Field Notes
Plain answers on church operations and staffing: what the roles are, what the work costs, and who should be doing it. Real numbers, sources named.
Start with the guide: every church role, what it does, and what it pays.
Church roles & job descriptions
The church administrator job description, and what the role has quietly become
The four areas the role actually covers, the duties that get wrongly added, a copy-paste template, and the fully loaded 2026 cost of the hire.
Church roles & job descriptions
Church secretary job description, and why the title is disappearing
The duties have not changed; the title on the posting has, and it decides how many people apply. Template included.
Church roles & job descriptions
Youth pastor job description: the template and the reality
What the posting should say, what the role actually holds, and the honest salary picture at churches over 200.
Church roles & job descriptions
Background checks for church staff and volunteers: what to run, and when
The check tiers, who needs which one, what they cost, and the questions your insurer will ask.
Church roles & job descriptions
Worship leader job description, beyond Sunday morning
The platform work everyone sees, the weekday work nobody budgets for, and a template that covers both.
Church roles & job descriptions
Church administrative assistant: duties, hours, and where the role breaks
What the assistant owns, how it differs from the administrator, and the hour count where the role stops working.
Church roles & job descriptions
Church administrator duties and responsibilities, by church size
The same title means three different jobs at 200, 400, and 800. What changes, and when.
Church roles & job descriptions
Church social media manager: the job description nobody writes down
The role every church has and almost none define. What it owns, what stays with leadership, and the template.
Church roles & job descriptions
What a church secretary actually does all week
The whole week, day by day, including the Thursday bulletin crunch and the "quick favors" that eat the hours.
Church roles & job descriptions
Church treasurer duties, and what should never sit with one person
The role, the internal-controls line no church should cross, and a board-officer description you can adopt.
Church roles & job descriptions
Church operations manager: when a church is big enough to need one
The honest threshold, what the role owns above it, and the alternative below it.
Church roles & job descriptions
Church communications director job description
One owner for every channel: what the role holds, what it pays, and when a church is ready to create it.
Church roles & job descriptions
Does a pastor need an executive assistant?
An honest test, the duties an EA actually takes, and the math on both ways to fill the seat.
Church roles & job descriptions
Church volunteer coordinator: paid role or volunteer role?
The signals that the coordinator seat needs to be paid, the duties either way, and the template.