Bilingual Community Engagement Specialist

Overview

Bilingual Community Engagement Specialist

The Community Engagement Specialist is responsible for assisting with the development, implementation and assessment of comprehensive year-round recruitment plans for overall membership growth that align with other council initiatives and projects specifically related to the Spanish-speaking demographic. They will be responsible for, but not limited to, managing lead generation and recruitment efforts with the recruitment team for increasing Spanish-speaking membership.

• Assists in the recruitment of girls and adults through development and implementation of community cultivation strategies to elevate and enhance visibility of the Girl Scouts in the Hispanic community.
• Develops, implements, and assesses comprehensive recruitment plans for membership growth in Spanish-speaking areas.
• Interfaces with school administrators at the local school level.
• Collaborates with Outside Sales and Inside Sales teams.
• Coordinates opportunities for community engagement events, school functions and volunteer-based recruitment in Spanish-speaking areas.
• Provides help as needed to new troop leaders.
• Works with troop leaders to create partnerships with other troops.
• Performs other duties as assigned by supervisor.

• Assists in the recruitment of girls and adults through development and implementation of community cultivation strategies to elevate and enhance visibility of the Girl Scouts in the Hispanic community.
• Develops, implements, and assesses comprehensive recruitment plans for membership growth in Spanish-speaking areas.
• Interfaces with school administrators at the local school level.
• Collaborates with Outside Sales and Inside Sales teams.
• Coordinates opportunities for community engagement events, school functions and volunteer-based recruitment in Spanish-speaking areas.
• Provides help as needed to new troop leaders.
• Works with troop leaders to create partnerships with other troops.
• Performs other duties as assigned by supervisor.

• Bachelor's Degree preferred in a related field such as education, communications, marketing, or social sciences. In lieu of a degree, a minimum of 2 years related experience in areas such as sales, recruitment, or community engagement.

• Demonstrated experience with sales and partnership development.
• Demonstrated written and oral communication excellence.
• Knowledge of Girl Scouts mission, values, and culture and/or willingness to learn and adopt them.
• Knowledge of MS Office.
• Knowledge of data entry and utilizing database systems. Salesforce preferred.
• Ability to establish rapport and communicate with community members and work with persons and groups of diverse background and levels, both written and verbal.
• Bilingual:
  Spanish required

• Annual membership with GSUSA required
• Valid, unencumbered driver's license, with daily access to transportation and proof of vehicle insurance is required. Must be able to transport self and supplies to position related activities
• Willingness to work a flexible schedule including evenings and weekends
• Travel throughout council jurisdiction up to 80% of the time.
• Part-time, non-exempt, flexible position requiring frequent evenings and weekends.

• The physical demands described 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. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to sit for periods as long as 5 hours, moderate levels of standing, walking, use hands to finger motions, stooping, kneeling, crouching or crawling.
  
  Specific requirements to communicate effectively. Specific vision abilities required include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to focus. Hand/eye coordination skills are essential due to the fact that a significant amount of data input is required. Must occasionally lift and/or move up to 10 pounds.
• Work environment characteristics described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to perform the essential functions of this job successfully with or without reasonable accommodations. The work environment is considered to be that of a typical business/office operation. Work environment also consists of occasional exposure to seasonal weather and generally outside weather conditions. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

Girl Scout Council of Tropical Florida provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender…