Applicants And Positions Report

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(real-time snapshot) at 4/26/2018 5:00:30 PM

There are currently 2139 call seekers (1899 teaching elders, 208 candidates/first call seekers, and 32 lay professionals) seeking church related positions.
There are 555 positions in the system (113 of them are available for persons seeking their first call).
There are 895 female call seekers and 1236 male call seekers.

There are 35 racial/ethnic, multi ethnic congregations with openings in the system.
There are 300 racial ethnic call seekers in the system.

OPEN NOT ACTIVE Summary:
There are 647 PIF's on file for persons who are open to discerning a call, but who are not actively seeking.
Of these 642 are teaching elders, 26 candidates/first call seekers, and 5 lay professionals.


Position List

Position Available Open to 1st Call PIFs Seeking Position
Administrator 0 0 246
Associate Director 0 0 85
Associate Pastor (Christian Education) 7 3 630
Associate Pastor (Other) 41 16 1081
Associate Pastor (Youth) 17 10 493
Bivocational/Tentmaker 4 0 361
Campus Ministry 2 1 509
Chaplain 1 0 724
Christian Educator (Certified) 2 0 167
Christian Educator (non-certified) 5 0 299
Church Business Administrator 0 0 176
Co- Pastor 4 0 614
College/Seminary Faculty 0 0 403
Communicator 0 0 252
Coordinator 0 0 227
Director of Music (non-ordained) 0 0 175
Evangelist or Mission Pastor 0 0 321
Executive Director 2 0 307
Executive Pastor 1 0 294
Finance Manager 0 0 162
Funds Developer 0 0 204
General Assembly Staff 0 0 291
General Presbyter/Executive Presbyter/Presbytery Leader 10 0 400
Head of Staff (Multi-Staff Pastor, who supervised two or more teaching elders and other staff) 19 0 782
Head of Staff (who supervised one teaching elder and other staff) 25 0 1011
Media Specialist 0 0 190
Mid-Council Program Staff 1 0 289
Minister of Music (ordained) 0 0 158
Mission Co-worker (International) 0 0 216
Pastor (church planter, new church development, new worshipping community) 2 1 522
Pastor (for a designated term) 29 5 747
Pastor (Other Temporary i.e. Supply,Student) 22 5 751
Pastor (Transformation/Redevelopment) 4 0 603
Pastor Interim 26 2 942
Pastor, yoked/parish 15 5 457
Pastoral Counselor 0 0 300
Seminary Staff 0 0 373
Solo Pastor 305 65 1643
Stated Clerk (Presbytery) 0 0 239
Synod Executive 0 0 214
Youth Director (Non-ordained) 11 0 384

Geographic Choices

State Positions Open to 1st Call Positions Available Person Prefers
AK 0 1 34
AL 2 3 117
AR 0 6 64
AZ 1 1 108
CA 2 20 299
CO 1 7 186
CT 1 1 137
DC 0 1 238
DE 0 3 184
FL 9 30 255
GA 3 21 283
HI 0 0 99
IA 3 14 70
ID 0 0 74
IL 5 26 189
IN 4 15 143
KS 1 8 49
KY 3 11 187
LA 0 3 57
MA 0 1 133
MD 0 7 286
ME 1 1 84
MI 1 15 139
MN 1 8 90
MO 4 14 97
MS 1 1 51
MT 1 3 59
NC 7 26 419
ND 0 2 17
NE 3 12 38
NH 1 1 97
NJ 2 19 243
NM 3 4 97
NV 0 3 58
NY 7 38 248
OH 5 24 222
OK 3 8 34
OR 0 1 184
PA 7 47 343
PR 0 1 35
RI 0 1 96
SC 3 28 277
SD 2 6 25
TN 3 18 220
TX 7 31 166
UT 0 0 62
VA 9 36 377
VT 0 0 104
WA 4 13 214
WI 2 6 101
WV 1 9 116
WY 0 0 46
Unlimited 0 0 769