# Lighting & Production Designer

> Village Church · Surrey, Canada (Hybrid) · Part-time · Posted 2026-05-14

**Workplace:** hybrid

## Description

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.
-   Tuesday is an office workday unless otherwise approved by supervisor

## Requirements

### 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.

## Benefits

Vacation: 3 weeks/year

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

## Apply

[Apply at Village Church](https://apply.workable.com/villagechurch/j/9C9DE3F664/apply)

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