Volunteer Development

Vacancies

Last month County signed up to the Royal Voluntary Service charity recruiting service where we can upload our vacancies for exposure across Lincolnshire and wider. All you need to do is send me details of your vacancies showing role, postcode of meeting place, contact name and email. This works for Trustees, supporters and Leaders. We have only 11 vacancies uploaded at present.

In addition, there is the volunteering section of your membership login which shows at the bottom left-hand side. These vacancies are visible to anyone visiting the Scout website. Please use this facility to advertise your current vacancies. When I see volunteer applications, I then duplicate the notification process to make sure that both the section Lead and GLV are aware and that someone responds to the volunteer. There is a progress section which needs updating by you as you complete the contact through to completion of the volunteering process.

County Learning Team

In preparation for the next stage of the Learning transformation we need to add experienced and skilled volunteers to join our learning team.

The latest Scout strategy envisages mixed delivery of online and face to face learning opportunities to give volunteers flexibility to choose what suits them best. There are also skill-based learning opportunities that need to be delivered in person.

We work very much as a team led by our County Learning Manager Lucy and we need to be organised for when Branching Out learning is launched so that volunteers can achieve their Wood Badge in a way that suits their learning styles.

For our learning team volunteers there will be additional learning and skill recognition which currently includes presenting, facilitating and learning team leadership opportunities. We will start this process early next year and if you feel that you would like to be involved, please let me know.

Volunteering development team

Finding volunteers for our Groups and Districts is the number one task identified by Leaders as the biggest challenge for those volunteers in Lead positions. I want to develop a team of volunteers who are prepared to support the county in this important role. It is likely you already have a role in Scouting, but that is not essential, so if you know someone who might be interested in such a role, let me know.

I plan to run recruitment workshops across the County and also use social media to advertise available positions in a positive way to encourage responses. We will also use paid advertising focused on particular postcodes where need is identified.

Please let me know if you are interested in knowing more about joining my team and the way we plan to work. The role can fit around existing commitments.

My contact details

07402 504818