Community and Family Engagement Responsibilities (50% of time):
- Providing leadership in ASK’ s ongoing strategic planning and the realization of our Missional Action Plan.
- Overseeing and managing communications, including social media and website.
- Equipping and supporting the congregation to identify new missional strategies and initiatives to serve the needs of those in our community.
- Implementing discipleship and growth opportunities for the congregation
- particularly with children, youth, and families.
- Offering leadership and vision to our newly implemented contemporary service, with a view to its potential for broader reach.
Broader Pastoral Responsibilities (50% of the time):
- Participate in and support our Sunday and mid-week services as well as other liturgies within the church, including through regular preaching and liturgical leadership. Contribute to the development, design, and implementation of weekly liturgies, communications, and events with the staff and lay leaders, with an attentiveness to their missional impact. Remain faithful to their personal prayer, spiritual direction, and study.
- Share in the pastoral care of parishioners, with a particular focus on the needs of children, youth, and families. This includes supporting staff who serve this demographic.
- Exercise leadership and gifts that expand the scope of their ministry, the parish, and the wider church as their gifts, skills, as time allows.
- Other duties as required.
Qualifications, Skills, and Gifts:
- Conviction in and deep personal commitment to the Good News of God in Christ Jesus. Adherence to the basic tenets of Christian Faith as outlined in the historic creeds of the church.
- Passion for faithful discipleship and the capacity to nurture spiritual growth and maturity in the congregation
- Imagination for and capacity to implement missional action in a growing and diverse neighbourhood.
- Strong capacity for administration, communication, and social media engagement.
- Work well in a team setting and be able to engage and nurture lay leaders.
- Ability to set goals and see them through to realization.
- An M.T.S., M.Div., or equivalent theological training.
- Familiarity with Anglican tradition and practice.
