Placement Specialist - (Hybrid) - Girl Scouts of San Jacinto

Imagine having the opportunity to create a meaningful employment experience, one that meets your career goals and your desire to do socially responsible work.
 What type of organization would you choose?
 
For more than 100 years, Girl Scouts has helped girls develop the skills and confidence they need to succeed in every area of life. From the youngest Girl Scout to our graduating high school seniors, Girl Scouts of all backgrounds and abilities can be unapologetically themselves as they discover their strengths and rise to meet new challenges. Through our programming, girls are exposed to a vast array of educational topics such as the arts, entrepreneurship, the outdoors, STEM and more. In Girl Scouts, girls learn what it takes to be a leader. The leadership program for girls is based on the Girl Scout Leadership Experience model, which allows girls to discover a positive value system and a strong sense of self, connect with others, build healthy relationships, identify causes that are meaningful, and take action to make the world a better place.
 

The Placement Specialist is responsible for successfully supporting recruitment efforts and pursuing communications strategies and protocols needed to successfully transition prospective members (leads) to registered members. Responsible for facilitating increased girl and adult volunteer participation.  
 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following and other duties as assigned.

• Utilize Girl Scouts customer relationship management system to support pursuance of leads throughout the recruitment process for completion to close status.  
• Support implementation of membership recruiting marketing strategies outlined in the council’s strategic plan, annual business plan and/or other council goals primarily through phone and written follow-up contacts with prospective members and community partners.  
• Follow action plans and schedules to identify specific targets and to track contacts made in order to meet membership goal.  Prepares a variety of status reports, including activity, follow-up, and adherence to goals. 
• Support external recruitment efforts and is able to finalize membership enrollment leads.
• Follow up on new leads and referrals resulting from field activity in a timely fashion. 
• Work with cross-functional team to ensure the effective delivery of recruitment strategies. 
• Responsible for facilitating achievement of community engagement and development goals in order to recruit girl and adult members as well cultivate support for Girl Scouting to achieve the Council’s strategic goals and objectives, as well as the specific cross-functional goals 

Qualifications: 

• High school diploma or general education degree (GED); prefer at least six months related experience and/or training.
• Ability to work from home, as needed, to include high speed home internet access, accessibility to a non-distracting and uninterrupted space with adequate lighting and ergonomically adequate work-space.
• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret common scientific and technical journals, financial reports, and legal documents; Ability to respond to common inquiries or complaints from customers, regulatory agencies, or members of the business community; Ability to write speeches and articles for publication that conform to prescribed style and format.
• Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions; Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.
• Must be proficient in Microsoft Office (i.e. Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint and Word), SharePoint, Customer Relationship Management software, team/knowledge sharing tools, etc.
• Valid Texas driver’s license and proof of insurance.

Benefits:  We value our employees’ time and efforts. Our commitment to your success is enhanced by our competitive salary and extensive benefits package and future growth opportunities within the company.  Our current full time employee benefit package includes Health, Dental, Vision, HSA, FSA, STD, LTD, Life/AD&D, Educational Assistance, Commuter Benefits, Paid Time Off/Vacation, Paid Company Holidays, and more.  Plus, we work to maintain the best possible environment for our employees where people can learn and grow with the company. We strive to provide a collaborative, creative environment where each person feels encouraged to contribute to our processes, decisions, planning, and culture.

 
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging (DEIB) Statement:  Girl Scouts of San Jacinto Council fosters belonging and respect for all girls. We empower all girls, volunteers and staff to fulfill their potential and make the world a better place. Our Girl Scout Promise drives us to provide diverse, equitable and inclusive experiences where all girls, volunteers and staff are confident they belong. We stand firm in these commitments and united by these ideals.
 
We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Work Environment: The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. This position primarily performs its duties indoors and is occasionally exposed to outdoors weather conditions and/or moving mechanical parts. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.  Employee may be required to work from home in certain circumstances.

Physical Demands: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 10 pounds, frequently lift and/or move up to 20 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include heavy visual acuity (close vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus) required to perform such activities as preparing and analyzing data and figures, using a computer and extensive reading and proofing. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to sit, stand, walk, use hands to finger, handle or feel, and reach with hands or arms. The employee occasionally required to climb or balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.

Girl Scouts of San Jacinto Council is a 501c nonprofit organization.