Campus Staff Minister – Upstate NY (Graduate and Faculty Ministry)

This position is open to both full-time and part-time applicants. The pay range listed is for an employee working 40 hours/week as a Campus Staff Minister. Pay will be prorated for employees who work less than 40 hours/week.

We have positions in the following locations:

• Syracuse University – graduate students and/or faculty

• SUNY Buffalo – graduate students

• SUNY Albany – graduate students

Other schools may be available.

Please submit the GFM Interest Form before completing the full application for a position with Graduate & Faculty Ministries in our online system. We will contact you when we are ready to proceed with the application process.

Volunteers are welcome. Volunteer opportunities range from prayer and hospitality to leading a campus fellowship of graduate students and faculty. Those interested in volunteering will go through an application and interview process, however, volunteer openings are not posted online. For more information, complete the GFM Interest Form or contact your local InterVarsity staff.

ESSENTIAL COMMITMENTS/RESPONSIBILITIES

Spiritual Growth

Youpursue maturity as a disciple of Jesus Christ so that your life and work increasingly reflectsa growing love for God, God’s Word, God’s people of every ethnicity and culture, and God’s purposes in the world. To do this, you will:

• Pursue a vibrant relationship with the triune God through engagement with Scripture, prayer, and worship, both individually and incommunity

• Develop self-leadership (growing in self-awareness, self-management, relational integrity, andresiliency)

• Embrace Scriptural standards for behavior andattitudes

CampusLeadership

You communicate and model InterVarsity’s vision to see students and faculty transformed, campuses renewedand world changers developed

• Create a culture of humble dependence on God and bold expectation in God’s intention to start new witnessing communities throughout the campus and on new campuses

• Model – in person and through programs – InterVarsity’s vision and Core Values, including a biblically-defined commitment to engage every ethnic and social group on campus

• Lead students and faculty – individually and collectively – through Scripture, prayer, teaching, and discipleship experiences, so that they articulate and align their ministry activities around this vision

• Set annual goals through prayer, researchand reflection with your teams (students, faculty, and staff) for qualitative and quantitative growth, including conversions and leadershipdevelopment

You create, develop, align and leverage ministry plans, programs, teams, and structures to close the gap between current reality and the aspirational goals.

• Build leadership teams who trust and partner well with you and who demonstrate spiritual vitality, relational health, and missionalignment

• Develop and execute plans to achieve annual goals, evaluating and modifyingthe plan as needed throughout the year

• Increase momentum for the vision by aligning programs, structures, conferences and teams around the goals

• Mobilize students and faculty to engage their relational networks with the gospel and to start new missionalcommunities

• Under the direction of the Area Director, may supervise Ministry Interns and Campus Ministry Interns as delegated

You intentionally gather, invite, and develop diverse groups of students and faculty sothattheynotonlyencounterandfollowJesusasSaviorandLordbutalsoadvance the mission on campus as participants andleaders.

• Create ways for faculty and students to encounterand follow Jesus through Scripture, worship, prayer, mission experiences, conferences, etc.

• Equip students and faculty so that they think strategically abou