Student Life Coordinator

**Position Purpose and** **Summary**

The Richmond Student Life Coordinator provides engagement and ministry experiences for students at TWU’s Lansdowne and Minoru locations. The role gives particular assistance to spiritual awareness development, programming and support with a view toward the greater Student Life missional goal of inviting students to connect, thrive and serve at TWU Richmond.

**Key Areas of Accountability**

**General**
- To work with TWU Richmond’s Director of Student Life, other Student Life Coordinator and key Student Life contacts to ensure demographically effective, relevant learning and host ministry experiences to achieve community-building goals and spiritual awareness across Richmond locations. This includes facilitating the following:

- The fulfillment of TWUs mission to “develop godly Christian leaders”
- An atmosphere that is pro-active and conducive to community building across the Richmond student body
- Assist Student Life Richmond to build on momentum gained from 2020-21 initiatives and accomplishments during a key time of growth and window of missional opportunity at TWU Richmond.
- To contribute to the discipleship efforts of the Student Ministries department through at large ministry to TWU students.

**Specific**
- Provide additional support to better serve and support the Richmond Student Leader team through SLOW, weekly team meetings, semester events, Winter Retreat, etc.
- Provide additional support in increasing overall (male) student connection** **and engagement by modelling personal care and friendship evangelism where opportunities present themselves.
- Provide additional support in spiritual care and programming for TWU Richmond students, staff and faculty at both Minoru and Lansdowne locations. In addition to directly supporting spiritual growth of our Student Leader team, other main focuses would include re-initiating Chapel programming, Bible Studies (internal and leveraging current external partnership resources), re-starting Alpha partnerships at Richmond locations, support and promotion of potential Habitat trip and future Global Projects trip.
- To help promote and recruit students to engage with campus activities such as student clubs, seasonal events, volunteer opportunities, Orientation, etc.
- To provide personal and spiritual mentoring for students as needed.
- To serve as a team player within TWU Richmond and Student Life assisting to accomplish the mission of the department.

**The Person**

**Skills and Abilities**

Superior, well developed, proven and demonstrated skills in some of the following: planning, coordinating, prioritizing, administration, discipling, outreach, interpersonal relationships and good knowledge of worship ministries.

**Personal**

Driven and inspired by the idea of positively impacting the various marketplaces of life through the development of godly Christian leaders by serving the Trinity Western University community.

A dedicated and mature evangelical Christian with an earnest desire to serve in family, church, work, and community. Affirm and support TWU’s mission, values, Statement of Faith, and Community Covenant. Strength of character and reputation, integrity, focused. A winsome personality with a positive and friendly attitude.

**Servant-Leader Way of Life**: Act in a manner that exemplifies Jesus Christ in all on and off-campus contacts thereby living out the servant leadership mission of the university and contributing effectively towards achieving the institutional and Kingdom goals of the organization.

**Key Internal Interactions**

**Reports**:TWU Richmond Student Leaders

**Reports to**:Director of Student Life, TWU Richmond

**Standards & Requirements**

**Education**: Bachelor’s Degree in related field required

**Experience**: At least one year of leadership in a Christian ministry or significant involvement in student ministry required. Previous ministry to university students (including international) in the area of discipleship/outreach ministries preferred.
- Duties and responsibilities that do not constitute a major change may be added, deleted or changed at any time at the discretion of the supervisor either orally or in writing._

Benefits Of Working at TWU:

- A comprehensive benefits package which includes extended health, dental, and can include insurance and an RRSP matching program.
- Annual statutory holidays (14) with generous vacation accruement.
- Tuition Benefit for TWU undergraduate and graduate level courses to enhance knowledge and professional competency.
- Torch tuition scholarship for dependents of eligible employees attending TWU.
- Free access to TWU Langley's fitness/gym facilities and the Norma Marion Alloway Library.
- Subsidized meals at the main cafeteria on the Langley Campus.
- Discounts and perks for the on-site Trinity Western Outfitters Campus Store and coffee shops, as well as shops and restaurants in Fort Langley.
- Wellness benefits (i.e., counsellin