Greenhouse School of Ministry Director

Greenhouse Church•Gainesville, FL

1d•Onsite

About The Position

The Greenhouse School of Ministry (GSM) Director leads, builds, and oversees Greenhouse Church’s 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.

Requirements

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
College degree or equivalent ministry or leadership experience
Demonstrated excellence in gathering, recruiting, and empowering leaders
Must uphold and champion team norms: passionate disciples, abiding first, lifting faith, believing the best and confronting, working hard and laughing often, insatiable desire to grow, showing up with best work, living lives of adventure and generosity.
Character attributes: Places high value on unity, lives a life above reproach, models a life of holiness, purity and integrity, has a good grasp of scripture, devotes themselves to prayer, has a persevering spirit and soul, is strong and stable, is quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to be angry, has a calmness of spirit, displays loyalty, displays a positive attitude.
Able to lift up to 50 pounds and move furniture
Minimal travel required
40+ Hours a Week
Required Schedule: 8-5pm, Sunday – Thursday
Any changes in schedule to be pre-approved by Senior Pastor

Nice To Haves

Experience leading volunteers or ministry teams is preferred
Public speaking and communication skills
Familiarity with Greenhouse Church’s culture, vision, and ecclesiology
Must excel in this position and have an excellent 90-day evaluation

Responsibilities

Build and oversee a two-lane School of Discipleship model: Part-Time Track (Weekly Gathering) and Full-Time Track (Residency / Gap-Year Experience).
Design and lead a weekly discipleship gathering that is spiritually formative and missionally activated.
Develop a residency-style experience that includes leadership immersion, microchurch leadership, hands-on ministry engagement, and coaching.
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, and multiplication over accumulation.
Identify and develop future church planters and planting teams as one of the primary outcomes of GSM.
Build and oversee a clear planter development pathway, including calling discernment, leadership development, readiness assessment, and deployment.
Provide coaching and formative experiences that develop leaders spiritually, relationally, theologically, and missiologically.
Collaborate with Greenhouse leadership to align GSM with current and future church planting initiatives.
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.
Build and lead a high-touch, relational recruiting pipeline that identifies apostolic and pioneering leaders, potential church planters, residency participants, and discipleship school participants.
Create and execute vision nights, interest gatherings, and other creative ways to attract potential participants.
Partner with pastors, staff, and microchurch leaders to identify and develop emerging leaders.
Ensure clear follow-up systems that move people from interest to participation to development to sending.
Regularly cast vision for discipleship as a lifestyle, leadership development, and 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, and reinforce culture and vision.
Equip alumni and leaders to recruit others through personal invitation and lived example.
Walk closely with high-potential leaders through calling discernment, spiritual formation, and leadership development.
Provide pastoral care, honest feedback, and developmental coaching.
Maintain long-term relationships with alumni as part of Greenhouse’s extended sending family.
Ensure the School of Discipleship and GSM function as one unified pipeline, not disconnected programs.
Align teaching, retreats, intensives, and leadership environments.
Ensure clarity around expectations, culture, developmental benchmarks.
Ensure every participant in the School of Discipleship and GSM clearly knows what it means to be a disciple of Jesus, how to live on mission, whether they are called to lead, plant, or be sent, and what their next step is within Greenhouse’s sending pathway.