Executive Director, Center for Christian Apologetics and Civil Engagement

Brief Position Description: Charleston Southern University seeks a founding executive director for a permanent university-based Center for Christian Apologetics and Civil Engagement. The executive director will be a Baptist scholar and public intellectual who can build a high-impact, academically serious, student-forming, faculty-engaging, and publicly visible apologetics center.
The center will utilize traditional Christian apologetics while also promoting civil discourse and constructive engagement with the major academic fields of the university. Rather than functioning only as a lecture series or public platform, the center will also help faculty and students develop and deploy apologetic arguments for Christianity from the intellectual, moral, cultural, and social goods that emerge when Christians bring the faith to bear faithfully within their disciplines.
The executive director’s primary responsibility will be catalytic academic and institutional leadership. The executive director’s work will focus on building programs, producing durable intellectual resources, mentoring students, engaging faculty, and establishing a visible evangelical apologetics presence that advances the mission of the university.