Area Ministry Director — North Florida (Undergraduate Ministry)

Area Ministry Director — North Florida (Undergraduate Ministry)

Work Location:

Florida

Job Type:

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 InterVarsity alumni will be growing disciples and change agents across the country and around the world.

The North Florida Area is currently comprised of campus work in the cities of Tallahassee, Jacksonville, and Gainesville, with two Campus Staff Ministers and three Campus Ministry Interns. With a strong emphasis on prayer and Scripture engagement, the team works together to host events together for students, alums, and ministry partnership development. They have a strong team culture of collaboration and trust, prayer and worship, and student discipleship. For the past several years, the North Florida Area has hosted a summer student internship program which has helped to both guide and prepare prospective staff for the Field.

We are looking for an Area Director who can support and resource the work of the city teams in Tallahassee and Gainesville, while also growing the work in Jacksonville and planting new witnessing communities on multiple rural community college campuses. 

Fall Hiring Window

• Application is due by 08/30/2026
• References should be received by 09/08/2026
• An interview will be scheduled for 09/13/2026, 10am-4pm, location TBA 
• Offer or Declination to follow within one week of the interview

ESSENTIAL COMMITMENTS/RESPONSIBILITIES

1. Spiritual Growth

The Area Ministry Director models spiritual maturity as a disciple of Jesus Christ so that your life and work increasingly reflects a growing 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

​2. Campus Ministry Leadership

As an Area Director, you inspire, coach and develop campus staff ministers (“ministers”), students, faculty, and ministry partners to increase the number of witnessing communities, as well as the size, health, spiritual maturity, and campus-wide influence of existing witnessing communities by being a:

Visionary Guide:

• 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 InterVarsity’s vision and Core Values for supervisees
• 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

Structural Architect:

• 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

Missional Developer:

• 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 h