Team Lead - Wisconsin Southeast; Undergraduate Ministries

Work location:

Wisconsin. Job type:
Full time.

To advance the mission and purpose of Inter Varsity, a campus ministry team leader provides oversight for a team of campus ministers that is a sub-set of the Area Ministry Staff Team. Reporting to an Area Ministry Director, he/she exercises spiritual leadership and pastoral supervision and is responsible for the campus work performed by members of this ministry team.

• Personal Spiritual Duties:
  • 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 Inter Varsity and its mission.
• Ministry Leadership:
  • Lead a local ministry team in:
    • Growing as a community and depending on God in prayer.
    • Encouraging the ministry team’s participation in the area’s vision and direction.
    • Developing student leaders and recruiting for discipleship and leadership training programs and ministry projects.
    • Recruiting campus ministry staff candidates strategically.
    • Engage regularly in ministry to students, teaching and encouraging students to love, study and apply Scripture to their lives.
    • Engage positively with the supervision you receive from your ministry supervisor.
• Pastoral Supervision (as delegated):
  • Provide for the pastoral care and support of a local staff spiritual team.
  • Provide for the training and professional development of ministry interns, campus ministry interns, and campus ministers.
  • Lead local ministry team meetings.
  • Oversee the campus work of the local ministry team; oversee fund development, as delegated.
  • Provide regular feedback to campus ministers and interns related to their ministry and work.
  • Provide, with Area Ministry Director approval, evaluation of local campus ministers and interns including annual performance reviews.
• Administration:
  • Provide, as delegated, administrative services and financial oversight that enables local ministers to do their jobs.
  • Ensure adherence to area, regional and national policies, procedures, reporting requirements and financial guidelines.
• Ministry Partner Development and Public Relations:
  • Serve as an ambassador of Inter Varsity to individual ministry partners and churches, through prayer, discussion of ministry efforts, mission, and accomplishments.
  • Maintain, as delegated, sound financial status of the local staff team through oversight of budgeting, fund development and expense control.
  • Secure personal financial and prayer support and strategic funds for the local team, as needed, by maintaining a ministry among partners who will fund Inter Varsity.
  • Cultivate and maintain relationships with alumni.
  • Represent Inter Varsity within the broader Christian community.

• Annually affirm Inter Varsity’s Statement of Agreement (Doctrinal Basis and Purpose Statement).
• Abide by Inter Varsity’s Code of Conduct.
• Believe and behave consonantly with Inter Varsity’s Human Sexuality Theological Paper.
• Affirm and behave consonantly with Inter Varsity’s "Women in Ministry Statement of Affiliation".
• Ongoing call to Inter Varsity and its mission.
• Bachelor’s degree required.
• Minimum three years campus ministry or equivalent work experience required.
• Willing to receive ongoing training.
• Ability to contribute to an open and supportive relationship with team members.
• Ability to develop a team.
• Strong interpersonal skills and demonstrated ability and commitment to work in a diverse team environment.
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