Growth And Recruitment Officer

We have an exciting opportunity for a Growth & Recruitment Officer - Northto join our Growth and Communities Team.

Location: Homebased working across the North of England

Salary:  £30,793 per annum - Band E Level 3 + Car allowance

Term: Permanent

Working Hours: 35 hours per week

We’re Scouts and everyone’s welcome here - all genders, races and backgrounds. Right across the UK, we help over 400,000 young people aged 4-25 gain skills for life and find their place in the world. We help them speak up, play their part and shine bright.

About the Growth & Recruitment Officer : 

As a Growth and Recruitment Officer you will be pro-actively Support and work in partnership with District Commissioners and Group Scout Leaders.

To support Scouting volunteers to develop and grow Scouting, including but not limited to delivering volunteer recruitment, growth at group level and building community links.

What we are looking for in our Growth & Recruitment Officer :

• Ability to work effectively as part of a remote team.
• Excellent planning and organisational skills with the ability to manage and deliver a varied workload and set of projects whilst ensuring effective prioritisation and balancing of the needs of a range of stakeholders.
• Confident public speaker and skilled at presenting ideas and information to internal and external stakeholders, both digitally and face-to-face.
• Be able to work independently and be able to identify and develop new opportunities for volunteer engagement.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to enable successful influencing, listening and negotiating with others.
• Provide own administrative support. 
• Be enthusiastic and able to enthuse others. 

You must live within the region to carry out this role.

Key responsibilities as our Growth & Recruitment Officer:

• Support and work in partnership with lead volunteers within the County (District Commissioners, Group Scout Leaders) and other volunteers to grow Scouting’s membership in the North of England.
• Open new Scouting provision and ensuring that Scouting is accessible to all.
• Inspire and enable local Scouting volunteers to devise, apply and refresh sustainable growth plans in existing and planned new sections, aligned to our inclusive growth strategy, using our project work bank approach.
• To advise and support local Scouting volunteers in the retention and Recruitment of adult volunteers.
• To advise, support, and encourage local Scouting volunteers to engage with under-represented communities in their local areasers.

As our our Growth & Recruitment Officer :

• Work in a way that suits you, your role and your department
• Be proud to say you’re part of a team with Investors in People (Gold)
• Plenty of opportunity for learning and development
• 28 days holiday a year, plus bank holidays rising to 32 days after two years
• Four extra days to look after your family when they need you
• Three extra days over Christmas

We are proud to be a family-friendly employer and offer…

• Maternity/Paternity Leave
• Flexible working hours
• Store Discount at our Scout Store + other online benefits
• Study and volunteer leave

Closing date for applications: 11:59pm Sunday 24th March 2024

Interviews will be held: Wednesday 3rd April 2024 in Leeds.

The Scouts is an equal opportunity employer, and we are committed to diversity and actively seeking applicants from a wide range of backgrounds.

Strictly no agencies.