Dallas Participating Exhibitors

About the Company:

The Boy Scouts of America (BSA) is one of the nations largest and most prominent values-based youth development organizations. The BSA provides a program for young people that builds character, trains them in the responsibilities of participating citizenship, and develops personal fitness. Scouting services more than four million young men and women in every part of the country through more than 300 local council offices. Scouting is a part of America and has been since 1910. Through nearly a century of experience, Scouting understands that helping youth is a key way to build a more conscientious, responsible, and productive society.

Now more than ever, young people need strong roles models, mentors, and leaders. Young people lacking direction and focus often feel isolated from their parents and community and disconnected from the guideposts designed to help them through the difficult years of adolescence. The BSA is committed to helping the youth of our nation realize their full potential!

Try the Professional Scouting path and see why it fits your need for a job that not only meets your current career objectives, but allows you to have an impact on the lives of so many in the process.

Job Titles & Descriptions:

Executive Management Opportunity in Human Services

What Professional Scouters Do:

Several thousand professional Scouters lead, guide, and facilitate the efforts of more than a million adult volunteers who carry out the Scouting mission. It’s the job of the
professional Scouter to inspire, recruit, train, and support the BSA’s volunteers, while also working with community leaders and rallying public support for Scouting’s activities.

The district executive is responsible for the overall growth, extension, quality, program enhancement, and supervision of the Scouting program with a specified geographical
area. The person in this position achieves these goals through the identification, cultivation, recruiting, and guidance of corps of adult volunteers whose purpose is to support, train, and motivate adult volunteer leaders who deliver the Scouting program. Public relations and fundraising administration are vital additional functions. As a district executive, you will serve as an executive manager of a geographic territory within the local council that is designated as a district.

You will be responsible for:
• The effective organization, operation, and promotion of the council program within the district, and the achievement of district objectives, including measurable, realistic goals.
• Giving staff guidance to the cultivating, recruiting, training, and inspiring of volunteer personnel in the district.
• Coordinating the work of the district’s volunteer personnel so that their efforts strengthen and extend the Scouting program offered by chartered organizations and related units.

Qualifications:
• Bachelors degree from an accredited college or university
• United States citizenship or declared intention to become a U.S. citizen
• Adult—must have attained age 21 unless prohibited by any applicable law
• People-oriented, having the ability to work well with adult volunteers, community and business leaders, and representatives of other organizations
• Able to work varied hours when necessary to achieve positive objectives
• Believe in the BSA and subscribe to its principles and standards
• Successfully complete SRI (Screening Research Instrument), a computer-based evaluation.

Learn More:
To learn more about working as an executive manager for the Boy Scouts of America, visit the employment page on our Web site at www.scouting.org or write to
the Executive Career Administration, S416; Boy Scouts of America; P.O. Box 152079; Irving, TX 75015-2079.

Executive Management opportunity in Public Educational Services

What Do Learning for Life Executives Do?

As an executive manager, you will identify, recruit, train, guide, and inspire educators, community and business leaders, and volunteers to become involved in Learning for Life. You are responsible for the overall growth, extension, quality, program enhancement, and supervision of the Learning for Life program within a specified geographical area. You will oversee corps of adult volunteers who in turn support, train, and motivate the adult volunteer leaders delivering the Learning for Life program. Though most of the work deals with management, sales, public relations, and fundraising, a lot of time is spent in the community checking out the action in your assigned geographical area, making sure that goals are set and objectives are met. The Learning for Life executive helps organize and support the volunteer resources necessary to deliver its program to today’s nearly 1.6 million active participants in Learning for Life’s in-school programs as well as through providing youth with career awareness opportunities.

Qualifications:
• Bachelors degree from an accredited college or university
• United States citizenship or declared intention to become a U.S. citizen
• Adult—must have attained age 21 unless prohibited by any applicable law
• People-oriented, having the ability to work well with adult volunteers, community and business leaders, and representatives of other organizations
• Able to work varied hours when necessary to achieve positive objectives

Learn More:
To learn more about working as an executive manager for the Learning for Life, visit the employment page on our Web site at www.learning-for-life.org or write to the
Executive Career Administration, S416; Learning for Life; P.O. Box 152079; Irving, TX 75015-2079.