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Situations Vacant

Potters Bar and District currently have the following vacancies. If you would like more information about any of the voluntary roles below, contact Charles Dace on 01707 657338 or via the contact form.

Free training is provided for all of the roles below. As the roles below involve working with children, all applicants will need to take an enhanced CRB check before they start.

Group Scout Leader

Media Development Manager

Schools Liason Manager

Training Adviser

Group Scout Leaders

2nd Potters Bar Scout Group
3rd Potters Bar Scout Group
5th Potters Bat Scout Group

The role of the Group Scout Leader

The role of the Group Scout Leader is one of the most important roles within the Scout District providing a link between the Scout District and the Scout Group and maintaining cohesion within the Scout Group. Responsibilities include:

Ensuring the sections provide a balanced programme in accordance with the principals of the Scout Association.
Provide support to all adult leaders within the Scout Group.
Recruit new leaders to maintain a full complement of leaders in each group section.
To nominate the Group chairperson and maintain a Group executive committee.
Ensure the smooth transition of young people from one group section to the next.
To build and maintain a good relationship with the immediate community

If you would like to become the manager of a Scout Group and would like to know more please contact Charles Dace using the details above.

Media Development Manager

In spite of being in existence for one hundred years, Scouting still has a parochial approach when it comes to broadcasting is existence. Here in Potters Bar, Scouting is in the ascendancy and we need a highly motivated person to portray this image to the wider community. The media development manager responsibilities would be: -

To seek out and identify local Scouting good news stories and promote them in the local media.
To regularly promote the modern image of Scouting through local awareness campaigns.
To develop and maintain a list of local media contacts.
To attend training days and develop media skills.
To liaise with HQ PR team on a regular basis, giving updates on coverage and asking for any assistance required.
To liaise with the District Commissioner, the District Scout Executive Committee and the Scout Association's Public Relations team with local Scouting success stories.
To encourage Scout Groups to appoint a person to promote Scouting and to work with them to promote Scouting.

If you would like to be involved in promoting the largest youth organization in the world at a local level and would like to know more, please contact Charles Dace using the details above.

Schools Liason Manager

This is an important new role to link schools within the District, to individual Scout Groups. The successful candidate will provide a programme that enables close cooperation between primary and secondary schools allowing a Scout presence at school fetes and festivals. In addition, the Schools Liaison Manager will work in partnership with schools enabling Individual Scouts or a District Team to provide specific themes for school assemblies.

If you would like to help promote links between Schools and Scouts within the District, and would like to know more, please contact Charles Dace using the details above.

Training Adviser

A training adviser is responsible for supporting and assessing new Scout Leaders through their training up to the award of Wood Badge, in conjunction with the Local Scout District Training Manager (LTM). This is an important role with the Scout District as it enables new and existing Scout leaders to keep abreast of new issues covering the provision of adventurous training to young people.

This is achieved by:

Briefing new leaders about the Adult Training Scheme.

Help new leaders create a Personal Learning Plan

Validating learning modules as completed by new leaders.

Meet on a regular basis with each participant to encourage and review their Personal Learning Plan.

Review and validate completed Personal Learning Plans and inform the LTM

Maintain records and keep the LTM informed of a participant's progress.

Meet with other Training Advisers to consider items of concern and issues; to be informed of new training opportunities and make plans for developing the support given to new leaders by Training Advisers.

If you would like to help promote links between Schools and Scouts within the District, and would like to know more, please contact Charles Dace using the details above.