Associate Director of City & Local Missions (One Church)

SUMMARY

The Associate Director of City & Local Missions advances Pinelake Church’s mission by building trusted relationships, mobilizing people, and developing ministry partnerships that serve the practical and spiritual needs of Jackson and surrounding communities. This leader works alongside the City & Local Missions leader to strengthen existing initiatives, identify emerging needs, and create sustainable pathways for the church to engage schools, neighborhoods, civic leaders, law enforcement, nonprofit organizations, churches, and individuals experiencing homelessness.

The role requires a mature follower of Christ who combines pastoral sensitivity, professional credibility, operational follow-through, and a genuine heart for the city. The Associate Director will represent Pinelake with humility and excellence while helping volunteers and ministry partners move from compassion to meaningful, measurable service.

GENERAL RESPONSIBILITIES

Learn

- Pursue a growing relationship with Jesus through consistent time in God’s Word and prayer
- Continually grow in your understanding of the Jesus-Centered Life (salvation, identity, life, and authority in Christ).
- Remain teachable and hungry, seeking feedback, learning from others, and developing both spiritually and professionally.
- Cultivate awareness of God’s presence in everyday life, listening to the Holy Spirit and responding in obedience.

Live

- Practice and model the rhythms of Be the Church (Grow, Pray, Connect, and Share).
- Pursue emotional health by engaging in self-awareness, addressing past wounds, and cultivating honest, healthy relationships.
- Practice healthy rhythms, prioritizing your relationship with Jesus and your family
- Embody a life of integrity and surrender, allowing your private life with God to shape your work.

Lead

- Take ownership of disciple-making by personally investing in others and helping them move toward a Jesus-Centered Life.
- Walk others through the Discipleship Pathway (Essentials → JCL → Be the Church), helping them discover and take their next step.
- Shepherd people, not just programs, by listening for where God is at work in their story and walking with them toward transformation.
- Equip and release others by developing Servant Leaders and multiplying disciples who Learn from Christ, Live in Christ, and Lead others to Christ.
- Measure success by life change, spiritual formation, and multiplication—not just attendance or activity.

Embrace the Culture

- Value and embody the staff values, which we call the 7 H’s: Humility, Honor, Honesty, Hunger, Holy Spirit, Health, and Harmony
- Communicate clearly, honestly, and proactively in a way that builds trust, unity, and momentum.
- Work in alignment with the church vision and leadership
- Participate fully in the life of your campus or team, contributing to the unity, health, and shepherding of the faith family.

SPECIFIC LIST OF DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Key Responsibilities

City Strategy and Community Partnerships

- Assist in developing and carrying out a coordinated City & Local Missions strategy for Jackson and the metro area.
- Build and maintain healthy relationships with churches, schools, nonprofit leaders, civic officials, public-safety agencies, and neighborhood organizations.
- Represent Pinelake at community meetings, partner gatherings, ministry events, and service initiatives when assigned.
- Listen to community leaders and residents to identify needs, assets, gaps, and opportunities for long-term impact.
- Evaluate potential partnerships for mission alignment, organizational health, measurable outcomes, and responsible stewardship.
- Homelessness and Compassion Ministry
- Provide focused leadership and subject-matter support for ministries serving individuals and families experiencing homelessness.
- Strengthen relationships with shelters, rescue missions, outreach teams, housing providers, recovery ministries, and wraparound-service organizations.
- Help develop a ministry approach that combines immediate care, dignity, discipleship, responsible referral, and pathways toward stability.
- Coordinate church resources and volunteers around food, clothing, hygiene, shelter support, transportation, job readiness, recovery, and other approved needs.
- Volunteer Mobilization and Discipleship
- Recruit, equip, and encourage volunteers and volunteer leaders for recurring and special local-mission initiatives.
- Create clear volunteer roles, expectations, safety practices, training, and follow-up processes.
- Help small groups, ministry teams, and campuses identify practical on ramps for sustained service rather than one-time engagement only.
- Encourage volunteers to serve with humility, cultural awareness, relational consistency, and a gospel-centered posture.

