Volunteer
Opportunities
The
Girl Scout program is delivered and supported by volunteers. Our council has
several hundred volunteers compared to 12 staff. Volunteers choose long or short
term projects, and can work with girls or with other Girl Scout adults.
Positions can be divided among more than one person. Training is provided for
all our volunteers.
What can you do as a Girl Scout adult?
Work
directly with Girl Scouts:
- Troop Leader or Co-Leader: Work with girls ranging from
kindergarten to high school. Requires basic leader training and commitment
to the troop for one school year. Troops set their own schedules, usually
meeting twice a month; some meet after school, others evenings or
weekends. No previous Girl Scout experience is needed, as training is
provided.
Work
with other adults at the local (service unit) level:
- Troop Organizer: Hold school nights to recruit girls
and leaders, do leader orientation. Mostly a fall position. Previous
knowledge of Girl Scouting an asset.
- Community Liaison: Promote Girl Scouting in the
community. Find sponsors and potential volunteers.
- Public Relations Volunteer: Help communicate about Girl Scouting.
Desktop publishing, photography, or writing skills useful.
- Annual Family Giving Chair: Coordinate this fundraising campaign
with local troops.
- Service Unit Cookie Sale Manager: Train local volunteers in how to do
the cookie sale, summarize troop orders and tally final reports. Mostly January-March.
- Registrar: Collect and check troop registration
forms for your area; contact leaders for missing information. Mostly a
fall position.
- Troop Consultant: Be a mentor for new leaders. Mostly a
fall position. Current or former troop leaders or Girl Scout alumnae do
well at this.
- Event Planner: Plan one or more events for local
troops to attend. Requires council event planning safety training. May be
active throughout year.
- Service Unit Manager: Be the contact person for troop
leaders in the local area. Hold meetings with leaders once a month during
the school year. Position requires good team building skills. Previous
knowledge of Girl Scouting is an asset in working with troop leaders.
Work
at the council level:
- Resource Person: Share your skills with girls on a
short term basis. Troops working on a badge often need someone with
specialized knowledge (from quilting to engineering) that they can call on
for assistance.
- Trainer: Teach classes for new leaders; or
teach advanced classes (outdoor skills, water safety, canoeing, etc.).
People whose work requires communication make good trainers. For basic
leader training, previous Girl Scout experience is useful. Classes are
mostly scheduled on Saturdays or evenings.
- Water Safety Volunteer: Help a troop go swimming or canoeing.
Troops going swimming in a place without a lifeguard on site need someone
to go with them who is at least 19 years old and certified as a lifeguard.
We also need adults certified in canoeing to assist troops.
- Fund Development Committee: Work with a team in your community to
raise money to support Girl Scouting. Requires willingness to ask people
for donations, willingness to learn how to make a strong case for Girl
Scouting. Most of the work is in the spring.
- Council Cookie Committee: Help manage the Girl Scout Cookie
Sale for our 11-county area. Knowledge of Girl Scouting is not required.
Year round, with intensive part in January-March.
- Event Planner: Plan one or more council events.
These could be special topic badge workshops, council campouts and
retreats, our Annual Meeting, etc.
- Other Volunteers: Anything we do can use a volunteer to
help do it. Making scrapbooks, helping with newsletter mailouts, and running
errands for camp are just some examples. These "odd jobs" can
take as much or as little time as you have to give.
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