Lighting&Production Designer, Surrey

Village Church is looking for a skilled and creative Lighting&Production Designer to lead the vision and direction of lighting across all Village Church locations. This role serves as the subject-matter expert in lighting and production design, helping create engaging worship environments while developing volunteers and supporting production teams across our sites.

Key Responsibilities: Lighting Direction&Production Design

Lead the lighting vision and production design for major services, events, and series launches, including Easter and Christmas.

Establish lighting standards, philosophy, and best practices across all Village Church locations.

Collaborate with creative teams and senior leadership to support cohesive visual storytelling and worship experiences.

Partner with site teams to adapt lighting designs to different venues and technical environments.

Team Development&Training

Equip and mentor lighting volunteers and emerging leaders across all locations.

Provide hands‑on lighting training and coaching for volunteers and Production Ministry Leads.

Help develop lighting curriculum and training resources for staff and volunteers.

Build strong, healthy volunteer teams that encourage growth, ownership, and leadership development.

Technical Support&Systems

Support site teams with show files, lighting documentation, workflows, and equipment standards.

Help maintain consistency and excellence in lighting systems and execution across all campuses.

Work collaboratively with audio, video, and stage production teams to create integrated production experiences.

Work Week

Part‑time: averaging 16 hours per week, up to 64 hours per month maximum.

Occasional evening and weekend work as required by events and trainings

Regular Sundays as required by series launches and location visits.

Flexible scheduling, agreed to in collaboration with the Production Director.

Tuesdays is an office workday unless otherwise approved by supervisor

What We’re Looking For

Strong experience in live event lighting design, console programming, and lighting systems.

A creative eye for production design and visual storytelling.

Experience mentoring, teaching, and developing volunteers or team members.

Ability to adapt designs across multiple venues and environments.

Strong communication, organization, and collaboration skills.

Experience in church production, live events, concerts, theatre, or related environments is considered an asset.

Alignment with Village Church’s mission, values, and spiritual leadership expectations.

What Success Looks Like

Lighting environments that support worship and teaching in a meaningful and distraction‑free way.

Healthy, growing volunteer teams that feel equipped and supported.

Consistent, high‑quality lighting experiences across all Village Church locations.

Strong collaboration between production, creative, and site leadership teams.

Vacation: 3 weeks/year

Salary: $25- $27/hour depending on experience

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