Passing in Global jQuery Variable to contact-form's self executing function

contact-form.js

(function ($) {
  var contactFormUtils = {
    isValidEmail: function (email) {
      var regex = /^([a-zA-Z0-9_.+-])+\@(([a-zA-Z0-9-])+\.)+([a-zA-Z0-9]{2,4})+$/;
      return regex.test(email);
    },
    clearErrors: function () {
      $('#emailAlert').remove();
      $('#feedbackForm .help-block').hide();
      $('#feedbackForm .form-group').removeClass('has-error');
    },
    clearForm: function () {
      $('#feedbackForm .glyphicon').removeClass('glyphicon-check').addClass('glyphicon-unchecked').css({color: ''});
      $('#feedbackForm input,textarea').val("");
      grecaptcha.reset();
    },
    addError: function ($input) {
      var parentFormGroup = $input.parents('.form-group');
      parentFormGroup.children('.help-block').show();
      parentFormGroup.addClass('has-error');
    },
    addAjaxMessage: function(msg, isError) {
      $("#feedbackSubmit").after('<div id="emailAlert" class="alert alert-' + (isError ? 'danger' : 'success') + '" style="margin-top: 5px;">' + $('<div/>').text(msg).html() + '</div>');
    }
  };

  $(document).ready(function() {
    if ($("#phone").intlTelInput) {
      $("#phone").intlTelInput({validationScript: "assets/vender/intl-tel-input/js/isValidNumber.js"});
      $(".intl-tel-input.inside").css('width', '100%');
    }

    $("#feedbackSubmit").click(function() {
      var $btn = $(this);
      $btn.button('loading');
      contactFormUtils.clearErrors();

      //do a little client-side validation -- check that each field has a value and e-mail field is in proper format
      //use bootstrap validator (https://github.com/1000hz/bootstrap-validator) if provided, otherwise a bit of custom validation
      var $form = $("#feedbackForm"),
        hasErrors = false;
      if ($form.validator) {
        hasErrors =  $form.validator('validate').hasErrors;
      } else {
        $('#feedbackForm input,#feedbackForm textarea').not('.optional').each(function() {
          var $this = $(this);
          if (($this.is(':checkbox') && !$this.is(':checked')) || !$this.val()) {
            hasErrors = true;
            contactFormUtils.addError($(this));
          }
        });
        var $email = $('#email');
        if (!contactFormUtils.isValidEmail($email.val())) {
          hasErrors = true;
          contactFormUtils.addError($email);
        }
        var $phone = $('#phone');
        if ($phone.val() && $phone.intlTelInput && !$phone.intlTelInput("isValidNumber")) {
          hasErrors = true;
          contactFormUtils.addError($phone.parent());
        }
      }
      //if there are any errors return without sending e-mail
      if (hasErrors) {
        $btn.button('reset');
        return false;
      }
      //send the feedback e-mail
      $.ajax({
        type: "POST",
        url: "library/sendmail.php",
        data: $form.serialize(),
        success: function(data) {
          contactFormUtils.addAjaxMessage(data.message, false);
          contactFormUtils.clearForm();
        },
        error: function(response) {
          contactFormUtils.addAjaxMessage(response.responseJSON.message, true);
        },
        complete: function() {
          $btn.button('reset');
        }
     });
      return false;
    });
    $('#feedbackForm input, #feedbackForm textarea').change(function () {
      var checkBox = $(this).siblings('span.input-group-addon').children('.glyphicon');
      if ($(this).val()) {
        checkBox.removeClass('glyphicon-unchecked').addClass('glyphicon-check').css({color: 'green'});
      } else {
        checkBox.removeClass('glyphicon-check').addClass('glyphicon-unchecked').css({color: ''});
      }
    });
  });
})(jQuery);