The Campus Development Team Associate plays a key role in supporting the Campus Development Team through coordination, logistics, administrative support, and day-to-day operations. This role helps ensure effective communication, organization, and execution across the team while learning and contributing to a variety of ministry initiatives.
What you would do:
Administrative Support
- Support the Pastor of Campus Development with calendar coordination and scheduling
- Process expense reports and administrative requests as needed
- Prepare meeting materials, documents, and other administrative resources as needed
Meeting, Calendar, & Communication Support
- Coordinate meetings and logistics
- Maintain and update the Campus Development Team Event Calendar as needed
- Coordinate schedules, meetings, and communication across the Campus Development Team
- Take notes during meetings
- Assist with communication and coordination as needed
Team Support
- Maintain and update administrative files weekly
- Coordinate meals for meetings and events
- Reserve rooms for events and meetings
- Coordinate travel and lodging for the Campus Development team and guests
- Provide hospitality (snacks, pens, printed notes, etc.) for Campus Development Team meetings and events
- Send birthday and work anniversary cards to Campus Pastors
- Assist with administrative needs that support team effectiveness and organization
- Support logistics for CP Summit and Return Gathering
- Attend team meetings as well as Saddleback all-staff meetings and trainings
- Learn and provide support across a variety of Campus Development projects as assigned
What you have done:
- 1–2 years of administrative, project coordination, ministry, or related experience preferred
- Strong attention to detail and ability to follow through on multiple tasks simultaneously
- Experience providing administrative or project support to a team preferred
- Experience coordinating events, logistics, or ministry-related projects preferred
- Familiarity with ministry environments or church operations is a plus
Education:
- Associate or Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Office Management, or a related field preferred
Skills and Abilities:
- Strong organizational and communication skills
- Ability to learn new systems and technology quickly
- Ability to manage multiple priorities with attention to detail
- Heart for serving others and supporting a team
- Collaborative, flexible, and teachable attitude
- Proficiency with Google Workspace and digital collaboration tools
- Familiarity with church systems (especially The Rock) is preferred
- Ability to maintain confidentiality and exercise sound judgment
- Commitment to Saddleback's theological beliefs, staff values, and lifestyle covenant
Decision Making:
- Makes day-to-day administrative decisions independently
- Collaborates with supervisors and ministry leaders for broader decisions or scheduling priorities
Unique Working Conditions:
- Occasional evening and weekend responsibilities for church events, conferences, and leadership gatherings
- May be required to travel locally to campuses or ministry events as needed
- Fast-paced ministry environment requiring flexibility and responsiveness to changing priorities
Saddleback Church’s pay philosophy is based on internal and external data for pay equity and budgetary considerations for effective stewardship. The estimated pay rate for this position is $19-$20 hourly, depending on experience. We will provide a pay rate within our salary structure that fits a candidate’s qualifications and experience for the job. The posted wage range does not guarantee a specific job offer.
Saddleback Church is both an equal opportunity employer and a faith-based religious organization. We conduct hiring without regard to race, ethnicity, national origin, citizenship, age, sex, marital status, membership in any labor organization, political ideology, or disability of an otherwise qualified individual. The status of Saddleback Church as an equal opportunity employer does not prevent us from hiring staff based on their religious beliefs so that all employees share the same religious commitment, which is central to our mission.