Campus Ministry Associate position at University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign to advance the mission and purpose of InterVarsity, focusing on learning and preparing for full responsibilities of a Campus Staff Minister. The position involves personal spiritual duties, ministry leadership, pastoral care and support, administration, ministry partner development, and public relations.
Requirements
- Be a maturing disciple of Jesus Christ: growing in love for God, God's Word, God's people of every ethnicity and culture, and God’s purposes in the world
- Practice daily spiritual disciplines
- Pursue spiritual relationships and involvement in a worshipping community
- Continue learning and growth in spiritual understanding, biblical knowledge, ministry experience and skills
- Experience and live out an ongoing call to ministry service with InterVarsity and its mission
- Teach students to love, study and apply Scripture to their lives
- Learn about and assist in leading in ministry to students and faculty on campus
- Promote and press forward the Mission on campus
- Seek opportunities to proclaim and demonstrate the Gospel of Jesus Christ
- Learn to guide chapters (or assigned segments of a chapter) in the development of strategic thinking regarding witness to the university
- Learn to model and assist students and faculty in growing in their love for God's people of every ethnicity and culture
- Help to develop student and/or faculty ministry leadership teams, based on developing skills
- Encourage a prayerful lifestyle in students and faculty, especially focusing on those who do not yet follow Jesus as Lord and Savior
- Engage positively with the supervision you receive from your staff ministry director
- Provide pastoral care and support for student and/or leadership teams and individual students and faculty
- Provide training, resources and opportunities for students and faculty for their spiritual development
- Recruit students and/or faculty and providing specific leadership for conferences and projects
- Perform the necessary administrative tasks required to fulfill the purpose of InterVarsity and to comply with InterVarsity’s policies and procedures
- Comply with Risk Management policies
- Follow the budgeting and expense reporting guidelines
- Lead students in filing annual chapter affiliation, in coordination with assigned Campus Staff Minister
- Fulfill area and regional reporting requirements
- Fulfill national reporting requirements
- Serve as an ambassador of InterVarsity to individual ministry partners and churches, through prayer, discussion of ministry efforts, mission, and accomplishments.
- Carry out the tasks required for effective fund development and to develop strong public relations for the ministry of InterVarsity
- Maintain expenses within allocated budgets
- Secure personal financial, prayer support and maintain a ministry among partners who will fund InterVarsity
- Develop and implement an annual 30-day plan for raising personal budget
- Communicate with ministry partners at least four times a year
- Cultivate and maintain supportive relationships with alumni
Benefits
- 403(b) Retirement Savings Plan
- 403(b) matching contributions
- Dental insurance
- Employee assistance program
- Employee discounts
- Flexible work schedule
- Flexible spending accounts
- Health insurance
- Health savings account
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Parental leave
- Professional development assistance
- Vision insurance