Youth, Schools, and Mentoring

- Support mentoring and character-development initiatives for children and youth in Jackson-area schools and community programs.
- Develop relationships with principals, school-resource officers, youth-serving organizations, parents, and vetted mentors.
- Assist with youth camps, school-supply initiatives, leadership development, and other approved opportunities that support young people and families.

Public Safety and Civic Engagement

- Serve as a credible bridge between Pinelake, law-enforcement partners, community leaders, churches, and residents.
- Support collaborative initiatives that promote trust, youth engagement, violence prevention, neighborhood stability, and community well-being.
- Apply sound judgment and maintain proper confidentiality when working with sensitive community or public-safety matters.

Disaster Response, Management, and Mobilization

- Help develop and maintain a coordinated disaster-response and emergency-management strategy for Pinelake’s campuses and community partners.
- Bring knowledge and practical experience from working with the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency (MEMA) to strengthen disaster preparedness, response management, mobilization, and long-term recovery efforts.
- Assist with volunteer mobilization, team training, supply staging and distribution, needs assessment, partner communication, and field coordination during local and regional emergencies.
- Build working relationships with MEMA, local emergency-management agencies, public-safety departments, relief organizations, churches, and nonprofit partners.
- Help set up clear activation procedures, volunteer roles, safety expectations, documentation practices, and after-action follow-up for disaster deployments.

Ministry Operations and Stewardship

- Help plan projects, schedules, budgets, supply distributions, partner support, and special events.
- Maintain accurate records of partnerships, volunteer engagement, resources distributed, outcomes, follow-up needs, and stories of impact.
- Prepare concise updates, reports, presentations, and recommendations for church leadership.
- Coordinate with campus teams, communications, finance, security, care ministries, and other departments as needed.
- Participate in local disaster-response planning and deployment when assigned.
- Perform other ministry-related duties consistent with the purpose of the role.

QUALIFICATIONS

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

EDUCATION AND/OR EXPERIENCE

A clear testimony of faith in Jesus Christ and a demonstrated calling to serve people and communities. Extensive experience in pastoral ministry, community outreach, missions, public service, law enforcement, nonprofit work, or a closely related field. Demonstrated experience serving vulnerable populations, including individuals experiencing homelessness. Strong relational, verbal, written, organizational, and problem-solving skills. Ability to lead volunteers, manage multiple priorities, work across cultural and organizational lines, and follow through consistently. Professional discretion, sound judgment, and the ability to represent Pinelake well in public settings. Ability to work a flexible schedule that may include evenings, weekends, and occasional emergency response. Valid driver’s license and ability to travel throughout the Jackson metro area and, when needed, other Pinelake communities.

LANGUAGE SKILLS

The individual must have excellent interpersonal skills, ability to work with a diverse group of people, communicate clearly and effectively on the telephone, e-mail and in person, demonstrating tact and diplomacy. Exceptional interpersonal skills are required to develop and maintain strong working relationships with volunteers, co-workers, the public and church members and regular attendees. The individual must have the ability to understand written or oral instructions; read, analyze and interpret complex documents, instructions manuals, policies and procedures is essential.

COMPUTER AND MATHEMATICAL SKILLS

The individual must have demonstrated skill in the use of Windows/MacOS to complete tasks, including word processing and spreadsheets and the ability to use the internet for information retrieval. The individual must have basic mathematical skills, knowledge of bookkeeping and basic accounting, and budget and expense monitoring. The individual must have the ability to read financial information and spreadsheets.

REASONING ABILITY

The individual must be able to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions; respond effectively to the most sensitive inquiries; simultaneous conceptualization and planning of multiple tasks, ability to project outcomes using different implementation strategies and ability to apply creative and innovative thinking to problem situations; and solve practical problems. The ability to work effectively and efficiently under stressful conditions to ensure deadlines are met is essential.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit and talk or hear. The employee is required to stand, walk, and reach with hands and arms.

Must be able to lift up to 25 lbs.

WORK ENVIRONMENT

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

The noise level of the work environment is usually moderate.