

Who We’re Looking For

We are seeking a spiritually mature, relationally intelligent leader who brings both pastoral heart and organisational clarity. The ideal candidate is someone who loves the local church, thrives in team-based leadership, and is energised by helping vision become lived reality.

You are likely someone who:

• Has a deep, personal faith in Jesus and a clear sense of calling to pastoral ministry

• Is a collaborative leader who works well alongside a Senior Pastor, Elders, staff, and volunteers

• Brings proven experience leading teams, developing people, and navigating complex ministry environments

• Thinks strategically but is also comfortable rolling up their sleeves to ensure ministry outcomes are delivered well

• Communicates clearly, brings alignment across diverse ministries, and fosters healthy accountability

• Leads with humility, wisdom, and a servant-hearted posture, even in moments of pressure or change

• Has the emotional and spiritual maturity to handle conflict, guide others through change, and care for leaders as well as congregants

This role would suit someone who is excited to serve behind the scenes as much as on the platform—strengthening systems, supporting people, and helping the whole church move forward together in faith and purpose.

Applications close 13 March 2026