Pinelake Church
Staff Communications Specialist (One Church Team)
Flowood, MS · Staff+
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 7 days ago
Adobe Creative SuiteCanvaProject ManagementAccountingUnityLeadershipCommunicationCollaborationPublic SpeakingOrganizational Skills
About the role
- SUMMARY The Staff Communications Specialist serves on the Creative Team and is responsible for planning, creating, and delivering clear, timely, and effective communication to Pinelake staff.
- Working closely with executive leadership, ministry teams, and fellow creatives, the Staff Communications Specialist translates organizational priorities into communication that is clear, engaging, and actionable.
- This role serves as a bridge between leadership and staff by helping communicate not only what is happening, but why it matters.
Responsibilities
- Lead Take ownership of disciple-making by supporting and strengthening environments where people can take their next step toward a Jesus-Centered Life.
- Leverage your role, systems, and responsibilities to remove barriers and create clarity, helping both staff and the church move forward in the Discipleship Pathway (Essentials → JCL → Be the Church).
- Contribute to life-change by bringing your skills, organization, and follow-through to your work, knowing that what you build and manage helps others lead and shepherd more effectively.
- Build people through your influence-encouraging, supporting, and serving teammates and Servant Leaders in ways that help them grow and thrive.
Requirements
- The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
- While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit and talk or hear.
- The employee is required to stand, walk, and reach with hands and arms.
- Must be able to lift up to 25 lbs.
Skills
- Proficiency with Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace.
- Familiarity with email communication platforms, content management systems, and project management software.
- Experience with Adobe Creative Cloud, Canva, or similar creative tools is beneficial but not required.
- The individual must have basic mathematical skills, knowledge of bookkeeping and basic accounting, and budget and expense monitoring.
- The individual must have the ability to read financial information and spreadsheets.
- The ability to work effectively and efficiently under stressful conditions to ensure deadlines are met is essential.
Benefits
- This role helps ensure staff across every campus and ministry remain informed, aligned, and connected to the mission and vision of the church.
- Remain teachable and hungry, seeking feedback, learning from others, and developing both spiritually and professionally.
- Pursue emotional health by engaging in self-awareness, addressing past wounds, and cultivating honest, healthy relationships.
Company info
- Humility, Honor, Honesty, Hunger, Holy Spirit, Health, and Harmony Communicate clearly, honestly, and proactively in a way that builds trust, unity, and momentum.
- Work in alignment with the church vision and leadership Participate fully in the life of your campus or team, contributing to the unity, health, and shepherding of the faith family.
- SPECIFIC LIST OF DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES Communication Strategy Develop communication strategies that support organizational initiatives, ministry launches, and leadership priorities.
- Build communication plans that ensure staff receive the right information at the right time.
- Help leaders communicate organizational change with clarity and confidence.
- Maintain a strategic editorial calendar for internal communications.
- Staff Communications Plan, write, edit, and distribute staff communications through email, newsletters, text messaging, the intranet, and other internal communication channels.
- Establish consistent communication rhythms that keep staff informed without creating communication overload.
- Ensure all communication reflects Pinelake's voice, values, and commitment to excellence.
- Leadership Communications Partner with executive leadership, pastors, and ministry leaders to communicate vision, strategic priorities, ministry initiatives, and organizational updates.
- Draft emails, presentations, talking points, FAQs, scripts, announcements, and other leadership communication.
- Serve as a trusted communication advisor by helping leaders communicate with clarity, consistency, and purpose.
- Internal Communication Channels Manage and continually improve Pinelake's internal communication platforms, including the staff intranet and other digital communication tools.
- Keep staff resources organized, current, and easily accessible.
- Evaluate communication effectiveness and recommend improvements to systems, processes, and communication rhythms.
- Organizational Storytelling Capture and share stories that celebrate ministry impact, staff wins, and God's work across Pinelake.
- Highlight organizational milestones and initiatives that reinforce mission, vision, and culture.
- Help staff remain connected to the bigger story of what God is doing through the church.
- Creative Team Collaboration Collaborate with designers, videographers, photographers, web developers, social media specialists, and other members of the Creative Team to create engaging internal communication.
- Ensure internal communication reflects the same level of excellence, consistency, and creativity as Pinelake's external communication.
- Contribute to communication planning for major churchwide initiatives and campaigns.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
- QUALIFICATIONS To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.
- The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required.
- Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.
- EDUCATION AND/OR EXPERIENCE Bachelor's degree in Communications, Public Relations, Journalism, Marketing, English, or a related field preferred.
- Three or more years of professional communication, marketing, journalism, public relations, or related experience preferred.
- Experience supporting organizational leaders through communication is highly valued.
- Experience in ministry or nonprofit communication is a plus.
- Communication Skills Outstanding writing, editing, and proofreading abilities.
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