District Executive

About the position

Since 1910, Scouting has helped mold the future leaders of this country by combining educational activities and lifelong values with fun. Scouting America believes and understands that helping youth puts us on a path towards a more conscientious, responsible, and productive society. Today's professional Scouters are a diverse group of men and women sharing a dynamic career offering independence, achievement, and stability. This is work that makes a difference, work that calls one to continual learning and challenge, work that offers solid compensation, benefits, and advancement.

Responsibilities

• Work with a volunteer board of directors and other community and business leaders to identify, recruit, train, guide, and inspire them to be involved in youth programs.
• Achieve progress towards specific goals and objectives, which include: program development through collaborative relationships, volunteer recruitment and training, fundraising, membership recruitment, and retention.
• Be responsible for extending programs to religious, civic, fraternal, educational, and other community-based organizations through volunteers.
• Secure adequate financial support for programs in the assigned area. Achieve net income and participation objectives for assigned camps and activities.
• Recruit leadership for finance campaign efforts to meet the financial needs of the organization.
• Ensure that all program sites are served through volunteers, regular leader meetings, training events, and activities.
• Collaborate with adult volunteers and oversee the achievement of training for their respective roles.
• Be a good role model and recognize the importance of working relationships with other professionals and volunteers.
• Provide quality service through timely communication, regular meetings, training events, and activities.
• Have a willingness and ability to devote long and irregular hours to achieve council and district objectives.

Requirements

• A strong marketing, fundraising, and program development background is highly desired.
• Non-profit, fundraising, or sales experience is a plus.
• Must be comfortable with public speaking and interacting with diverse audiences.
• Excellent people skills, enthusiastic, punctual, responsible, and creative.
• Self-motivated individual with solid time management skills and strong organizational skills in management, budgeting, and planning.
• Committed to personal and professional productivity while maintaining high ethical and professional working standards.
• Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university (transcript with the date degree conferred stated is required for employment).

Benefits

• Competitive salary of $38,000 to $42,000.
• Major medical, prescription coverage, dental, vision, life insurance, long-term disability, accidental death.
• Defined benefit retirement plan.
• Compensation for authorized and approved business-related expenses including phone and mileage reimbursement.
• Generous vacation policy.
• Ten holiday observances.