Community Engagement Manager - Cypress/Hockley/Waller - 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 Community Engagement Manager’s primary accountability is to achieve girl and adult membership goals by implementing appropriate recruitment strategies.  They are responsible for engaging and cultivating community support for all Girl Scout programs to achieve strategic goals and objectives. This position requires the ability to analyze market data, make sales calls, recruit girl and adults into the program and support cross-functional strategic goals. This position requires strong interpersonal skills, flexible scheduling and reliable transportation.

Community Engagement Manager – Level One
Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following and other duties as assigned.

• Membership Strategy & Recruitment for Assigned Geography
• Achieve girl and adult membership goals by implementing appropriate recruitment strategies.
• Analyze market data on demographics, membership trends, and other available information to implement a comprehensive strategy to develop, recruit and engage new community partners, volunteers and girls in assigned geographies.
• Responsible for achieving community engagement and development goals in assigned geographic areas in order to recruit girl and adult members as well as cultivate support for Girl Scouting to achieve the Council’s strategic goals and objectives. Achieve the specific cross-functional goals for assigned communities and regions. Primary accountabilities will be measured in attainment of girl and adult qualified leads and membership.
• Recruitment of volunteers to support troop, community, region and council wide programming.
• Develop and execute a written community engagement and recruitment plan. Monitor membership and qualified leads, identify trends, and adjust strategies where needed that may impact future cultivation of community and region.
• Study and become proficient in girl and adult related trends, multi-cultural data and demographics, marketing and sales techniques, effective communication and knowledge of communities and organizations in order to effectively implement a strategic membership recruitment plan.
• Work with cross-functional team to determine or develop innovative techniques to ensure the effective delivery of recruitment strategies. 
• Follow up on new leads and referrals resulting from field activity in a timely fashion.
• Responsible for the accurate and timely maintenance and communication of recruitment events, such as the rally site, social media advertisement, school websites, etc.
• Support volunteers in planning and implementing recruitment and community development strategies.
• Maintain Council relationships with United Ways as assigned.
• Responsible for community engagement and development in assigned geographic areas including networking, advisory boards, partnership agreements, facilities utilization, school districts, faith based institutions, leveraging national partnerships to secure venue agreements to support meetings and programs, etc.
• Identify and support volunteers who recruit specific target audiences to meet membership objectives.
• Research, study, and become knowledgeable about external community needs and aspirations.
• Monitor operations and assigned geographies and ensure that volunteers comply with Council’s risk management policies and procedures.  Address and escalate non-compliance when needed. 

Qualifications: 

• Bachelor's degree (B. A.) from a four-year college or university; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Bilingual in Spanish and English preferred
• 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 work with mathematical concepts such as probability and statistical inference, and fundamentals of plane and solid geometry and trigonometry; Ability to apply concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios, and proportions to practical situations.
• 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, Personify, 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.