Campus Ministry Associate - Carolinas Region (Undergraduate Ministry)

Campus Ministry Intern - Carolinas Region (Undergraduate Ministry)

Work Location:

North Carolina

Job Type:

Full time

To advance the purpose of InterVarsity, this position is focused on learning and preparing for the full responsibilities of a Campus Minister. The associate will be assigned campus work based on strengths and growth areas determined by the application process. This is a 16 month position in which the individual receives intensive training and exercises ministerial functions consistent with a campus minister. The associate is paid a monthly salary. A supervisory decision, with input from the Campus Ministry Associate, is made at the end of the term of service as to whether the individual is suitable for continuing employment with InterVarsity. The Campus Ministry Associate may end employment at any time with notice given.

INTEREST FORM

If you are new to InterVarsity in the Carolinas and have not spoken with one of our Area Directors about the possibility of applying to work with us, please complete this interest form and wait for us to contact you before proceeding with the application.

PLACEMENT

Upon completion of the general application to work for InterVarsity's Carolinas Region, you will be contacted about interviewing for positions in our region. Following your interview if an internship offer is made, we will offer you a training site at one of the predetermined training sites in the Carolinas. We will consider your preferred location, your ministry strength, the training sites we have available, and our places of greatest need. Our Internship is typically 16 months long beginning in September and ending 16 months later in December.

HIRING TIMELINE

If you are an InterVarsity student, the most typical timeline for hiring takes place in the semester that you are graduating. That provides the opportunity for you to receive training in funding the ministry (3 hours per week) while you are finishing your degree. 

Spring Semester Hiring Window:

• Application and references are due the second week of January.

• An interview will be scheduled for mid-February, at a location in the Carolinas (typically Raleigh or Charlotte) 

• Our Offer or Declination to follow within one week of the interview

• Your acceptance or declination of offer within one week of the offer.

• Ministry Partnership Development Training begins with a weekend of training in mid to late March

**Specific dates will be provided to you upon request or as soon as you enter the application process

Other Hiring Windows: 

If you are a current student graduating at a different time of year or a candidate considering a move from another field or ministry context, and in need of a different timeline, we will work with you to set up a different hiring timeline.

 

MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES

Personal:

• Be a maturing disciple of Jesus Christ: growing in love for God, God's Word, God's people of every ethnicity and culture, and God's purposes in the world

• Practice daily spiritual disciplines

• Pursue spiritual relationships and involvement in a worshiping community

• Continue learning and growth in spiritual understanding, biblical knowledge, ministry experience and skills

• Experience and live out an ongoing call to ministry service with InterVarsity and its mission.

Ministry Training:

• Exhibit a learning posture in the context of new ministry assignments and experiences

• Complete all reading and campus assignments given by Area Director and Campus Trainer

Ministry Leadership: (based on developing skills)

• Develop a Witnessing Community on Campus

  • Seek opportunities to proclaim and demonstrate the Gospel of Jesus Christ 

  • Learn to guide chapters (or assigned segments of a chapter) in the development of strategic thinking regarding witness to the university 

  • Train students to share their faith on campus

  • Encourage a prayerful lifestyle in students and faculty, especially focusing on those who do not yet follow Jesus as Lord and Savior

• Learn to model and assist students and faculty in growing in their love for God's people of every ethnicity and culture 

  • Invest in growth and understanding of own ethnicity

  • Help grow multi-ethnic ministry in the InterVarsity community

• Missional Student Leadership Development

  • Teach students to love, study and apply Scripture to their lives

  • Plan and lead students in discipleship cycles that encourage personal transformation and mission engagement

  • Help students grow into leaders and leaders of leaders

  • Work with student and faculty leadership teams

• Cast Vision for Ministry on Campus

  • Articulate a compelling vision for reaching the campus

  • Embody the vision on campus

  • Invite students to live out the vision

• Work with InterVarsity structures:  Lead and guide chapter structures such as Small Groups, Large Groups, Outreach to accomplish mission on campus (as assigned by trainer)

• Participate in the area ministry team to contribute to the accomplishment of the team’s plans for spiritual growth and transformation in the lives of students

• Recruit students and faculty to and provide specific leadership for retreats and conferences 

• Engage positively with the supervision you receive from your staff ministry director and campus trainer

Administration

• Comply with Risk Management and Legal policies and procedures

• Follow budgeting and expense guidelines

• Fulfill area, regional, and national reporting requirements

Ministry Partner Development (MPD) and Public Relations:

• Develop and contact a list of potential donors

• Execute plans to secure financial and prayer support among partners as directed by MPD coach

• Communicate with donors regularly

• Serve as a representative of InterVarsity to ministry partners, churches, and community connections

• Maintain expenses within allocated budget

 

QUALIFICATIONS

• Annually affirm InterVarsity’s Statement of Faith

• Bachelor’s Degree for work at 4 year institutions; Associate’s Degree for work at 2 year institutions

• Ministry experience:  (in InterVarsity as a student or another ministry context) teaching spiritual and biblical principles, planning ministry programs, spiritually discipling others. 

• Growing competence in self-management

• Effective oral and written communication skills

• Demonstrated ability and commitment to work in a diverse team environment

• Willing to regularly travel for team meetings, student/staff retreats & conferences, training events

PAY RANGE

$38,300-40,000 annually for this Carolinas Campus Ministry Associate position

Pay: 

This position is funded through personal fundraising. Accordingly, compensation will vary based on the ability of the individual to secure a donor team to fund the cost of individual salary (and additional budget items). The anticipated salary range for this position on a full-time basis (40 hours/week) is dependent on a variety of factors, including location and cost of living. The actual salary received, including any geographic adjustment to account for location and cost of living, is subject to the individual’s ability to raise funds necessary to cover the full amount of such salary within the range set forth in the job posting details.

The InterVarsity Campus Intern Budget, in addition to salary, includes benefits, ministry expenses, training expenses, and overhead.

InterVarsity Christian Fellowship/USA

FRAME OF REFERENCE