Assistant Scout Executive

Position: Assistant Scout Executive

Position location: Rutland, Massachusetts (MA)

Council website: https://hnescouting.org/

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Position Overview

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 toward 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.

The Assistant Scout Executive/COO will be responsible for giving leadership to districts in executing all aspects of the Council’s strategic plan, including but not limited to annual adult leader, youth member, and unit growth objectives, commissioner service, unit support, district operations, safe scouting policies, and overall staff management. This position will be an exciting, challenging, and significant opportunity for a highly motivated, energetic second or third assignment Scouting professional to serve in a Class 300 Council and learn skills necessary for promotion to senior-level leadership in Scouting America.

Scouting America Heart of New England Council serves over 4,400 youth members and 1900 adult volunteers in Worcester and Middlesex counties in Central Massachusetts. This is a great opportunity for a goal-oriented individual ready to make an impact.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with the CEO/Scout Executive to coordinate a strategic program of comprehensive year-round seasonal adult leadership recruitment for units, youth recruitment, and new unit organization.
• Be responsible for extending programs to religious, civic, fraternal, educational, and other community-based organizations through volunteers and staff.
• Execute highly effective recruitment and renewal campaigns that achieve and exceed numerical and on-time objectives.
• Staff leader to all Unit Serving Executives, Member Growth Executive, and Council Registrar.
• Responsible for all staff-related operations, i.e., meeting agendas, trainings, conferences, staff vacancies, etc.
• Work with Commissioner staff on improving and stabilizing unit adult leaders, youth membership, and unit retention.
• Provide support to the Board of Directors for all membership and operations-related issues.
• Serve as Scout Executive designee related to Scouting America Youth Protection policies, adult leader, and youth membership standards.
• Position the Council to hire additional executives to grow membership and units, to serve existing units, and to serve as direct management staff leaders for additional executives.
• Actively participate in community and scout unit affairs to cultivate relationships with volunteers, current and potential chartered partners, and other community groups to expand the services and programs of Heart of New England Council.
  
  

Competencies

• Scouting America Unit Serving Executive Experience with a strong performance record.
• Selling the Vision – Vividly communicating a compelling view of the future state in a way that helps others understand and feel how business outcomes will be different when the vision and values become reality.
• Building Organizational Talent – Establishing systems and processes to attract, develop, engage, and retain talented individuals; creating a work environment where people can realize their full potential, thus allowing the organization to meet current and future business challenges.
• Customer Focus – Ensuring that the (internal/external) customer’s perspective is a driving force behind strategic priorities, business decisions, organizational processes, and individual work habits. Crafting and implementing service practices that demonstrate customer satisfaction as a core value.
• Driving Execution – Translating strategic priorities into operational reality; aligning communication, accountabilities, resource capabilities, internal processes, and ongoing measurement systems to ensure that strategic priorities yield measurable results.
• Operational Decision Making – Securing and comparing information from multiple sources to identify business issues; committing to an action after weighing alternative solutions against important decision criteria.
• Compelling Communications – Clearly and succinctly conveying information and ideas to individuals and groups; communicating in a focused and compelling way that captures and holds others’ attention.
  
  

Education

• Bachelor’s degree.
  
  

Benefits

Scouting America Heart of New England Council is an equal-opportunity employer. In addition to offering a competitive salary (commensurate upon experience), the position offers benefits to include major medical, prescription coverage, dental, vision, life insurance, long-term disability, accidental death, a 403(b)-thrift plan with partial employee match, plus compensation for authorized and approved business-related expenses including mileage reimbursement, vacation policy, and holiday observances.

Salary: $100,000-$120,000

• Standard Scouting America benefits package
• Housing moving with two estimates
• Relocation allowance of 5% of salary, less taxes
• Monthly mobile phone allowance
• Mileage reimbursement for business miles
• Scouting America Thrift Plan
• Generous PTO policy and holiday observances