Job Description

Director of Music Ministries
All Saints Lutheran Church

Organizational placement: Reports to pastor

Primary responsibilities:

• Conduct the Senior Choir

• Program appropriate worship music

  • Traditional service (as per guidelines in Evangelical Lutheran Worship)

  • Contemporary service

  • Anthems

  • Special music

• Supervise music staff

  • Organist

  • Accompanist

• Coordinate and oversee volunteer musicians and groups

  • Contemporary worship team

  • Men's choir

  • Children's special music

  • Special music providers

Secondary responsibilities:

• Coordinate substitute musicians during absences of music staff

• Develop new music programs and groups

• Participate as de facto member of the Worship Planning Action Team

Required knowledge, skills, and abilities:

• Choral conducting skills

• Musical literacy

• Practical working knowledge of appropriate literature and musical resources

• Verbal and written communication skills

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor-level degree in music

Other preferred qualifications:

• Choral conducting experience

• Experience with various types of worship music

• Piano skills

• Other instrumental and/or vocal performance skills and experience