Position: Unit Growth Executive - Scouting America
Location: Polk County
Since 1910, Scouting has helped mold the future leaders of this country by combining educational activities and lifelong values with fun. The 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.
- Base Salary: $52,100
- Car Allowance: $5,400 ($450/month)
- Potential bonuses/incentives: up to $2,500+
The primary responsibility of this position is to drive significant growth in membership and participation in traditional Scouting, while also increasing the number of Scouting units within an assigned geographic area.
This role focuses on sustaining and expanding both youth and adult membership, ensuring the long-term vitality and growth of Scouting in the designated service area.
- Develop and maintain relationships with schools, chartered organizations, religious institutions, community organizations, businesses, and other youth-serving agencies to expand Scouting opportunities.
- Identify, recruit, and cultivate new charter partners to establish sustainable Scouting units in underserved and growing communities.
- Lead new unit development efforts by recruiting and supporting organizing teams, volunteer leaders, and chartered organization representatives through the unit start-up process.
- Recruit, train, and support adult volunteers to deliver a high-quality Scouting program and provide ongoing coaching to strengthen unit leadership.
- Partner with Commissioners, Membership, Training, and Program Committees to ensure new and existing units receive the support needed for long-term success.
- Execute membership growth strategies through school recruitment events, community outreach, sign-up nights, and other youth recruitment initiatives to achieve council membership objectives.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with school administrators, district leaders, and community stakeholders to increase awareness and access to Scouting programs.
- Work with unit leadership to develop annual membership growth plans focused on youth recruitment, volunteer development, and member retention.
- Monitor membership trends and unit health, providing coaching and resources to improve youth retention, volunteer engagement, and unit sustainability.
- Represent Scouting America professionally by communicating the organization's mission, values, and impact to volunteers, parents, educators, and community leaders.
- Maintain regular communication with volunteers and community partners through meetings, training opportunities, and ongoing support to ensure exceptional customer service.
- Maintain a flexible schedule, including evenings and weekends, to support recruitment events, volunteer meetings, trainings, and other activities necessary to achieve membership growth objectives.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Management reserves the right to add, modify, change, or rescind the work assignments of different positions and to make reasonable accommodations so that qualified employees can perform the essential functions of the job.
Knowledge of: Traditional Scouting programs, their benefits, and how they cater to different age groups; potential charter partners (schools, churches, etc.) and their motivations for supporting Scouting; unit structure, leadership roles, program planning, budgeting, and membership retention strategies; training opportunities for volunteers and how they contribute to unit effectiveness.
- Strong marketing, fundraising, and program development background are highly desired.
- Non-profit, fundraising, customer service, management, 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.
- Must be willing to accept and meet Scouting America’s leadership and membership standards and subscribe to the Scout Oath and Law
- Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university
- Attained 21 years of age or older unless prohibited by any applicable law
- People-oriented, having the ability to work well with adult volunteers, community and business leaders and representatives of other organizations
- Ability to work varied hours when necessary, evening activities and weekend work is frequently required to achieve positive objectives
- Ability to travel for training at least once a year for one to two weeks
- A Scouting background is helpful but not required for employment
- Offers for employment are subject to criminal, reference, and motor vehicle background checks
Must pass a criminal history background check. Must be able to travel weekly for on-site support to local councils.
Visual acuity to read information from computer screens, forms, and other printed materials and information.
Hearing acuity for verbal communication, conversations, face-to-face interactions, and/or responses via telephone and telephone systems.
Speaking ability for general communication and ability to clearly enunciate in conversations with others.
Reading, detail work, confidentiality, stress, problem solving, language, training, math, reasoning, verbal communication, written communication, customer contact, multiple concurrent tasks, frequent interruptions in a fast-paced environment, continual change.
This role requires travel within an assigned territory and will include indoor and outdoor work in varying conditions. Standing in work areas and walking between work areas may be required. Finger dexterity is needed to access, enter, and retrieve data using a computer keyboard or calculator and to operate standard office equipment; vision to read printed materials and a computer screen; hearing and speech to communicate in person and over the telephone. Positions in this classification occasionally bend, stoop, kneel, reach, push, and pull drawers open and closed to retrieve and file information. Employees must possess the ability to lift, carry, push, and pull materials and objects weighing up to 25 pounds.
Employees work in an office environment, retail stores, and other commercial buildings with moderate noise levels, controlled temperature conditions, and no direct exposure to hazardous physical substances. Employees may interact with upset staff and/or public and private representatives in interpreting and enforcing departmental policies and procedures.
Note: This job profile is not intended to be all-inclusive. Employees may perform other related duties to meet the ongoing needs of the organization.
In addition to offering a competitive salary, Professional Scouting offers benefits including major medical insurance, prescription plan, dental, vision, life insurance, long-term disability, and a 403(b) retirement plan including a matching contribution plan from the company, as well as compensation for authorized and approved business-related expenses to include phone and mileage reimbursement. We also offer a vacation policy and ten holiday observances. All councils are equal opportunity employers.
How to apply:
Please email cover letter and resume to [email protected]. Resumes received without a cover letter will not be reviewed.
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: Up to $60,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Dental insurance
- Employee discount
- Flexible schedule
- Health insurance
- Paid time off
- Vision insurance
Application Question(s):
- Are you 21 years of age or older?
- Do you own reliable transportation and have sufficient insurance for said transportation?
- Are you able and willing to work with people from any and all races, religions, creeds, ethnicities, etc?
- Can you ascribe to the Scouting America's Declaration of Religious Principal? It states, in part: "Scouting America maintains that no member can grow into the best kind of citizen without recognizing an obligation to God and, therefore, recognizes the religious element in the training of the member, but it is absolutely nonsectarian in its attitude toward that religious training. Its policy is that the home and organization or group with which the member is connected shall give definite attention to religious life. Only persons willing to subscribe to these precepts from the Declaration of Religious Principle and the Bylaws of Scouting America shall be entitled to register."
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Work Location: Hybrid remote in Tampa, FL 33612
