Senior Associate Rector

Job Description

Together with the Rector, the Senior Associate Rector is responsible for the leadership, care, and oversight of the church’s clergy (both presbyters and deacons) and the pastoral care and support of the parish. Accordingly, the Senior Associate Rector assists the Rector and Pastor for Congregational Care in providing specialized expertise in pastoral care in crisis or sensitive ministry situations as needed and leads corporate liturgical services. Ideally, the Senior Associate Rector will have served as rector at another Anglican parish and have skills and experience in leading, teaching, serving, and administering a church.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Leadership & Administrative Gifts – Responsible for the leadership, care and oversight of the church’s clergy and respective ministries. Model and train others in relational discipleship and leading small groups (2 Tim. 2:2). Equip the saints to do the work of the ministry (Eph. 4:11-16).

Preaching & Pastoral Care – Along with semi-regular preaching of thoughtful, Biblical and expository sermons, the Senior Associate Rector will officiate weddings, lead funerals and conduct baptisms, as needed. This person will have high emotional intelligence and top-flight interpersonal, communication and community-building skills.

Build Community – Ability to foster and help build a community marked by disciples who make disciples—people marked by belief in the Gospel, increasing wholeness and healing in Jesus Christ, and an evangelistic, outward-focused desire to see people coming to Christ and the world impacted for Christ.

Minister to Families & Marriages – Possess the ability, rooted in personal life experience, to minister effectively to marriages and families.

POSITION REQUIREMENTS
Promising candidates will have 15-25 years of pastoral experience and most or all of the following qualities or experience:

Prior service as a Rector or Senior Associate Rector
Master of Divinity, ordination as an Anglican, and a knowledge and appreciation of Anglican history, liturgy, and traditions.
Proven ability to handle multiple responsibilities and effectively manage staff
Strong interpersonal skills and proven ability to handle conflict constructively
Excellent work ethic
A love for the local church, its people and both contemporary and traditional forms of worship
Satisfactory background and credit checks

MINISTRY CALLING
Employees of The Falls Church Anglican come together to serve God, one another, our congregation, our community and our world. As disciples of Christ, our employees steward their responsibilities with care, demonstrating the fruits of the Spirit in their daily responsibilities. We offer a workplace focused on the excellence that glorifies God as we perform our work, both in readiness to do our daily tasks and in embracing and knowing how the Word of God applies as we serve. We also model grace in our interactions, in thankfulness to the grace we are given in Christ.

We do not require all employees to be Anglicans, but because of our essential identity as a community of faith in Jesus Christ, we require all employees to wholeheartedly believe and confess that Jesus Christ is the Way, the Truth, and the Life: no one comes to the Father but by Him. As a community, we submit to the authority of the Holy Scriptures as the standard for Christian faith and life. We uphold the sanctity and dignity of human life, the creation of humankind in God’s image as male and female, and the unchangeable standard of Christian marriage between one man and one woman as the only proper place for sexual intimacy and the basis of the family. Within this context, we are committed to equality of treatment in hiring and in all employment conditions and opportunities.

Interested candidates should send a resume, cover letter, and spiritual autobiography to [email protected] with “Senior Associate Rector” in the subject line.

Benefits
We offer an excellent benefits package that includes: