Production Director

Job Description

Position Overview:

The Production Director at Liberty Church provides vision, leadership, and hands-on oversight for all technical and live production aspects of weekend worship services, conferences, and special events at the Blue Angel Campus while being a resource to all campuses as needed. This role is responsible for stewarding excellence across audio, lighting, video, CG, and stage environments while building healthy, thriving volunteer production teams.

The Production Director serves as both a leader of people and a producer of environments—creating distraction-free worship spaces that help people encounter God. This individual will lead volunteers, manage systems and equipment, and function as the technical producer on weekends, remaining proficient in all production platforms and tools.

Key Responsibilities

(Duties include, but are not limited to the following)

Leadership & Team Development

• Build healthy, engaged volunteer production teams through intentional investment, training, coaching, and development
• Recruit, train, schedule, and evaluate volunteer production team members
• Foster strong relationships with staff, volunteers, and ministry leaders
• Create systems and rhythms that ensure great experiences for both volunteers and attendees

Weekend Services & Events

• Execute technical programming for weekend services, conferences, and special events
• Serve as technical producer on weekends and major events
• Attend and/or support all worship/production rehearsals & run-throughs
• Collaborate with Worship Dept. & Pastoral Leadership to support the vision of each service

Technical Oversight & Operations

• Operate, maintain, and safeguard all technical assets including lighting, audio, video, and communications equipment
• Remain proficient in all production systems and platforms used at Liberty Church
• Oversee AVL wiring, repair, troubleshooting, and preventative maintenance
• Design, set up, maintain, and operate lighting, video, and audio systems for church-affiliated and external events (as requested)

Design, Sets & Environments

• Supervise and assist with stage design, technical infrastructure and management of inventory/resources available
• Advise lighting, video, and sound designers on technical specifications, costs, and usage of equipment (when need for special projects)
• Ensure technical designs align with ministry vision, safety standards, and budget parameters

Budgeting & Resources

• Assist in effectively utilizing and managing the production budget
• Maintain accurate equipment inventory and order specialized supplies as needed
• Make recommendations to church leadership regarding capital purchases and system upgrades

Qualifications & Experience

• 3–5 years of ministry leadership experience in a church or para-church ministry of 1,500+ weekly attendance (preferred, not required)
• Proven ability to strategically develop and lead teams while cultivating healthy, fruit-bearing relationships
• Strong leadership presence with both staff and volunteers
• Education is not required, but advanced degrees, certifications and/or comparable experience in production, media, communications, or a related technical field are valued

Preferred Skills & Competencies

Working knowledge of:

• Digital Audio Consoles (i.e. D-live)

1. ProPresenter/IMAG systems
2. Camera/Broadcast Systems
3. Planning Center
4. Apple and/or Microsoft software (Word, Excel, Keynote, etc.)

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Critical and strategic thinking with collaborative problem-solving ability
• Proven experience in AVL wiring, repair, and system design
• Knowledge of stage set building and scenic design
• Ability to mix live and recorded audio for post-production use