Join the Fun: Become an Outreach Program Specialist with Girl Scouts of Eastern Washington & Northern Idaho in Spokane!

Our Mission: Girl Scouting builds girls of courage, confidence, and character, who make the world a better place

Girl Scouts is looking for part-time Outreach Field Specialists to provide after school activities for five north Spokane schools beginning September 25th for the 2023/2024 school year. The Outreach Field Specialist works with girls in various school grades to plan, develop and build projects that are related to the Girl Scout Leadership Experience curriculum (STEM, Outdoor, Entrepreneurship, and Life Skills)

Wage: $17.00-$18.00 per hour depending on experience

Part-time hours (10-15 per week):  Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday from 2:00-5:30 and Thursdays from 3:00-7:30, during the school year

Girl Scouts of Eastern Washington and Northern Idaho (GSEWNI) is a non-profit dedicated to empowering girls through the Girl Scout four pillars: life skills, STEM, outdoors, and entrepreneurship! We cover a massive area of 29 counties that stretches over 67,000 square miles, spanning from Central and Eastern Washington to Northern Idaho. Our headquarters is in Spokane, Washington, but we've got awesome staff in the Tri-Cities, Washington, and Coeur d’Alene, Idaho

With the power of 2,000 amazing adult volunteers, we're on a mission to serve around 5,000 girls from kindergarten to 12th grade. Girls are our heart and soul, and we're all about helping them become future leaders. Girl Scouts is THE go-to place for girl power, shaping strong leaders for a new era. We're here every day, making the leadership landscape awesome for girls, now and in the future!

Are you ready to embark on an exciting part-time journey with Girl Scouts that's all about making a positive impact in your community? If you're passionate about empowering young girls, sparking their curiosity in STEM, unleashing their adventurous spirits in the great outdoors, fostering their entrepreneurial skills, and helping them develop essential life skills, then we want you on our team!

Position Summary:
As an Outreach Program Specialist, you'll team up with our Outreach Coordinator to bring the magic of Girl Scouting to Outreach Girl Scout Troops in the West Central and Northeast neighborhoods of Spokane. Your mission? To ignite the spark of curiosity, teamwork, and leadership in these amazing girls

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES OF POSITION:

• Unleash the Girl Scout Magic: Use our engaging curriculum to lead girls through exciting activities that cover everything from STEM wonders to outdoor adventures, entrepreneurship dreams, and crucial life skills. Let your creativity shine!

• Monitor and propose exciting materials for upcoming activities. Preparedness equals success!

• Infuse every meeting with Girl Scout principles, allowing girls to take the lead, get hands-on, and explore the world together. Your role? Provide the perfect blend of guidance and support

• Be a role model for teamwork and creative problem-solving, and create opportunities for our girls to apply these skills themselves

• Seamlessly collaborate with co-leaders and our awesome GSEWNI staff. Together, we're unstoppable

• Keep things organized by completing essential paperwork like attendance records and rosters. Every detail counts

• Spread the Girl Scout love by fostering positive relationships with parents and other community members. Girl Scouts rock, and you're the messenger!

• Embrace any other exciting duties that come your way as part of our dynamic Girl Scout team. Adventure is in our DNA!

QUALIFICATIONS:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions

Experience:

To be successful in this position:

• • You must possess the skills to work in small and large group settings with youth including: strong organizational skills, flexibility, patience, conflict resolution, communication, positive reinforcement, active listening, and empathy
• • Be available for evening work and occasional weekends
• • Have reliable transportation and ability to travel to multiple locations 
• • The ability to lead with little oversight
• • Having previous GSUSA experience is welcomed, but not required
• • Have the readiness to embrace the principles of the Girl Scout movement as they are expressed in the Girl Scout Promise and Law

  Physical Abilities:

•  Occasionally lift objects up to 30 pounds
• Perform repetitive wrist, hand, and finger movements
• Rarely engage in climbing, pulling, stooping, kneeling, crawling, twisting, and crouching
• Ability to stand or sit for extended periods, even in inclement weather
• Maintain clear vision up to 20+ feet, with or without corrective lenses, and differentiate between colors (no color blindness)

Mental & Other Skills/Abilities: 

• Demonstrated multitasking ability, handling various tasks/projects simultaneously and meeting deadlines
 

   Work Environment:

• Exposed to school environments at local elementary schools and community centers
• Secondary work environment involves typical office conditions and noise levels
• Adaptability to a fast-paced, multitasking environment is crucial, given the nature of GSEWNI's mission and daily work

If you're ready to make a difference, create unforgettable memories, and inspire the next generation of leaders, then apply now to be an Outreach Field Specialist and help us write the next chapter in the Girl Scout adventure book. Together, we'll change lives, one badge at a time!

The management of this organization believes that every employee has the right to work in surroundings that are free from discrimination. It is our policy to hire, compensate, promote, train, transfer, discipline, discharge, and make all other employment-related decisions without consideration of an employee's race, color, creed, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, religion, age, national origin, physical or mental disability, veteran status, marital status or any other basis prohibited by local, state or federal law. All employees of this Council are prohibited from engaging in unlawful discrimination. All staff are provided a safe and inclusive work environment