Campus Staff Minister - Surf & Turf (Undergraduate Ministry)

InterVarsity Christian Fellowship/USA; Lake Forest (CA); On-site; USD 48,000 - 68,000; Full time

Job summary

InterVarsity Christian Fellowship/USA is seeking a Campus Staff Minister (CSM) to cultivate witnessing communities on college campuses. You will guide spiritual growth, campus leadership, and structural development to extend the ministry’s reach and impact.

The role emphasizes disciple-making, team-building, and strategic planning to foster new and thriving campus ministries.

Responsibilities

• Pursue a vibrant relationship with God through Scripture, prayer, and worship in community.
• Develop self-leadership, self-awareness, and relational integrity.
• Embrace Scriptural standards for behavior and attitudes.
• Communicate InterVarsity’s vision to transform campuses and develop world changers.
• Create a culture of humble dependence on God and bold expectation for new communities.
• Lead students and faculty through Scripture, prayer, teaching, and discipleship experiences.
• Build leadership teams and supervise interns as needed.
• Plan annual goals and align programs to achieve growth and mission.

Job description

Work Location: California Southern

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:

• 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