JOB TITLE: Communications Director
REPORTS TO: Operations Team Lead to Executive Pastor to the Lead Pastor
DIRECTS AND SUPPORTS: Digital Media Specialist
POSITION STATUS: Full-time – 30 hrs/week
POSITION PURPOSE:
The Communications Director advances Grande Prairie Alliance Church’s (GPAC) mission to Make Jesus Known by ensuring that the church’s vision, values, strategic priorities, ministries, and stories of life transformation are communicated with clarity, warmth, and consistency across all physical and digital channels.
This is primarily a strategy-first, ministry leadership, and volunteer-multiplying role. Rather than acting strictly as a solo content creator, the Communications Director recruits, equips, coaches, encourages and releases volunteer leaders and teams to execute communications across digital media, graphic design, photography, videography, print, web, environmental signage, and public relations. Enabling volunteers to serve with excellence is prioritized over personally completing every production task.
KEY AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITY:
- STRATEGY & ALIGNMENT (30%)
- Annual & Seasonal Strategy: Translate GPAC’s overall mission into clear quarterly and annual communications strategies, managing narrative arcs for ministry campaigns, sermon series, and church-wide initiatives.
- Multi-Channel Calendar Management: Maintain a master communications calendar coordinating website updates, social media schedules, targeted email blasts, Sunday media, and physical environment signage.
- Brand Voice & Theological Guardrails: Guard GPAC’s visual identity and brand guidelines, ensuring all published copy remains warm, welcoming, clear, mission-aligned, and strictly in conformity with The Alliance Canada’s Statement of Faith.
- Design, Digital Media & Content PRODUCTION (35%)
- Design & Production Tools: Utilize rapid design platforms (Canva) for speed and consistency while leveraging professional suites (Adobe Creative Cloud: Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Premiere Pro) for high-tier production. Guide, train, and support volunteers in using these tools.
- Digital Channel Oversight: Manage and optimize church digital platforms including website CMS, native mobile apps, and email marketing distribution tools (such as Mailchimp).
- Digital Media Collaboration: Lead, provide direction and collaborate closely with the Digital Media Specialist to coordinate digital content, production priorities, platform execution, and consistent communication across GPAC’s digital channels.
- Standard Operating Procedures: Create practical processes, calendars, standards, and resources that help teams serve with consistency and excellence.
- VOLUNTEER TEAM BUILDING & LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT (25%)
- Pipeline Development: Identify, invite, onboard, coach, and release volunteers into meaningful service.
- Functional Teams: Form and oversee volunteer-led teams across social media, website/app content, graphic design, photography, videography, writing/editing, print/publications, signage/environments, event story-gathering, and campaign support.
- Team Lead Empowerment: Recruit and develop capable volunteer team leads who can schedule volunteers, oversee assignments, maintain standards, and care for their teams.
- SYSTEMS, STANDARDS & MINISTRY SUPPORT (10%)
- Systems & Budgeting: Oversee the communications calendar, project pipeline, team assignments, budget, technology, vendors, and ministry resources.
- Database & Stewardship Communications: Collaborate with administrative staff to maintain member database integrity and leverage communication channels to promote tithing and generosity as a Christian way of life.
- Crisis Communications Protocol: Establish, maintain, and execute GPAC's Crisis Communication Plan in partnership with Senior Leadership, serving as a key advisor and review process for sensitive or urgent communications.
- Evaluation & Optimization: Evaluate communication effectiveness, volunteer engagement, workflow health, and ministry outcomes to refine plans and systems.
QUALIFICATIONS:
- Spiritual Commitment: A committed follower of Jesus Christ who supports and reflects GPAC's mission, vision, and values, in full alignment with The Alliance Canada’s Statement of Faith, social matters, and ecclesiastical matters.
- Leadership & Ministry Experience: Proven experience in ministry or nonprofit leadership with demonstrated ability to lead teams, manage priorities, build relationships, and coach pastoral/ministry leaders.
- Communication & Personal Attributes: Strong written, oral, and organizational skills. Communicates with warmth, good judgment, attention to detail, adaptability, and proactivity while keeping church mission in view.
- Technical Competencies: Working knowledge of communications technology and creative tools (Adobe Creative Cloud: Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Premiere Pro; Canva; website CMS; social media; email platforms; project management tools). Prioritizes guiding, training, and supporting volunteers in these platforms over personally completing all production work.
- Legally eligible to work in Canada.
What will help you thrive:
- Ability to see potential in people and enjoy inviting, equipping, encouraging, and releasing volunteers into ministry.
- Team builder who develops leaders, creates healthy team culture, and celebrates the contributions of others.
- Strategic thinker and can translate church vision, values, and priorities into clear communications plans.
- Lead through coaching, delegation, and clear expectations.
- Collaborates well with pastors, staff, ministry leaders, creatives, and volunteers, bringing clarity and alignment to diverse needs and ideas.
- Can create practical processes, calendars, standards, and resources that help teams serve with excellence.
- Communicates with warmth, good judgment, and attention to detail while keeping the church’s mission and audiences in view.
- Adaptable, proactive, and comfortable guiding several teams and priorities.
Application Instructions & Required Materials
Candidates should submit all required application materials electronically to Executive Leadership at dwayneb@gpalliance.ca:
1. Comprehensive Resume: Detailing professional communications and ministry leadership experience.
2. Cover Letter: Summarizing your personal faith journey and outlining how your experience aligns with GPAC's vision.
3. Portfolio / Work Samples: Demonstrating strategic campaign design, writing samples, graphics, or video work.
Note: This position will remain open until filled. We thank all applicants for their interest; however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.