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Director of Audio Visual

Scottsdale, AZ; Lansdowne, VA

Make a difference with us! At Alliance Defending Freedom, we believe God has brought you here for His purpose—to stand for truth and defend the God-given right to live and speak it. Together, we protect religious freedom, free speech, the sanctity of life, marriage and family, and parental rights. Review our Statement of Faith to ensure we’re a fit for you.

Locations: Scottsdale, AZ / Lansdowne, VA

Team Overview

As the Director of Audio Visual, you are a vital part of the ADF team. You will report to the Senior Director of Events and AV Services and are responsible for overseeing all aspects of AV production, leading two key divisions: Video Production and Live Production. This leadership position involves strategically planning and executing a wide range of live and recorded events, including conferences, webinars, fundraisers, dinners, video shoots, promotional content, internal communications, podcasts, media appearances, and film studio operations. The Director of Audio Visual is charged with ensuring seamless operations, improving efficiency, and fostering a healthy, collaborative team culture.

Key Responsibilities

  • Develop and implement a strategic vision for AV production that aligns with the ministry’s goals and objectives.
  • Build, lead, coach and mentor a team of AV professionals. Fostering a healthy work environment – built around servant leadership, trust, transparency, empathy, and collaboration among team members.
  • Support team development by identifying training opportunities, process improvements, performance reviews, coaching, etc.
  • Strategic Planning.  Coordinate schedules, workloads, budgets and capacity planning to avoid bottlenecks and maximize productivity. 
  • Oversee all AV production for internal and external projects (live events, webinars, fundraisers, media engagements, video shoots, promotional content, internal communications, etc.), ensuring deliverables meet expectations, standards, and brand consistency.
  • Ensure all AV and production systems function smoothly, including sound, lighting, video, streaming, and post-production.
  • Troubleshoot operational and technical challenges.  Propose solutions to improve overall effectiveness.
  • Manage Team budget, ensuring cost-effective use of resources.  Committed to good stewardship of ministry funds.
  • Develop, maintain, and expand contractor/vendor relations. Work closely with external vendors and contractors on key projects; communicating expectations, goals, and vision, on a high level. 
  • Provide Senior Director with regular updates, on team performance, challenges, successes and opportunities.
  • Attend all meetings with proper conduct and the understanding that you represent the overall AV Team and Ministry.
  • Drive innovation.  Stay ahead of industry trends and emerging technologies to enhance the ministry’s media impact.

Minimum Qualifications

  • Bachelor of Arts degree in Communications, Film/TV/Video/Broadcast Production, similar academic field, or equivalent years of experience. 
  • 10+ years of experience in video and live production, as well as proven experience managing a team.
  • Strategic planning skills. Experience coordinating schedules, workloads, budgets and capacity planning to avoid bottlenecks and maximize productivity.
  • Leadership skills and autonomous decision making.  Track record for fostering healthy work environments, building trust, transparency and collaboration.
  • Multi-tasking capabilities - managing multiple projects across internal teams as well as external partners.
  • Strong communication and presentation skills.  Ability to present highly technical information, project goals and objectives.
  • Experience and knowledge of live production software and hardware (BlackMagic, Sony, Panasonic, Chauvet, Allen&Heath, Shure, QSC, ProPresenter, etc.).
  • Experience and knowledge of video production software and hardware (Adobe Creative Suite, DaVinci Resolve, Audition, Vimeo, FrameIO, Sony, Panasonic, Aputure Lights, Camera LUTs, etc.).
  • Experience and knowledge of webinar platforms, streaming protocols, and networking (IP Protocols, On24, Zoom, Riverside, YouTube, FB, X, etc.).
  • Experience and knowledge of project management software (Trello, Wrike, etc.).
  • Skilled in Microsoft products (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, etc.).
  • Ability to be hands on and produce/manage events when needed.
  • Must be able to travel (20%)

Pay & Benefits

At Alliance Defending Freedom, we offer a competitive compensation and benefits package to support your well-being and growth. While we do not disclose specific salary ranges, our compensation is competitive with top non-profit law firms. Our benefits include 100% covered medical and dental insurance, medical and dependent care reimbursement, paid disability, long-term care, life insurance, and a 401(k) plan with a 4% company match. We prioritize work-life balance with paid time off and 12 paid holidays each year.

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Statement of Faith

Based on our adherence to the inspired, infallible, inerrant, and authoritative Word of God in Scripture, we profess with the Christian Church throughout time and around the world the faith expressed in the Apostles’ Creed:

I believe in God, the Father almighty, creator of heaven and earth.
I believe in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord,
who was conceived by the Holy Spirit,
born of the Virgin Mary,
suffered under Pontius Pilate,
was crucified, died, and was buried;
On the third day he rose again; he ascended into heaven,
he is seated at the right hand of the Father,
and he will come to judge the living and the dead.

I believe in the Holy Spirit,
the holy catholic Church,
the communion of saints,
the forgiveness of sins,
the resurrection of the body,
and the life everlasting.
Amen.

Doctrinal Distinctives

Also, based on this confession, we are committed to honoring God by obeying the two Greatest Commandments, loving God and loving neighbor, and based on that commitment and derived from the inspired, infallible, inerrant, and authoritative Word of God in Scripture, we profess the following as necessary for living the gospel:

  • We believe in the spiritual unity and equality of believers in our Lord Jesus Christ.
  • We believe that the Lordship of Christ requires us as disciples to seek to conform our actions, thoughts, and desires in obedience to Him.
  • We believe God creates each person with an immutable biological sex — male or female — that reflects the image and likeness of God.
  • We believe God designed marriage as a unique conjugal relationship joining one man and one woman in a single, exclusive, life-long union, and God intends sexual intimacy only to occur within that relationship.
  • We believe God endows all human life with inherent dignity, and it must be respected and protected from conception to natural death.
  • We believe that God has endowed all humans with the natural, and inalienable right of religious freedom to believe, pursue truth, and live within ordered liberty such that no civil government may justly infringe upon it.
  • We believe that God, through His Son, Jesus Christ, calls all of us to deny ourselves, take up our cross, and follow Him, knowing that He promises us abundant and eternal life.
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