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District Executive

Position: District Executive

Open date: 6/1/2026

Closing date: Open until filled

Position location: Charlotte, North Carolina (NC)

Council website: www.mccscouting.org

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Position Overview

Since 1910, Scouting has helped mold the future leaders of this country by combining educational activities and lifelong values with fun. Scouting America believes and understands that helping youth puts us on a path towards a more conscientious, responsible, and productive society.

Today’s professional Scouters are a diverse group of men and women sharing a dynamic career offering independence, achievement, and stability. This is work that makes a positive difference, work that calls one to continual learning and challenge, work that offers solid compensation, benefits, and advancement.

Responsibilities

• Work with a volunteer board of directors and other community and business leaders to identify, recruit, train, guide, and inspire them to become involved in youth programs.
• Achieve progress towards specific goals and objectives which includes program development through collaborative relationships, volunteer recruitment and training, fundraising, membership recruitment and retention.
• Extending programs to religious, civic, fraternal, educational, and other community-based organizations through volunteers.
• Secure adequate financial support for programs in assigned areas. Achieve net income and participation objectives for assigned camps and activities.
• Recruit leadership for finance campaign efforts to meet the financial needs of the organization.
• Ensure that all program sites are served through volunteers, regular leader meetings, training events and activities.
• Collaborate with adult volunteers and oversee the achievement of training for their respective role.
• Be a good role model and recognize the importance of working relationships with other professionals and volunteers. The executive must have communication skills and be able to explain the program’s goals and objectives to the public.
• Provide quality service through timely communication, regular meetings, training events and activities.
• Have a willingness and ability to devote long and irregular hours to achieving council and district objectives.
• Must be willing to live in the Charlotte area.

Education

• Bachelor’s degree

Qualifications

• Must be willing to accept and meet Scouting America’s leadership and membership standards and subscribe to the Scout Oath and Law.
• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university (transcript with the date degree conferred stated is required for employment).
• Attained 21 years of age or older unless prohibited by any applicable law.
• Ability to work varied hours when necessary, evening activities and weekend work are frequently required to achieve positive objectives.
• A Scouting background is helpful but not required for employment.
• Offers for employment are subject to criminal, reference and motor vehicle background checks.
• Strong marketing, fundraising and program development background desired.
• Non-profit, fundraising or sales experience is a plus.
• Must be comfortable with public speaking and interacting with diverse audiences. Excellent people skills, enthusiastic, punctual, responsible and creative.
• Self-motivated individual with solid time management skills and strong organizational skills in management, budgeting, and planning.
• Committed to personal and professional productivity, while maintaining high ethical and professional working standards.

Benefits

All councils are equal opportunity employers. In addition to offering a competitive salary of ($45,000-$55,000), Professional Scouting offers benefits to include major medical and prescription coverage, dental, vision, life-insurance, long-term disability, accidental death, plus compensation for authorized and approved business-related expenses to include phone and mileage reimbursement. We also offer PTO and Scouting America holiday observances.

The most qualified candidates will be contacted.

Refer to this link for BSA career information: https://www.scouting.org/careers/working-with-us
https://hrgateway.intranet.mybsa.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/BSAinfo/talent_mgmt/pdf/Profession-with-a-Purpose-Flyer-2021.pdf