District Director (Open Until Filled)
Position Overview
Since 1910, Scouting has helped mold the future leaders of this country by combining educational activities and lifelong values with fun. The Boy Scouts of 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 adults 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
- Recruits, develops, and maintains an effective volunteer management team.
- Maintains a professional working climate that attracts, keeps, and motivates top-quality volunteers.
- Assures the District has a long-range strategy that achieves its mission and makes consistent progress.
- Assures that the flow of funds from the District helps the Council to achieve its mission.
- Serves as the chief District spokesman for the council to assure that the Council is properly represented.
- Provides leadership to other professional staff in the District.
- Other job-related duties as assigned.
Education
Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university.
Qualifications
- 3+ years of experience.
- Strong interpersonal, written communication and verbal presentation skills.
- Proven FOS success and skills in community organization. Individual should understand the process to identify potential upper-level prospects and have skill set to engage other volunteers to approach potential prospects.
- Ability to organize and manage a Family Campaign Division.
- Ability to supervise staff utilizing effective back-dating and work scheduling.
- Effective in managing membership and new unit organization to achieve growth on a consistent basis with attention to retention of units and youth.
- Ability to manage functioning Districts at a high level of operation and effectively utilize the annual nominating committee process.
- Prior experience in Scouting not limited to 3 years or more successful experience as a District Executive or Senior District Executive.
- Well organized, detail oriented and polished staff leadership skills.
- Thrives in a fast-paced environment with passionate and committed people.
- Excellent analytic skills with a proven commitment to accuracy and timeliness.
- Must be able to handle confidential and sensitive information appropriately.
- Must possess a focus on continuous improvement and growth, both within the organization and within self.
- Flexible schedule frequently required for evening/weekend events.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office suite (specifically Outlook, Word, Excel, and PPT) preferred. Familiarity with Blackbaud or a similar CRM a plus.
- Positive attitude, able to take direction and coaching, and willing to learn.
- Eligible for employment in the United States of America and a commission from the Boy Scouts of America.
- Valid driver’s license and ability to be insured.
- Outstanding written, interpersonal, and verbal communication skills.
- Detail oriented, adaptable, organized, and able to successfully manage multiple projects and tasks.
- Ability to work independently, set priorities, and meet deadlines.
- Must be a team player.
- Must be available to work some evenings, weekends and extended hours for meetings and events.
Benefits
The Norwela Council is an equal opportunity employer. In addition to offering a competitive salary, the position offers a benefits package valued at over $24,000 to include major medical, prescription coverage, dental, vision, life-insurance, long-term disability, accidental death, a defined contribution retirement plan, employee discounts on BSA items, flexible scheduling, plus compensation for authorized and approved business-related expenses including mileage reimbursement. We also offer a generous PTO policy with up to 36 PTO days (depending on tenure) and 13 paid holidays annually.
Salary Range: $60,000-$68,000
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