Are you a resilient creative with previous pastoral or church leadership experience?
Do you have proven experience building teams and can work autonomously?
Do you want to be part of a team serving the local church globally through creativity and leadership?
Our Sydney City Campus team are currently looking for a Campus Creative Oversight to join the team. This role will be responsible for leading, developing, and pastoring the Campus Creative Team—including Creative Technology—ensuring all creative expressions across services and events are delivered with excellence, spiritual impact, and alignment with Hillsong’s vision. This role builds strong team culture, champions innovation, and collaborates closely with central creative leadership to maintain cohesion across the church.
Other aspects of this role include:
Strategy & Culture
- Align campus creative direction with Hillsong’s mission, values, and overarching creative strategy.
- Foster a culture of creativity, excellence, innovation, and spiritual depth within the Creative Team.
- Collaborate with National Creative Teams to ensure cohesion in themes, style, and execution.
- Identify, initiate, and evaluate opportunities to improve creative engagement, worship quality, and congregational experience across all services and events.
Leadership & Team Management
- Recruit, develop, and lead a team of staff and volunteers across creative disciplines, including worship and creative technology.
- Provide leadership training & development opportunities for teams.
- Ensure effective team structures and workflows are in place to support creative projects, outputs, and initiatives.
- Cultivate a culture of collaboration, accountability, and continuous learning.
Service Delivery
- Oversee the creative execution of weekend services and special events.
- Ensure creative elements, incl. worship, visuals, sound, lighting, and production, are executed with excellence and spiritual intentionality.
- Work alongside service teams to ensure smooth flow & transitions.
- Innovate and implement new creative elements to enhance engagement and worship experiences.
Communication, Administration & Reporting
- Ensure clear communication & collaboration with leaders & volunteers.
- Provide vision casting and direction to the Creative Team, ensuring alignment with Hillsong’s mission and vision.
- Encourage & empower team members to share ideas and contributions.
- Manage creative budgets and resources effectively.
- Ensure proper scheduling & planning for services, rehearsals, events.
- Track and report on key creative initiatives, volunteer engagement, and service impact.
Ideally, the successful candidate will bring:
- Degree in Ministry or Theology (Diploma or Bachelor preferred)
- Demonstrated experience leading worship, creative, or production teams in a church or similar environment
- Ability to recruit, develop, and lead teams of staff and volunteers
- Strong pastoral gifting, communication skills, and interpersonal care
- Creative and strategic thinking with a high commitment to excellence
- Experience executing services or events in medium to large settings
- Technical understanding of audio, lighting, video, and stage management desirable.
If this sounds like you, we would love for you to apply today!
Applications close: 29 March 2026, 11.59pm AEDT
