Palm Valley Lutheran Church is seeking candidates for Executive Administrator to begin August 1, 2024. Candidates must possess the leadership, knowledge, and experience required for the position and embrace and support Palm Valley Lutheran Church and its ministry. This position is salaried, with a commensurate salary and experience plus a comprehensive benefits package. When applying, please submit to pvlc@pvlc.org a resume and cover letter.
1. Primary Function
Provides strategic leadership and management of the church's day-to-day business, financial, and administrative affairs, including human resources, facilities management, technology, and other administrative functions.
2. Relationships
- Reports to the Senior Pastor.
- Works collaboratively with all staff, including ordained staff and church members.
- Supports the Church Council, Finance, Property, Endowment, and Personnel Teams of the church.
- Works with the Portico Benefits organization and outside vendors, including employee benefits providers, property and casualty insurance carriers, and technology contractors.
- Networks with people having similar responsibilities in other churches and participates in The Church Network.
3. Primary Responsibilities
- Functions as the chief financial officer of the church. Supervises the accurate recording of pledges, accounts payable, preparation of financial reports and issuance of payments, counting of receipts, deposits, memorials, investments, transfers of stocks and bonds, oversight of financial statement, conduct of annual audits and other financial concerns of the church, including the Palm Valley Lutheran Cooperative Preschool (PVLCP).
- Manages multiple funds for the church, endowment, cemetery, and other endowed/invested funds.
- Develops, in concert with the Senior Pastor, Council and ministry teams, the overall church financial plan for ministry, including PVLCP.
- Oversees the employment, evaluation, and supervision of non-ministry employees.
- Administers human resources policies, including personnel policies, salary increases, and performance evaluations.
- Oversees technology support of operations working closely with contractors, vendors, and lay volunteers.
- Oversees the operation and maintenance of the properties of the church, including the cemetery.
- Other duties as assigned by the Senior Pastor.
4. Departmental Oversight and Responsibilities
- Financial operations and accounting.
- Human Resources
- Technology
- Facilities and property.
- Safety and Security Management
5. Attributes, Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
- Is a believer in Jesus Christ and committed to serving Him through ministry.
- Demonstrates leadership and management skills with a diverse finance and administrative services employee staff.
- Bachelor’s degree is required, with ten years experience and progressive leadership in finance and administrative services preferred.
- Committed to and demonstrates continuous learning and leadership development of staff.
- Demonstrates excellent oral and written communication skills.
- Is highly organized and self-directed.
- Relates well to people in person and by phone.
- Demonstrates comprehensive knowledge and experience with budgets and financial statements.
- Demonstrates proficiency with applicable computer software and databases. Knowledge and experience in Automated Church Systems (ACS) and Pushpay’s Church Community Builder are highly desired.
- Demonstrates logical reasoning ability in a variety of situations.
- Demonstrates knowledge of and proficiency in Human Relations and personnel matters.
- Experience negotiating contracts, leases, or agreements, management experience, conflict resolution skills, and proper delegating.
