General Information

Job Title:

Executive Director of City Innovation Lab

Job Description:

The Innovation Lab Executive Director provides visionary and strategic leadership to City’s Innovation Lab, a team of forward-thinking strategists from across City Audiences working closely with the City Guiding Team to uniquely restore every community with the good news of Jesus. The Executive Director encourages and supports innovation at the audience/network level as well as empowers staff across all City to engage new metro areas or new affinity groups, to close identified missional gaps, to restore communities, and to help people find their places in God’s story.

Position Qualifications:

  • Spiritual maturity: humbly demonstrates the gospel in their lives.
  • Commitment to City’s mission (Engaging the curious and equipping the follower so everyone finds their place in God’s story), vision (Uniquely restoring every community with the good news of Jesus), and postures (courageous, curious, connected).
  • Commitment to City’s movement model (indicators: evangelism, disciple-making, indigenous leaders, indigenous resources).
  • Visionary skills.
  • Intellectual flexibility.
  • Ability to work within and outside Cru, including a demonstrable readiness to collaborate heavily with City Innovation Lab, City Audience Leaders, City Team Leaders, City Capacity Leaders, and the City Guiding Team.
  • Resourcefulness. Can keep pursuing goals when resources seem scarce.
  • Ability to gather, grow, and maintain teams and resources.
  • Ability to unify people around a common purpose.
  • Ability to understand nuance and complexity.
  • High cultural intelligence and a commitment to continuous growth in cultural intelligence.
  • Ability to engage at a high level without steamrolling others.
  • Strategic thinking: the ability to see the whole and pursue new possibilities.
  • Ability to self-start, be self-disciplined, show initiative, budget time, as well as meet deadlines and production schedules.
  • Excellent judgment.
  • Bachelor’s degree is required; a Master’s degree in theology, ministry, nonprofit management, or a related field is preferred.
  • Preferred: 5 or more years of senior leadership experience.

Application Deadline

Job Type:

Full Time

Salary Range:

TBD

General Information

Church/Organization Name

Cru City

Contact Name & Contact Info

(843) 708-2581
CityHrhelp@cru.org

Industry

Non-Profit/Ministry

Denomination

Non-Denominational

City, State

Remote, FL

Description of Organization

City is Cru’s effort to uniquely restore every community with the good news of Jesus, all across the U.S.. City ministries include Arts & Culture; Neighbors; Christian Embassy; Military Ministry; Immigrants, Internationals, and Refugees; Jail & Prison Ministry; and more. It’s Cru in your community. Our mission is to engage the curious and equip the follower so everyone finds their place in God’s story.

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