Outreach Program Specialist

Wage: $ depending on experience and bilingual skills

Part-time summer hours:
Monday and Wednesday 12:30-4:30

Part-time school year hours:
Hours vary between 2:00-5:00 Monday through Thursday

Our Organization: Girl Scouts of Eastern Washington and Northern Idaho (GSEWNI) is a non-profit dedicated to empowering girls through the Girl Scout four pillars: life skills, STEM, outdoors, and entrepreneurship! We cover a massive area of 29 counties that stretches over 67,000 square miles, spanning from Central and Eastern Washington to Northern Idaho. Our headquarters is in Spokane, Washington, but we've got awesome staff in the Tri-Cities, Washington, and Coeur d'Alene, Idaho.

With the power of 2,000 amazing adult volunteers, we're on a mission to serve around 5,000 girls from kindergarten to 12th grade. Girls are our heart and soul, and we're all about helping them become future leaders. Girl Scouts is THE go-to place for girl power, shaping strong leaders for a new era.

The Go Getters Outreach Tri-Cities is a grant-funded program breaking barriers in order to engage Latina Girls and ensure every girl has the opportunity to be a Girl Scout.

As an Outreach Program Specialist, you’ll team up with the Outreach Program Coordinator to facilitate after-school troop meetings and deliver the magic of Girl Scouting to bilingual Outreach Girl Scout Troops in Pasco and Richland. This position directly serves young girls in under resourced communities, delivering the full Girl Scout experience to girls who may otherwise not have the opportunity to participate.

The Outreach Program Specialist fosters positive relationships with girls, families, staff, and community members.

• Use our engaging curriculum to lead girls through exciting activities that cover all things STEM, outdoors, life skills, and entrepreneurship.
• Incorporates Girl Scout principles into each meeting with girls:
  Allow meeting to have elements of girl-led, hands-on, cooperative learning – while providing guidance and supervision as needed.
• Models team work and problem solving while creating opportunities for girls to apply strategies themselves.
• Works seamlessly with co-leaders and other GSEWNI staff.
• Completes paperwork such as attendance, rosters, etc.
• Communicates positively with parents and other community members about Girl Scouts.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

• Ethics – treats all people with respect, keeps commitments, inspires the trust of others, works with integrity, upholds organizational values, and maintains the confidentiality of all client/co-worker/organizational business.
• Diversity – demonstrates knowledge of EEO policy; shows respect and sensitivity for cultural differences; educates others on the value of diversity; promotes a harassment-free environment; builds a diverse workforce.
• Visionary Leadership – displays passion and optimism; inspires respect and trust; mobilizes others to fulfill the vision; provides vision and inspiration to peer, subordinates, and constituents.
  • Organizational Leadership – exhibits confidence in self and others; inspires and motivates others to perform well; effectively influences actions and opinions of others; accepts feedback from others.
  • Motivation – sets and achieves challenging goals; demonstrates persistence and overcomes obstacles; measures self against standard of excellence; takes calculated risks to accomplish goals.
• Professionalism – approaches others in a tactful manner, reacts well under pressure, treats others with respect and consideration regardless of their status or position, accepts responsibility for own actions, follows through on commitments, represents the company in all actions, dress and conduct in accordance with our Mission and Vision.
  • Oral Communication – speaks clearly and persuasively in positive or negative situations, listens and gets clarification, responds well to questions, demonstrates group presentation skills, participates in meetings. Active listening; ability to skillfully use a variety of questions and other active listening techniques to promote a robust discussion with members/ customers and identify needs.
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