Localgrowth Officer

An exciting opportunity has arisen a **Local** **Growth Officer - South **to join our Growth and Communities Team.

**Location**:Homebased within South

**Salary**: £30,793 per annum - Band E, Level 3

**Term**:Fixed-Term Contract to March 2025

**Working Hours**:35 hours per week (including some evenings and weekends)

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.

**About the Local Growth Officer Role**:
As our **Local Growth Officer** -** Scouts and Explorers**, you will be pro-actively helping Counties and Districts achieve their growth ambitions focusing specifically on opening new sections for our Scout and Explorer Scout age ranges (10-18).

**What we are looking for in our Local Growth Officer**:
As a Local Growth Officer - Scouts and Explorers, You will provide practical ‘hands on’ support that recruits adult volunteers, creating new spaces for young people, aged 10+ to join, prioritising young people from lower income communities, and those from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic families. Our aim is to create more diverse and inclusive Scout groups and address the current waiting lists where demand currently outweighs the supply of Scouting provision.

**Key responsibilities as our Local** **Growth Officer**:

- Support and work in partnership with District Commissioners, Group Scout Leaders and other volunteers to open new Scout and Explorer Scout sections to grow Scouting within the assigned Counties according to their County Growth Plans.
- Open new sections in line with the County Growth Plans, and using local knowledge, collaborating with local volunteers and contributing to the ongoing development of the local inclusive Growth Plan as needed to ensure that we are achieving our ambitions to create more Scouting opportunities for young people aged 10+ within lower IMD areas and predominantly Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic communities.
- Work with the relevant local lead volunteers, to understand their current community reach and identify opportunities for growth within their local areas.
- Produce regular progress reports against targets and within agreed timescales as part of our organisational recording and reporting systems and for scrutiny as part of our Inclusive Growth team.

**As our Local** **Growth Officer in return, we offer you**:

- 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

**Interviews will be held week commencing Monday 26 February 2024**

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.