County Lead Volunteer of Shropshire

• Essential: Ability to lead, manage, and motivate people in a voluntary environment.
• Desirable: Understanding of the challenges faced in the voluntary sector.
• Desirable: Experience of working with young people and/or community engagement with adult groups.
• Desirable: Experience volunteering in a managerial or supportive role within Scouting (e.g., Group Lead Volunteer, District Lead Volunteer, or other District/County role).

• Essential: Excellent ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing, including the ability to speak and present publicly in a clear, articulate, and motivating way.
• Essential: Ability to provide advice and guidance effectively to others.
• Essential: Ability to provide inspirational strategic leadership for the County.
• Essential: Ability to contribute to strategy development and identify practical actions to achieve strategic objectives.
• Essential: Ability to effectively chair meetings.
• Essential: Ability to build, maintain, and facilitate effective working relationships with a wide range of people.
• Essential: Ability to enable others to identify issues, clarify objectives, develop achievable goals, and gain the skills and confidence to work as an effective team.
• Essential: Ability to negotiate compromises.
• Essential: Ability to plan, manage, and monitor own tasks and time effectively.
• Essential: Ability to construct and implement long-term plans that improve and expand the Scouting opportunities for young people, identifying training, resources, and other support needs.
• Essential: Ability to use technology effectively, including mobile email and Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.

• Essential: An understanding of the needs of adult volunteers.
• Essential: Flexible approach to work.
• Essential: Self-motivated.
• Essential: Able to work as part of a team and promote good teamwork.
• Essential: Resourceful, energetic, and enthusiastic about the role.
• Essential: Acceptance of the fundamentals of the Scout Movement.

· Understand what’s important to young people and how their team helps this to happen.

· Strong understanding of the current realities of local Scouting.

· Create effective working relationships across HQ and beyond to deliver our goals.

· Know their customers and hold themselves accountable to meeting their needs.

· Are network builders who cultivate new connections that add value to Scouts.

· Have a clear and compelling purpose for themselves and their team.

· Are self-aware, manage their energy effectively and role-model self-care.

· Take great care of people, supporting mental and physical health.

· Recognise and reward positive behaviours and high performance.

· Enable people to enjoy being a part of our organisation.

· Actively listen to and centre diverse voices.

· Create a psychologically safe and inclusive environment where everyone feels secure, respected, and valued.

· Recognise and take concrete steps to address privilege, power and bias in themselves as individuals and in our movement.

· Are role models for continuous learning; giving and receiving challenge while creating safe and brave spaces for colleagues to learn together.

· Make sure that their behaviour is underpinned by our values.

· Are adaptable – agree clear objectives but change in line with circumstances.

· Work in an agile way, constantly learning, iterating. and achieving results at pace.

· Dynamically manage risk, calmly leading others through periods of change or crisis.

· Trust people to do the right thing and deliver

· Use data and insights to drive decision-making.

· Understand and deploy user-centred design principles in development work.

· Are digitally literate and committed to making best use of digital to do things better.

· Encourage innovation and welcome disruptive thinking.

· Create a culture of active learning, spotting, and responding to future trends in the world beyond Scouts