Work Location:
VirginiaJob Type:
Full timeGod has called InterVarsity to plant and to build 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 to the glory of God. We confidently anticipate that our InterVarsity alumni will become change agents across the country and around the world. We pursue this calling by discerning and actively participating in what God is already doing on campus. This is the essence of being a Campus Staff Minister (CSM).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 about campus engagement and so that they proclaim – in word, deed, and power – the good news of Jesus, regularly inviting students and faculty to follow him as Savior and Lord
Disciple students and faculty by equipping them to hear the Word, respond actively, and debrief and interpret the experience so that they grow in Christlikeness, reflect our Core Values, and develop ministryskills
Invite, coach, and equip students and faculty to become increasingly effective participants and leaders, including starting new witnessing communities on campuses
Organizational Collaboration
Youwork with a network of other local, area, regional, and national InterVarsity staff and volunteers so that our work reflects Bibl
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