Job Opportunity
High School Staff (Toronto)
Job Status: Regular Full-Time (RFT)
Job Team: High School Toronto
Ministry: High School and Youth
High School Staff (Toronto)
High School staff provide pastoral care and leadership to develop our ministry on assigned high school or youth ministry areas. In this role you will translate your passion for developing disciples and introducing students to Jesus by growing student leaders. You will bring vision and heart to see students guided by InterVarsity’s five Aims to discover Jesus, live undivided lives, foster engaged thinking, embrace global vision, and grow in influence, as you supervise and mentor a team of student leaders in partnership with other staff in the area.
Mission and Purpose: InterVarsity staff members walk with young people on their journey from early childhood, through teenage years and into their late twenties, seeking to foster authentic communities at camp, high school, college and university, and in the workplace.
High School staff provide pastoral care and leadership to develop our ministry on assigned high school or youth ministry areas. In this role you will translate your passion for developing disciples and introducing students to Jesus by growing student leaders. You will bring vision and heart to see students guided by InterVarsity’s five Aims to discover Jesus, live undivided lives, foster engaged thinking, embrace global vision, and grow in influence, as you supervise and mentor a team of student leaders in partnership with other staff in the area.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop a strategic vision and plan for your assigned area/high school to grow
- Mentor and disciple student leaders, developing their capacity and growth as disciples.
- Adhere to national policies, procedures and reporting requirements, such as filling out incident reports, filling out required review/plan documents, and submitting expense reports.
- Maintain sound financial status through management of expense/income according to current approved budget.
- Build relationships with other Christian leaders and organizations in the city, and partner with local churches. Establish relationship with the local youth pastors’ network. Develop and maintain relationship with other stakeholders and advocates.
- Raise required funds for personal operating budget. The financial support will cover the costs of the staff salary and ministry expenses.
Qualifications, Skills and Abilities
- Evidence of spiritual gifting in either leadership or pastoring.
- Biblical, theological, and spiritual acuity and maturity.
- Proven ability to initiate activities and accomplish goals.
- Ability to build a team, and work in collaboration with others.
- Excellent people skills, including strong oral and written communication and ability to relate cross-culturally.
- Willingness to learn from others.
- Skills in using technology and social media to communicate with young people.
- Skills in time management and organization.
- Experience and/or willingness in personal fundraising and ministry partnership relationship building.
- Ability to network in ways that lead to partnership development in the areas of prayer, financial giving and volunteering.
Education and Experience
- Holds an undergraduate degree.
- A minimum of 2 years of field-related experience in student ministry, including as a student leader or volunteer
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Application Process: Interested applicants are invited to email a résumé and cover letter to [email protected]. Employment is conditional upon a clear police reference check. The successful candidate must be able to submit to InterVarsity’s Statement of Agreement documents (Statement of Faith, Vision and Aims and Community Covenant). Please note this position is open to people who are eligible to reside and work in Canada.
We thank all applicants for their interest; however, only those candidates selected to move forward in the recruitment process will be contacted. No agencies please.
Application Deadline: until filled
Please note that this position is only open to Canadian citizens, permanent residents or those with Canadian open work permits.