Lead Volunteer of the Isle of Man

The Isle of Man Lead Volunteer is a key volunteer leadership role within Scouting with responsibility for providing outstanding management and support for the districts and groups within the Isle of Man. The primary focus for the Lead Volunteer is to ensure that Scouting is able to reach every young person on the island; open to all regardless of faith, colour or social background, because we believe Scouting has the ability to change lives.

This is achieved by leading the team of District Lead Volunteers, and other County appointments as well as working with the Growth and Communities Team (employed staff) to provide enough places to meet the demand for Scouting, and by ensuring that every youth member has access to a high-quality balanced programme that is challenging, relevant and rewarding.

As a Isle of Man Lead Volunteer, you'll get the opportunity to lead the county through transformation and develop working in teams, and look at extending the reach of scouting to all parts of the county and for all those who want to become involved. You will be able to really develop and hone your leadership skills by managing teams of remote volunteers across the breadth of the Isle of Man. You'll get to develop a team to lead at a time when they can strategically move the county forward.

Leading and managing volunteers provides so much more opportunity and experiences than with employees, and the skills you can gain by doing this really can be a great asset for your professional life as well as in Scouts. The issues and challenges that you find ways to tackle will stretch you as an individual and as a leader, and you’ll find yourself discovering new things that you are capable of achieving, all within a supportive environment.

This is an exciting opportunity to join our team, as we look to offering Scouting to more young people and engage more adults in supporting them. If you get a kick out of seeing things happen, achieving success and making a positive impact to a wide audience then the Isle of Man Lead Volunteer role definitely provides all of that.