Campus Staff Minister - Northern Illinois University (Undergraduate Ministry)

ESSENTIAL COMMITMENTS/RESPONSIBILITIES

Spiritual Growth

As a Campus Staff Minister, you pursue maturity as a disciple of Jesus Christ so that your life and work increasingly reflecta 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

As a Campus Staff Minister, you increase the number of witnessing communities, as well as the size, health, spiritual maturity, and campus-wide influence of existing witnessing communities of students and faculty by being a:

• Visionary Guide:

You communicate and model InterVarsity’s vision to see students and faculty transformed, campuses renewed,and 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

• Structural Architect:

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

• Missional Developer:

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