The Campus Worship Leader provides strategic leadership for the Sunday worship experience at the Northland Campus of Abundant Life Church. Operating within a portable campus model, this role requires adaptability, logistical oversight, and the ability to build and develop high-capacity volunteer worship and production teams. The Campus Worship Leader leads worship gatherings, develops volunteer musicians and production teams, and helps establish a sustainable worship culture that reflects the AL Worship culture, Abundant Life’s theology, values, and mission, while operating within the realities of a weekly setup and teardown model.

Personal Responsibilities

• Be committed to grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ (2 Peter 3:18; 1 Peter 2:2) by assembling for instruction in God’s Word and engaging in the personal study of God’s Word. 
• Responsibly use the resources at your disposal to foster the mission and vision of Abundant Life (1 Peter 5:1-4).
• Participate in an Abundant Life group (Acts 2:41-42) as well as the discipleship ministry (Matthew 28:18-20).
• Live in a way that glorifies God and aligns with the staff core values (1 Timothy 3:1-7, Titus 1:5-9).
• Be committed to the ministry of giving to the needs of the saints (2 Corinthians 8:1-7 and 9:12) and to seek to abound in this ministry (2 Corinthians 8:7).
• Become a member of Abundant Life.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities

• Work under the direction of the Campus Pastor and Executive Pastor of Worship (dotted-line supervision) to plan, lead, and execute all worship services and worship-related ministry for the campus.
• Lead all bands, worship leaders, rehearsals, and service flow with musical, technical, and spiritual excellence.
• Lead worship within both permanent and portable church models, coordinating setup/teardown and partnering with Production, Set-Up, Tear-Down, and Guest Services teams to ensure consistent, excellent environments.
• Oversee repeatable systems for portable worship execution (equipment flow, stage layout, sound checks, transitions), with an eye toward long-term scalability as the Northland Campus grows.
• Recruit, train, schedule, and shepherd a volunteer worship and production team; identify, mentor, and reproduce leaders to build sustainable ministry capacity. 
• Provide pastoral care, encouragement, and spiritual leadership for all worship and production volunteers.
• Plan and execute worship for all campus-related needs, including Student/Next Gen ministries, weddings, funerals, and special events.
• Manage service planning, programming details, communication, and service flow using Planning Center.
• Maintain oversight of the music library, instruments, and worship-related equipment and supplies.
• Collaborate with Central Worship and CP to prepare and manage the annual worship budget.
• Embrace an “all hands-on deck” mindset, serving flexibly beyond traditional worship responsibilities to support overall campus needs. 
• Attend required meetings and planning sessions with the CP and AL Worship.
• Exercise discretion and confidentiality in all matters related to staff, volunteers, and ministry operations.
• Demonstrate a willingness to serve outside traditional worship responsibilities during the launch and early growth phase of the campus.

 Skills and Qualifications

• Character consistent with Abundant Life Staff Core Values: Synergy, Excellency, Integrity, Tenacity, Humility, and Loyalty.
• Thrives in a start-up, pioneering ministry environment and is energized by building systems, teams, and culture from the ground up.
• A servant-leader posture engaging in hands-on setup, problem-solving, and conflict management.
• Familiar with related music software, editing and sound/lighting.
• Comfortable leading worship in environments without permanent infrastructure and able to maintain excellence despite constraints.
• Possesses a strong theological understanding of worship and the pastoral instincts to care for volunteers.
• The Campus Worship Leader position requires a trained musician with band leadership experience and the ability to communicate at a high level. 
• The skills, qualifications, and responsibilities listed here are not intended to be all-inclusive of the abilities needed to perform the job.

Experience 

• Two years of leadership experience in a worship role are required.
• Two years of ministry leadership/care experience is required.

Benefits

• Abundant Life offers a competitive employee benefits package to all full-time employees. Details are available upon request.