Greenhouse School of Ministry Director

Job Title: Greenhouse School of Ministry Director

FLSA Classification: Exempt

Salary Job Class: Director

Reports to: Executive Pastor of Strategy and Discipleship

Date Created: 2/18/26

Supervisory responsibilities: Yes

Job Summary & Purpose

The Greenhouse School of Ministry (GSM) Director leads builds and oversees Greenhouse Churchs discipleship-to-sending pipeline forming disciples and developing leaders who are equipped to live on mission and be sent to plant churches serve cross-culturally and advance the Kingdom in every sphere of society.

This role exists to ensure that every disciple at Greenhouse has a clear accessible pathway from spiritual formation to leadership development to being sent on mission.

The GSM Director accomplishes this by building and leading two integrated environments:

• A School of Discipleship/Internship that forms disciples through both accessible weekly rhythms and high-commitment immersive experiences
• A School of Ministry (GSM) that identifies develops and sends leaders with a primary focus on church planters and planting teams

This role requires a leader who excels in vision casting relational recruiting systems building and developmental coaching and who carries a deep burden to see disciples made leaders raised and churches planted.

The GSM Director partners closely with microchurch leaders pastors and sending structures to ensure this is not simply a set of programs but a movement pipeline that consistently produces mature disciples multiplying leaders and sent people.

Duties/Responsibilities

1. Discipleship School Development & Oversight

• Build and oversee a two-lane School of Discipleship model:
  • Part-Time Track (Weekly Gathering): Accessible environment for working adults microchurch leaders and the broader church
  • Full-Time Track (Residency / Gap-Year Experience): Immersive leadership development pathway for college students and emerging leaders
• Design and lead a weekly discipleship gathering that is:
  • Spiritually formative (Scripture prayer obedience)
  • Missionally activated (weekly steps of faith and outreach)
• Develop a residency-style experience that includes:
  • Leadership immersion and responsibility
  • Microchurch leadership and participation
  • Hands-on ministry engagement
  • Coaching feedback and evaluation rhythms
• Ensure both tracks share a unified DNA while differing in intensity and time commitment
• Build a clear progression pathway: Attender Disciple Leader Sent
• Oversee curriculum teaching and environments that prioritize:
  • Formation over information
  • Obedience over knowledge
  • Multiplication over accumulation

2. Greenhouse School of Ministry: Church Planter Development & Sending

• Identify and develop future church planters and planting teams as one of the primary outcome of GSM
• Build and oversee a clear planter development pathway including:
  • Calling discernment
  • Leadership development
  • Readiness assessment
  • Deployment
• Provide coaching and formative experiences that develop leaders:
  • Spiritually
  • Relationally
  • Theologically
  • Missiologically
• Collaborate with Greenhouse leadership to align GSM with current and future church planting initiatives across Florida
• Maintain ongoing relationships with GSM alumni who are planting or preparing to plant
• Champion a culture of sending risk faith and multiplication across the church

3. Recruitment & Mobilization

• Build and lead a high-touch relational recruiting pipeline that identifies:
  • Apostolic and pioneering leaders
  • Potential church planters
  • Residency participants
  • Discipleship school participants
• Create and execute:
  • Vision nights
  • Interest gatherings
  • Other creative ways to pull potential participants in
• Partner with pastors staff and microchurch leaders to identify and develop emerging leaders
• Ensure clear follow-up systems that move people from:

Interest Participation Development Sending

4. Vision Casting & Communication

• Regularly cast vision for:
  • Discipleship as a lifestyle
  • Leadership development
  • Church planting and sending
• Communicate GSM and the School of Discipleship as a movement pipeline not simply programs
• Work with the Creative Team to:
  • Share testimonies
  • Highlight stories of transformation and sending
  • Reinforce culture and vision
• Equip alumni and leaders to recruit others through personal invitation and lived example

5. Relational Development & Pastoral Leadership

• Walk closely with high-potential leaders through:
  • Calling discernment
  • Spiritual formation
  • Leadership development
• Provide:
  • Pastoral care
  • Honest feedback
  • Developmental coaching
• Maintain long-term relationships with alumni as part of Greenhouses extended sending family

6. Program Integration & Systems Leadership

• Ensure the School of Discipleship and GSM function as one unified pipeline not disconnected programs
• Align:
  • Teaching
  • Retreats
  • Intensives
  • Leadership environments
• Ensure clarity around:
  • Expectations
  • Culture
  • Developmental benchmarks

Key Win for This Role

Every participant in the School of Discipleship and GSM should clearly know:

1. What it means to be a disciple of Jesus in everyday life
2. How to live on mission in their current context
3. Whether they are called to lead plant or be sent and in what context
4. What their next step is within Greenhouses sending pathway

Required Team Norms and Character Attributes

Must Be Willing to Uphold and Champion the Following Team Norms:

• We are passionate disciples who reorient their lives around Jesus call to serve win souls and make disciples.
• We will fight to abide first every day.
• We will lift the faith in every room we walk in.
• We believe the best in people and care enough to confront.
• We work hard and laugh often.
• We have an insatiable desire to grow.
• We show up with our best working with all our hearts unto the Lord.
• We live lives of adventure and generosity allowing God to lead us to spend ourselves for those who could never pay us back.

Must Have the Following Character Attributes:

• Places a high value on unity (According to Ephesians 4:3)
• Lives a life above reproach (1 Timothy 3)
• Models a life of holiness purity and integrity (Hebrews 12:14)
• Has a good grasp of scripture and not given to untested points of view (Colossians 2:8)
• Devotes themselves to prayer (Colossians 4:2)
• Has a persevering spirit and soul (James 1:4).
• Is strong and stable and not given to double-mindedness (James 1:8)
• Is quick to listen slow to speak and slow to be angry (James 1:19)
• Has a calmness of spirit and does not over react (Proverbs 29:20)
• Displays loyalty to other team members (2 Timothy 4:9-18)
• Displays a positive attitude (Philippians 4:8)

Physical demands:

• Able to lift up to 50 pounds and move furniture

Travel required:Minimal

Time requirement: 40 Hours a Week

Required Schedule: 8-5pm Sunday Thursday
Any changes in schedule to be pre-approved by Senior Pastor

Required Skills and Abilities

• Strong interpersonal and relational communication skills
• High competency in recruiting galvanizing and gathering people
• Clear vision casting in both small and large contexts
• Ability to manage multiple tasks timelines and follow-up systems
• Experience leading volunteers or ministry teams is preferred
• Public speaking and communication skills
  

Preferred education and experience

• College degree or equivalent ministry or leadership experience
• Demonstrated excellence in gathering recruiting and empowering leaders
• Familiarity with Greenhouse Churchs culture vision and ecclesiology
• Must excel in this position and have an excellent 90-day evaluation
  

Other duties

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

Required Experience:

Director