Get creative, have fun and be an inspiring role model to girls and young women. As unit leader, you'll be responsible for running the unit, leading a team, and planning and delivering a high-quality programme of activities and events.
This is a key role that works directly towards the aims of Girlguiding. If you've got what it takes to be a unit leader, we want you.
As a unit leader, assistant leader or leader-in-training you’ll join a team of volunteers to run the unit, plan meetings, and deliver awesome activities. If you’d like to become a leader, we’ll support you to complete our leadership qualification.
Each unit leadership team does things a little differently. Here are some of the activities:
- Help plan and deliver activities which are based on our Girlguiding programme. These are accessible and inclusive. Often they’re planned by volunteers and girls at the beginning of term
- You’ll go to your unit meeting each week and run activities with the girls and other volunteers
- Safeguarding is at the heart of everything we do at Girlguiding, so you’ll help provide a safe, girl-only space where every girl and young woman can take part
- You’ll also be keeping up the Doing Our Best standards for your unit
- You’ll complete training for the role and follow Girlguiding policies
- You may be a trustee for the unit, which means that you have more responsibilities
- Your whole unit leadership team decides who keeps the accounts and unit records. But you may have overall responsibility, especially if you have a small team (even if your unit has an administrator)
- You might communicate with parents, carers and other Girlguiding volunteers
- Leaders usually spend two to five hours a week outside of the unit time on the role (depending on how the unit responsibilities are shared and what activities are planned). This might include contacting new members or going to district meetings.
- Leaders share issues and concerns with local commissioners
About Girl Guiding - Newbury District
We are the leading charity for girls and young women in the UK. We empower 240,000 girls to be their best and face the challenges of growing up today. We've been doing that through adventure, friendship and fun for over 100 years.
We have activities, badges and challenges to inspire and ignite girls' imaginations. Girls take on outdoor challenges, explore fascinating topics like astronomy or film-making and develop key skills for life.
Our wide-ranging programme is packed full of opportunities to lead, learn and discover.
What skills do I need?
- Flexibility: You need to change your plans according to the needs of the girls.
- Willingness to get involved: To take part in a team and activities.
- Teamwork: Be able to work with others and share tasks and responsibilities.
- Personal and digital communication skills: You’ll have a part in communicating with parents and other volunteers in your district.
- Attention to detail: Some tasks, like updating or overseeing the accounts, need your diligence, although there will be a great team to support you.
- Willingness to learn: Learning as you go to keep your skills fresh.
What training and support do you get?
- We’ll give you a thorough induction to your role and to Girlguiding
- You’ll have lots of training opportunities, including e-learning, face to face training and live online classrooms that you can do from home
- When you start your Leadership qualification you’ll have a volunteer mentor to help you through the qualification
- You’ll have a great support network from your fellow volunteers, including a local commissioner and Girlguiding advisers
- And there are regular meetings and events to share information
- We reimburse agreed expenses
- Girlguiding has a clear complaints procedure and support to help sort out problems or disagreements
Our Girlguiding website is full of information to help you in your role.
What qualifications do you need?
To start, you’ll need to become a member, complete your Level 1, 2 and 3 A Safe Space safeguarding training, and hold a valid disclosure check.
And remember, if you’d like to become a leader, you’ll be supported to complete our Leadership qualification.
Help is currently needed for the Guides, Brownies and Rainbows.
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Details
Term-time only.
Where does this role take place?
