Applicants And Positions Report

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(real-time snapshot) at 1/26/2021 8:06:51 AM

There are currently 1797 call seekers (1682 teaching elders, 102 candidates/first call seekers, and 13 lay professionals) seeking church related positions.
There are 559 positions in the system (87 of them are available for persons seeking their first call).
There are 751 female call seekers and 1033 male call seekers.

There are 33 racial/ethnic, multi ethnic congregations with openings in the system.
There are 305 racial ethnic call seekers in the system.

OPEN NOT ACTIVE Summary:
There are 1178 PIF's on file for persons who are open to discerning a call, but who are not actively seeking.
Of these 1171 are teaching elders, 53 candidates/first call seekers, and 7 lay professionals.


Position List

Position Available Open to 1st Call PIFs Seeking Position
Administrator 0 0 212
Associate Director 1 0 135
Associate Pastor (Christian Education) 4 1 521
Associate Pastor (Other) 32 9 891
Associate Pastor (Youth) 9 2 414
Bivocational/Tentmaker 5 0 316
Campus Ministry 0 0 387
Chaplain 0 0 584
Christian Educator (Certified) 0 0 144
Christian Educator (non-certified) 2 0 261
Church Business Administrator 0 0 143
Co- Pastor 4 1 495
College/Seminary Faculty 0 0 341
Communicator 0 0 207
Coordinator 0 0 212
Director of Music (non-ordained) 4 0 149
Evangelist or Mission Pastor 0 0 244
Executive Director 3 0 254
Executive Pastor 1 0 270
Finance Manager 0 0 139
Funds Developer 0 0 174
General Assembly Staff 0 0 231
General Presbyter/Executive Presbyter/Presbytery Leader 4 0 335
Head of Staff (Multi-Staff Pastor, who supervised two or more teaching elders and other staff) 13 0 683
Head of Staff (who supervised one teaching elder and other staff) 29 0 864
Media Specialist 0 0 164
Mid-Council Program Staff 0 0 249
Minister of Music (ordained) 0 0 132
Mission Co-worker (International) 0 0 184
Pastor (church planter, new church development, new worshipping community) 2 0 432
Pastor (for a designated term) 22 3 616
Pastor (Other Temporary i.e. Supply,Student) 24 4 623
Pastor (Transformation/Redevelopment) 4 0 528
Pastor Interim 43 3 814
Pastor, yoked/parish 21 5 374
Pastoral Counselor 0 0 259
Seminary Staff 0 0 326
Solo Pastor 327 59 1352
Stated Clerk (Presbytery) 1 0 198
Synod Executive 1 0 180
Youth Director (Non-ordained) 3 0 359

Geographic Choices

State Positions Open to 1st Call Positions Available Person Prefers
AK 0 4 30
AL 4 12 104
AR 0 3 45
AZ 0 5 107
CA 1 19 259
CO 1 8 181
CT 0 0 121
DC 0 3 223
DE 0 1 164
FL 3 20 204
GA 1 10 229
HI 0 0 89
IA 4 12 66
ID 0 1 71
IL 3 28 158
IN 4 13 132
KS 0 2 53
KY 2 9 161
LA 0 6 52
MA 0 3 121
MD 0 5 261
ME 0 0 73
MI 3 19 131
MN 4 10 84
MO 3 17 69
MS 2 3 53
MT 1 7 56
NC 8 31 380
ND 0 1 17
NE 1 5 41
NH 0 0 84
NJ 1 18 209
NM 4 7 102
NV 0 2 64
NY 5 51 233
OH 5 27 171
OK 1 12 43
OR 0 6 188
PA 7 40 291
PR 0 0 15
RI 0 0 84
SC 1 18 244
SD 1 8 27
TN 2 17 190
TX 7 31 150
UT 0 2 57
VA 4 29 346
VT 0 2 93
WA 1 3 219
WI 0 10 95
WV 3 14 94
WY 0 5 43
Unlimited 0 0 527