Boy Scouts of America

Position Overview

Scouting America Heart of New England Council is seeking a dynamic and mission-driven professional to serve as Field Director. This role will lead a team of Unit Serving Executives and Unit Growth Executives to provide exceptional service to existing units and drive significant growth in units and membership.

Responsibilities

• Execute highly effective recruitment and renewal campaigns that achieve and exceed numerical and on-time objectives.
• Work with Commissioner staff on improving and stabilizing unit adult leaders, youth membership, and unit retention.
• Serve as Scout Executive designee related to Scouting America Youth Protection policies, adult leader, and youth membership standards.
• Participate in Council events to cultivate relationships with volunteers, current and potential chartered partners, and other community groups that have a like-minded interest in serving young people.
• Pursue professional growth activities that will grow personal capacity with the approval and support of the CEO/Scout Executive and management staff.
• Guides the district executives to recruit, develop, and maintain effective volunteer management teams.
• Maintains a professional working climate that attracts, keeps, and motivates top-quality volunteers.
• Assures the districts have a long-range strategy and achieve their missions with consistent, timely progress.
• Assuring the flow of funds from the districts helps the council to achieve its mission.
• Assures that executive visits are made to heads of institutions annually to review leadership and quality items.
• Evaluates the performance of district executives and maintains records of their achievements, failures.

Education

• Bachelor’s degree

Qualifications

• Successful experiences in Unit Serving Executive or mid-managerial roles demonstrated membership and unit growth record, and strong annual performance review evaluations.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills; negotiation skills; and the ability to deal with complex concepts and ambiguity.
• Demonstrated commitment to collaboration. The ability to work well both independently and collectively with other team members.
• Technical/digital competence, including data analytics, report generation, and basic graphic design.
• Excellent and mature judgment.
• Strong interpersonal skills, including the ability to listen and interact effectively with volunteers.
• Ability to travel within Council territory and work evenings and weekends as needed.
• Must be willing to accept and meet Scouting America’s leadership and membership standards and subscribe to the Scout Oath and Law.
• Offers of employment are subject to criminal, reference, and background checks.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Prior Scouting America Unit Serving Executive with experience and a strong performance record.
• Demonstrated experience engaging volunteers in the development of meaningful and productive relationships.

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: $75,000-$85,000