Campus Ministry Associate - Louisiana Area (Undergraduate Ministry)

Campus Ministry Associate - Louisiana Area (Undergraduate Ministry)

Work Location:

Louisiana

Job Type:

Part time

To advance the mission and purpose of InterVarsity, this position will focus on learning and preparing for the full responsibilities of a Campus Staff Minister. The Campus Ministry Associate will be assigned work based on skills determined by the application process. This is a one or two-year position in which the individual receives intensive training and exercises ministerial functions consistent with a Campus Staff Minister.

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 InterVarsity and its mission 

 

Ministry Leadership 

• Participate and be fully engaged in the ministry team to cast spiritual vision and direction, to contribute to the accomplishment of the team’s plans for spiritual growth and transformation, and to provide area leadership in specific areas 

• 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 

 

Pastoral Care and Support (assist as assigned and based on skill level) 

• 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  

 

 

Administration  

• 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