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Outdoor Experience Director

Council: Girl Scouts Of San Jacinto Council

Job Location: TX - 3110 Southwest Frwy/Camp Agnes Arnold

Salary Range: Not Available

Employment Type: Full-Time (Regular)

Job #: 8364

Post Date: 7/16/2024

Job Summary

Reports to: Chief Program Officer

Supervises: Manager, Outdoor Experience and Senior Manager, Outdoor Experience

Summary: Responsible for ensuring girls and volunteers have ample opportunities to experience outdoor adventure, develop life skills and learn about the environment, nature and adventure, based on the Girl Scout Leadership Experience. Implements strategies to achieve council goals and objectives for outdoor programming and camp utilization. Partners with Volunteer Experience and Girl Experience to ensure that girls and volunteers in all pathways have access to high-quality outdoor experiences. Ensures high-quality marketing and communication strategies to support outdoor experience opportunities leveraging Council and other resources.

Job Qualifications

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

• Provides leadership to a broad portfolio of outdoor experience programs including: camping (overnight, day and weekend), equitation, aquatics (swimming, canoe, kayak, SUP, etc.), sailing, target sports (archery, riflery, etc.), backpacking, challenge and adventure course, fitness (cycling, hiking, etc.), and new program development.

• Develops and executes strategies for, and oversees the administration of high-quality overnight, day and twilight camps and year-round outdoor programs and camping experiences that support girls and volunteers throughout the Council and implement the national program portfolio.

• Leads and supervises Outdoor Experience team and camp staff. Provide direction, support, and training to develop well-motivated staff teams to accomplish the Council goals and objectives. Promotes team building through effective communications, targeted training, and staff development opportunities.

• Recruit, place, orient, and train Outdoor Experience Manager(s) and camp staff in consultation with direct supervisor and human resources representative. Initiate employment and release when necessary.

• Partners with volunteers, girls and staff across the Council to develop program and facility strategies that effectively support the Girl Scout Leadership Experience and Council goals and objectives. Develops partnerships that increase the quality and progression of experiences available to our members.

• Ensures Outdoor Experience programs are delivered by well-trained staff, volunteers and partners based on outcome and achievement driven curriculum to a growing and diverse Girl Scout membership. Supports volunteers in delivery and leadership of Council programs, and ensures programs provide leadership development opportunities for girls.

• Develops and implements a risk management plan for all outdoor program operations ensuring safe and high-quality programs are offered to members while complying with all safety standards. Develops, promotes and ensures direction and administration of ACA accredited camp programs at each overnight camp and day camp. Provides risk management oversight for all outdoor experience initiatives. Ensures that outdoor program offerings are consistent with GSUSA and GSSJC policies, procedures, guidelines, health and safety standards, local, state and federal laws and other relevant governing or advising bodies.

• Implement continuous quality improvement practices including outcomes measurement, evaluation and program improvement and business process improvement to increase member satisfaction and deliver WOW moments and impactful programs for girls and volunteers.

• Collaborates with Marketing and Communications to develop and implement strategies to educate stakeholders of the importance of outdoor experiences, as well as increase participation in outdoor program opportunities and camp utilization.

• Collaborates with Development team to increase resources for Girl Scout outdoor education and leadership.

• Collaborates with Facilities, Customer Care, Girl Experience, Volunteer Experience, Outreach and Community Engagement to ensure that girls and volunteers in all pathways have access to high-quality outdoor experiences.

• Develop programmatic templates and modules for volunteer implementation that align to the GSLE outcomes and national program portfolio.

• Partners with staff, volunteers and girls across the council to find, leverage, and share stories about how Girl Scouting changes girls’ lives – and how girls change the world.

• Responsible for development of budgets and monitoring of mission centers.

• Develops and executes a written plan for assigned areas for achieving Council goals and objectives related to camp utilization, program participation, outcome achievement and girl retention.

• Assist in the development of strategies and provide leadership, direction and support to special assignments in order to reach Council goals and objectives. Perform all duties and requirements for the success of the assigned project.

• Demonstrate proficiency in using Council resources and technologies. Leverage Council technologies to enable department strategies.

• Responsible for Council relationships with outside vendors, partners, contract negotiations, and collaborative partners.

• Advises the Properties Committee.

Additional Responsibilities:

• Embrace and promote diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging as an integral part of every activity and plan of Girl Scouts of San Jacinto Council.

• Creates a culture of Customer Service Excellence by treating each interaction as an opportunity to provide courteous, timely and quality service, and by exhibiting professional behavior becoming of the Girl Scout brand, Promise and Law.

• Maintains Girl Scout uniform and GSUSA membership.

• Works collaboratively on council initiatives.

• Supports a culture of philanthropy and consider a personal gift to GSSJC and United Way.

• Prepares for and participates in supervisory conferences and staff meetings.

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 25 pounds, periodically lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include heavy visual acuity 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. The employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.

Special Instructions

For more information, please contact the council directly.

How to Apply

https://www.gssjc.org/en/get-involved/careers.html

https://j.brt.mv/CompanyPortal.do?companyGK=25291

Leslie Hamilton, Payroll Specialist/Human Resources

713-292-0278

lhamilton@sjgs.org

Girl Scouts of San Jacinto Council

3110 Sw FreewayHouston, TX 77098

Phone #: 713- 292-0300Toll Free Phone #: 800-392-4340 Web Site: www.gssjc.org