Associate Communications Director

Roles Mission:

The Associate Communications Director – Creative is responsible for leading creative development while stewarding

and advancing Christ Chapels brand across all communications. Shepherding a team of designers, copywriters,

photographers, and videographers, this role leads the team in using their skills to exceed expectations, drive creativity

forward, and best serve the church.

Christ Chapels Mission:

To stretch every involved person from the threshold of their spiritual pilgrimage toward becoming a fully-developing

follower of Christ (Col 1:28-29).

Roles Responsibilities:

- Develop, maintain, and champion Christ Chapels brand standards across all projects, ensuring all creative

- elements align with Christ Chapels mission, vision, values, theological convictions, organizational goals, and

- communication standards.

- Provide creative leadership for the Communications Department by establishing the visual, verbal, and

- storytelling direction for major initiatives, sermon series, ministry campaigns, events, and organizational

- priorities.

- Lead, coach, and develop designers, writers, photographers, and videographers — including staff, freelance

- partners, and volunteers — by providing clear direction, constructive feedback, and opportunities for

- spiritual and professional growth in their craft.

- Partner with the Associate Communications Director – Projects to align creative priorities, provide strategic

- creative direction, and ensure projects move efficiently from concept through final delivery.

- Serve as a creative leader to ministry partners, helping translate ministry goals into clear, compelling, and

- effective communication strategies.

- Lead the creative strategy and concept development for campaigns and key initiatives, including

- brainstorming, mood boards, messaging direction, visual identity, storytelling, and execution.

- Review and approve creative deliverables to ensure excellence, clarity, consistency, accuracy, and brand

- alignment before publication or distribution.

- Continue to move the needle by identifying opportunities for creative innovation and improvement to

- the quality, and effectiveness of Christ Chapels communications.

- Help establish and refine creative processes, workflows, and systems that allow the Communications

- Department to serve ministries with clarity and efficiency.

- Cultivate a healthy creative culture marked by humility, collaboration, excellence, encouragement, trust,

- and a shared commitment to serve the church well.

- Translate ministry objectives into clear, strategic creative briefs that successfully guide project execution.

Roles Reporting Relationship: This role reports to the Communications Director.

Qualifications

Roles Requirements:

- Maturing believer actively pursuing a deepening relationship with Christ.

- Robust and expanding knowledge of creative trends and best practices.

- Strong understanding of and proficiency with Adobe products (especially InDesign and Premiere).

- Ability to give clear, constructive creative feedback.

- Ability to balance multiple initiatives while maintaining project quality and deadlines.

- Understanding of brand system applications to ensure messaging and visual consistency across all creative

- communications.

Character-

- Must be a Christian.

- Must be living an above reproach lifestyle as outlined in the Bible and Christ Chapels Employee

- Handbook.

Calling-

- Must be committed to and supportive of the authority of the Elders, the pastoral staff, and the philosophy

- and direction of the church both in public and in private.

- Must work scheduled hours each week as unto the Lord.

- Must be a faithful steward of your work and time, with awareness that Christ Chapel employees are paid

- from the tithes and offerings of others.

Competency-

- This role is best suited for those with the gift of leadership and creativity (Rom 12; 1 Cor 12; Eph 4; 1 Pet 4).

- Chemistry-

- Viewed as a capable, competent, and compassionate team member.

- Flexible and adaptable to respond to quick changes, helping to meet the mission while maintaining a

- positive-solutions oriented approach

- Able to build and maintain relationships across Christ Chapels ministries and departments.

- Roles Preferences:

- Experience in a church, nonprofit, or ministry environment is both valuable and preferred.

- Strong portfolio demonstrating conceptual thinking, brand development, campaign execution, and creative

- leadership.