Area Ministry Director — North Florida (Undergraduate Ministry)
Work Location:
Florida
Job Type:
Full time
An Area Director leads and oversees a ministry team to plant and to grow witnessing communities of students and faculty who follow Jesus on college and university campuses. Through these groups, we believe ever-increasing numbers of students and faculty from all ethnic groups and areas of the campus will be transformed by the gospel. We expect to see campuses increasingly become places where people, ideas, and structures flourish for the common good and to the glory of God. We confidently anticipate that our InterVarsity alumni will be growing disciples and change agents across the country and around the world.
The North Florida Area is currently comprised of campus work in the cities of Tallahassee, Jacksonville, and Gainesville, with two Campus Staff Ministers and three Campus Ministry Interns. With a strong emphasis on prayer and Scripture engagement, the team works together to host events together for students, alums, and ministry partnership development. They have a strong team culture of collaboration and trust, prayer and worship, and student discipleship. For the past several years, the North Florida Area has hosted a summer student internship program which has helped to both guide and prepare prospective staff for the Field.
We are looking for an Area Director who can support and resource the work of the city teams in Tallahassee and Gainesville, while also growing the work in Jacksonville and planting new witnessing communities on multiple rural community college campuses.
Fall Hiring Window
- Application is due by 08/30/2026
- References should be received by 09/08/2026
- An interview will be scheduled for 09/13/2026, 10am-4pm, location TBA
- Offer or Declination to follow within one week of the interview
ESSENTIAL COMMITMENTS/RESPONSIBILITIES
1. Spiritual Growth
The Area Ministry Director models spiritual maturity as a disciple of Jesus Christ so that your life and work increasingly reflects a growing love for God, God’s Word, God’s people of every ethnicity and culture, and God’s purposes in the world.
- Pursue a vibrant relationship with the triune God through engagement with Scripture, prayer, and worship, both individually and in community
- Exercise self-leadership (growing in self-awareness, self-management, relational integrity, and resiliency)
- Embrace and practice Scriptural standards for behavior and attitudes, including those described in the Code of Conduct
2. Campus Ministry Leadership
As an Area Director, you inspire, coach and develop campus staff ministers (“ministers”), students, faculty, and ministry partners to increase the number of witnessing communities, as well as the size, health, spiritual maturity, and campus-wide influence of existing witnessing communities by being a:
Visionary Guide:
- Create a culture of dependence on God to gain vision for establishing and advancing witnessing communities that reach every corner of every campus in your area
- Model InterVarsity’s vision and Core Values for supervisees
- Lead staff, students, and faculty through Scripture, prayer, teaching and discipleship experiences in a way that motivates and shapes their ministry around vision
- Set appropriate annual goals through prayer, research and reflection with your teams
Structural Architect:
- Lead your team to develop and implement plans to achieve ministry goals
- Adapt the plan as needed through rhythms of action, reflection and evaluation
- Develop, align and leverage programs and structures to move the mission forward
Missional Developer:
- Recruit a diversity of qualified minister candidates
- Develop ministers to spiritually grow in Christ in intimacy, like Christ in character, and with Christ in his mission to current and new campuses
- Develop ministers professionally so that they are consistently increasing their gifts and skills as ministry leaders
- Supervise ministers, using appropriate leadership style for the individual and situation, to help them accomplish assigned tasks. This will require coaching, assessing, correcting and affirming job-related behaviors
- Proactively establish and develop healthy relationships across racial, ethnic, national background, and gender barriers with staff, students, faculty, and ministry partners to build effective and diverse communities
- Build an effective minister team that collaborates well and accomplishes goals
3. Organizational Collaboration
As an Area Director, you are part of a national organization and work in partnership with local, area, divisional, regional, and national InterVarsity ministers and volunteers.
- Participate in regional leadership as determined by the Regional Director, to set ministry vision and strategies, contribute to accomplishing plans, and provide regional leadership in specific areas
- Positively and constructively respond to the direction and coaching of line supervisors
- Build productive ministry partnerships with regional and national collaborative leaders
- Establish systems, processes and protocols to fulfill regular operational and administrative tasks in a timely manner (reporting, finances, human resources, etc.)
- Maintain sound financial status of the area through management of budgeting, expense control and ministry partnership development
- Become familiar with and comply with all InterVarsity policies and procedures
4. Ministry Partnership Development (MPD)
As an Area Director, you will develop a team of partners who will resource the ministry financially, in prayer, or with volunteer service that advances the mission.
- Develop and maintain a ministry among partners who will fund InterVarsity
- Ensure ministry budget is fully funded
- Supervise each minister’s MPD (collaborating with coaches when applicable) and equip staff to build ministry partners
- Build resource networks with alumni, volunteers, churches, advocacy councils, and major donors, in particular to fund low-network ministers
- Communicate regularly with ministry partners
5. Accomplish all other assigned tasks as appropriate
QUALIFICATIONS
- Annually affirm InterVarsity’s Statement of Agreement (Doctrinal Basis and Purpose Statement). Abide by InterVarsity’s Code of Conduct
- Bachelor’s degree required
- Minimum three years campus ministry or equivalent work experience required
- Strong ministry skills (including the ability to communicate spiritual vision, teach spiritual and biblical principles, plan ministry programs, and spiritually disciple, coach and mentor)
- Proven ability to work well with others and the ability to develop a team of campus ministers.
- Strong interpersonal skills (including ability to minister to diverse ethnic communities and faculty)
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Demonstrated problem solving skills
- Familiarity with word processing, presentation, email, and spreadsheet software
WORK ENVIRONMENT/PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS
The AD position leads ministry in a college campus environment. A designated office space may or may not be available. The AD is required to travel to on-campus and off-campus sites as appropriate. Off-campus travel includes, but is not limited to student ministry conferences, MPD meetings, and InterVarsity-sponsored training sessions, meetings, and conferences. The AD is regularly required to communicate with others, and routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, etc.
Pay Range: $55,200.00 - $73,608.00 per year
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 his/her salary. 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.