Senior Interim Leadership Associate

Work Location:

Remote - USA

Job Type: Full time

To advance the mission and purpose of Inter Varsity as noted above, an Interim Leadership Senior Associate has significant spiritual leadership and pastoral supervisory responsibility. The Interim Leadership Senior Associate helps provide continuity of ministry and supervision, as needed, by serving in a campus leadership role on a temporary basis.

• 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.
• Pursue a vibrant relationship with the triune God through engagement with Scripture, prayer, and worship, both individually and in community
• Exercise self-leadership (growing in self-awareness, self-management, relational integrity, and resiliency)
• Embrace and practice Scriptural standards for behavior and attitudes, including those described in the Code of Conduct
• Experience and live out an ongoing call to ministry service with Inter Varsity and its mission

• Create a culture of dependence on God to gain vision for establishing and advancing witnessing communities that reach every corner of every campus among ministry team members
• Assess reality of context and then develop and articulate a vision for qualitative and quantitative growth, particularly in conversions, disciples and leaders among ministry team members
• Model Inter Varsity's missional vision and Core Values for supervises
• Assure that campus ministry is continuing without interruption by providing effective interim leadership
• Lead an assigned ministry team to:
  • Grow as a community depending on God in prayer
  • Do strategic planning, decision making and policy making as assigned
  • Work projects which advance the ministry and strengthen the relationships of the team
  • Provide learning and training opportunities for the team
  • Partner effectively with all other organizational leaders to provide support for their efforts
• If serving as a Regional Director or Divisional Director, the Senior Interim Ministry Associate is responsible for leading the regional or divisional team in setting vision and strategy, developing student training programs and opportunities, for the care and development of staff, and recruitment and placement of staff, depending on the parameters of their interim assignment
• Participate with and be fully engaged with other Interim Ministry Associates
• Model mature leadership and solid partnership with the Director of Interim Ministry and other Interim Ministry Associates
• Advance and strengthen campus ministry and to assure that it is in alignment with our purpose
• Participation in regional and/or national issues or projects as assigned
• Work with organizational leaders at all levels to:
  • Access and assist regional strategies for growth and accomplishment of the national mission such as planting and building ethnically diverse communities
  • Facilitate partnership and collaboration across regional lines and with senior leaders by building relationships, assisting with projects, and providing feedback for ministry team endeavors
  • Address team concerns and, when needed, facilitate a resolution
  • Provide assistance to national leaders, including but not limited to the Interim Ministry Director, through additional projects on a regular basis
• Engage in ministry with students
• Engage positively with the supervision you receive from your staff director

• Model solid pastoral support and supervisory skills for your team
• Provide for the ministry and professional training and development of your team

• Oversee the supervision, leadership of ministry partnership development of your team
• Provide ongoing feedback and evaluation of your team (including annual performance reviews as needed)
• Work effectively with other senior leaders to build an effective partnership between your interim assignment team and Advancement and other Inter Varsity Field Ministries

• Promote partnership among the National Service Center, the ministry departments and the field
• Ensure adherence to national policies, procedures, and reporting requirements

• Ensure sound financial status of the Interim Ministry Program through adherence to national fund development guidelines
• Secure personal…