Southeast Regional Black Campus Ministry (BCM) Coordinator -- (Evergreen) (Undergraduate Ministry)

Southeast Regional Black Campus Ministry (BCM) Coordinator -- (Evergreen) (Undergraduate Ministry)

Work Location:
Remote - USA

Job Type:
Full 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).

In addition to the core responsibilities of a Regional Ministry Coordinator, the Southeast Regional Black Campus Ministries (BCM) Coordinator provides specialized leadership for the development and expansion of Black Campus Ministry across the region. This role gives strategic attention to the spiritual formation, leadership development, and ministry effectiveness among Black students and Intervarsity staff, ensuring that BCM expressions are culturally grounded, theologically rich, and aligned with InterVarsity’s mission of witnessing communities on campus.

The BCM Coordinator functions as a regional resource, coach, and ministry builder for Black student ministry across Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and predominantly White institutions (PWIs). This includes shaping regional vision for BCM, equipping staff and student leaders, and fostering sustainable ministry structures that lead to long-term growth and multiplication of Black witnessing communities.

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

Primary Areas of Focus

• Leadership Development: Coaching and mentoring Black staff, student leaders, and supporting staff engaged in ministry to Black students across the region

• Movement Growth & Planting: Initiating and strengthening BCM chapters at HBCUs and PWIs, with attention to strategic campus selection and sustainable ministry models

• Culturally Relevant Programming: Designing and leading regional BCM gatherings, trainings, Bible studies, and conferences that address Black student identity, discipleship, and mission

• Collaboration & Integration: Partnering with Regional and Area Directors to align BCM strategy with broader regional priorities while ensuring BCM distinctives are represented and supported

• Resource Development: Raising and sustaining a significant regional BCM budget (e.g., $60,000–$70,000+) and cultivating ministry partners invested in Black student ministry

• Teaching & Representation: Regularly teaching Scripture, training leaders, and representing BCM within regional and national InterVarsity spaces

• Movement Alignment: Help integrate national BCM goals, priorities, strategies, and initiatives into regional and local campus contexts, ensuring faithful implementation while adapting to Southeast-specific opportunities and needs

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 assigned work

• Ministry Partnership Development (MPD) and Public Relations:

• Develop a ministry team of partners who will resource the ministry financially, in prayer, or with volunteer service that advances the mission

• Serve as an ambassador of InterVarsity to individual partners and churches through prayer, discussion of ministry efforts, mission, and accomplishments

• Develop and maintain a ministry among partners that will fund InterVarsity

• Ensure ministry budget is fully funded

• Supervise each minister’s MPD (collaborating with coaches when applicable) and equip ministry staff to build ministry partnerships

• Build resource networks with alumni, volunteers, churches, advocacy councils, and major donors, in particular to fund low-network ministry staff

• Communicate regularly and minister to ministry partners

Maintain sound financial status of the area through management of budgeting, expense control and MPD.

Accomplish all other assigned tasks as appropriate.

KNOWLEDGE/SKILLS/ABILITIES

• A working knowledge of current Microsoft software applications (Word, Excel, and PowerPoint)

• Effective oral and written communication skills

• Strong interpersonal skills (including ability to minister to diverse ethnic communities and faculty)

• Demonstrated problem solving skills

• Ability to handle sensitive information in a confidential manner

• Ability to travel for national and regional meetings, as requested

• Demonstrated ability and commitment to work and collaborate with others in a diverse team environment

• Ability to network, build partnerships and represent Collegiate Ministries effectively

• Ability to take charge of tasks and work independently without close supervision

• Ability to work under the pressure of deadlines

• Open to learn new concepts, methods and skills

QUALIFICATIONS

• Annually affirm InterVarsity’s Statement of Agreement (Doctrinal Basis and Purpose Statement). Abide by InterVarsity’s Code of Conduct. Believe and behave consonantly with InterVarsity’s Human Sexuality Theological Paper. Affirm and behave consonantly with InterVarsity’s “Women in M