Regional New Staff Formation Trainer - Lakes & Plains (Undergraduate Ministries)

Regional New Staff Formation Trainer - Lakes & Plains (Undergraduate Ministries)

Work Location:

Wisconsin

Job Type:

Part time

To advance the mission and purpose of InterVarsity, a Regional Ministry Coordinator provides ministry leadership and pastoral supervision across a region in an area of expertise (e.g. evangelism) or in work with a focused campus ministry (e.g. Greeks).

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

Personal:

• Pursue maturity as a disciple of Jesus Christ to ensure a life and work that 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
• Continue learning and growth in spiritual understanding, biblical knowledge, ministry experience and skills
• Exercise self-leadership (growing in self-awareness, self-management, relational integrity, and resiliency)
• Embrace 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 InterVarsity and its mission
• Ministry Leadership:
• Partner with others to increase the size, health, spiritual maturity, and influence in an assigned region and area of ministry
• Provide spiritual leadership to the region for your ministry area of focus/expertise
• Work with your supervisor to develop spiritual vision and strategy for your area of ministry for spiritual growth and transformation
• Participate and be fully engaged in the region to contribute to the accomplishment of plans, objectives and goals in your ministry area or expertise
• Facilitate and nurture collaborative relationship with other InterVarsity ministry staff
• Serve as a resource to the region in assigned area of focus/expertise including ministry strategies, programming and reports
• Make recommendations to enhance current ministry efforts
• Attend ministry staff meetings, conferences, and ministry events, as requested
• Coordinate and provide effective roll out of plans and programs to advance ministry efforts which may include training, communication, organization, and vision casting
• Update, report on, and clarify the development of ministry efforts

Oversee New Staff Formation for Lakes and Plains

• Coordinate and facilitate 1 in person training per semester, including working with SLT to identify host campus or area, working alongside local staff to run the event, and identifying and inviting trainers to teach on specific topics.
• Coordinate and facilitate 4-5 online modules per semester for the first two semesters of each NSF cohort, including identifying and inviting trainers for selected topics and providing timely pre-event and follow-up emails to participants and staff directors 
• Meet individually once a month with NSF participants in their first year to review and implement a ministry playbook course. 
• Coordinate “Capstone” Project for third year NSF participants, including meeting with each participant 2-3x during summer and fall and hosting two online meetings for NSF cohort before final presentations.
• Revise NSF curriculum based on feedback from participants and best practices from national training team
• Participate in the regional trainers teams channel
• Seek feedback from NSF participants at least one time per semester

Pastoral Supervision:

• Assist and lead other ministry staff as assigned in:
• Community growth and prayerful dependence on God
• Setting spiritual vision and direction
• Developing student and/or faculty training programs and opportunities
• Strategically recruiting, hiring and placing focused campus ministry staff in partnership with other regional ministry leaders
• Providing pastoral care and personal development
• Providing ministry training and professional development
• Oversees the campus work of focused ministry staff
• Provide regular feedback and evaluation of ministry staff including contributing to the annual performance reviews
• Mentor ministry staff who have a growing interest in focused ministry
• Engage regularly in ministry to students and/or faculty by teaching from Scripture, leading in prayer, and discipling for spiritual growth
• Engage positively with the supervision you receive from your ministry director.

Administration:

• Provide administrative services and financial management to ministry staff as requested
• Ensure adherence to regional and national policies, procedures, reporting requirements and financial guidelines
• Report regularly to supervisor on