Job Position

Scouting America 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, and rewarding career offering independence, achievement, advancement, and stability. We are seeking highly motivated individuals who are serious about developing executive-level experience in a fast-paced and fun organization. The ideal District Executive candidate is mission driven, people-oriented, and has an entrepreneurial spirit that is focused on results-driven success.

•  Serve as the Scouting ambassador for a geographic area within our council boundaries and surrounding communities.
• 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 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. The executive must have communication skills and be able to explain the program’s goals and objectives to the public.
• Provide quality service through timely communication, regular meetings, training events, and activities.
• Have a willingness and ability to devote long and irregular hours to achieving council and district objectives.

• Strong marketing, fundraising, and sales background is highly
• Comfortable with public speaking and interacting with diverse
• Excellent people skills, enthusiastic, punctual, responsible, and
• 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
• Self-driven to work remotely and to hold oneself accountable for goals, expectations and outcomes.

• Bachelor’s degree or 5 years of relevant work experience

•  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 or 5 years of relevant work experience
• Attained 21 years of age or older unless prohibited by any applicable
• Ability to work varied hours when necessary, evening activities, and weekend work are frequently required to achieve positive
• Ability to travel for training at least once a year for up to one to two
• Offers for employment are subject to criminal, reference, and motor vehicle background checks.

• The Circle Ten Council is an equal opportunity We offer a benefits package considered to be among the best in the non-profit sector. The package includes major medical, dental, vision, and prescription coverage, as well as long-term disability, accident, life insurance, and a retirement plan, plus mileage and phone reimbursement, a generous vacation policy, and twelve holiday observances. Salary increases and promotional advancement are based on merit performance and annual bonus potential.

How to apply:

Qualified candidates must submit a cover letter and resume and to Tammy.Washington@scouting.org.

Only the most qualified candidates will be contacted.

Additional information on a career as a District Executive can be found at this link:    http://www.scouting.org/Careers/WorkingWithUs/EssentialSkills.aspx