Campus Staff Minister - North New Jersey Schools

InterVarsity Christian Fellowship; New Jersey; On-site; USD 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Inter Varsity Christian Fellowship in New Jersey seeks a Campus Staff Minister to cultivate witnessing communities among students and faculty on college campuses. The role emphasizes spiritual growth, leadership development, and cross-cultural ministry within a dynamic, faith-centered context.

The position focuses on vision, program development, team leadership, and strategic campus engagement to transform campus life for Christ. Strong collaboration with area leadership is required.

Responsibilities

• Pursue a vibrant relationship with God through Scripture, prayer, and worship, individually and in community.
• Develop self-leadership by growing in self-awareness, self-management, relational integrity, and resiliency.
• Embrace Scriptural standards for behavior and attitudes.
• Visionary Guide: communicate InterVarsity’s vision to see students and faculty transformed and campuses renewed.
• Create a culture of humble dependence on God and bold expectation for new witnessing communities.
• Model InterVarsity’s Core Values, including a biblically-defined commitment to engage every ethnic and social group on campus.
• Lead students and faculty through Scripture, prayer, teaching, and discipleship experiences.
• Set annual goals through prayer, research and reflection with teams for qualitative and quantitative growth.
• Structural Architect: build and align ministry plans, programs, teams, and structures to close gaps to aspirational goals.
• Build leadership teams with spiritual vitality, relational health, and mission alignment.
• Develop and execute plans to achieve annual goals and adjust them as needed throughout the year.
• Mobilize students and faculty to engage relational networks with the gospel and to start new missional communities.
• Under the direction of the Area Director, may supervise Ministry Interns and Campus Ministry Interns as delegated.
• Missional Developer: gather, invite, and develop diverse groups of students and faculty to advance campus mission.

Job description

Campus Staff Minister - North New Jersey Schools

Work Location:

New Jersey

Job Type:

Full time

God 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

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

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

• Embrace Scriptural standards for behavior and attitudes

Campus Leadership

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, research and reflection with your teams (students, faculty, and staff) for qualitative and quantitative growth, including conversions and leadership development

• 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 mission alignment

• Develop and execute plans to achieve annual goals, evaluating and modifying the 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 missional communities

• 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 so that they not only encounter and follow Jesus as Savior and Lord but also advance the mission on campus as participants and