District Executive

District Executive – Jayhawk Area Council, Scouting America

Seeking energetic and self‑motivated individuals to serve as a District Executive in local communities. This career demands growth in all areas – recruiting youth, raising sustainable finances, and working with top community leaders.

Since 1910, Scouting has helped mold the future leaders of this country by combining educational activities and lifelong values with fun. Today’s professional Scouters are a diverse group of men and women sharing a dynamic career offering independence, achievement, and stability. This work makes a difference, offers continual learning and challenge, and provides solid compensation, benefits and advancement.

• Work with a volunteer board of directors and other community and business leaders to identify, recruit, train, guide, and inspire volunteers for youth programs.
• Achieve progress toward specific goals and objectives, including program development through collaborative relationships, volunteer recruitment and training, fundraising, membership recruitment and retention.
• Extend programs to religious, civic, fraternal, educational, and other community‑based organizations through volunteers.
• Secure adequate financial support for programs in the assigned area; achieve net income and participation objectives for assigned camps and activities.
• Recruit leadership for finance campaign efforts to meet the organization’s financial needs.
• Ensure all program sites are served through volunteers, regular leader meetings, training events, and activities.
• Collaborate with adult volunteers and oversee achievement of training for their respective roles.
• Be a good role model and demonstrate the importance of working relationships with other professionals and volunteers.
• Provide quality service through timely communication, regular meetings, training events, and activities.
• Be willing and able to devote long and irregular hours to achieve council and district objectives.

• Strong marketing, fund‑raising and program development background.
• Non‑profit, fundraising, or sales experience.
• Comfortable with public speaking and interacting with diverse audiences; excellent people skills, enthusiastic, punctual, responsible, and creative.
• Self‑motivated with solid time‑management skills and strong organizational abilities in management, budgeting, and planning.
• Committed to personal and professional productivity while maintaining high ethical and professional standards.

• Willingness to accept and meet Scouting America’s leadership and membership standards; subscription to the Scout Oath and Law.
• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university (transcript required).
• 21 years of age or older unless prohibited by law.
• Ability to work varied hours, including evenings and weekends.
• Ability to travel for training at least once a year for one to two weeks.
• Scouting background is helpful but not required.
• Offers for employment are subject to criminal, reference and motor‑vehicle background checks.

All councils are equal‑opportunity employers. The position offers a competitive salary of $35,568 plus benefits including medical, prescription, dental, vision, life‑insurance, long‑term disability, accidental death, a defined benefit retirement plan, and reimbursement for authorized business expenses (phone and mileage). A generous vacation policy and ten holiday observances are also provided.

Qualified candidates must submit a cover letter, resume, and salary history to wayne.pancoast. Only the most qualified candidates will be contacted.

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