Creative Director of Media, Marketing, & Communications

Creative Director, Media, Marketing & Communications

Full Time, onsite in Birmingham, AL

Salary: 90,000.00

Position Summary: Faith-based, mission driven...

The Creative Director for Media, Marketing, and Communications provides visionary creative leadership over the church's brand identity, creative strategy, and media production across all ministries, campuses, events, and digital platforms. Partnering closely with the Communications Executive, this leader co-creates the strategic direction for how the church looks, sounds, and tells its story while serving as the chief creative architect and hands-on producer who brings that vision to life. This individual moves seamlessly between strategic planning, creative brainstorming, hands-on production environments, and leadership development, building and developing high-capacity volunteer and staff teams along the way.

This role reports directly to the Executive Pastor and works as a strategic peer alongside the Executive Director.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Creative & Media Leadership
• Lead the organization's creative and media production efforts
• Oversee video, photography, livestream, editing, motion graphics, and content creation teams
• Develop annual creative and media goals aligned with organizational initiatives and overall communications strategy
• Build systems that allow creative and media teams to operate with excellence and consistency
• Create standards for production quality and brand consistency across all locations and departments
• Lead department planning, scheduling, budgeting, and execution
• Brand & Creative Strategy Partnership:
• Co-create brand identity, visual standards, and creative strategy alongside the Communications Executive
• Translate communications and marketing strategy into compelling visual and media execution
• Partner on campaign concepts for key initiatives, events, and organization-wide programs
• Ensure creative consistency across all marketing, media, and communications touchpoints
• Bring creative and production expertise into strategic planning conversations as a peer voice shaping strategy, not just executing it
• Experience Support:
• Support organizational leadership and creative teams through media execution
• Responsibilities include: initiative visuals, opener videos, bumper videos, visual elements, testimonies, story-driven content, screen content, broadcast support, livestream production, and creative moments/special elements
• The role exists to make organizational vision visible
• Storytelling & Content Creation:
• Serve as the organization's lead storyteller
• Identify impact stories, produce testimonies, and create documentary-style content
• Write and produce promotional campaigns and marketing content
• Capture organizational impact and develop social-first video content
• Produce content that drives engagement and connection to the mission
• Production Management:
• Serve as Executive Producer for major projects
• Oversee video production, photography, livestream production, podcast production, multi-camera production, event capture, motion graphics, editing workflows, asset management, and media archives
• Manage production schedules, deadlines, staffing plans, and project workflows
• Team Development:
• Recruit, train, coach, and develop videographers, editors, photographers, camera operators, graphics operators, producers, directors, storytellers, and social content creators
• Build leadership pipelines so that every department has capable creative and media leaders
• Technology & Systems:
• Oversee media production equipment, camera systems, video switching systems, production software, digital asset management, livestream infrastructure, and production workflows
• Recommend and implement technology solutions that improve effectiveness and efficiency
• Leadership Competencies:
• The ideal candidate must be:
• A Leader Can build teams, create systems, and develop people
• A Strategic Partner Can sit at the table as a peer, contribute creative and brand thinking, and co-own strategic outcomes alongside communications leadership
• A Producer Can execute large-scale productions with excellence
• A Storyteller Understands narrative, emotion, testimony, and impact
• A Creative Can conceptualize and execute compelling ideas across media, marketing, and brand
• A Developer Can raise up volunteers into leaders
• A Builder Can create scalable systems and workflows
• A Problem Solver Can operate calmly under pressure and meet deadlines
• Preferred Experience:
• 510 years leading media production and/or creative teams
• Experience in broadcast, television, film, agency, brand/marketing, or large nonprofit environments
• Advanced proficiency in video production and editing
• Brand strategy or creative direction experience
• Experience partnering with communications or marketing leadership in a peer capacity
• Experience managing volunteer-driven organizations
• Strong understanding of storytelling, brand, and creative development
• Experience producing live events and livestream broadcasts
• Proven ability to lead teams while maintaining a high standard of excellence
• Success Statement:
• Success in this role is measured by three outcomes: Organizational vision and brand strategy are consistently translated into compelling visual experiences across every platform and touchpoint. Creative and media teams are developed into healthy, skilled, and growing leaders. Every event, campaign, and initiative is supported by world-class creative direction, storytelling, and production that helps people connect with the mission.