Girl Scouts of Southwest Texas (GSSWT) is headquartered in San Antonio, TX and serves more than 14,000 Girl Scouts (girls and adults) across 21 counties in southwest Texas. Girl Scouts is the world’s preeminent leadership development organization for girls, building girls of courage, confidence, and character, who make the world a better place.
The Girl Experience Specialist (Part-Time) supports the development and delivery of the Girl Scout Leadership Experience that supports membership retention. Responsible for designing and maintaining a safe environment that can provide a girl-led, learning by doing, cooperative learning experience for all grade levels. Develop relationships with volunteers and community partners to support delivery of the Girl Scout program portfolio. This position will work cross-functionally with other departments to ensure the council’s goals are achieved.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Assists in the development, coordination, and delivery of quality program events and curricula that meet the council’s goals.
- Creates a trusting, cooperative relationship with program partners within the community to include nonprofit organizations, businesses, or others that support the council’s goals.
- Delivers a program experience that provides some of the five ways girls benefit by participating in the Girl Scout program: strong sense of self, positive values, challenge seeking, health relationships, community problem solving.
- Manages and leads groups of participants of 10 to 100 girls.
- Develops volunteer relationship to support program delivery.
- Attends community events in partnership with other departments, as needed.
- Maintains adequate attendance, record keeping, paperwork processes, purchasing processes, and database administration for program participation.
- Assists with the analysis of program evaluations to ensure membership needs are being met, addresses issues and modifies or discontinues programs as needed.
- Assists with outcome survey implementation.
- Supports grant implementation.
- Will work directly with girls K-12th grade in a variety of settings.
- Develop relationships with community partners.
- Experience managing groups of children K-12th grade.
- Performs additional duties as assigned in support of the council’s mission and goals.
Qualifications:
- Must be at least 18 years of age or older.
- Must have a valid driver's license and reliable means of transportation.
- Education/Experience: Bachelor's degree from four-year college or university; or one to two years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Computer Skills: Must be proficient with computer and Microsoft Office (i.e. Excel, Outlook, and Word).
- Licensure/Membership Requirements: The employee is required to maintain membership with Girl Scouts of the United States of America throughout the duration of their employment with GSSWT.
NOTE: This job description is not intended to be all inclusive and does not constitute a contract.