Area Ministry Director - GFM NJ​/Eastern PA; Graduate and Faculty Ministry

Work Location

New Jersey

Full time

An Area Director leads and oversees a ministry team to plant and to grow 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 for the common good and to the glory of God.

We confidently anticipate that our Inter Varsity alumni will be growing disciples and change agents across the country and around the world.

This position is open to both full-time and part-time applicants living in NJ, PA, or DE. The pay range listed is for an employee working 40 hours/week as an Area Director. Pay will be prorated for employees who work less than 40 hours/week. Increased pay may be available in high cost of living areas (as a geographic adjustment).

• Spiritual Growth
• 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
• Campus Ministry Leadership

• Create a culture of dependence on God to gain vision for establishing and advancing witnessing communities that reach every corner of every campus in your area
• Model Inter Varsity’s vision and Core Values for supervises
• Lead staff, students, and faculty through Scripture, prayer, teaching and discipleship experiences in a way that motivates and shapes their ministry around vision
• Set appropriate annual goals through prayer, research and reflection with your teams

• Lead your team to develop and implement plans to achieve ministry goals
• Adapt the plan as needed through rhythms of action, reflection and evaluation
• Develop, align and leverage programs and structures to move the mission forward

• Recruit a diversity of qualified minister candidates
• Develop ministers to spiritually grow in Christ in intimacy, like Christ in character, and with Christ in his mission to current and new campuses
• Develop ministers professionally so that they are consistently increasing their gifts and skills as ministry leaders
• Supervise ministers, using appropriate leadership style for the individual and situation, to help them accomplish assigned tasks. This will require coaching, assessing, correcting and affirming job-related behaviors
• Proactively establish and develop healthy relationships across racial, ethnic, national background, and gender barriers with staff, students, faculty, and ministry partners to build effective and diverse communities
• Build an effective minister team that collaborates well and accomplishes goals
• Organizational Collaboration

As an Area Director, you are part of a national organization and work in partnership with local, area, divisional, regional, and national Inter Varsity ministers and volunteers.

• Participate in regional leadership as determined by the Regional Director, to set ministry vision and strategies, contribute to accomplishing plans, and provide regional leadership in specific areas
• Positively and constructively respond to the direction and coaching of line supervisors
• Build productive ministry partnerships with regional and national collaborative leaders
• Establish systems, processes and protocols to fulfill regular operational and administrative tasks in a timely manner (reporting, finances, human resources, etc.)
• Maintain…