Director, Council Partnership

Girl Scouts of the USA

Founded in 1912, Girl Scouts of the USA (GSUSA) is the preeminent leadership development organization for girls and the leading authority on their healthy development. Millions of Girl Scout alums across the country and the world have gone on to achieve incredible things and make a tremendous impact in fields ranging from public policy, medicine, journalism, and athletics to international relations, science, technology, art, and entertainment. 

As a mission-driven organization, Girl Scouts of the USA champions girls as they explore their worlds, try new things, and develop the courage, confidence, and character to make the world a better place. From stargazing during a first overnight camping trip to building robots, navigating a rocky hiking trail, working together on a community project, and learning about the importance of environmental stewardship, Girl Scouts of all backgrounds and abilities can unapologetically be themselves as they rise to meet new challenges and discover the issues that matter most to them. Along the way they learn the power of friendship, connection, and teamwork. 

Girl Scouts are doers, innovators, problem-solvers, creators, and dreamers, and the GSUSA team is here to center, support, and inspire them, working with 111 local councils across the country and USA Girl Scouts Overseas to deliver our life-changing Girl Scout Leadership Experience.

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The Council Partnership Office, reporting to the Chief Operating and Transformation Officer (COO), drives movement wide sustainable growth and health through implementation of strategic priorities in an aligned network.  The team builds strong relationships and creates empowering ways of work between and among GSUSA and council leadership to ensure movement wide collaboration, trust and success.  The team ensures GSUSA is offering excellent communications and customer service to councils

POSITION SUMMARY

Director, Council Partnership Team collaborates with GSUSA communities and councils to inform and execute strategy, resulting in long term sustainable health and growth for councils and the movement. The Director, Council Partnerships is accountable for and leads other team member(s) in building strong relationships, fostering innovation and collaboration, and using data driven insights to drive organizational success.  They provide excellent customer service, communications and learning resources that ensure council leadership and staff can access the right information, when and how they need it.

Director is ultimately responsible for the satisfaction of all councils within the area they are overseeing.

Director Council Partnership Team will build sustainable processes and structures that enable effective communications, best practice sharing, learning and customer service.  They may take on additional large projects and have ultimate responsibility for results.

The Director Council Partnership Team is highly nuanced. The person who assumes this position must derive satisfaction from getting outcomes through influencing others rather than being the person leading the work directly or through positional authority. As such, this person must be able to drive these results, while being comfortable with a long time horizon to realize them. It requires periodic on-site visits. 

ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES - Primary duties of the position

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Council Leadership Partnership 

Directors promote partnership principles, reinforce clear accountabilities between GSUSA and councils, and lead with positive ‘abundance mentality’ mindset that motivates, inspires and drives solutions and success

• Facilitate and serve as thought partner to Council leadership on all aspects of Council, including strong CEO/Board Chair relations and c’suite leadership effectiveness
• Engage in CEO succession planning
• Onboard key leadership positions through nationally consistent learning content and in person training opportunities
• Implement policies and procedures in adherence to charter requirements
• Promote network alignment principles and encourage participation in collaboration opportunities
• Identify opportunity for and promote shared services
• Directors are ultimately accountable for the councils assigned to managers they supervise, and lead and coach Managers in their roles with councils
• Directors may be assigned to councils with greatest opportunity for success or significant challenges requiring high degree of experience and knowledge

Strategy Execution

Directors ensure councils have access to movement strategic plan, along with key resources and information from all GSUSA communities, and support councils on:

• Strategic planning
• Goal setting and annual direction setting to successfully achieve business goals
• Connecting council senior leadership with best practices and highly effective peers from similar type councils
• Encouraging innovation and best practice replication through lifting up and providing access to data driven learnings and analytics

GSUSA Communication and Customer Support

• The Director ensures coordinated and sequenced GSUSA communications are available and accessible to all key council leadership positions
• Provides excellent customer service by responding to council inquiries promptly, and connecting council with the person(s) at GSUSA or other councils best positioned to provide relevant and timely responses and solutions

Sustainable Structures and Processes

• Director Council Partnership Team leads and/or participates in building structures and processes that allow councils to readily access council best practice, successful leadership peers, as well as GSUSA information, resources quickly and easily

Supervisory

• Director Council Partnership Team provides leadership and mentoring to team member(s),and provides timely feedback and training to help team member(s) achieve success.
• Director is responsible for building engagement, coaching and development of staff

Other Duties: Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job.

SALARY RANGE: $80,000 - $130,000

This represents the present low and high end of the pay range for this position. Actual pay will vary based on various factors, including but not limited to experience.

What We Offer: 

Girl Scouts is powered by people, and we encourage our team members to be their best selves in and out of the office. We place a high priority on flexibility and offer a competitive employee salary and benefits package that includes: 

Paid Time Off:  

GSUSA offers 20 days of paid time off, 2 floating holidays, as well as 9 workplace holidays per year. GSUSA staff also enjoy a paid holiday year-end office closure between Christmas and New Year's.

Other Benefits: 

• Medical and Behavioral Health Coverage 
  • Plan options with individual and family coverage which includes wellness, hospitalization, and fertility assistance. 
  • Both plans include GSUSA partial subsidy of premium costs
  • Dental and vision coverage 

• Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) and Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs) including Health, Dependent Care, and Limited FSA for those with Health Savings Accounts 
• Company-paid life insurance 
• Flexible work arrangements 
• 12 weeks of paid parental leave 
• 401(K) with company match 
• Sick leave 
• Short- and Long-Term Disability for salary continuation 
• Health and Wellness Classes and Activities throughout the year 

PHYSICAL DEMANDS: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. 

WORK ENVIRONMENT: This job operates in a professional office environment.  

POSITION TYPE / EXPECTED HOURS OF WORK: This is a full-time position. Days and hours of work are Monday through Friday. Occasional evening and weekend work may be required as job duties demand. 

AAP/EEO Statement:  GSUSA is an equal employment opportunity employer.