Lead Volunteer, Eling Sea Scouts

Lead Volunteer, Eling Sea Scouts

Ongoing role
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At a glance

Skills

  • Strategic development and planning
  • General / operations management
  • Volunteer management
  • Data protection / GDPR
  • Health and safety
  • Safeguarding

Where

Totton, SO40 3YD
Mainly at home

Time

Mostly outside office hours Estimate of time needed:
1-3 hours / week or 3-7 hours / week
Work is mostly flexible around the needs of the volunteers within the charity and your availability. Some tasks are time-limited.

The Group Lead Volunteer strategically leads the charity, ensuring the young people get the best possible Scouting programme and that the volunteer leaders are well supported through excellent line management. 

What will you be doing?

Eling Sea Scout Group is a successful Sea Scout group and young peoples charity with a modern and well resourced hall at a local nature reserve lake in Totton. Through large scale fundraising events, they have erected a new headquarters for the benefit of their young people, all while their old hall was on the brink of leaving them homeless. Now, after a number of short-term lead volunteers, they need an experienced leader to help navigate them through the next few years.

  • Be responsible for ensuring that the Scout Group charity thrives and has the best systems in place to support adult volunteers and develop the Group – including a Group Trustee Board and Section leadership teams. Where these processes and systems need improvement, help guide the group through the changes.
  • Act as line manager to the charity's volunteers and provide support to the Leaders in the Scout Group, including setting objectives for their work and holding regular reviews and one-to-one meetings. Help them develop their skills, so that our young people have the best possible leaders.
  • Ensure that the Scout Group has an adequate team of supported and appropriate adults working effectively together and with others to meet the Scouting needs of the area. Help co-ordinate or lead on recruitment efforts where insufficient people are identified.
  • Ensure that a challenging, exciting and balanced programme is offered to young people in the Scout Group. 
  • Maintain a watchful eye over the demographics of the Scout Group and how it compares to our local community. Where differences emerge, lead on co-ordinating recruitment efforts for young people to address the differences.
  • Work with neighbouring Scout Groups and other Scouts in the area on common purposes and community events, including the long-running Donkey Derby community event jointly run with the neighbouring Scout group.

There is support available from other volunteers in the area and many of the responsibilities of the role can be shared within a leadership team or through a role share. We would welcome anyone with management experience or experience of running a charity to provide some stability within the Group for an upcoming period, and to help nurture the next generation of management within the group to aid future succession planning.

What are we looking for?

  • Ability to manage adults effectively
  • Excellent written and oral communication skills 
  • Provide advice and guidance effectively to others 
  • Experience of providing inspirational leadership 
  • Build, maintain and facilitate effective working relationships with a wide range of people
  • Enable others to identify issues, clarify objectives, develop attainable objectives  and gain the necessary skills and confidence to work as an effective team
  • Ability to negotiate compromises 
  • Plan, manage and monitor own tasks and time
  • Construct and implement long-term plans that improve and expand the Scouting offered to young people and identify any training, resources and other needs required to undertake this work
  • Use basic computer software 
  • An understanding of the needs of adult volunteers 
  • Flexible approach
  • Self-motivated 
  • Able to work as part of a team and promote good teamwork 
  • Resourceful, energetic and enthusiastic about the job 
  • Acceptance of the fundamentals of the Scout Movement 

What difference will you make?

  • Help motivate the volunteer leaders at the Sea Scout Group so they can be at their best.
  • Lead the group as it goes from strength to strength and as it grows numbers of young people and adult volunteers.
  • Lead on efforts to coordinate growth so that more young people benefit from Scouts and more adult volunteers gain skills themselves in support of the charity's purposes.
  • Provide continuity of facilities and services to around a hundred young people of Totton, and other community groups who use the Group's facilities.
  • Through skilled management, the Group's adult volunteers develop their skills and become better volunteers.
  • The Group grows its human resources and grows its financial resources.
  • Provide stable leadership and vision during a period of change and transition within the wider Scout movement as a result of adapting to digital demands of the modern day and in response to legislation changes.

Before you apply

Please contact us to apply or discuss the role requirements further. 

They can then detail the application process and the requirements for signing you up with the Scout membership system, the appointments process within the Scouts and completing the necessary personal enquiries including obtaining satisfactory DBS checks and welcoming the new applicant through the peer panel.

Causes
  • Young people
  • Organisation type: 
    Small or unincorporated organisation

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