Campus Ministries - Coordinator of Mission and Immersion
Job Description
The Coordinator of Mission and Immersion manages Hope College Campus Ministries’ outreach efforts including immersion trips. The Coordinator evaluates past and ongoing programs and casts vision for new and evolving ones. The Coordinator works with CM staff, volunteer leaders, and students, to plan, evaluate, and implement immersion trips and the community groups that form as a result of them. This work helps achieve Campus Ministries’ vision to “grow world Christians in the soil of Hope,” and our mission to Send:
“We are not sent to save the world but to serve the world in the name of the God who saves. The Spirit sends us out to live holistic lives, where Jesus and justice, belief and obedience, worship and social witness become an integral expression of the integrity of our faith. Ours is a mission to both proclaim with our mouths and to demonstrate with our lives that Jesus Christ is Lord.”
Responsibilities:
“We are not sent to save the world but to serve the world in the name of the God who saves. The Spirit sends us out to live holistic lives, where Jesus and justice, belief and obedience, worship and social witness become an integral expression of the integrity of our faith. Ours is a mission to both proclaim with our mouths and to demonstrate with our lives that Jesus Christ is Lord.”
Responsibilities:
- Cast vision for how Campus Ministries’ mission and immersion efforts further the mission and Christian Aspirations of Hope College
- Evaluate past and ongoing programs and plan new and evolving ones
- Foster trip-based and affinity-based Christian communities throughout the year
- Complete trip proposals for Risk and Responsibility to approve each trip
- Secure trips and coordinate dates with contacts at organizations
- Launch immersion trips communications in October
- Mentor student leaders / maintain relationships throughout the year
- Update training handbook
- Train student and adult leaders (once monthly) using handbook
- Equip students to fundraise for their trips
- Work with Philanthropy in soliciting scholarship funds
- Review scholarship applications and distribute scholarship money
- Collect/manage money from students
- Plan budget for each trip
- Request cash advances, if needed, for adult leaders
- Coordinate all flights (working with Travel Coordinator if possible), making sure all passports are in and up to date, names on tickets are all correct
- Coordinate busing to and from airport
- Work with Transportation on reserving vans for domestic trips
- Make sure all health forms are completed as well as all forms on Terra Dotta travel site
- Compile folders with needed information for each adult and student leader before trips
- Communicate with immersion trip attendees on questions, money, concerns, last minute drops and adds
- Survey trip participants when they return
- Decide on leaders and locations for the following year
Qualifications
- M. Div. or Masters degree, or willingness to pursue advanced degree, preferred.
- Enjoys working with college students
- Enthusiasm and expertise for local and global outreach along with short-term mission experiences
- Strong administrative and leadership skills required
- Experience leading global or local outreach programs
- Flexible schedule
- Strong written and oral communication skills
- An understanding and support of the theological vision and mission of Hope College Campus Ministries
- Enjoys working on a team and within an institutional culture of higher education
- Proficient in Microsoft Word, Excel, and/or Google Docs equivalents
Physical Demands
This position requires remaining in a sitting or standing position for frequent periods of time; uses office machinery such as a computers, printers, copy machines; Occasionally involves moving items over 10 pounds; frequently will move between different offices/workspaces/buildings; and requires effective communication abilities. In the case of temporary or permanent condition(s) that require(s) accommodation(s), reasonable accommodation(s) may be requested.
Pre-employment Screenings
All offers of employment are contingent upon a background check. Some positions may have position specific requirements, such as education/licensure/certification verification, a physical, drug screening, credit checks and/or transportation record review.
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