Updated 5 July 2024
Current Opportunities
We’re Scouts and everyone is welcome here. Scouts is the UK’s biggest mixed youth organisation. Cambridgeshire Scout County has a total membership of around 6,650 and is growing rapidly, particularly around our larger cities/towns including Cambridge, Peterborough, Huntingdon, March, St Ives, Wisbech, Northstowe, Newmarket, Cambourne and Ely.
Ready for your next challenge?
We are always looking for talented individuals to join our growing #TeamCambridgeshire. You will be joining a team of volunteers who are all passionate about bringing brilliant Scouting to every young person who wants to take part and trying some new activities for fun themselves.
We believe in bringing volunteers together from all backgrounds, communities and cultures to provide a unique opportunity to make a real impact on more young people.
We are actively looking for people to take on roles in the following areas:
Volunteer Team Leaders:
District Lead Volunteer (Crafts Hill Scouts)
We’re looking for a Lead Volunteer in Crafts Hill Scouts who can build teams and delegate, motivate and inspire other volunteers. Scouting in Crafts Hill is full of amazing and dedicated people, who together make extraordinary things happen to the lives of young people.
Crafts Hill Scout District includes Willingham, Cottenham, Histon, Northstowe, Cambourne, Comberton, Swavesey, Bar Hill and surrounding villages.
The Vacancy Pack (see link) explains the Lead Volunteer role in more detail and how you can apply or nominate someone you feel would be a good candidate for the role.
Interested but new to Scouting? That’s no problem, we will teach you everything you need to know.
If you would like more information or simply want to discuss the role, please get in touch; email: chris.ward@cambridgeshirescouts.org.uk
Volunteer Team Members:
County Go-Live Support Team members
What’s this all about?
It’s about being part of a dynamic County team that promptly provides the first line of support in advising and resolving “How to” type queries using knowledge (to be provided) to support both the local processes used by our volunteers, questions about the new digital tools that support these local processes, signposting volunteers to more information and enabling people to use the new digital system and understand the changes to local processes and which queries need escalating etc.
- Scouting is currently changing the ways of working for many of of volunteers. These form a set of cultural changes leading to improvements in the way we attract and retain volunteers by making volunteering easy to understand, more relevant and easier to access learning and ensure that our adults have fun as part of our reshaped teams.
- The changes will be supported by a new digital system which will simplify volunteering, reducing admin and provide new ways of working so that volunteers can spend much more of their available volunteering time on, or supporting, programme delivery rather than admin tasks
How long would I be needed for?
For four to six weeks approximately after migration to the new digital system in late Autumn 2024. Migration is likely to lead to an increased number of questions from volunteers and many of these will need a local answer and so are not appropriate to the HQ Support Centre.
Training will be delivered directly by The Scouts HQ Team.
Can I undertake this role remotely? Absolutely.
What skills would I need?
Ideally you would be confident in the use of digital systems, be familiar with using MS Office, shared mailboxes, have some experience of scouting processes as an adult volunteer and will provide easy to understand responses to volunteers’ questions.
What type of questions might be received:
- How do I log into the new digital system?
- How do I update my personal details?
- Some of my data was right on Compass but not on the new system
- Where do I find my learning or awards on the new system?
- Who do I talk to about how learning will work in future?
- How are we handling permit applications
- How can I use accreditations locally?
- Are we using the new Nights Away Notification process
- [In the weeks prior to data migration from Compass to the new membership systems UKHQ will provide a briefing to for members of the County Support Teams to support their preparations for migration]
To express interest or for more information, please email: communications@cambridgeshirescouts.org.uk.
County Communications & Media Team members
- This may suit you if you have skills in any one or more of the following:
- graphic design,
- news gathering,
- copywriting,
- photography, videography,
- and/or social media.
For those at Uni, being an active member of our comms team could also help boost your study portfolio. For more information, please email: communications@cambridgeshirescouts.org.uk.