Programme Manager - Scouting Ireland Full Time, 3 Year Fixed Term Contract Hybrid working (requirement to travel occasionally to meet with volunteers and training participants)
Purpose The focus of the Programme Support Service Department is the support of volunteers to deliver a quality scouting experience to young people across all our age ranges (6 - 25 years of age). It is also responsible for maintaining delivery of the current programme, developing new initiatives, handbooks, and resources, and ensuring that training and other support mechanisms reflect the core aim and strategies of Scouting Ireland and the World Organisation of Scout Movement, of which Scouting Ireland is a member– the development of young people. Key Responsibilities: The responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following: ● A clear focus on the development of young people. ● A deep understanding of Scouting, The WHY, HOW and WHAT, its value systems, mechanisms, and ways of delivering the programme to young people. ● An ability to work with a wide array of professional and volunteer teams in both a support and management framework. ● Excellent communication skills and the ability to facilitate and train volunteers and ● professional team members. ● A high-level capability to write and create handbooks, programme resources and ● associated web-based information platforms. ● Project management skills and expertise, with the ability to manage multiple projects with varying themes – events, programme initiatives, training projects and grant-based initiatives. ● Extensive computer skills beyond basic Microsoft capabilities. ● Leadership skills and abilities that can motivate professional and volunteer project teams and move the organisation forward so that it remains constantly relevant to young people and attractive to adult volunteers who wish to work with and facilitate the desires, dreams and expectations of young people. ● Management and strategic understanding and insights as part of a senior management team. The role may require the Programme Support Service Manager to deputise for the CEO if required. ● The key working environment of the work of Scouting rests in non-formal educational situations, which reflect an experiential model. ● The Scout Method, Scout Law and Promise, its value systems, aims and objectives underly all aspects of our work with young people.